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Contact by Email...If
you have an Email address, please share it with your council. Sometimes it is
important to send important information (illnesses/deaths; special
events) to the membership. Please send your address to George Cranford.
His Email address is Pastwalker@comcast.net
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HooahMail:
The Army's HooahMail program makes it possible for friends and family
members to put a paper letter and photograph into the hands of their
loved ones in Afghanistan, in some cases, on the same day it is sent.
The one-year pilot program is scheduled to begin Dec. 1 and makes use of
the Internet combined with physical mail delivery to create a hybrid
mail system that can get letters into the hands of Soldiers in remote
locations much faster than regular mail delivery alone. Family members
that want to send a letter and a photograph to a Soldier in Afghanistan
will be able to log into the program's website at
www.hooahmail.us to type in their message and delivery information.
The HooahMail program is free for family members and friends, and is
available for Soldiers in Afghanistan only.
Military
Knights in Action Newsletter January 2010:
Click Here
The Catholic Information Service (CIS) booklet Armed with the Faith
(#364) is a Catholic handbook for military personnel and their families.
Edited by Jesuit Father Daniel R. Sweeney, chaplain in the U.S. Air
Force Reserve, it contains several military-specific prayers as well as
an assortment of general Catholic prayers, hymns and devotions.
Read or print a copy (71
pages)
Website on the Pope's Visit to America.
Click here
Telephone
Number: The BIC
telephone number is 804-745-3262. The kitchen phone is
804-276-9959 has been removed. Use 804-745-3262.
BIC
BITS... The BIC board will meet on
Tuesday,
October 6,
2009 at 7 PM. All members of the
Council are invited to attend and to
express their thoughts.
Crime
Solvers Introduces "Text-A-Tip":
The Chesterfield County/Colonial Heights Crime Solvers program
announces the introduction of Text-A-Tip that will allow cell phone
users to text their anonymous tips. The program is a TipSoft Short
Message Service application created by Anderson Software. To text a
tip: 1. text the code tip699 and then add the crime tip; 2.
send the tip to 274637 (crimes); 3. Tipsters will receive a
confirmation text message. More information is available at
www.crimesolvers.net .
Our
Stew Master:
Click
here to see the Catholic Virginia article on Horace Scott.
Member
Interest Survey: Click
here
A
Note from our Insurance Agent: click
here
New Knight Candidates.
Please provide the Form 100 of your
prospective candidate to Jim Cooke or Greg Toler prior to the Council
Meetings. This will allow the committee to review the form
and provide guidance as needed to the candidate.
Bingo
Workers: You are desperately needed by your council. As you
may have read elsewhere in this newsletter your Council donated $94,000
to charity this past year. Although there are almost 300 members of this
council only about 25% of the membership volunteer for bingo or kitchen
bingo. We need your help. It's only one night every 5 weeks in a smoke
fee environment. Many teams are in dire need of help. Please volunteer
for a team by calling
GK Jim Cooke
and volunteering. You only have to work one Wednesday evening every five
weeks. It's great fellowship and a lot of fun. Husband and wife teams
are encouraged to participate in this smoke free environment. Remember
this is how your council earns the money to support all of our
charities. The Bingo and Kitchen Schedule has been posted. (Click
Here)
A Most
Prestigious Award -a job well done! (Click
here)
Missing
Members: Do you know of a Brother Knight who has missed a few Council Meetings? Call him up and invite him back.
SPC Charles W. Cranford, a member of the 1710th Transportation Company,
U.S. Army Virginia National Guard, who deployed for Iraq in May 2008.
He is the son of George and Judy Cranford. Charles and his Army
National Guar unit returned to the United States on March 6, 2009.
The unit logged in over 900,000 miles of convoy duty with no casualties
or major injuries. We thank God for the return of the se soldiers.
Sgt
Frank Aloi, left in September for a 13 month tour to
Iraq . This was his second time over there and he has now returned
safely to his family. He is the son-in-law of Sonny
and Cheryl Dorish.
