KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Worthy Brothers, Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to all of you and your families. 2024-12 Knightly News The Knights busy season is in full swing. We just completed the very successful Adopt-A-Sailor event on Thanksgiving Day with 30 sailors in attendance. This event truly does make an impact on these…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Worthy Brothers, Tempus fugit. Memento Mori. Which is Latin for ‘Time flies. Remember Death’ The Catholic Church identifies November as a month to pray for the faithful departed and contemplate the body of Christ and the life of the world to come. As such, our council just completed the Deceased…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Worthy Brothers, 2024-10 Knightly News As I write this article, the council is the midst of the nine day ‘Novena for Life.’ The council is putting an extra focus on the ‘Novena for Life’ this year. The start of the Novena coincided with the start of the 40 Days…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Worthy Brothers, 2024-9 Knightly News The council is finishing an eventful August and is preparing for a busy September. Thanks to all the volunteers that made our events a big success. The Hammer Open ended up being a huge success after a slow start to sign ups. Thanks to Kevin…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Worthy Brothers 2024-7 Knightly News I am awed, excited, and a bit overwhelmed as I take on the role of your Grand Knight. The SMM KofC council truly is an amazing council packed with hardworking, dedicated and faithful men. As Mike and I witnessed at the state convention in May,…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter My Worthy Brothers, DGK Jerry and I had a great time networking with other councils as well as our state officers at the 126th State Convention. Huge thanks to Tom McCabe, Dan Limbach and Greg Freund for manning the nativity set booth on Friday and Ken Priggie, Rick Orabutt,…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Brothers, 2024-5 Knightly News April has come and gone, we’ve all paid our taxes (ouch) and say the lack luster (in my opinion) solar eclipse and of course we celebrated our council’s 31st anniversary. My DGK Jerry and his wife Dee did a fantastic job and we had a few…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Worthy Brothers, 2024-4 Knightly News Happy Easter, He has Risen, Alleluia! April is here hopefully warmer weather is around the corner or anther snow storm could be in order, living in the midwest, who knows. Our 31st anniversary celebration will be Saturday April 13th please RSVP to DGK Jerry…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Worthy Brothers,2024-3 Knightly News March is finally upon us and Spring is right around the corner, we had a successful month of February, council 11091 brought home 1st place at the Rockford Diocese bowling tournament on 2/3 with our team (Greg Freund, Greg Parrish, Mark Ostrowski, and Jerry Ahler) heading…
KOFC – Council 11091 Newsletter Worthy Brothers, Hope everyone had a great first month of 2024 and you have not given up on your resolutions just yet. We had an abundance of help with nativity set clean up, many hands truly made light work. The free throw contest had 8 participants, big thanks to Paul…