The Knightly Knews The monthly newsletter of the Knights of Columbus Council #10795

Volume 21, Number 2 St. Vincent de Paul Church, Omaha, Nebraska February 2015

Grand Knotes from the Grand Knight

Brother Knights, Thanks to Jack Wojtas and everyone who helped out with the pancake breakfast in January. Last year we decided to schedule the February pancake breakfast in January to coincide with the Catholic Schools week kickoff celebration. We had an incredible turnout and I think we may have even broken some records. I would also like to thank the school kids who helped out. They did an incredible job. What a wonderful reflection of our school and our Parish community. I look forward to the pancake breakfast in 2016. Great job Jack!! In less than 3 weeks we will have already completed our first Fish Fry of the 2015 Lenten season. The Fish Fry Committee has been working very hard over the past couple of months in preparation for this event and I want to thank the Fish Fry Committee for all of their hard work. The Fish Fry is the largest fundraising event for our council and one of the largest events for our Parish Community. I would like to thank all of the brother Knights & their families for all of their hard work over the next 6 weeks to provide the best Fish Fry in town week after week and year after year. The Fish Fry requires a lot of volunteers and a lot of very hard work goes into making this a great event each week. I would encourage every Brother Knight to work at least one or two Fish Frys this Lenten Season. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow Knights and a perfect opportunity to meet other parish families. I would like to extend a Thank You to the Brother Knights for all their help and dedication throughout the year. Without your help Brother Gary Hennessey and the other members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society would not have been able to provide Christmas for 11 parish and surrounding area families. As always, I appreciate all that you do and if you have any comments, questions or concerns don’t hesitate to call (402-359-1648) or e-mail (wsyosick@centurylink.net) me anytime.

Thank You and God Bless, Bill Yosick, Grand Knight

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Council Meeting

Tuesday, February 10th Hanneman Hall

Meeting: 6:45 PM

GOOD OF THE ORDER

If you know of any Knight or a member

of his family who has recently died, is sick, in distress or is in need of our prayers for any reason, please contact Grand Knight

Bill Yosick so that the prayers and support of this council may be offered

The Knightly Knews is the monthly

newsletter of the Knights of Columbus Council #10795. All articles, suggestions, critique, and criticisms are welcome and

should be directed to the editor: Ron Frisse at 402-715-4879 or rfrisse@cox.net Deadline for submission of articles or notes

is the 20th of each month for the next month’s newsletter. If you have a change of address or email, please notify Financial

Secretary Glen Kampschneider at glen.kampschneider@gpreinc.com

2015 Dues Time Glen Kampschneider, Financial Secretary

Dues are $30 for the calendar year (unless you are a priest, deacon or

Honorary Life member). You can also support Nebraska's Buck-A-Month Club, a program that supports various Knights of

Columbus pro-life efforts, by adding $12 to your payment. Make check payable to Knights of Columbus.

If you have not paid your 2015 or 2014

dues, please bring your payment to the next meeting or mail to Glen at the address below. If you have any questions,

feel free to contact Glen at (402)690-0611 or at glen.kampschneider@gpreinc.com. Thank you!

Glen Kampschneider 2443 N. 147th Street

Omaha, NE 68116

February Food Bank Mick Morrell

This month's Food Bank Team is captained by John Smith. Deliveries are scheduled for

Sunday, February 22nd. Team members are Bruce Wilke, Tyler Langel, Scott Kerr, Ray Neppl, George Meiers, Glen

Kampschneider, and Dan Borcyk. Next month's Food Bank Team is captained by Jim Pavlik.

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Knight of the Month

February 2015

Josh Boesch

Family of the Month

February 2015

Lee and Ann

Galles Family

The Grand Knight has named Josh Boesch as the Knight of the Month for February 2015.

Josh joined the Knights of Columbus when he was 18 years old. He has been a member of our council for the past five years. Josh, serves

on our membership committee and on our Fish Fry committee. Josh and his wife have two sons and another child expected in March.

Thank you, Josh, for your service, and congratulations on this deserved recognition of your dedication to our Council, our Church, and

our Community.

The Grand Knight has named the Lee and Ann Galles Family as the Family of the Month for

February 2015.

Lee is a 3rd Degree Knight who joined the Knights in 1961. Lee joined our council three years

ago. Lee has helped with the One Rose, One Life campaign, pancake breakfasts, and fish fries.

Ann has also helped with fish fries. Both are

members of the St. Patrick guild and help with the Agnation Volunteer program. Lee is on the Finance committee at SVdP. The Galles have 2 children and

3 grandsons.

Thank you Lee and Ann for your service, and congratulations on this deserved recognition of your dedication to our council, our Church, and our

Community.

Words to Reflect ON From God's Little Instruction Book for Men

Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Faith without work is dead James 2:26

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Upcoming Major Degrees Craig Collins

Interested in details? Contact Craig Collins, our District Deputy at (402) 238 - 2101 or e-mail

craigduckman@gmail.com.

Council 10909 St Wenceslaus Omaha is

Hosting a Major Degree at their parish on Sunday February 8th

Address: 15353 Pacific Street Enter thru school doors next to gym (west side)

First Degree starts at 11:00AM Candidates should report at 10:30 AM

Lunch available at Noon Second Degree Begins promptly at 1 PM.

Candidates report by 12:30 PM Third Degree will follow the Second Degree.

contact Rod Hofschulte 402-510 7250 rhofschult@msn.com or Jeff Krohn, at 402-658- 0778

Council 6192 is Hosting a Major Degree at

their Hall (205 Industrial Dr.) Bellevue on Sunday February 15

First Degree starts at 11:30AM Candidates should report at 11

Lunch available at Noon Second Degree Begins promptly at 1 PM.

Candidates report by 12:30 PM Third Degree will begin at shortly after the

Second Degree. Larry J Reed PSD

Financial Secretary 6192 402-292-2799

Blood Drive News Mike Friederich

Our next blood drive is Sunday March 8th

from 7:00 am until noon. If you can help at the registration table or if you would like to schedule an appointment to donate blood,

please call Mike Friederich at 402-708-2186.

January Pancake Breakfast A Great Success

Jack Wojtas

The pancake breakfast on January 25th was a very successful kickoff to Catholic Schools

Week. We served close to 400 meals and netted nearly $1500. St Vincent de Paul schoolchildren and faculty assisted with

serving and table bussing. They did an excellent job. This was the last pancake breakfast scheduled for this season. We will

resume the breakfast schedule in October. Thanks to all the Knights and their family

members who supported our breakfasts with their hard work and innovative ideas. We have significantly improved our product.

Special thanks to Dan Tunning for all his work in estimating, ordering and delivering our food and supplies and to Dave Greguska for his

friendly management of the kitchen and facilities.

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KC Free Throw Contest Mark Havermann

We had a good time at the Annual KC Free

Throw Contest held at SVDP gym on 1/19/15.

The kids shot some great baskets with 2

double overtime shoot outs.

Our champs will move on to play at the

District contest held at SVDP on Monday 2/9/15 7 PM. Volunteers are still needed

Thanks to those who helped count the Baskets and rebound at our contest. I forgot the sign-up sheet so I’m sorry if I did not include all

those helpers.

Tom Kielty (also helped get some BB rounded

up as well), Tom Halpin (helped give us gym timeslots), Gordon Benet, Matt Palmer, John Smith, Jim Bogner, Jim Pavlik, Kevin Donohue

Jim P & Kevin had a shootout as well in our Knights contest. Kevin’s jeans slowed him

down so he let Jim winJ

If any Knight wants to run the KC Youth,

including this fun BB event - let me know. It’s fun but may be time to give to a Knight who has kids still in school.

Volunteers are needed for District contest held at SVDP on Monday 2/9/15 7 PM. contact Mark

Havermann if interested 402-871-7284

ONE ROSE, ONE LIFE

Scott Kerr Thanks to the generosity of our SVdP parishioners, we collected $3923.00 in our

annual One Rose, One Life campaign. These donations will help fund the pro-life activities sponsored by the Bishops’ Pastoral Plan in

Nebraska, as well as local crisis pregnancy centers and the Pope Paul VI Institute.

We are so grateful to Fr. Dan for his support and allowing us to have a second collection.

Thanks to the following Knights and families who helped hand out prayer cards and

donation envelopes and/or helped count money at the Masses:

George Meiers Todd Camp Mike Gidden Lee Galles Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Uhing Vic Stevenart

John Bellavia Dan Tunning Jim Zelfel Jay Vankat Dan Hoffmann Jim Bogner

Gordon Bennett Jack Wojtas Glen Kampschneider

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Recruiting for a New Treasurer for Our Council by Mark Kucera

I am announcing my retirement as the Council Treasurer. After 15 years in this capacity, I think the

Council needs some fresh ideas in this position. If you are interested in becoming the new Treasurer,

please contact me, Grand Knight Bill Yosick, or Financial Secretary Glen Kampschneider.

So you know what to expect, most months require 2-3 hours of time to write checks, make a deposit,

attend the monthly meeting and generate a couple reports. Twice a year, the Council conducts an Audit of

our financial transactions. It takes an additional 2-3 hours of the Treasurer's time for each Audit. Fish

Fry season does require a good amount of time each week. The Treasurer prepares a bag of change for

the Cashier, Carryout and Beer stations. At the end of the night, the Treasurer collects and counts all

funds. Along with the Financial Secretary, the Treasurer will confirm the proceeds, prepare change for

the next week, make a deposit and prepare a report. The entire process takes about 4-5 hours per week.

You don't need to be an accountant to do this job--I certainly am not. You only need a desire to serve

the Council. I found this position to be very rewarding.

I want to thank each of the Grand Knights I have served, and especially the Financial Secretaries

during my tenure--Ron Springer, Craig Collins and Glen Kampschneider. Each of them have done

incredible work on behalf of the Council and deserve your gratitude.

Please email me at mkucera6@cox.net if you have questions or want to volunteer.

Mark Kucera

mkucera6@cox.net

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FISH FRY 2015 Ron Frisse

The Fish Fry Committee has been very busy preparing for the 2015 season. We think we have a good solution for our fry tent, thanks to the help of Rick Langel, Tyler Langel, and Dan

Borcyk. We are very hopeful that our new solution will solve all of our past concerns and make the fry tent a great place to volunteer.

We will need volunteers to help with setting up our canopy and the new fry hood that has been built on Feb 15th. There will be more details in a separate email.

Lent is right around the corner, and there are still plenty of spots left for volunteers on our signup sheets. Without enough volunteers our fish frys can not be successful, please

consider volunteering for two nights or more. The fish frys are a great way to become involved in our council and meet other Knights. The more people we get to volunteer, the better we can spread out the work. Wives are also invited to sign up along with your children if they are in

5th grade or above. Younger children will not be allowed to assist with beer, cashiers, or the fry tent. This is one of our largest fundraisers throughout the year. Like last year, we would like to request that you sign up using the SignUp Genius website. To access the signup please

follow this link:

The roles of each position are listed, along with start and finish times. IF you can not start at 4:30 but will be there before 5:30 you can still volunteer for those positions, just note start time

in the comments

This year the dates for the fish frys are: 2/20 2/27 3/6 3/13 3/20 and 3/27

There shouldn’t be a lot of big changes to our operation this year, just some minor tweaks. Setup time is 4:30; Start time is 5:30 PM each Friday. One new signup area is a cleanup crew, if you are not available early on a Friday night, why not come out and have some fish and

beer then help to clean up after the serving line finishes. The serving line deserves a break when finished to have some dinner too. Afterwards all the workers and the cleanup crew will work together to get things cleaned up fast (or at least until Havermann turns off the beer) If

you have problems signing up send rfrisse@cox.net an email and I can manually add you to the schedule.

Any questions contact Ron Frisse (rfrisse@cox.net) or Jim Pavlik (Jim.Pavlik@hdrinc.com) Lets work together to make the 2015 season the best ever !!!!!!!!!

Please help advertise by sharing the flyer on the last page

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0a4babac22a46-svdp1

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Fish Fry placemat ad spots for sale We are doing something new this year at the fish frys and will be featuring placemats on the

tables. We are selling advertising spots on these placemats, each spot is about the size of a standard business card in full color. The price per spot is $150 which will be printed on 10,000

placemats that will be used at our fish frys and next season's pancake breakfasts until we use all 10,000 copies. If you or anyone you know is interested in purchasing a spot please let Adam Jones at adam.jonez@gmail.com, Steve Kluthe or Lee Galles know as soon as

possible. These spots will fill up quickly. This will be a good addition to our fish fry proceeds and a nice advertising method for local businesses.

The placemats will also feature the Knights logo and a picture of St. Vincent de Paul Church, an example of one used at another local parish fish fry is shown below

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A founding notion: protecting the breadwinner’s income

While jobs are safer in 2015, accidents, injuries, and illnesses that can impact your ability to work

still happen. Most, in fact, do not happen on the jobsite or place of employment. Did you know that a

2011 study revealed that more than 95 percent of the long-term disability claims on file were not work

related?

The “loss” of the breadwinner does not have to mean that person’s death; it can also mean the loss

of the breadwinner’s income. Consider that loss for a moment. How would your family fare if a source of

income suddenly stopped? Could a dual-income family manage on one income stream? What about

young families with a working father and a mother who cares for the children? What if his income halted

due to an accident or illness?

I’ve heard some people say they have coverage at work, but too many aren’t sure what this

coverage entails, how much income it would provide or for how long. Having this protection counts for

something, certainly, but it isn’t “yours”; it’s provided by the company for which you work at their

discretion. It could be eliminated tomorrow.

That’s where a personally-owned disability income insurance product, like Income Armor, comes into

play. It can offer valuable income replacement in the event of an injury or illness. While Father McGivney

likely never imagined such a product in 1882, I’m sure he would wholeheartedly endorse the protection

it can provide to a family. If you have a job, you must know about this coverage.

Thanks and God Bless, Steve G Kluthe MDRT

Steve Kluthe Field Representative Knights Of Columbus 13520 California St, Suite 200 Omaha, NE 68154 Office: 402 960-3179

steve.kluthe@kofc.org www.stevekluthe.com

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St. Vincent De Paul Knights Council #10795 Calendar

February 2015

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 7:30 Tunning 9:00 Pavel 10:45 McConville

2

3

4 5 Mantemach

Rainbow Team 3

6

7 PFH - 5:00 Zelfel

8 7:30 Day 9:00 Havermann 10:45 Salerno

9 10

Meeting 6:45 Hanneman hall

11 12 Heywood

Rainbow Team 4

13

14 PFH - 5: 00 Frisse

15 7:30 Morrell 9:00 Halpin 10:45 Neppl

16

17

18

19 Krupa

Rainbow Team 1

20

21 PFH - 5:00 Janecek

22 7:30 Kerr 9:00 Camp 10:45 McCullough

23

24

25

26 Morrell

Rainbow Team 2

27

28 PFH - 5:00 Yosick

1 7:30 Tunning 9:00 Pavel 10:45 McConville

2

3

4 5 Mantemach

Rainbow Team 3

6

7 PFH - 5:00 Zelfel

Future Council Meetings March 10, April 14, May 12

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