Ushers For 5:00 December Masses:
12/10 N. Carciello, J. Cullinan, J. Nolfo
12/17 C. Maurer, B. Creed, A. Creed

Ushers For 11:00 December Masses
12/11 F. Feliciano, J. Bittner, E. Hackenberg
12/18 P. Harvey, R. Scampoli, T. Brotherton

Council  Jim Cullinan 589-4551
On December 4th, we held our Annual Christmas Party at the Double Tree Hotel. A big thank you to Bob and Angela Maher for the job of putting it all together once again. The 4th Degree had a hospitality room before and after the affair for those staying the night.
The music put all of us in the seasonal spirit and the food as always was more then enough. It was a great evening for fun and camaraderie but was all to short. As usual the singing of the Twelve Days of Christmas was once again sung with gusto. We were joined in the festivities by our State Deputy Ron Gorman and his wife Pat as well as our Vice Supreme Commander Richie Head and his wife Judy. The 50/50 was won by Janice Hinkledire.
Sadly this will be our last year at the Double Tree due to lack of response. For the years that we held our party there again we thank Angela and Bob Maher for their efforts in making it a success in the past.

Community  Charlie Illig 589-8763
There will be a highway cleanup on Saturday, January 7th, starting at the church at 9:00. Charlie needs at least 14 or more to make it a quick day
with breakfast at the church afterward. For more information or to sign up please call Charlie at his number, 589-8763.

Youth  Eric Hackenburg 591-0276

 The essay and poster contest are in high gear and we hope to have the winners moving on to State by January 6th.
The Free Throw will take place in January and we will have a gym over at FUMA to work with. 

 Pro Life  Dave Garner 591-1389-Life
Now is the time about thinking to make the trip for the March For Life in Washington, D.C. We will have a bus going on Monday, January 23rd. There will emails and announcements out with more information and anything else please contact Dave Garner at the above number.


Council Officers
Grand Knight George Kuhlow 589-6158
Chaplain Fr. Gerald 589-2000
Deputy GK Ed Griffin 996-6008
Chancellor Bob Burger 589-1110
Recorder John Lytle 591-0592
Financial Sect. Bob Toepfert 591-0443
Treasurer Dave Garner 591-1389
Advocate Ben Rodriquez 589-5930
Warden Charlie Illig 589-8763
Inside Guard Kyle Labinski 589-6158
Outside Gd. Steve Whitten 591-1023
Trustees
Jim Cullinan PGK 3 year 589-4551
Phil Harvey PGK 2 year 589-4225
Joe Briggs 3 year 589-2232

Insurance
Matthew Dellorso
matthew.dellorso@kofc.org 804-972-4848

Council website: www.kofc11475va.org

Calendar of Events
December
12/5 Business meeting, degree, dinner 6:00
12/20 Food pick up Incarnation 8:00
12/25 Christmas
12/26 Officers & Committeemen 7:00
12/31 New Year’s Eve
January
1/1 Happy New Year
1/2 Business Meeting & dinner 6:00
1/7 Highway cleanup church 9:00
1/17 Food pick up Incarnation 8:00
1/19 2nd Degree St. Isidore leave by 6:15
1/23 March for Life
1/24 4th Degree St. Isidore & dinner 6:15
1/30 Officers & Committeemen 7:00

Fraternal Hours  George Kuhlow 589-6158
This is a repeat of last month’s message on your hours and the importance of getting them for the state meeting in January. If I get them sooner all the better as it takes time to do it all for the council.
Your fraternal hours are hours that are volunteered without pay in anything you do. Your church hours from ushering, Eucharistic ministers, Parish council and everything else that has to do with the church are volunteered.
Community, again all the hours doing service such as fire & rescue, water rescue, moving goods, transporting food and all in between.
Blood donors, how often you gave or worked the blood drives.
In short everything you do including bereavement and working with the sick and elderly all counts.
The only thing that does not count are the meetings and degrees.
Please start making out your numbers so when I give you the form next month all you have to do is transfer your hours to the proper place and let me have them before the end of December. Brothers this is time consuming and no easy task but you can help me out by taking a few minutes of your time to do yours so I can do everyone’s together. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to call or email me.

100 Club Winners for November:
11/2 Bill Bleach #66
11/9 Anne Marrocco #99
11/16 Unsold #44
11/23 Pat Amato #10
11/30 Rosemary Granville #23

Fourth Degree Notes:
Thanks to all who participated in the Christmas party and the hospitality room sponsored by the Assembly. Thanks to Faithful Navigator Gordo Genovese and PFN Rick Dowsett for making it possible with the wine and cheese.
Coming up on December 12th will be the Annual Christmas Parade in Louisa and once again the Assembly will be taking part as well as Honor America Corps. To take part in regalia please let our FN know and to take part in the HAC the dress code is grey pants, blue blazer and K of C cap.
There will be a Special Olympic event on January 12th at the Boar’s for the tennis competition and the Assembly was asked to once again present the colors.
Our January meeting will be on January 24th, at St. Isidore the Farmer in Orange. Dinner at 6:15 and meeting at 7:30 after the Rosary.

Birthday’s for January
1/3 Richard Lantz
1/5 Bob Strassheim
1/7 Charlie Illig
1/13 Bob toepfert
1/18 Leonard Alphonsus
1/21 Jared Mach
1/30 John Cogswell

Anniversary’s for January
1/1 Larry & Edna Sher
1/14 Henry & Joan Bedlivy

Reapplication
Kenneth Zadoyko sponsored by Bob Toepfert

Future Columbiette
Amelia, 7 lbs. 9 ½ oz. born to JoAnne and Brett Spitale on October 30th. Both Mom and Amelia doing fine.

Knight of the Month
For the month of November
Philip Harvey

Family of the Month:
For the month of November
Andy & Ginny Rutkowski

For These We Pray
Ed Seroskie, Jaydon Rodart, Gloria Hipskind, Doris Woodward, Leonard Scholl, Ayres Torres, Herb Hayes, Doug Johnson, Diane Mongiello, Bob Sedlak, Erica Sedlak, Alice Sorrentino, Susan Feliciano, John Hurley, Anna Mariutto, Don Minor, Elizabeth Illig, Richard Kwaitowski Jr. family, Eleanor Coningsby, Keith Fergerson, Katy Wheeler, Steven Feliciano, Leocadia Feliciano, Ursula Morabito, Dolores Ventre, Henry Bedlivy, and Ed Labinski.

Special Intentions
Sweetie & John Condon, Neal Carciello, Paul McGuire, Fred Hanson, George & Tina Balint, Lauren Buckley, Eileen Pastorious, Kathleen & Kevin O’Malley, Thomas Rutkowski, Fara Ramos, Bob & Dorothy Gilstrap, John Postak, Susan Kane, Branden Kane, Bruce Fint Jr., Bill Keating, Bill McCarthy PSD, Ernestine DeBerry, and Lenny Pulizzi PSD.

In Memoriam
William Mulvihill, Past State Deputy and beloved husband of Jane, passed away and went to God on November 28. Please keep Jane and Bill’s family in your prayers.
Marie McDonough Lane, beloved sister of Charles and Norma McDonough went to God on November 13th. Please keep them all in your prayers.
All the servicemen and women around the world who have sacrificed for our freedoms, Paul Balint Jr.
All the unborn innocents
May they all rest in peace

Our Servicemen and Women on Duty
Kevin O’Malley, Trevor and Zack Reilly, Sasha and Lonnie Kuhlow, Christopher McCarthy, Amanda Illig, Luke Marron, Katie Marron, Russ Marron, Matt Marron, Zack Ostrowski.
Please keep them all in your prayers.

An Honor
On March 23rd, there will be a Third Degree in Charlottesville at the Catholic High School and our council has been asked to be the host council. Bob Maher has worked long and hard for this and it’s becoming a reality. Once a degree is held here we may see more of them. As we are to be the host council there will be a commitment to make it a success. We will be asked to take on a duty in unchartered waters for us but we have handled new assignments before and always came out for the better. Other councils have held these every year and none has ever been in our area. This will be our time to shine and shine we will. This is not a one man job and we will be looking for volunteers to help out and this will be a feather in our cap. More information will follow as the time grows closer.

In Closing
As the end of the year draws to a close we reflect back on the year past. Have you stayed the course for your resolutions? Have you met the goals that you set for the past year? Have you lived the lessons of the Knights of Columbus? Have you helped someone in need in the face of adversity?
We all have lost members of families and friends and life still goes on. It’s what you do with it that counts. If you have done none of the above, consider doing it with the New Year.
We all have complaints but are they so big and disturbing that it upsets us so much we loose focus of what’s really important in our lives? Every decision made by us has two sides. One side is the right one and the other side you regret the outcome. How many decisions did you make this past year that the outcome may have changed if not your life but the lives of others? What path in life have you followed to better your well being as well as your family? Have you become more involved in your church, family and community? Have you stood up against injustice to others? Have you taken a closer interest and become more involved in the fight against abortion?
The Gospel of Matthew a few weeks ago was the parable told of the talents given to the workers by the landowner to see what they would do with them to increase their worth. The workers in this case were us and the landowner was God. The question is, what have you done with the talents that God gave you? Have you doubled them in helping others or did you bury them and keep the status quo?
Think about it, as a member of the greatest organization in the world all these answers should be easy if you follow the works and ideals of Father McGivney.
On behalf of myself and family, I would like to wish you a Blessed and safe Christmas Season and a healthy New Year.
God Bless America

What’s Cooking?
Holiday Biscotti
3 cups flour
¾ cup sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
3 eggs
1 stick melted butter
¼ cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
Method: Mix flour, sugar and baking powder wee. Add all other ingredients and mix well. Shape into long ropes and cut into 2 -3 logs. Place on greased cookie sheet and bake in a 350 oven until brown. You can cover with vanilla or chocolate icing. For a variation add chopped hazelnuts into the mix or crushed onto the icing while moist.

Are You Moving?
If you are moving please fill out a new Form 100 so we and Supreme can keep track of you. This is most important both to you and us. Contact our FS Bob Toepfert or myself, George Kuhlow or the Knight’s Table.
Next Meeting:
Place: Sts. Peter & Paul
December 5th
Dinner: 6:00
Time: Rosary 7:00 Meeting: 7:30

The content of this newsletter is solely mine and not necessarily those of the Knights of Columbus. Anyone having something of interest they want printed, please let me know, George Kuhlow 589-6158. Or email georgekuhlow@embarqmail.com

Activities for the Month of November
Food transport Incarnation to Fork Union
Food transport St. Peter and Paul to MACAA
Worked on Mary’s Walk
Donated medical supplies to a person in need.
Delivered food for Thanksgiving to needy families.
Moved furniture and delivered to two homes

FYI
Siberia contains more then 25% of the world’s forests

Something to Ponder
Genius is the gold in the mind. Talent is the miner who digs it.

Do You Remember…..
Erector Sets, Lincoln Logs, modeling clay
Building model planes, ships, cars.
Delivering newspapers, running errands
Steam locomotives, trolley cars, fruit stands
Dagwood, Li’l Abner, Smiling Jack, Dick Tracy
Jersey Joe Walcott, Joe Lewis, Sugar Ray Robinson
Dialing 0 for an operator, wooden phone booths
Coal bins, coal shutes, coal bags, coal furnaces
Popping the clutch
Cherry Cokes, egg creams, sundaes, banana splits all for less then 25 cents
Ushers in theaters
When you didn’t have lockers in school except for gym.

Adult Truths
Map Quest needs to start their directions at number 5. I’m sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how people died.
I can’t remember the last time I was at least kind of tired.
Bad decisions make the best stories.
I keep some people’s numbers in my phone just so I know who to ignore.
I disagree with Kay Jewelers, I would bet that on any given Friday or Saturday, the first kiss begins with a bottle of beer.
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Old is When….
Your wife asks “Do you want to go upstairs and make love?” You answer “Pick one, I can’t do both.”

Your friends compliment you on your new alligator shoes, and you’re barefoot.

You see a sexy babe and your pacemaker opens the garage door.

You don’t care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don’t have to go with her.

When your doctor cautions you to slow down instead of the police.

“Getting a little action” Means you can do without fiber for the day.

“Getting lucky” means you found your car in the parking lot.

An “all nighter” means not getting up to use the bathroom.

You’re not really sure if these are jokes or not.

Time to keep your mouth shut..
A husband and wife were shopping for a vacation wardrobe and the wife saw a bikini and a two piece suit. It was ten years since she bought a swimsuit and she asked her husband, “Honey, what should I get, the bikini or one piece?” He answered, “Better get the bikini I don’t think you’ll get it all in one piece.” He’ll be in intensive care for another week.

A very cold winter
An Indian tribe in a remote area of North Dakota wanted to know what kind of winter it would be so they asked their medicine man. He was not schooled in the old way so just looking at the sky would not tell him what to expect. He told them he would pray on this and ask the Gods for a sign. To be on the safe side he told his tribe to stock up with wood because it would be a cold winter.
He then went into town and called the National Weather Service. He asked if it was going to be a cold winter. “It’s going to be a very cold winter.” He went to his people and told them stock up on as much wood as you can. It’s going to be a very cold winter.”
A few days later he called the service again and asked, ”Are you sure it’s going to be a cold winter?” “It looks to be a terribly cold winter.”
He went back to his people again and said, “Collect every scrap of wood you can find, it will be a terribly cold winter.”
Again he called the service and asked the same question. The service told him, “It looks to be the worst winter in history.” “How can you be so sure?” the medicine man asked.
“Because the Indians are collecting a boatload of wood.”

A shampoo warning
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner. The shampoo I use in the shower runs down my body (duh) and printed clearly on the label it says to use it for a “fuller volume and extra body” No wonder I’ve been gaining weight.
So I got rid of the shampoo and I’m using Dawn dish soap instead. The label reads “Dissolves fat that is otherwise difficult to remove.” Problem solved.
If I don’t answer the phone I’m in the shower.

The Zen of Sarcasm
Do not walk behind me because I may not lead. Do not walk in front of me because I may not follow, Do not walk beside me either. In other words leave me alone.

It’s always darkest before dawn. So if you want to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.

Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.

Just remember you are unique, just like everyone else.

Never test the depth of the water with both feet at the same time.

If you think nobody cares if you’re alive just miss a few car payments.


Before you criticize someone you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you do criticize them you’ll be a mile away and have their shoes.

If at first you don’t succeed, then sky diving is not for you.

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat all day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll sit in the boat and drink beer all day.

If you lend someone $20 and don’t see him again it’s probably a wise investment.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Some days you’re the bug and some days you’re the windshield.

Everyone seems normal until you get to meet them.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in two and put it back in your pocket.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither of them work.

Generally speaking you aren’t learning anything if your lips are moving.

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Never under any circumstances take a laxative the same time you take a sleeping pill.

Ponderisms
Can you cry underwater?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
Why do you “put your two cents in” but get a “penny for your thoughts” where’s the extra penny go?
Once you’re in Heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
What disease did the cured ham actually have?
How is it we put a man on the moon before someone thought to put wheels on luggage?
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