Reminder: Membership Meetings
This is a reminder that, if you would like to be involved in our Council’s decision-making or have ideas that might be beneficial to our mission, to attend our upcoming Membership Meeting on Tuesday evening, May 13th at 7:00 PM at the St. Peter’s Residence House in Suquamish. Our following meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 10th.
We will discuss events and activities for the upcoming months and would value your input and suggestions as we move forward. Thanks to everyone for all your support.
Our Officers
Chaplain – Father Albert Arulappan
Grand Knight – David Meier
Deputy Grand Knight – Mark Maruda
Chancellor – Vacant
Advocate – John Rebar
Recorder – David Graves
Financial Secretary – Larry Devlin
Treasurer – Roy Behling
Warden – Leo Beer
Inside Guard- Vacant
Outside Guard – Vacant
Trustee 3 Year – John Wahlfors
Trustee 2 Year – Alan Arnesen
Trustee 1 Year – Gary Fahey
Lecturer- Gary Fahey
We have developed a new slate of officers to be voted upon in the June Membership Meeting. The new slate of officers are as follows:
Chaplain – Father Albert Arulappan
Grand Knight – Mark Maruda
Deputy Grand Knight –
Chancellor – Brian Tucker
Advocate – John Rebar
Recorder – David Graves
Financial Secretary – Larry Devlin
Treasurer – Roy Behling
Warden – Leo Beer
Inside Guard- Allen Beck
Outside Guard –
Trustee 3 Year – David Meier
Trustee 2 Year – John Wahlfors
Trustee 1 Year – Alan Arnesen
Lecturer- Gary Fahey
This is the second posting for your consideration and will be posted again next month with any updates and voting will occur during our June 10th Membership Meeting. As you can see, we have a couple of slots remaining to be filled. Please let one of the current officer know if you would like to serve in either of the vacant roles or would like to compete for one of the other roles. We need some new blood with new ideas so don’t be shy! We welcome you!
Prayer for Pope Francis
“Heavenly Father, we gather with hearts filled with sorrow and gratitude as we mourn the passing of your faithful servant, Pope Francis. We thank you for his wisdom, humility, and compassion as he led the Church with the heart of a shepherd. His tireless work for the poor, his unwavering faith, and his call to unity and peace have left an indelible mark on our world. Grant him eternal rest and peace in your presence. May his light continue to shine upon us as we strive to carry forward his message of mercy, justice, and love. We offer our prayers for his family, for the Church, and for the new leadership that you will guide. Amen.”
Roadside Cleanup
Our next roadside cleanup will be on May 10th. We will meet at St. Olaf’s at 9:00 AM and carpool from there to the cleanup site just south of the Hood Canal Bridge on Highway 3. We have had great support the last two quarters which allowed us to completely cover both sides of the highway and be finished by just before noon. Thank you for your support in the past and we’re hoping that we will have the same level of support on May 10th! See you then!
Tootsie Roll Drive
We held our annual Tootsie Roll Drive to raise funds to help the disabled at the Kingston Safeway on April 26th and it was a very successful. We raised $1,600, 20% of which will go the Washington State Council’s sponsorship of Special Olympics Washington and the remaining will come back to us where we have determined to support KC HELP. Many thanks to our Ric Rebar, our Tootsie Roll Chairman for pulling this together. He, along with John Rebar, John McGinn, Matt McGinn, Nick Weber, Mike Haley, Jake Steiner, and Larry Devlin, manned the 3 shifts. We are grateful for them for having taken time out on a beautiful Saturday to help make a difference for the disabled in our community. Well Done!
Fraternal Benefits Presentation
Last month we held a Fraternal Benefits Presentation to acquaint members with the various offerings and benefits that are available to members and their families of the Knights of Columbus. The presentation was made by Mike Rutland. Thank you for attending and being part of these efforts.
Our General Agent, Cicero Seisdedos is now offering a weekly virtual Fraternal Benefits Event every Wednesday at 7pm. Each month features a different topic. Use the following link to join the webinars on Wednesday nights at 7pm. https://www.kofcpacific.com/fbn/.
If you take advantage of one of these events, please let Financial Secretary Larry Devlin know so that he can submit the necessary paperwork for our Council to take credit for the Fraternal Benefit Event.
Pancake Breakfast
A quick reminder that we will have our next Breakfast on Sunday, May 4th, after both Masses. This month may be somewhat challenging as several of the men who normally help will be at the State Convention or out of town. So, please join in and assist Nick Weber, Mike Courtright, Roy Behling and others who can always use your help in one or more of the various phases.. e.g., preparation beginning at 6:30 AM, cooking and serving breakfast at 9:00 AM, cleanup and resetting at 10:00 AM, serving again at 11:30 AM, followed by cleanup beginning at about noon. We should be able to wrap up by 1:00 PM, depending on how much help we have. We’ve had great turnout on all of our previous breakfasts, which makes for light work while enjoying the fraternal aspect of our Order as we work together.
NOTE: We will be suspending Breakfasts during the summer so this will be the last Breakfast until September 7th.
Thanks to all who have been supporting and working our Breakfasts. We really appreciate you!
New Members
Unfortunately, we had to cancel our Charity, Unity, and Fraternity Exemplification in April. We will keep you posted for upcoming dates and work toward rescheduling this event.
KC HELP
Our Brother Knight volunteers work tirelessly every day to assist people in need of specialized equipment as they deal with the physical effects of aging or recovery from surgeries or accidents. It’s difficult to adequately express the immense gratitude that we see day in and day out and to imagine how these people might have dealt with their difficult circumstances had KC HELP not been available to assist them. If this is something you would like to be involved in, please contact us at 360-981-3179 to join our other Brother Knights in this essential work.
In the last 12 Months KC HELP has provided 4,722 items to 2,519 people totaling $1,417,575 in value, $1,794,641 when including hours and mileage.
Inception to date KC HELP has provided 13,046 items to 6,977 people totaling $3,920,565 in value, $4,472,378 when including hours and mileage.
Knight of the Month
We recognized Alan Arnesen as our March Knight of the Month for his work in making our Coffed and Donuts ministry such a huge success. His work is instrumental in bringing our Parish community back to life. The hall has been consistently full after the 10:30 Mass and we are all enjoying the many joyful conversations. Be sure to express your thanks and appreciation to Brother Alan. We very much appreciate his enthusiastic work.
On that note, Brother Alan and his family will be traveling to Italy during most of May so we will need for someone to step in and fill this significant void while he is gone. Please let one of the Officers know if you would be willing to step in and lend a hand,
Family of the Month
We recognized Brian and Ellen Dougherty as our March Family of the Month. They have both been long-time St. Olaf’s parishioners and Brian has been a member of our Council for 28 years! We are especially grateful for their generous contribution and serving of refreshments for our recent St. Patrick’s Dinner. Thank you to Brian and Ellen for all you have done over many years and continue to do so!
Please let Grand Knight David Meier or any of our officers if you have nominations for either Knight of the Month or Family of Month.
Birthdays
Happy Birthday to all of these Brother Knights!
May
Clary Carlsen 6th
Michael Courtright 7th
John Ogilvie 11th
Theodore Jez 16th
Brian Poppell 19th
Tony Jones 20th
Stephen Reichley 21st
Kenneth Vanacker 23rd
Gerard Coss 24th
Joshua Toves 24th
Jeffrey Richardson 26th
Nick Weber 28th
Juan Aveuno Afable 31st
Brian Cross 31st
Good of the Order
Pray for the health of all our Council’s Brother Knights as our members’ age demographic continues to increase. Specific prayer recipients are our Parish Family Priests Fr Mark Kiszelewski and Fr Albert Arulappan.
Prayers for the health and well-being of knights Tony DeCarlo, Gary Fahey, Jim Kellog, Emmanuel Rivas, Storm Smole, and Bob Tomas. Prayers for Bill (Moriner), John Paul Ogilvie, Jim Rebar, John Rebar’s friend, Tony Jones’ wife, Joe Bell’s wife, Steve Reichley’s son and daughter, Ellen Strickland, Mary Therese Bartlett, Leigh Bartlett, Julie Beer, Leo Beer’s sister Theresa, Roy Behling’s wife Karen and daughter’s health, Lynn Day’s wife Linda, Larry Devlin’s sister-in-law, Anne Wahlfors, Sally Haley, Steve Murray, Nancy Rogers, Theresa Spiess, Henry Huetter, Dr Bob Earhart, and our service men (particularly council members) and service women and our many KC HELP clients. Pray to successfully obtain a property for KC HELP. We also keep Gabby McCracken in our prayers as she fulfills her FOCUS mission during the year. Also, we are praying for Jim Kellogg of Council 6706 and a KC HELP volunteer who continues to recover from his second stroke.
Handy Council-Related Links
If you would like a handy set of Council-related links that you can add to your phone’s home page, try this: bit.ly/m/8297