GRAND KNIGHT’S MESSAGE –August 2012 Charity – Unity – Fraternity – Patriotism Live your Faith! Brothers, Welcome to our newly elected officers, including our newest officers Chet Tyminski (Chancellor), Charles Fallon (Warden), and Dennis Ebert (Inside Guard). Also, thanks to Sean Tierney and Mil Dixon who also offered their services as Trustees. We stand ready to serve the Council through the next fraternal year. I hope you are all enjoying the summer. I enjoyed a wonderful vacation with my family out in the Southwest, visiting the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Parks. This is a relaxing time of year and a good chance to enjoy time with your families. As we gear up for the new fraternal year, we appreciate your thoughts and ideas. I want to thank John Silva for helping us modernize our web site to offer members information at the click of the mouse. John has added a calendar and the officers will work to forecast the key Council fraternal events for the year. In the future, we plan to add a capability to show photos of our Council events on the web also. The big upcoming event that we are working on now is the Fall Faire Fundraiser for the Council Building Corporation. Please get the word out to your friends and family to sign up for a vendor booth for $35 and please come help us sell food to raise additional funds. Thanks to Brothers John Cafazzo, Ron Beaupre and Steve Kintigos for landscape cleanup at the Building. Thanks to all of you for being a Knight. Happy Sailing. In Christ,

Mike Canavan, Grand Knight

Reading Fall Street Faire: Please support our upcoming home building fundraiser on Sunday, Sept 9, in conjunction with the Reading Fall Street Faire. We are selling vendor booths for $35 each for a 10x10 foot spot in our parking lot. Members of the council, friends of the council or others who would like to show off their business are encouraged to sign up for a booth at http://www.readingkofc.org/activities.htm. Its first come, first served, we only have 12 spots and 5 have been sold already. We will try to avoid having any similar business. We also need members to work at our own food booth that day. Please sign up now at the above link if you can help. Our House Needs Your Help: Please consider donating to this special fund to help pay for approximately $8,000 of needed repairs to our th building. Only $1,600 has been raised as of July 20 . The fire escape repair has been completed at a cost of approx. $6000. Masonry work to repair leaks around the windows will start shortly. If you are able to help please mail your donations to: Home Builders Corporation P.O. Box 24 Reading, MA 01867 Attn: Building Project Sick and Vigil: Dorothea Ebert passed away recently after a long illness. She was the wife of DGK Len Ebert and mother of Brother Knight Dennis Ebert. Our prayers go out to Len, Dennis and family during this difficult time. Mil Dixon is improving, he was even able and willing to provide his services to the Council as a Trustee. Brother John Cronin could use our prayers; he was recently transferred to Hospice Care. If you know of any brother or family member in need of prayers or assistance, communicate these needs to Ernie Arsenault for inclusion in the newsletter. [email protected].

Council Offices for 2012/2013: The following men were elected at the meeting of th June 26 to guide our Council for the coming Fraternal Year; Grand Knight Deputy G. K. Chancellor Warden Treasurer Recorder Advocate Inside Guard Outer Guard Trustee (1 Year) Trustee (2 Year) Trustee (3 Year) Financial Sec. Chaplains

Michael Canavan Len Ebert PGK Chet Tyminski Charles Fallon PGK Brian Nowicki John Russo Brian Snell Dennis Ebert PGK Steven Kintigos PGK John Cafazzo Mil Dixon PGK Sean Tierney PGK John Ferguson Fr. Steve Rock Pastor; St. Agnes Fr. Darin Colarusso Pastor; St. Athanasius

The Charities of the Reading Knights: Charity, the first word of our motto is truly practiced by our Council. Many local organizations and individuals request our help and we try to respond. We will begin a practice of reporting those requests as they are brought before a Council Meeting and approved. Additional Charitable Activities: Jim Knowles ran a fund raiser for MDA at the Wakefield Elks on Friday 7/20. He sends a special thank you to John and Teri Cafazzo, Debbie and Rachel Boschetti, Paul Vitagliano, Marguerite Fahey and Tim O’connor. And to the many knights that was unable to attend but sent a donation. On Sunday 7/22 John Silva road in the Emmaus Cycle for Shelter ride; a 100 mile bike ride to raise funds for the Emmaus House in Haverhill. He thanks the Council for sponsoring him on behalf of the many families your donations support. To learn more about the many ways the Emmaus House makes a difference visit their website, www.emmausinc.org, and watch their video or read their newsletter. August Birthdays: 8/1 Richard Surette, 8/2 Kevin Barile, 8/5 Ted Keltgen, Carl Schloth, 8/6 Ed Kosta, Joe Marotta, 8/7 David Benedetto, 8/9 Don DeHart, 8/10 Jim Condon, John Freitas, 8/11 Tom Finn, Jim Ruff, 8/12 Bob D’Entremont, 8/14 Mike Boschetti, Paul Parisi, 8/15 Bill O’Brien, 8/18 Ralph Colorusso, 8/26 Bill Malin, 8/31 Bill Ripa.

District Deputy: DD Patrick Curley has been assigned to our Council for another year. Support Our Advertisers: Our advertisers help to defray the cost of this Newsletter, Please give them your support. Email List: We would like to have your email addresses to be able to notify you of important happenings at the council. If you have an email address please send it to Brian Nowicki [email protected]. Support the Lounge – Hours of Operation: Mon, Tues, Wed. - 4:00 to 9:00 Thurs., Fri. Sat. - 4:00 to 11:00

Read Our Newsletter on Line We now have a way to automatically email the monthly newsletter directly to your email. Go to www.ReadingKofC.org and click on the link: Subscribe to Newsletter by email This will bring up a window where you can enter your email address (and the random code) to sign up. An email message will be sent to you, be sure to follow the instructions in that email to verify your subscription. If you do not receive the verification email be sure to check your spam mailbox since some mail programs might think this is spam. The email Subject line is: "Activate your Email Subscription to: Knights of Columbus Reading, MA: Monthly Bulletin" and it comes from "[email protected]" Knight’s Calendar-at-a-glance: Aug 14 8:00 PM Council meeting This will be the only meeting in August. Sept. 9 12:00 – 5:00 Fall Fair Fundraiser

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