Most Council 11369 members should have their allotment of 2021 Super Cash Bonanza state raffle tickets by now.

If you don’t have them, email Miros Maszczak or call him at 330 540-0383.

Our goal to maximize the program is 1130 tickets sold.

We can get as much as $4.50 back from every $5 ticket by selling those 1130 tickets.

Last year we sold 1169 tickets.

But with pandemic limitations, the council had to purchase 205 tickets to meet the same 1130 goal.

The first turn-in is April 10.

Ticket stubs and checks (made out to K of C Council 11369) should be sent to ticket co-chair Miros Maszczak at: 1520 Fox Den Ct., Canfield, OH 44406.

Charitable monies will go to our food ministry efforts and other regular charitable gifting, including monies to St Michael Parish and St Paul Monastery.

There are 25 great cash prizes, with the drawing on May 22.

If you are not a Knight and wish to purchase a ticket, email or call Miros.

If you are interested in joining our organization, click this link.

The fraternal organization has developed an easy, new way to bring in new members.

Here is the new link that brings a prospect right into line to join Council 11369.

Please pull this page up on your phone and bookmark it.

Seven Brother Knights took part in the council’s first-ever Drive-Thru Coffee and Donuts event after the 9 a.m. Mass at St Michael Parish on Sunday February 14th, the Sunday before the start of Lent.

We estimate we had 70 customers who drove up to the south doors of the parish hall, where they were handed the treats in their cars in a very safe way.

Even the two dozen paczkis we ordered were a hit: we handed them all out!

Thanks to Father Terry for letting us do this.

It was a small undertaking, but it brought a lot of joy to us and our fellow parishioners in these difficult times.

Here’s the email from Worthy Grand Knight Vic Buente:

Brother Knights:  “Hats Off!” to Brother Knights Jim K. and Miros for leading the Coffee and Doughnuts Drive Through after 9 o’clock Mass last Sunday at St. Michaels, and thanks to Brother Knights Dr. John Esarco, Mark Curtis, Ron Roman and Paul Kalosky for helping out.  We saw many smiling faces, young, old and in between, and we were able to say, “Courtesy of the Knights of Columbus”.  We should do it again, maybe next month.  Thank you all!  Vivat Jesus!  Brother Vic

Remember coffee and donuts after the 9am Mass at St Michael?

The Knights are bringing it back in a pandemic-safe way on Sunday February 14 after the 9am Mass.

We will line up cars at the south entrance to the church complex; those are the double doors going into the parish hall.

We will also serve that pre-Lenten favorite, the paczki.

It’s all free!!

Our council was saddened to learn recently of the December death of Past Grand Knight Edward “Gus” Rogus.

Gus had contracted COVID-19 according to his family, and died on December 16, unable to spend the Christmas holiday with family.

Still, daughter Mary tells us he is in a better place now, having been ill for some time.

Gus led our council for several years in the mid-2000s, but actively participated for many years afterward.

We remember his untiring efforts standing outside St Michael parish selling raffle tickets, or outside the doors at Giant Eagle collecting food for the needy.

The family plans a memorial event at St Michael in the spring or summer, and the K of C hopes to be an active part of that.

God bless you Gus Rogus, and our sympathy to your family.

Four Knights from Council 11369 participated in a modified Christmas version of the Andy Skrobola Memorial Food Drive at the St Michael Family Life Center in Canfield on December 22 from 9am to 11am.

About 50 families were notified of the event; unfortunately, only about 15 came.

Others may have stopped in at a Saturday December 19 similar event at the Covelli Centre, sponsored by Gleaner’s Food Bank.

Gleaners provided milk and other fresh items for our giveaway, and the council and the Canfield Lions Club worked together to hand out $100 Rulli Brothers Market certificates.

Names of Canfield School District residents in need and participants in Judge John Durkin’s Mental Health and Recovery Program were informed of the food giveaway.

The program had to be modified due to COVID-19.

We thank the Canfield Lions Club for their fundraising effort and for matching the $50 our council was offering in vouchers, with their generous $2500 donation.

Thanks to Joe Lordi with Gleaners and his lifetime of dedication to feeding the hungry in the Youngstown area.

And thanks to Brother Miros Maszczak for all his efforts in putting this event together.

The council also purchased 180 hams for distribution to several non-profit agencies for Christmas, obtaining the hams for a discounted 99-cents a pound from Fresh Mark.

The hams went to St Vincent dePaul Society, the Beatitude House, Our Community Kitchen, Dorothy Day House, the Rescue Mission, the Salvation Army, and St Paul Monastery.

We hope for a more normal food drive in 2021, carrying on with Andy Skrobola’s wishes for an event involving several organizations, combined with an event involving food and not just money handouts.

About ten brother Knights helped the Mahoning County Veteran’s Service Commission and Gleaner’s Food Bank distribute Thanksgiving food items to over a thousand families at the Canfield Fairgrounds on Saturday November 21.

The used COVID-19 precautions, with everyone masked and trying to keep their distances.

Food recipients drove through the fairgrounds, with no need for them to exit their vehicles.

The Knights were happy to be part of this effort, with the inability to carry on the annual Andy Skrobola Food Drive in the usual way.

Father Michael McGivney,  Parish Priest of St. Mary’s Church, New Haven, CT, formed the Knights of Columbus in 1882 out of concern for his Parish’s families and their futures.  He saw the need for a mutual aid society to provide for families when so many fathers and husbands fell ill, were injured or died under the difficult conditions of the time.  Wives, mothers and children then had no further means of support.  Father McGivney gathered the men of his Parish to form the Knights of Columbus, and together they began benefit programs to care for their families.

Since 1882, the Knights of Columbus have provided insurance and other benefits for our members and our families.  Since 1882, the Knights of Columbus have stood for charity, unity, fraternity and patriotism.

The Knights of Columbus Conklin Agency,  Cranberry, PA, serving Councils in greater Pittsburgh, PA and eastern Ohio,  is sponsoring  two upcoming Insurance Benefit Nights.  These programs will be free virtual events presented by guest speaker Tom Hegna.  He is an award-winning author, speaker and economist.  He is considered by many as the “Retirement Income Expert”. 

Your local Knights of Columbus Council 11369, serving St. Michael Parish and Society of St. Paul Monastery,  invites all Catholics, all parishioners and all Brother Knights to register for one of these events.  Listed below are the scheduled Insurance Benefit Night dates, times and respective registration links. All attendees must register and provide the requested information. You may attend either event, but please register for one event only.

Pennsylvania Thursday October 15, 2020 at 06:30pm

Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pM4msBDeRAC2_LL2TEPirA

Ohio Wednesday October 21, 2020 at 07:30pm

Register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QkSMgMxcTuePGUZvlkllfw

Please spend an hour with Tom Hegna to educate yourself about the importance of retirement planning.  His program benefits those working toward retirement and also those who have retired already.  If you have any questions, please contact David W. Roberts, Knights of Columbus Field Agent, at (330) 614-2063 or david.roberts@kofc.org.  To have either link e-mailed to you, please contact Victor Buente, Council 11369, by e-mail at vobuente@gmail.com, or by telephone or text at (330)509-5887.

Knights of Columbus 11369 members were able to see a large money donation in action recently: a new ultrasound machine at the Bella Women’s Center on North River Road NE in Howland Twp.

The center received the new 3D/4D machine on August 3, and some of our brothers checked it out a few weeks later.

Local Knights councils spent $22,000 for the machine, and council 11369 contributed $8,660 of that total.

Tia Ciferno, executive director of the Bella Women’s Center was overjoyed with the new ultrasound unit.

We talked about the possibility of starting a fundraiser for a second machine.

God bless Bella and the work they do in saving babies.

Started in 2009, the Ultrasound Initiative is a staple of the Faith In Action Program developed by the Knights of Columbus order.

These 3D/4D color Ultrasound units save lives by helping women choose life by giving them the opportunity to view their unborn babies in three-dimensional accurate color detailed photos.

When working with abortion-minded clients, it’s critical to have the most accurate ultrasound machine available.

This service is fundamental to our principle of unity.

And nowhere is our commitment more obvious and today more important than in our stand for the sanctity of unborn life.

Without a doubt, The Knights are one of the strongest voices for life in the world.

But we are not done.

We will not rest while so many children’s lives are still at stake.

Let us continue this great work so that every community will have access to life-saving ultrasound services. We can, and we will, continue to save millions of unborn lives.

The Knights of Columbus through countless acts of charity, affirms the dignity of every person, from conception to natural death.

On Saturday, September 12, 2020, Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Priests for Life and the Pro-Life Action League co-sponsored the 8th Annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, calling on pro-life Americans to honor the gravesites of our aborted brothers and sisters.

In honor of this day, members of the Knights of Columbus ‘Fathers Borrano/Gallagher Council 11369’ held a solemn prayer service at the Unborn Memorial located at St. Paul’s Monastery in Ellsworth Twp., Mahoning County, Ohio.

Council Chaplain Fr. Matthew Roehrig led four Pauline religious brothers and six council members in prayer for unborn and aborted children.

We gathered to remind our community that the lives of these children matter, and that the loss of these children is a loss to us all.

We gather to resolve not to just fight abortion but to end it.

We will stop at no sacrifice and count no cost in defending the unborn.

The Knights of Columbus remain firmly committed to defending the right to life of every human being from the moment of conception to natural death.

Council 11369 members commit themselves to maintaining this site and pray that it will provide a place where those who have lost their children may mourn and find comfort.

We ask our Lord to watch over this memorial site and all who visit and pray that this sacred place serves as witness to the humanity of our most vulnerable brothers and sisters.