Knights of Columbus Charity Golf Tournament Saturday, July 12, 2025.
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| Pictured (l) Milt Spaniel, Larry Linteau, Chris Gleason, Ed Calhoun, and Jim Passe |
Sir Knights, congratulations and welcome to Assembly 2316!
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Ed Miller, who is in charge of the DRT's clean-up crew, coordinated the effort with the POA to determine the sites to be worked on each week. Wally Gieringer handled the scheduling. The 26 volunteers worked Thursday and Friday mornings during a two-month period with several of the men using of their own chain saws to get the work done.
The volunteers included: Ray Ambrozich, John Bodensteiner, Bob Bowman, Tom DeVito, John Froning, Wally Gieringer, Bob Gordon, Dick Hoepner, Dave Johnston, Ed Keearns, Mike Kerwin, Larry Lipsmeyer, Rick Meyers, Ed Miller, Mike Miller, Terry O’Brien, Jim Passe, Pat Perilloux, Steve Schramer, Milt Spaniel, Mark Swain, Tom Thornton, Rolland White, Dave Witchger, Gary Wolfer, and Marvin Young. All but two of the men are knights.
Ed Miller recently accepted an “Outstanding Service Award” given to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church by the Property Owners Association Board of Directors at their annual awards meeting.
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| Pictured (l-r) Dub Green, John Bodensteiner, Bill Roe, Dave Johnston, Ed Miller, and Gerald Krawczynski |
For the second year in a row, the Council won the “Large Council of the Year” award which is based significantly on the number of programs sponsored and the percentage of membership participation in those activities. Program Director Jim Passe, who had supervised the activities throughout the year, compiled and submitted a report which reflected 23,353 volunteer hours dedicated to church, community, council, family, pro-life, and youth activities. Also, fundraising efforts raised more than $33,000 to support its causes and charities. Grand Knight Dave Johnston accepted the award.
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Once again, the local Knights of Columbus were very well represented at the games with its support of Olympic Town, which is an area where the athletes can take a break from the competition and enjoy some non-competitive activities. They can shoot basketballs and toss rings and bean bags at targets, or they can make bracelets and necklaces from thousands of plastic and wooden beads. They can also have their fingernails painted or have washable tattoos applied.
Assembly 2316 provided four members of the Honor Guard for Thursday's openning ceremonies to complement the four from Mountain Home's Assembly 2060.
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| Mentor Milt Spaniel with Pat McGannon and Fred Jungers with his mentor Tony Cifelli |
Pictured are the two new knights for the Daniel P Sullivan Council with their mentors. Milt Spaniel (l) is the mentor for Pat McGannon, and Tony Cifelli (r) is the mentor for Fred Jungers.
The Ceremonial Team consisted of Bill Patterson, Tom Yerina, Gerald Kraczynski, Mike Frantz, Jack Widlowski, Jim Passe, and Buddy Dixon.
Welcome Fred and Pat!
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| Pictured (l-r): Msgr Scott Friend, V.G. Karldy Hienz Isidor, Jose Luis Quijada, Luke Womack, Elden Labitad, Patrick Saint Jean, Thomas Johnson, Taryn Whittington, Father Ruben Quinteros, and Msgr Richard Oswald. |
Msgr was pleased to announce that there are now 37 seminarians who are studying at eight seminaries in various United States locations and one in Rome. There will be three ordinations at Christ the King on May 26 and one, Andrew Hart, at the Cathedral on July 21. Little Rock Diocese ranks 12th out of 195 dioceses in the number of seminarians.
The ground has been broken for the $1.5 million new House of Formation on the Good Council Parish campus. The original plan to renovate a former convent there was abandoned due to the cost of asbestos removal and other considerations.
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| Clergy in this groundbreaking ceremony include (l-r): Bishop Taylor, Msgr Oswald, Fr Rubin, and Msgr Friend. |
The diocese announced in August that the house would be located in the former Sisters of Mercy convent at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in Little Rock. After further investigation, it was decided that it was more cost effective for the building to be torn down and a new building be erected on the site.
The 6,000-square-foot building will feature a kitchen, meeting room/library, dining room, common area, chapel, 10 student rooms with private baths and apartments for the vocations director, Msgr. Scott Friend, and assistant vocations director, Msgr. Richard Oswald. The initial estimate for the project is $900,000, but that does not include site work, furnishings and architect fees.
Groups have come forward already to sponsor two of the rooms in the house. The state Knights of Columbus council donated $187,000 to sponsor the chapel. Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Hot Springs Village pledged $50,000 toward the dining room. Catholic Extension Society has committed a $100,000 matching grant to the project and will donate $50,000 more if another $200,000 can be raised by Sept. 30.
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At the Council's March 6 membership meeting, Lecturer Bob Honzik introduced Pat Widlowski, who co-chairs Sacred Heart's Helping Hands with Cathy Wedrick. Cathy was unable to attend.
While the Helping Hands Ministry has been active in Sacred Heart for quite some time as part of its Social Justice efforts, the processes were completely manual. When Pat and Cathy became co-chairs, they decided to seek the assistance of another parishioner, Kathy Geske, to design and implement a data base which facilitates matching a client's needs with a volunteer. All of the volunteers and the services they are willing to provide are listed on the data base for speedy searches when a request is submitted.
Pat shared some information about the services provided during a 12-month period, October 2010 - October 2011, based upon volunteer reports. The data show that 145 volunteers donated 1,114 hours and drove 4,255 miles. The majority of the miles (2,730) were to Hot Springs while 1,005 were driven within the Village and 180 to Little Rock.
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The retreat director was Fr. John Anglin, OFM. Originally from Boston, he is currently at St. Anthony Friary in St. Petersburg Fl. "Father Anglin has done over 330 retreats. He is a gifted speaker, and I think everyone enjoyed the retreat" stated Anderle.
Of the 56 attendees, 27 were from Hot Springs Village, including: Ray and Gynnie Ambrozich; Pat Billings; Ron and Fran Boudreaux; Phil and Marlene Carl; Marshall and Evelyn Garrison; Mac and Linda Good; Bill and Valerie Hartnett; Mike and Ruth Kerwin; Gerald and Ann Krawczynski; Jim and Terri McDade; Rick and Karen Meyers; Jimmie and Martha Rogers; Randy and Martha Schnoebelen; and, Larry and Chris Stein.
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| Pictured (l-r) Jack Widlowski, Ron Albert, Mike Garstecki, and Mike Frantz. |
The local council now has 23 knights who have advanced to full knighthood in the 2011-2012fraternal year. Congratulations to all of them and to the members who encouraged and supported their brothers.
Accompanying the 1st Degree knights, Ron Albert and Mike Garstecki, were Jack Widlowski, Mike Frantz, and John Bodensteiner.