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Meeting Called to Order: 7 PM by Tim Bailey
Number in attendance: 25 Roll Call: Chap Fr John Anderson Lec Mike Peterson GK Tim Bailey Adv Jared Gorka DGK Lee Brown Warden John Linneman Chanc Dennis Mitchell In Guard Ed Zimmerman Recorder Larry Gee Out Guard John Zipperer Fin Secr Jeff Williams Trust 3rd Yr Phillip Mills Treas Doug Mills Trust 2nd Yr Troy Schmidt Trust 1st Yr Al Lingen Approval of Minutes from March 12, 2024, Meeting: Troy/Phil Approved Chaplain’s Message: As members of the Knights of Columbus, should you have any grudges against members of your family, try and clear them up. Holding grudges among family members, friends, or with fellow co-workers is a waste of time and energy. Life is too short. Recent deaths in my family have brought this thought to the surface. If your family is not at peace right now, do something about it. Grand Knight Report:
Membership
Trustee Report none 4th Degree Report none Insurance Agent Shawn, being from the farm, remembers that, at this time of the year, it was time to prep for the planting season. Same concept with your finances. You must have a prepping time for planting season so that your investments grow. Set an appointment with me to review your finances and needs analysis. District Deputy (Mark)
Old Business None New Business
Communication
Lecturer’s Reflections: Just finished our Lenten season. Be grateful for what we have done - what we are doing. Be thankful for making some promises and doing some things differently. If it worked for you, why not continue? It doesn’t have to end with Easter Sunday. Can still do the same things. Live your best life and be worthy of what’s to come. Grand Knight
Good of the Order:
Winner of Jackpot: Doug Mills Meeting Called to Order: 7 PM by Tim Bailey
Number in attendance: 21 Roll Call Present: Chap Fr John Anderson Lecturer Mike Peterson GK Tim Bailey Adv Jared Gorka DGK Lee Brown Warden John Linneman Chanc Dennis Mitchell In Guard Ed Zimmerman Recorder Larry Gee Out Guard John Zipperer Fin Secr Jeff Williams Trust 3rd Yr Phillip Mills Treas Doug Mills Trust 2nd Yr Troy Schmidt Trust 1st Yr Al Linden Absent: None Approval of Minutes from Feb 13, 2024 Meeting: Motion Don/Second Mike Approved Chaplain’s Message: 4th week of lent. Encourage fellow Knights to go above and beyond this Easter Season. Certainly, consider participating in the Holy Triduum - Holy Thursday, Good Friday Service, and Holy Saturday. We need to show leadership especially during Lent. And of course, Easter Sunday. Also, the Stations of the Cross and Devotions. Grand Knight Report:
Eighth grade: 1st place: Rohun Francis. $30 first place. $20 second place. Motion by Don/Second by Lee to present $30 to each of the first-place winners and $20 to the second-place winner. Total of $80. Approved.
Insurance agent/Fourth Degree: none District deputy
Old Business None. New Business
Good of the Order
Shawn fox Mark Casey Steve Crosby Al Neumann Louise Debruzzi Paul Mack Lecturer’s reflections Reflection taken from the book: Beautiful Eucharist. By Matthew Kelly. Eucharist is the body of Jesus. Only two times did the Disciples flee from Jesus. One, at his death and two, when Jesus initially gave them Eucharist saying, “I am the bread of life, unless you eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” Disciples who questioned this did leave his following. But the true followers, after discussing it, were believers. Question: Are we going to flee from Jesus or remain at his side? Are we going to partake in the Eucharist, especially during this Lenten season? A quote from the book, “At Mass on Sunday, the homily could be a language I don’t understand, the music could be a complete train wreck, there could be kids running up and down the aisle screaming at the top of their lungs and throwing crayons and eating snacks, OR, eating crayons and throwing snacks, but that is o.k. because the Eucharist is still present in that service.” Keep this in mind as we continue to receive the Body of Jesus. Winner of Pot of Gold: Vincent Kaiser Winner of Jackpot: Jeff Williams .MEETING MINUTES - KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #2845
7 PM TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2024 Meeting Called to Order: 7 PM by GK Tim Bailey Number in attendance: 31 Roll Call: Chap Fr John Anderson Present Lecturer Mike Peterson Present GK Tim Bailey Present Adv Jared Gorka Present DGK Lee Brown Present Warden John Linneman Present Chanc Dennis Mitchell Present In Guard Ed Zimmerman Present Recorder Larry Gee Present Out Guard John Zipperer Present Fin Secr Jeff Williams Present Trust 3rd Yr Phillip Mills Present Treas Doug Mills Present Trust 2nd Yr Troy Schmidt Present Trust 1st Yr Al Linden Present Approval of Minutes from Dec Meeting with Corrections John Rich Fish Fry Shawn/Doug: Approved Chaplain’s Message: Bishop declared First Sunday of Lent is designated as Safe Haven Sunday. There is a problem with pornography. People tend to not believe children or acknowledge the situation. Pastors are mandated to speak that Sunday on this topic. Hoping to purchase 150 - 200 books to send home with families at both St. Pat’s and IC and at St. Mary’s. Asked the Knights to pray about it. Grand Knight Report: -Passed around some Thank you cards including a card from Father John expressing appreciation to the Knights in support of his Eucharistic Trip in July 2024. And a Christmas card from St. Mary’s School. - Thank you, Jared Gorka, for judging the Christmas Posters – 110 posters. Seemed like a greater number than last year. Membership:Jeff is working with someone. Perhaps a couple others. Program Director: Jan blood drive has been cancelled. Feb 14th, next blood drive. Knights for Dads Rally Sat. Feb 24 8:30 AM – 1 PM St. Bridget’s Church in River Falls. Phil encouraged everyone to attend. Trustees Report - No report 4th degree - Nothing currently Insurance Agent Shawn Fox Financial plan and things you are doing to protect your family, provide for them in the future. Are we doing things the right way – using your money the right way. Using KC retirement plan, life insurance is a good way to do that. Those dollars are never going to be used against your catholic belief. Also, still time to contribute to your IRA’s or Roth accounts for 2023. Perhaps, make a resolution to meet with me (Shawn Fox) this year. District deputy - Our safe environment is especially important right now. Need to stay safe environment trained and resubmit forms if needed. Maybe get a person nominated to fill that position. Resubmit your 365 and change the date on it – that is the key. - Membership quota: 15 is the quota – we are at 2. Two exemplifications in the area: Turtle Lake in a couple of weeks. Mark is helping them plan. Also, one in Amery, maybe at the end of this month/early next month. - Fraternal Benefits Night: Field agent right here in NR – could host one. Amery would be open to do a joint one if it is just a couple people here and there. Five months to get that done this year. - Coming up: They reworked St. Joseph Icon Have that in our District May 15 – June 7. - State Convention Delegates should be announced soon. Convention April 26-28 at Chula Vista. Book hotels, etc. Officer elections should be good on that this year. If your delegates are registered and meals are paid by March 15, you get a discounted rate. - Formaƫing of History Books has changed this year. Make sure keeping up with new format. Mark needs to have the book by first week of February before your Feb meeting. - Knowledge contest planning is in progress. Welcome Home Miles Casey, State Secretary, Knights of Columbus - Thank you for welcoming me back to my home. Member of this council years ago. Thank you for all you guys do. - At the State Level, they look at me and say, “One of the New Richmond boys.” That is a good thing. Good reputation. - Keep up the good work on reporting. You are one of the councils that are very active with this. - Safe environment all ties in for protection of us, as members, in our order. Please make sure your officers are compliant with safe environment training. KCs need to take the training from the Knights. - I applaud you guys for your good job across the board. - This State Convention is important to me. Normally the State Secretary is usually the next one up for State Deputy. Hoping to meet that challenge at this state convention. Should this happen, the State Deputy usually sets up the Officer Installation at their home parish. July 27 will have an installation mass of officers at St. Patricks. There is an opportunity for Council 2845 to host a reception meal at the KC hall immediately following mass. This would be a fundraiser for the council. - Incentives: With Quota of 15, Council #2845 would need to bring in 8 new members during this promotional period to qualify for the discount. If you bring all 8 in by January, you get 30% off per capita goal. If all 8 in by February, get 20% off. If all 8 in by March, 10% off. And in addition, if the council brings in 8 new members in Jan AND 8 new members in Feb, there would be a 50% discount. - Another event on Saturday, Feb. 24: Lenton retreat in Superior. Mass with Bishop Powers immediately following. Exemplification next with Bishop Powers as special guest. Old Business - Last month we discussed donating $3000 to the police Wellness Fund. Time for the vote at this meeting. Voted. Approved. New Business - KC hall needs wall/foundation repair in the basement. Received an estmate. Motion to pay $2500 and repair as soon as possible. Jeff/Dennis. Approved. - Proposed increase in KC hall rental fees. Legion raised rates last month. KCs should be in line with them. Propose increasing the upstairs hall rental fee from $350 to $400 per rental. - Active members would pay $125 per rental. To be active, attend 2 meetings per year plus participate in 1 function (bingo, etc). If not an active member, pay the regular fee of $400. - Motion to raise KC Hall upstairs rental rate from $350 to $400 per rental. Don/Rich Approved. - Billy Thomson encouraged everyone to participate in the Wednesday, 5:30 AM, ReIgnite Wednesday morning Men’s Group. The group is starting to meet again Wed Jan 17th in Corrigan Hall for 13 weeks. Videos are easy to follow. Meets 5:30 – 7 AM on Wednesdays. - Motion to honor State Secretary’s request to host officer installment reception at the KC Hall on July 27, 2024. Don/Al. Approved. - Motion to pay for 150 – 200 books to hand out to the public at the Safe Haven Sunday (First Sunday in Lent – see above under Chaplain’s Message). Jeff/Jared. Approved. - Motion to pay the same amount as last year to the winners of the Christmas Poster Contest. Father John/Don. Approved. - Motion to approve funds for a Bingo appreciation dinner. Don/Jeff. Vote will take place at February meeting. - Mike Peterson volunteered to fill the Lecturer position in Council #2845 Good of the Order Family of the Month: Pat & Luann Becker Knight of the Month: Marc Griffen-Boyle Mike Peterson – hip replacement Shawn Fox Louie Debruzzi Paul Mack Winner of Pot of Gold: Scott Meyer Winner of Jackpot: Jeff Williams --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .MEETING MINUTES - KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #2845
7 PM TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2024 Meeting Called to Order: 7 PM by GK Tim Bailey Number in attendance: 31 Roll Call: Chap Fr John Anderson Present Lecturer Mike Peterson Present GK Tim Bailey Present Adv Jared Gorka Present DGK Lee Brown Present Warden John Linneman Present Chanc Dennis Mitchell Present In Guard Ed Zimmerman Present Recorder Larry Gee Present Out Guard John Zipperer Present Fin Secr Jeff Williams Present Trust 3rd Yr Phillip Mills Present Treas Doug Mills Present Trust 2nd Yr Troy Schmidt Present Trust 1st Yr Al Linden Present Approval of Minutes from Dec Meeting with Corrections John Rich Fish Fry Shawn/Doug: Approved Chaplain’s Message: Bishop declared First Sunday of Lent is designated as Safe Haven Sunday. There is a problem with pornography. People tend to not believe children or acknowledge the situation. Pastors are mandated to speak that Sunday on this topic. Hoping to purchase 150 - 200 books to send home with families at both St. Pat’s and IC and at St. Mary’s. Asked the Knights to pray about it. Grand Knight Report: -Passed around some Thank you cards including a card from Father John expressing appreciation to the Knights in support of his Eucharistic Trip in July 2024. And a Christmas card from St. Mary’s School. - Thank you, Jared Gorka, for judging the Christmas Posters – 110 posters. Seemed like a greater number than last year. Membership:Jeff is working with someone. Perhaps a couple others. Program Director: Jan blood drive has been cancelled. Feb 14th, next blood drive. Knights for Dads Rally Sat. Feb 24 8:30 AM – 1 PM St. Bridget’s Church in River Falls. Phil encouraged everyone to attend. Trustees Report - No report 4th degree - Nothing currently Insurance Agent Shawn Fox Financial plan and things you are doing to protect your family, provide for them in the future. Are we doing things the right way – using your money the right way. Using KC retirement plan, life insurance is a good way to do that. Those dollars are never going to be used against your catholic belief. Also, still time to contribute to your IRA’s or Roth accounts for 2023. Perhaps, make a resolution to meet with me (Shawn Fox) this year. District deputy - Our safe environment is especially important right now. Need to stay safe environment trained and resubmit forms if needed. Maybe get a person nominated to fill that position. Resubmit your 365 and change the date on it – that is the key. - Membership quota: 15 is the quota – we are at 2. Two exemplifications in the area: Turtle Lake in a couple of weeks. Mark is helping them plan. Also, one in Amery, maybe at the end of this month/early next month. - Fraternal Benefits Night: Field agent right here in NR – could host one. Amery would be open to do a joint one if it is just a couple people here and there. Five months to get that done this year. - Coming up: They reworked St. Joseph Icon Have that in our District May 15 – June 7. - State Convention Delegates should be announced soon. Convention April 26-28 at Chula Vista. Book hotels, etc. Officer elections should be good on that this year. If your delegates are registered and meals are paid by March 15, you get a discounted rate. - Formaƫing of History Books has changed this year. Make sure keeping up with new format. Mark needs to have the book by first week of February before your Feb meeting. - Knowledge contest planning is in progress. Welcome Home Miles Casey, State Secretary, Knights of Columbus - Thank you for welcoming me back to my home. Member of this council years ago. Thank you for all you guys do. - At the State Level, they look at me and say, “One of the New Richmond boys.” That is a good thing. Good reputation. - Keep up the good work on reporting. You are one of the councils that are very active with this. - Safe environment all ties in for protection of us, as members, in our order. Please make sure your officers are compliant with safe environment training. KCs need to take the training from the Knights. - I applaud you guys for your good job across the board. - This State Convention is important to me. Normally the State Secretary is usually the next one up for State Deputy. Hoping to meet that challenge at this state convention. Should this happen, the State Deputy usually sets up the Officer Installation at their home parish. July 27 will have an installation mass of officers at St. Patricks. There is an opportunity for Council 2845 to host a reception meal at the KC hall immediately following mass. This would be a fundraiser for the council. - Incentives: With Quota of 15, Council #2845 would need to bring in 8 new members during this promotional period to qualify for the discount. If you bring all 8 in by January, you get 30% off per capita goal. If all 8 in by February, get 20% off. If all 8 in by March, 10% off. And in addition, if the council brings in 8 new members in Jan AND 8 new members in Feb, there would be a 50% discount. - Another event on Saturday, Feb. 24: Lenton retreat in Superior. Mass with Bishop Powers immediately following. Exemplification next with Bishop Powers as special guest. Old Business - Last month we discussed donating $3000 to the police Wellness Fund. Time for the vote at this meeting. Voted. Approved. New Business - KC hall needs wall/foundation repair in the basement. Received an estmate. Motion to pay $2500 and repair as soon as possible. Jeff/Dennis. Approved. - Proposed increase in KC hall rental fees. Legion raised rates last month. KCs should be in line with them. Propose increasing the upstairs hall rental fee from $350 to $400 per rental. - Active members would pay $125 per rental. To be active, attend 2 meetings per year plus participate in 1 function (bingo, etc). If not an active member, pay the regular fee of $400. - Motion to raise KC Hall upstairs rental rate from $350 to $400 per rental. Don/Rich Approved. - Billy Thomson encouraged everyone to participate in the Wednesday, 5:30 AM, ReIgnite Wednesday morning Men’s Group. The group is starting to meet again Wed Jan 17th in Corrigan Hall for 13 weeks. Videos are easy to follow. Meets 5:30 – 7 AM on Wednesdays. - Motion to honor State Secretary’s request to host officer installment reception at the KC Hall on July 27, 2024. Don/Al. Approved. - Motion to pay for 150 – 200 books to hand out to the public at the Safe Haven Sunday (First Sunday in Lent – see above under Chaplain’s Message). Jeff/Jared. Approved. - Motion to pay the same amount as last year to the winners of the Christmas Poster Contest. Father John/Don. Approved. - Motion to approve funds for a Bingo appreciation dinner. Don/Jeff. Vote will take place at February meeting. - Mike Peterson volunteered to fill the Lecturer position in Council #2845 Good of the Order Family of the Month: Pat & Luann Becker Knight of the Month: Marc Griffen-Boyle Mike Peterson – hip replacement Shawn Fox Louie Debruzzi Paul Mack Winner of Pot of Gold: Scott Meyer Winner of Jackpot: Jeff Williams Meeting Called to Order: 7 PM by Tim Bailey
Number in attendance: 21 Roll Call: Chap Fr John Anderson Present Lecture Open GK Tim Bailey Present Adv Jared Gorka Present DGK Lee Brown Present Warden John Linneman Present Chanc Dennis Mitchell Present In Guard Ed Zimmerman Absent Recorder Larry Gee Present Out Guard John Zipperer Present Fin Secr Jeff Williams Present Trust 3rd Yr Phillip Mills Present Treas Doug Mills Absent Trust 2nd Yr Troy Schmidt Absent Trust 1st Yr Al Linden Present Approval of Minutes from Oct. 10, 2023, Meeting: Don / Al Approved. Chaplain’s Message: At the conclusion of the Memorial Mass for our departed Knights of Columbus members this evening, Father expressed appreciation for the reading of the names of our departed members while at Mass. In addition, this thought was encapsulated in Father’s homily: In doing charity work or volunteering, don’t do it for a pat on the back, do it because you feel it is needed and for giving back to the church and community. Grand Knight Report:
Membership Director: Shawn Fox: Currently working with members of Wednesday AM group for membership. Program Director:
4th degree: no report Field agent Shawn: We just had Veteran’s Day. Remembered everyone as a Veteran. How am I going to be remembered? How is my family going to remember me? As we approach the season of giving, this is something you can impact during the giving season. As Father said, don’t do good deeds for the pat on the back, do it for very intentional personal reasons. Think about investing in the Knights of Columbus life insurance or retirement accounts. Until your family may need the life insurance, the money ($185 million), is helping people around the world. So, as you are taking inventory of your goals, please include Knight of Columbus in your thought process. District deputy: Next month:
Unfinished business: none New Business:
Good of order: Family of month: Dennis and Jackie Mitchell Knight of the month: Don Schoenherr
Still searching for a lecturer. Winner of Pot of Gold: Tom Dahl Winner of Jackpot: Al Lingen |
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