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| Ron Cuba Knight of the month July |
Ron Cuba is our Knight of the Month for July 2023. Also receiving the award with him is his lovely wife Pat. For anyone that has been around Knights and Knights functions you know all of the things that Ron has been included in. Most recently Ron retired from the Warden position - I'm not sure that anyone has an accurate count of how many times Ron has been our Warden and how many other positions he has filled throughout the years. I would guess that Ron has put in more working hours for the Knights than anyone else.
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| Grand Knight Rick Phillips with Knight of the Month Ed Aucoin |
Congratulations to Ed Aucoin for receiving the April 2023 Knight of the Month Award for his Blessed Work with the Blood Drive!!
Ed has been involved with .Blood Drive for the past 12+ years.
On average,there are about 25 (roughly half) of teh donors are associated with the Knights of Columbus/Sacred Heart Church. There are an average of 45-50 donors per Blood Drive.
For the calendar year 2022, there were 30 gallons donated. This came from both the Knights and the members of Village United Methodist Church, an aveage of 40 pints per drive, and this average does not include the collection of double red blood cells which is 3-5 per drive.
New Donors are always welcome!! As with anything in the Village, the population is getting older and many donors have been lost due to health reasons.
A reward well deserved!!
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| Mike Gonda March 2023 Knight of the Month |
Knight of the month for March 2023 is Mike Gonda.
Mike is currently our Council Director and will begin his 3rd year in July 2023. He is in his first few months as 'Substitute Bar Manager' – mostly because Mike is the kind of Knight that sees an opportunity or problem and jumps in to take care of it. Right now we are looking for a Knight that would be willing to take over the Bar Manager position.
Many don't know all of the things that a Council Director does. The Council Director works under the direction of the Program Manager and is the guy that is responsible for making many of our events and programs work. At the beginning of the Council year the Program Manager gives the Council Director a 'suggested' calendar that the Officers have agreed on. The calendar also lists a 'possible or suggested' manager or chairman for the event. It's the Council Directors responsibility to put his own team together and to make sure the manager or chairman of the event is available and willing the task.
Some of those duties and responsibilities are:
Responsible for the outcome of the event.
Getting the PR Director the advertising needed.
Posters and printing.
Email blasts needing crew and volunteers for all positions.
Make sure the lower hall has tables set up for the event.
Set up crew.
Kitchen Staff.
Ticket Sales.
Every position all the way down to the dishwashers.
This is the guy that is one of the first ones in and turns out the lights and locks the doors when we are all done.