As the Supreme Court prepared to hear arguments that could potentially overturn Roe vs. Wade, the knights of 12017 joined with the Respect Life Wilmington group to offer prayers on this momentous day.
Knights in Action were DGK Cary Newman, PGK Larry Greer, Jim Edens, John Bolger and Greg Decker. Many of this group participate in this prayer vigil every Wednesday from 9 till 10.
The 2021-2022 Football Pool is in the eighth year of play in our council. The funds raised support Life programs and general council initiatives.
We want to highlight the winners so that they don't go unrecognized. The pool was open to anyone so the winners won't only be knights. What you'll see are the same names turning up. The reason is simple - they bought more numbers.
| Game | Winner - Pool "A" | Winner - Pool "B" | Winner - Pool "C" |
| 1 | Geraldine Arias | Cary Newman | No Winner |
| 2 | Paul Gigliotti | Rick Clendenning | Sean Murphy |
| 3 | Bette Greer | Kaylani Baker | Michael Breit |
| 4 | Patrick Capps | Bill Menendez | No Winner |
| 5 | Geraldine Arias | Cary Newman | No Winner |
| 6 | Patrick Gourley | Gabriel Shedid | No Winner |
| 7 | Bill Jedziniak | Jim Canoni | No Winner |
| 8 | Aubrey Baker | John Bolger | Msgr. Steve Carlson |
| 9 | Lee Wagner | Cruz Thomas | No Winner |
| 10 | Tom Mackay | Trent Gurriss | No Winner |
| 11 | Christian Decker | M. J. Lawton | No Winner |
| 12 | Catherine Kane | Abby Riazzi | Bob Zaborowski |
Our council sent Christmas cards and gifts to all our seminarians. This year, the gift was a $25 Amazon gift card. This was in addition to the RSVP gift of $500 in which we support two seminarians: John Lewis and William Breit.
PGK Greg Peters is soon to retire from his long-time employer, Flowserve. In recognition of his service, his company provided a check for $2011.08 for the Wilmington homeless which is being donated to the Good Shepherd Center.
Also presented were blankets for the homeless. Greg and his son Mason started this off and Greg, through passing the hat, raised funds through his co-workers.
At the presentation ceremony on Wednesday, October 20, were Jane Byrne of Good Shepherd, Grand Knight Chris Smith, Deputy Grand Knight Cary Newman, and Past Grand Knight Greg Peters.
Well done, Greg!
The Father James E. Waters Columbiettes is a sponsor of Wreaths Across America, an organization that each December on National Wreaths Across America Day, coordinates wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as at more than 2,500 additional locations in all 50 U.S. states, at sea and abroad including Wilmington's National Cemetery.
The goal for Wilmington's National Cemetery is to place a wreath on each of the more than 5,200 graves. Last year, due to the pandemic, 20% were not adorned. Wreaths cost $15 each and are delivered directly to the cemetery in time for Wreaths Across America Day which falls on December 18 this year. On that day volunteers from many organizations participate in placing the wreaths on the graves. In past years our Columbiettes and other local Knights councils lent hands.
Wreaths can be purchased by printing out this form and mailing the payment. Also, wreaths can be purchased on line here and click on Local Sponsorship Group under Sponsor Wreaths and on the next page enter "NC0378P" where it asks "Select Group to Support" so that credit is properly applied.
| Sun Dec 05 @10:00AM - 01:00PM Parish Breakfast |
| Thu Dec 09 @ 7:00PM - 08:00PM Executive Board Meeting |
| Thu Dec 16 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM General Meeting |
| Tue Dec 21 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM Fourth Degree Meeting |
| Sat Dec 25 Christmas |
| Sun Jan 02 @10:00AM - 01:00PM Parish Breakfast |
| Thu Jan 13 @ 7:00PM - 08:00PM Executive Board Meeting |
| Tue Jan 18 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM Fourth Degree Meeting |
| Thu Jan 20 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM General Meeting |