Four Knights of Columbus Council 11369 members along with other parishioners from St Michael Parish updated the ceiling lights inside the church in the early part of November.

The council agreed to rent the equipment to reach the ceiling, while a generous parishioner who wished to remain anonymous donated the LED bulbs.

It took several days, but Father Tery Hazel wasa thrilled that the church is bright with light once again.

Some of the bulbs along the ceiling had been burned out for years, and one of the fixtures had recently fallen off the ceiling and was hanging by the electrical wires, necessitating an emergency repair.

All the fixtures were checked to be sure they’re safe.

The ceiling lighting is critical for the church during 4:30 Saturday Mass during the months of November, December and opart of January, when it’s dark after dismissal.

Council 11369 recently wrote two checks for $545 each to St Michael Parish and the Society of St Paul.

Each check represent approximately 15% of the net proceeds of Charity Raffle sales for 2017.

Above, Fr. Matthew Roehrig at St Paul’s accepts a check from GK Miros Maszczak and DGK Vic Buente.

Fr. Roehrig is a charter member of council 11369, just recently transferred back to Ellsworth.

Here are the final results from the 2017 ticket campaign:

11369 CASH BONANZA STATE RAFFLE RESULTS FOR 2017 (rev 1/18)
Goal: 700 tickets (10 per member)
Sold: 821 tickets!! (11.7 per member)
Gross Dollar Sales: $4105.00 ($5 per ticket)
Council share initially: $1970.40 (2.40 per ticket)
Rebate Check: $1608.50
Total Charitable Monies for Council: approx. $3578.90
Total per ticket for council: $4.36 of each $5 ticket. (87.18% return)
Remember, even a portion of the STATE money goes to charity. Matching Funds, Christmas gifts for local seminarians, etc.
Participation: 36 members! We reached another goal of having at least 35 salesmen. We’re up from 21 from last year.

Thanks to all the Knights of Columbus members who have participated in the annual Andy Skrobola Memorial Food Drive so far. We had great Knights participation when the food was handed out.

As a result of all our work, 60 local families had a nice Thanksgiving. The Canfield Lions Club and its associated LEOs organization based at Canfield High School, Knights of Columbus Council 11369, the Canfield Rotary Club, Canfield Community Care Net and the Cardinal Joint Fire District combine for this annual Thanksgiving and Christmas effort.

60 large boxes of food were handed out at St. Paul Monastery in Ellsworth Twp. on Nov. 18. Each box contained 40 items from canned goods to boxed food and paper products. 174 people were served.

60 frozen turkeys purchased by the Canfield Lions Club were also given to the families. The Canfield Rotary Club provided 40 coats to needy individuals. Canfield Community Care Net gave gift cards for food and clothing.

Families with children are also being taken to the mall to shop for clothes and toys. This is an effort by the Lions Club and Cardinal Joint Fire District.

Filled food bags can still be dropped off at any of the three Canfield fire stations for a similar Christmas campaign.

The annual Andy Skrobola Memorial Food Drive is underway. Knights of Columbus Council 11369 along with the Canfield Lions Club and its associated Leos organization based at Canfield High School, the Canfield Rotary Club and Canfield Community CareNet combine for this annual Thanksgiving and Christmas effort.

Canfield city and township residents who received paper grocery bags on their doorsteps filled them with non-perishable food items. Our Leos members picked them up in the city on Saturday, November 4, while township residents brought the food to one of the three Cardinal Joint Fire District fire stations.

50 to 80 local families will benefit from the food drive, with the Lions Club providing Thanksgiving turkeys, the Knights supplying Christmas hams, Rotary with warm winter coats, and Community CareNet with grocery coupons for perishable food items.

A big Council 11369 congratulations to 13-year-old Dominic Palma.

On Saturday at the Knights of Columbus Soccer Challenge Regional competition for the Diocese of Youngstown, Palma scored a 240.

It’s the same scoring platform as used in the council competition, except an entrant makes 25 kicks at the goal instead of 15.

The regional event took place at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Louisville.

The annual St Michael Parish Picnic was Oct. 1.

Once again this year, K of C 11369 passed out free pop and water to everyone attending.

We went through nearly all 30 2-litre bottles of pop as well as about 150 small bottles of water.

Brother Knight Mark Curtis headed up this activity.

And special thanks to Soon-to-be-Brother Don Kutsko for helping out the entire 3 hours.

The Champs of the Council 11369 Knights of Columbus Soccer Challenge held Saturday September 9th are:

Age 9:

• girls: Alexandra Pappalardo
• boys: Ryan Dangol

Age 10:

• girls: Emelina Pappalardo
• boys: Jason Dangol

Age 13:

• boys: Dominic Palma

Here’s how the competition worked: high score after 15 kicks at an undefended goal split into 5 scoring zones from 12 yards away from the goal.

20 points were awarded for two upper corners, 10 points for two lower corners and 5 points for middle portion of the goal.

Thanks to Dan Pappalardo and Knights Mark Curtis and Vic Buente for making the event a success.

Champions advance to the Diocese of Youngstown regional competition.

At the August council meeting, Grand Knight Miros Maszczak appointed chairmen for each of the committees that coordinate our regular activities.

These are the committees: Church, Council, Community, Family, Youth and Culture of Life. Activities are reported to the state; in each committee, there are two mandatory activities to be completed each fraternal year.

GK Maszczak announcing that making Star Council is a goal for the 2017-2018 year.

The annual Knights of Columbus picnic will be on Friday, August 11, 2017 at the Chestnut Hill pavilion at Mill Creek Park starting at 5 p.m.

The council will provide burgers, sausage sandwiches and corn on the cob; please bring a dessert or other food item.

We will eat at 5 p.m. as we are to vacate the shelter by about 7:30.

If you can attend, please email Miros Masczcak.