Election Day – Super Tuesday – June 11, 2024 – 7:30 PM during Special General Meeting

June 19, 2024 – Meeting Cancelled – Holiday – Juneteenth

July 9, 2024 – Installation of New Officers – 6:30 PM /  Officer’s Meeting – 7:00 PM

July 17, 2024 – First General Meeting for Columbian Year 2024-2025                                        

Position                                               Candidates

Grand Knight                                      Mario Zappia                     

Deputy Grand Knight                      Jim Hunter                         

                                                                Gerald LeDoux                 

                                                                Mario Valadez                  

Chancellor                                           Tim Discar                          

                                                                Gerald LeDoux                 

Treasurer                                            Ralph Cadriel                     

Advocate                                             Alex Knobloch                  

Recorder                                             Ryanjay (RJ)  Calungcaguin                          

Warden                                                Derrick Bell                        

                                                                Gerald LeDoux                 

Inside Guard                                      Danny Couture 

Outside Guard                                   Lionel Domulot

Trustee (3 Year)                                Dennis Tremethick 

                                                                   Jimmy Peerson

Our worthy Advocate, Alex Knobloch, is working behind-the-scenes to make the CY 23-24 officer nomination and election run smoothly and slowly coax it into the 21st Century.

The Grand Knight believes in setting up our incoming officers for Success and wanted to give the incoming officer a chance to meet and prepare for the new year before taking office.
However, the bylaws require the election to be completed before June 15th. So, this is not possible with our normal schedule of meetings.

Incoming officers will formally meet on July 9, 2024, after Installation. New officers are encouraged to meet before hand to select Committee Chairmen and make preliminary decisions ahead of Installation.

Reservations for the 2nd Tuesday (Leaders Meeting) and 3rd Wednesday (General Meeting) are completed.

Here is the schedule for the upcoming nominations and election.

Wednesday 5/15/2024 – 6:45-7:00 PM

Second Round of Officer Nominations

Following Nominations at 7:00-8:30 PM
Mother’s Day Celebration POTLUCK
Location: PCMR 3 Room

Tuesday 06/11/2024-7:00 PM to 7:15 PM
General Meeting Moved to June 11, because Election must occur before June 15th, per Council Bylaws.
Super Tuesday
7:15 PM – Rosary
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Final Nominations and Officer Elections for CY 24-25
General Meeting
Location: Knight’s Room

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 – General Meeting Canceled – No Meeting
Happy Juneteenth!

Tuesday 07/09/2024
New Officer Installation
6:30 PM – Installation Ceremony
7:00 PM – New Leaders Meeting
Location: Knight’s Room

VIVAT JESUS!

Assembly 3557 conducts a monthly Patriotic Rosary on the first Saturday of each month at 0830 hours via Zoom.  The next Patriotic Rosary is scheduled for Saturday, Mary 4th.  

Here is the Zoom link:  

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84790548132?pwd=Z212VDMwZENmSEVPUkJTcG9hNWQrQT09

Meeting ID: 847 9054 8132

Passcode: 460887, Dial by your location:  669 900 6833.  This is open to all Knights and their families.

This is an opportunity to bring God and Jesus into helping the Nation survive.  There are five decades and I am looking for Knights to do one.  Please contact me if you would like to do one of the decades and which one you would like to do.  Attached is a copy of the Patriotic Rosary for your reference.

Come and join us on May 4th and future Patriotic Rosaries.  For Council Grand Knights, please forward this email to your Council members.

Nominations for officers in the new Columbian year are as follows:

Father Joshy asked me before I was installed as Grand Knight if we could organize and run a Crab Feed for the Parish. I did not immediately agree, but I decided to plunge in with Lady Rosanna Bell’s encouragement. Our council had no funds to finance such an event, so I turned to our outstanding Parish Business Manager, Gail Grimm. Over time, we recruited others in our merry band: Danny and Donna Couture, Jim Hunter, Derrick and Rosanna Bell, our caterer par excellence. This small group and others from the Parish created IMHO opinion an OUTSTANDING CRAB FEED on April 13, 2024.

Father Joshy’s thank you message expressed the appreciation I believe many others who attended felt. This was the first time to run a Crab Feed for many of us, and much of the evening was trial and error. But in the end, we had a fantastic turnout; more than 260 people attended, the food was excellent, the band was fantastic, and everyone had a good time. Did we make some mistakes? Yes, but we’ll learn from those and make next year’s event all the better.

Once again, Lady Suzette Domulot took some excellent photos of the event. You can see in the smiling faces of the parishioners that we had a good time.

Check out some great pics:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-6z-mK0VZ8LfqjKNQzVlP-_Q3UINUQBH?usp=sharing

Dear Grand Knight and members of the Knights of Columbus family,

Happy Easter to you all. 

On behalf of St. Joseph Parish, let me take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for helping organize and execute the plans for a successful parish Crab feed dinner fundraiser and Parish ministry Volunteer appreciation dinner on Saturday night, April 13th, 2024. Your hard work, along with your dedication and commitment to help serve the parish community and service to the parish families, was very much visible in and through your committed efforts which God brought your efforts to fruition. 

The community that gathered really enjoyed and had a fun time that evening. The crab,brisketand all the food served were delicious.  It was amazing to see the community gather and come together after a long gap andafter the Covid shut down. 

You made a difference and I sincerely thank each of you, especially Dennis Tremethick taking the leadership as Grand Knight; Rosanna Neves and the Bell family for cooking the delicious food; each of you who volunteered in the kitchen and in the banquet hall; our Faith formation students who helped serve; the Maramba Band; and Our Parish Staff lead by Mrs. Grimm. Without your help and support this would not have happened and you made it possible for the parish. 

Your presence is a true testimony of how much you care and love our parish and our faith life. This was also an event where the parish family came together to meet, greet, enjoy fellowship, renew friendship, get to know some of our parish family members, and share in the agape meal which strengthens the ties of our parish community.  Thank you. 

God bless and reward you for all that you do for the glory of the Lord. I invite the parish community to join me to express our gratitude to the members of our Knights of Columbus, to our Ministry volunteers and to our  dedicated parish staff. 

THANK YOU! HAPPY EASTER!

Sincerely in the Risen Lord,

Fr. Joshy