To my brother knights & their families,

Thank you for placing your confidence in me to represent our Council as your Grand Knight for the Columbian year of 2013-2014. I especially wish to thank our Past Grand Knight Ricardo Saldana for his dedication and hard work to our Council these past two years.

I joined this Council in 1985 then dropped out due to lack of interest. I rejoined the Council seven years ago but I was not active in the Council. Four years ago George Mills called me and asked me if I would consider running  for Inside Guard. Shortly after that Jess Williams asked me to join the Second Degree Team. We talk a lot about recruitment, but sometimes we just need to ask inactive knights to become active in the Council or for those who have left the Knights of Columbus if they would consider rejoining our Council.

Tom Nulk made a suggestion to me and I completely agree with him. Ask a member of our Council who is inactive to come to one meeting, come to one dinner and to help out at one fund raiser every year. If each one of us did this think of how much better our Council could be.

Many thanks for all who worked hard to make the Past Grand Knight’s/Old Timers Dinner a great success. I especially want to thank Dave Carboni, Terry Corcoran, Steve Mills, Tom Nulk, George Mills, John Sheldon, John Watling,  Matthew Lucien, Joe Miceli,  Ricardo Saldana and anyone whose name I may have forgotten.

Also a big thank you to our Family Director Bryan McKrell for organizing, setting up and cooking hot dogs for the Council’s Family Picnic. It was a very hot day but all who attended had a good time.

We are looking for a Pro-Life Director and a Membership Director for our Council. If you are interested please contact me.

Thank you.
Go! Make a difference…
Fred Struck
Grand Knight council 953