To My Brother Knights and Their Families:

Elections for a new slate of officers will be held at this month’s business meeting and you will have a new Grand Knight on July 1st. The year has gone by quickly and it has truly been a blessing to be your Grand Knight. I want to thank each and every member of our council for their part in making this a successful Columbian year. Every time something needed to be done, several of our members were there to help.

I want to especially thank our chaplain Father Brendan for giving us spiritual direction and praying for us this past year. I want to thank our worthy District Deputy Don Snow for his bits of wisdom and advice. Thanks to all of the council officers, program directors, event chairmen and cooks. There are many people who did many things too numerous to name.

Supreme gave us a goal of increasing our membership by 16 this year in order to be a Star Council. We brought in 19 new members this year. About half of those new members were brought in by John Watling. It looks like we have also met our insurance quota of 6. If we do not have drops in our insurance members before the end of the month, we will have achieved Star Council thanks to all of you.

The nominating committee has a great list of nominees for the new Columbian year. I am confident that the council will be in good hands and that next year will be even more successful that this year has been.

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