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Newsletter Jan 2020 Edition 40
Newsletter Jan 2020 Edition 40 All the Council events and activities of the last quarter.
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Meeting Minutes – February 2020
MINUTES OF GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETINGKOFC COUNCIL 8157 February 4, 2020 Mike Fitzgerald,Recording Secretary
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The True Meaning of Saint Valentine’s Day
The True Meaning of Saint Valentine’s Day / Lecture #09 While there are many legends about St. Valentine, church history says he was a early priest martyred during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius on February 14, 269 A.D. He was executed for refusing to deny Christ. History has it that before his head […]
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Family of the Month – February 2020
Jim and Denise Richardson Jim was a junior at St. Augustine Catholic High School in Laredo and Denise was a freshman when they met. Leave it to a member of the Knights of Columbus to be married on Columbus Day, in 1963. Jim’s career took them to Washington, D.C., where he worked in the Reagan […]
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Knight of the Month – February 2020
Dan Murphy Dan continues to be a regular contributor to the planning and execution of council activities long after his two-year term as our Grand Knight (2002-04). He has been our director of community activities for years, highlighted by our cookouts at St. Joseph’s Nursing Home in Oak Cliff, the seminarians at Holy Trinity in […]
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Family of the Month – January 2020
Keith and Mary Archer When you next help at a council event in Holy Spirit’s gymnasium, you’ll be near the spot where the Archers met. That happened at a parish singles activity, playing volleyball. Keith grew up in Oklahoma City and headed south for the Dallas area in his mid-20s. He has been a product […]
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Knight of the Month – January 2020
Efrain Ochoa It was 20 years ago this month that Efrain took his major degrees, only two months after joining the order. The Rio Grande Valley native has been a versatile volunteer, one of our go-to guys as part of Knight Hands, council cookouts and at 8157 concession stands. His contributions to our “food services […]
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Happy New Year 2020
Happy New Year 2020 The New Year is always a time for great anticipation, new resolutions and past reflection. We look forward to the promise of what to come and we reflect on the past year’s gains and setbacks. Whether looking at the past year or the past 50 years our time is marked by […]
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Dec
Knight Hands Project #332 and #333
Knight Hands continues it’s community work by completing two fairly difficult projects this past month. On November 14th, 2019, David Dybala, Steve Zehnder, Ken Rarick, Hector Rubio, Mike Fitzgerald, Dan Murphy and I completed a project at the home of Cora Mancenido located in DeSoto Tx. The main objective of this project was to eliminate […]
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Concession Stands Are Quiet For Now
On December 8th of 2019, James Smith and Eric Conner opened and closed the football concession stand for the last time this season. John Espree and Miguel Hernandez had already closed the baseball concession stand for 2019 on October 20th 2019. And so ends another year of countless hours of work by many Knights serving […]
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