Fort Bend County Council 2801 February 2015 Officers Chaplain Rev. Bill Bartniski - 281-342-3089 Deputy Grand Knight Roy Mercer – 281-769-2943 Chancellor Jeff Sulak - 281-342-1095 Outside Guard Tommy Stavinoha Recorder Billy Guerrero III Financial Secretary Rick Carlson - 281-232-5438 Advocate Kenny Sopchak - 281-342-6084 Lecturer Andy Sulak – 281-232-4563 Comments and Additions Contact Editor Brad Hines (281) 850-1689 or email bradhines76@gmail.com Grand Knight Kenny Kocich - 281-232-2827 Treasurer Robert Contreras - 713-494-6321 Warden Brad Hines - 281-850-1689 Inside Guard Clarence Klesel - 281-344-1070 Trustee 3 Years Tim Brewer Trustee 2 Years Matt Redlinger 281-346-0188 Trustee 1 Year Marcus Schulte KC Club President Bernie Brezina – 713-826-2528 Grand Knight Message Knight News KC Club News New for Bingo Workers Insurance Agent Corner Calendar For Donations and Information please contact Bernie Brezina – 713-826-2528 Click HERE to obtain application Message from the Grand Knight To My Fellow Brother Knights, Well the first month of the year has come and gone, and February is about over. I would like to thank our Right to Life chairman Doug Krenek for getting our red rose lapels for Right to Life Sunday. Thanks to all who helped handing out the lapels before each Mass. Also the families who carried the rose to the altar during the procession of mass for a very important cause. We had our semi-annual audit in January. I would like to thank the trustees Matt Redlinger, Marcus Schulte and Tim Brewer for coming out and going through our records. Additional thanks go out to Rick Carlson, Robert Contreras, John Guidroz, Andy Sulak, Bernie Brezina and John Herne for their work on the audit books. We had a great turnout for our Chicken and Sausage sale for Holy Rosary Catholic School in January. Thank you to Brad Hines for chairing this event. A great job by Donald Krupa and the cookers for getting there early in the morning and barbecuing the best chickens and sausage. We had a lot of Brother Knights out to help in all areas of this event and I would like to say thank you to each and every one of you for an outstanding job. Clergy Appreciation Dinner was a great success. We had Father Bill and Father Jamie, and all the Deacons and their wives attend the Dinner at the Stafford Center. All had a great time, we may get more tables next year for our members to attend. We are fast approaching the busy time of year. Our Council Lenten Fish Fry will be starting Feb, 20th. We have 6 Lenten Fish Fry’s this year. Thanks to Stan Hruska and Wayne Jakubik for chairing this event. Car Show April 10th thru the 12, Thanks to P J Coselli and Stan Hruska for chairing this event. Our Crawfish Boil coming up on April 18th, Chairman Mike Stavinoha thank you again for chairing. Major changes are happening at our Pavilion area so next time you’re at the hall check out the work in progress. Thanks to all who helped in the hall and park cleanup, great turnout and a lot accomplished. Brad Hines good pulled pork sandwiches also. We have a First Degree ceremony at our next meeting February 24, if you have a future Knight to join we can approve him before the degree. Meeting will start at 7:00 pm… Future Knights should be there by 6:15……No meal at this meeting during lent. This is the time for our council to pull together all of our time, effort, and energy to get some work done and have a little fun doing it. We have lots of events to help out with, hard work, fun times, great fellowship and all for the betterment of our Faith in God and our Families. Come out to the February meeting and sign up. Fraternally yours, Kenny Kocich Grand Knight Work Day Right to Life “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is “Abortion”, because it is a war against the child… A direct killing of the innocent child, “Murder” by the mother herself… And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love… And we remeind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.” Mother Teresa A great big thank you to all of the brothers who participated in the cleanup day on Saturday, February 7. We were able to do the following:  Remove all of the dust, cobwebs and gum from the tables in the hall  Clean the walls in the men’s and family bathrooms  Clean the baseboards in the hall  Replace the door knob on the west side door with a lever handle  Clean the fish fryers  Clean the outside kitchen  Clean the outside kitchen refrigerator  Pick up fallen branches in the park  Remove old speaker wires and do a general cleanup of the area behind the stage in the pavilion  Repair an electrical outlet in the park and anchor it to a post  Anchor 3 water faucets on posts in the parks pavilion area  Apply ant bait to park All of the initial goals were completed along with some extra tasks. May you all be blessed for your sacrifice and hard work. It was a great day. 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