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This special annual Knights of Columbus family event will be held at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church on Tuesday, November 2nd.  There are 50 widows of deceased knights with area addresses who have been invited to attend the mass and be our dinner guests.  Sponsors are needed for the widows.  For a list of deceased knights and their widows living in the area, click on Deceased under the Members tab.

Participation in this Memorial Mass and Dinner will be public acknowledgement of our friends and brother knights who have contributed to Council 10208 and Sacred Heart Church over the years and who are no longer with us.  Your support will be testimony to the importance of the Knights of Columbus and of our religious and charitable works.

New knights (l-r) Jack Wallisch, Pedro Bonilla, Phil Stephenson, and Tom Canavan.

Council 10208 welcomed four new members as they were exemplified by the counci's own team with three other District 10 candidates - two from Benton and one from Hot Springs.  The new knights are Pedro Bonilla, Tom Canavan, Phil Stephenson, and Jack Wallisch.

Along with Father Elser, District Deputy Ed Miller, and the Exemplification Team, there were about 20 knights present in the Upper Hall to witness the 1:00 pm ceremonials and to welcome their new brothers.

Co-chairs Phil Carl (l) and Milt Spaniel show the new aprons for the campaign on Oct 8 to State CPID Director John Bodensteiner.

The annual Campaign for People with Intellectual Disabilities (CPID), with the dispensing of tootsie rolls to donors, is a signature charity for the Knights of Columbus, not only to raise funds for a very worthy cause, but also to demonstrate within its community one of the basic tenets of the Knights - CHARITY.   

Council 10208 will conduct its CPID 7:00 am - 5:00 pm on Friday, October 8, at strategic locations including the following gates - East, West, Balboa, Glazier Peau, and Danville - both Cranford's stores, Fuel Stop, and Walmart.   Community Director Milt Spaniel and Brother Phil Carl are co-chairing this event (Phil was also co-chair last year).  On Wednesday, August 25, they mailed a letter to all council members soliciting donations and asking them to volunteer for a time slot at one of the aforementioned locations.

After submitting the net profits to the State Council, the individual councils will receive back 85%  to give to their local charities, and the State Council will use its 15% to support The Arc of Arkansas, which has been serving people with disabilities and their families for over 40 years.   As in recent years, Council 10208 will share its profits with First Step School in Hot Springs, National Camps for the Blind, and Special Olympics.

Two awards will again be given at the Knights’ State Convention next spring – one for the council with the most money raised, and one for the council with the largest per capita amount.  However, to qualify for these awards, the CPID activities must be completed and the money received by the State Secretary no later than December 10.

John Bodensteiner, Immediate Past Grand Knight of Council 10208, is coordinating the Arkansas Knights' 2010 CPID.  He will be working with all Arkansas councils in an effort to increase by 50% both the number of councils participating and the total amount of money raised.

As of this writing, volunteers were still needed to staff the various locations.  Contact Phil Carl to help. 

2009-2010 Vocation Sponsor Award from Supreme.

The first Taste of Faith dinner held in Little Rock on August 7 raised $130,000 for seminarian education.  At the state convention in April, councils and assemblies were asked by then State Deputy Jim Neff to raise money for the seminarian fund, with the presentation of the money to be made at the Taste of Faith dinner, which was still in its planning stages at the time of the convention.

Council 10208 held an extra Sunday Parishioner Breakfast to raise money and sent a mailing to all members asking for their support.   The combined result was $3500 being sent by the Council to the state KC office, and Assembly 2316 sent $500.  At the Taste of Faith dinner, Jim Neff presented a $20,000 check  from the Arkansas knights, which was included as part of the $130,000 total. 

The final amount contributed by the Arkansas councis and assemblies was $16,307, and the State Council added $5,000 for a $21,307 total.  Very noteworthy is the fact that the local council and the assembly contributed $4,000 or 24.5% of the $16,307 raised.    In a recent communicaton to Past Grand Knight John Bodensteiner, Past State Deputy Neff stated:

Pictured (l-r) are the six knights who have been working most, if not all, of the collection days: John Bodensteiner, Marvin Young, Ed Keearns, Larry Lipsmeyer, Mike Frantz, and Bill Burke.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus' biennial Treasure Sale is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, September 24 & 25 in the lower hall of the church.  Funds raised from this year's sale will be used for tuition assistance at St. John's School in Hot Springs and Our Lady of Fatima School in Benton.

Although the Treasure Sale is almost two months away, the planning started in April, and the collection of items began on May 19.  This collection date was followed by another in June and two in July with four scheduled in August and five in September.  Although parishioners are encouraged to bring their own items to the lower level of the church (9:30 - noon) on the collection days, pick up service is also provided by calling in advance. 

On the collection days, the items are received, sorted, priced, and boxed for storage at the Village Self Storage until the week of the sale.  There are 15-20 volunteers working on each of these dates to complete the processes in a timely manner.   Claudia Keearns and Shirley Bartle schedule and coordinate the volunteers for sorting and pricing, while Mike Frantz and Marvin Young work with other volunteers in pick up the items as scheduled by Carolyn and Ray Curry.  Mike and Marvin with their crew also take the treasures to storage.  Bill Burke checks all of the electrical donations to be sure they function properly.

Father Vic Bieberle

In 1995 Father Vic Bieberle retired as a Catholic pastor and moved to the Village from Kansas.  On May 21^st, Father Vic celebrated 59 years as a priest.  The parishioners honored him with potluck dinner two days later.

Victor Bieberle was born in Bushton KS and grew up on his parents’ farm with his two sisters and a brother. His family was faith-filled, and his Catholic religion was an important part of everyday life.   As an eighth grade student, he approached his parents with the desire to pursue a vocation to the priesthood, and with his parents approval, attended the Salvatorian minor seminary in St. Nazianz, Wisconsin for the next six years.

Father Vic entered St. Thomas Seminary in Denver to complete his studies to the priesthood, and was ordained in May, 1951 in his home parish in Bushton, KS.  The bishop of his diocese believed that the families of his home parish should be able to witness and celebrate the ordination of one of their own members, and so the bishop came to Bushton to confer the priesthood.