Meeting Minutes

Mass: Cancelled

Call to Order: Grand Knight Cary Newman: 7:16 PM.

·         Total in attendance: 31 Brothers; Please remember to bring your Rosaries.

Officers Attendance Report: End of this report.

Burning candle memorial:

·         For the Canonization of Blessed Michael McGivney

Opening Prayer: The Our Father led by GK Cary Newman

Pledge of Allegiance: All

Special Guest(s): Professor Judi Paparozzi

·         She spoke to thank those Knights who participate each Wednesday from 9-10 am at the corner of Hospital Plaza and 17th Street praying a Rosary for the Unborn. She would welcome more Knights and left scripts for those who might be moved to attend. These ladies have been holding this prayer vigil for 20+ years.

Approval of Minutes from Previous Meeting: Minutes were approved.

Financial Reports:

·         Financial Secretary Report: Financial Secretary Greg Decker

·         Financial statement is available upon request.

·         Treasurer Report: Treasurer Bud Tascone (excused)

·         Financial statement is available upon request.

Chaplain Report: No Report

Membership Report: Membership Director Greg Peters

·         On August 6th there was a Spanish exemplification. We have actually launched our Hispanic Caballeros de Colon initiative. We now have 9 Hispanic Knights with at least 3 more ready to be exemplified! Our first Spanish roundtable will be August 31. When you see notification of a Spanish exemplification, please do your best to attend. We truly want to support our Hispanic brothers in this growth of our council. Fall membership drive is scheduled for October 7 & 8. Volunteers are needed to work the membership tables. Working on the church announcements & keynote speakers. All members are asked to approach potential candidates in September to enhance our recruiting efforts.

Programs Reports: Program Director Larry Greer

·         Faith Director Report: Faith Director John Clyatt

·         COR (Heart) Program- COR exists to form and strengthen Catholic men in faith and virtue as missionary disciples by drawing them into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ through prayer, formation, and fraternity. Plan for the COR program is each meeting will start in plenary session then break into small groups. Planning to have our first meeting before the end of September and will be each Thursday evening time TBD.

·         Knights Quarterly Mass: September 30, 5pm volunteers needed to serve as readers, ushers, greeters, sacristan, extraordinary ministers of holy communion and cantor.

·         Family Director Report: Family Director Jim Mancini

·         Movie night September 16 after 5pm Mass chaired by Joe D’Alassandro (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. cell: 910-352-7607) volunteers needed setup/cleanup. The Knights of Columbus with the support of The Legion of Mary, will present Bernadette, the 1988 Classic film in the parish hall. Pre-registration is appreciated, however, walk ins are welcome. There is no charge but donations are welcome to offset costs. Volunteers needed to hand out post cards: Saturday 9 September after 5 pm Mass 2 volunteers; Hand out post cards: Sunday 10 September 2 Volunteers per mass 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30; Help to set up and tear down chairs, tables, serve pizza, popcorn and drinks. Saturday 16 September. 6 volunteers needed. Arrive at 4 pm, stay until end to clean up. Sign up by going to https://kofc12017.org/index.php/register or the parish sign up in the weekly email communication.

·         Knight’s Breakfast September 10 after 9:30 Mass volunteers to assist cooking, setting up and cleaning up chaired by George Schadt This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. cell 910-540-4700.

·         Community Director Report: Program Director Ray Repage

·         Catholic Charities food truck driver/delivery: Catholic Charities is in need of volunteer drivers to deliver our health food boxes to our clients in New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus and Bladen Co. Using 1 of 2 of our delivery vans, we have morning and afternoon routes available, routes last approximately 2.5-3 hours. Two more knights have volunteered. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 336-908-2474.

·         Catholic essay contest in September chaired by Sal (Bud) Tascone This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. cell 570-351-8076; volunteers and judges will be needed in October

·         Fundraiser for Blankets for the Homeless Gumbo dinner September 30 after 5pm Mass, chaired by Greg Peters (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. cell 910-899-8273) setup/cleanup help needed

·         Coats for Kids fundraiser after all Masses September 9-10 volunteers needed chaired by Richard Caparelli This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. cell: 941-223-6518

·         Life Director Report: Life Director Michael Breit

·         The Knights are excited to announce the 2023 Monday Night Football Pool and they’re the perfect gift for everyone: Mom, Dad, son, daughter, grandchildren, godchildren, and you! For $20 you get 20 chances to win $50 throughout the season including the championship games and Super Bowl, plus you can win multiple times!!! It’s a fun way to evangelize and show support for Life to your family and friends. And the proceeds benefit the local pregnancy center and other Knights Life initiatives. Your $20 will make a difference. You don’t have to know anything about football or even follow the game. The winnings just show up in the mail! Please contact Michael Breit at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call/text Michael at (910)409-8101. Football season starts soon so contact Michael now!

·         A reminder of Wednesday's 9:00 am prayer vigil supporting Life at the corner of 17^th Street and Hospital Plaza. Best contact is Larry Geer: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. cell- 910-471-1574.

 Fourth Degree Report –Larry Greer

·         Monthly meetings on the third Tuesday at 7pm at St. Mark and other council locations. See the calendar on the assembly website https://kofc2017.org/calendar.

·         New Faithful Navigator, Frank Bio This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. cell 910-899-8946

·         Quarterly Ashley House dinner on 10 September between 3-6 or 7PM. Information on Ashley house (including the address) is at- https://www.goodshepherdwilmington.org/project/ashley-center/. 
SKs Tim Ludgate and Sean Murphy are leading the effort. Here's their contact info: Sean Murphy - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Cell - 786-385-7077
Tim Ludgate - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Cell - 570-916-6944
This will be an Italian themed dinner. Based on the last one we will most likely serve about 20 vets and we had 24 Knight/Spouse volunteers last time so we should plan for about 40-50 people. We are asking Knights/Spouses to help with set up, cooking and clean-up. We still need a little help with some salads, bread and desserts.

·         Wreaths Across America is a fundraiser for the assembly. A link is provided on the assembly website https://kofc2017.org.  This will be sent out to all the councils in our district. Contact Larry Greer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Greg Decker This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for assistance.

·         Passing of the Colors:Flag Instruction which focuses on flag etiquette.  Presentations to the 8th grade students at St. Mark Catholic School on August 24 at 9:30am, and St. Mary Catholic School 8th grade students on August 25 at 8:30am. All knights are welcome to observe.

·         Exemplification scheduled for December 2 in New Bern. Details as they are made available.

LAMB Chairman Report – LAMB Chairman Tim Niggel

·         $15K raised for this year. Storefront collecting is complete. Parish table collection February 10 & 11, 2024.

Financial Secretary Report – Financial Secretary Greg Decker

·         No bills or communications to report.

Knights on Call –DGK Michael Alexander

·         The DGK is still collecting names for these efforts. We have recorded 11 hours this quarter.

Grand Knight’s Report: GK Cary Newman

·         The formal presentation will be made in a few months, but announced that we have been recognized as a Double Star Council for our work in 22-23.

·         Our success in recruitment was essential to earning the Double Star. However, with that success comes the responsibility to help our new brothers get engaged in the activities of the council. To that end, the leadership of the council has initiated a Knights Mentoring Program. Through that program, Knights recruited in the past 24 months who have not yet become active in the work of the council will have a mentor who provides guidance and support as needed.

·         Brothers Brewery Night was held July 31. We had 35 brothers in attendance with the sole purpose of getting to know each other better while enjoying a couple of beers and some good food. This is a great opportunity for those new to the council and those who have been away for a while to get in touch and get to know your brothers. Will be holding a BBN every quarter.

·         Food at the Council meetings is a big topic of conversation. Everyone wants it and we know that with food comes conversation and fraternity. But, it is expensive. The food we bought two years ago before the pandemic cost us $60/meeting and now it is more like $160/meeting. We do not have the budget to support that. So, we would like to revert to a previous practice of having a Food Team with a Food Chairman. Each month the Food Team would come up with a plan to provide home cooked food (like Pasta or sandwiches or other) for the meeting. We will also enlist the Columbiettes to help since they will begin joining us for a social after the meeting. Please let me know if you would like to volunteer for this team and if you would be willing to be its leader. Brothers John Clyatt and Gerardo Andrade have stepped up as leaders. They will be challenged to provide food after our council meetings within our $60/meeting budget

·         Columbiettes/Knights council social will be renewed starting 9/26. The idea of having both meetings on the same night and finishing with a joint social was our practice prior to Covid. This is a great way for the Knights and Columbiettes to know each other better.

·         Our Worthy Recorder, Sean Murphy, has taken the initiative to convert our Fraternal Planner from a pen and paper exercise to a fully functional Excel spreadsheet. The 23-24 calendar is ready to be published and will go out to the full council in excel format within the next few days. Please review it carefully and let us know what you will volunteer to support. We tend to have the same 30 or 40 brothers doing most of the work and really want and need to see some fresh blood in the mix.

·         The GK is very excited that we have actually launched our Hispanic Caballeros de Colon initiative. We now have 9 Hispanic Knights with at least 3 more ready to be exemplified! Our first Spanish roundtable will be August 31. When you see notification of a Spanish exemplification, please do your best to attend. We truly want to support our Hispanic brothers in this growth of our council.

Old Business

·         Discussion and vote on approving the 23-24 budget. Vote was approved unanimously.

New Business

·         (none)

Insurance Agent Report – Marty Yakimovich (not in attendance)

·         (none)

District Deputy Comments: Eugene Ziemba (not in attendance)

·         (none)

Good of the Order

·         Knight of the Month for July- MichaelBrouillette

·         Family of the Month for July- Cliff & GiGi MacDonald & Family

Prayers for Brothers in Need:

·         Prayer book

Next Meeting: September 26 in the parish hall at 7:15PM after 6:30 PM Mass.

·         This will include a joint social with the Columbiettes after the meeting.

Closing Prayer: Hail Mary led by Brother George Schadt

Meeting Adjourned at 8:08 PM

Minutes completed by Recorder: (acting) Larry Greer