November, 2017

TO: District 53 Grand Knights, Deputy Grand Knights, and Financial Secretaries

FROM: Bill Swing, DD #53   763-479-1168   [email protected]

RE: District Deputy Report – November 2017

1. Candidates Complete their Major Degrees
Congratulations to our four new brothers who completed all three degrees at the ceremonies on Thursday, October 26 at St Joseph the Worker in Maple Grove. Congratulations also to the Wayzata and Medina Councils who sponsored three and one of these candidates respectively.

2. Field Agent
Due to reorganization, General Agent Lloyd Cybart will no longer be serving our district. Instead, General Agent Ben Schleicher of the Schleicher Agency out of Windom will be serving as field agent for the Loretto, Long Lake, Medina, and Wayzata councils until a new field agent has been assigned – which is anticipated before year end. (Field Agent Bill Murphy has been assigned to Golden Valley for some months now.)

The preferred means of contacting Ben Schleicher is through his Administrative Assistant:
Jenafer Schleicher
Agency Administrative Assistant
P.O. Box 332
Windom, MN 56101
1-507-822-7173
[email protected]

3. October Recruitment Drive
Be sure to fill out the short survey that State Deputy Penas has sent to the Grand Knights. The link to the survey is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/53853VS Even if your council was not able to do much recruiting during October, please complete the survey.

4. Special Olympics Bowling Tournament, Nov 10 -12
There’s still time to volunteers for the Special Olympics Bowling Tournament, Nov 10 -12.
Register by going to www.somn.org/KofC then selecting “Get Involved”  “Event Volunteers”  “State Bowling Tournament”  “Register…as a KoC member”.

5. Memorial Mass, November 14
It appears that all five councils will be represented at the Memorial Mass at St Anne’s on November 14th at 7PM. The 4th Degree Honor Guard will also be present. Each Grand Knight or representative may be called upon to read the names of their deceased brother(s) during the service – details to be confirmed following a meeting with Fr. Beldon. Everyone is welcome. RSVPs are not required.

We’ve lost nine brothers during this past year out of our District’s 495 members. They are Timothy Reilly (Golden Valley), James Bellingham (Loretto), Gerald Schmitz and Ronald Nelson (Long Lake), John Muchlinski, Orrel Thompson, Warren Christian, George Faue, and Donald Dykhoff (Wayzata). Let us take advantage of this special time to remember them.

6. Mid Year District Meeting, December 7
Confirming – the mid-year District Meeting will be held in the Emmaus Room at Holy Name of Jesus on December 7th 7-9 PM. If you are not able to attend, please send a representative. (This date was the best I could do. My apologies to the Long Council for having this date conflict with their December council meeting.)

Please send me your agenda items – anything that you’d like to discuss. I’m also open to suggestions for a speaker. The speaker would need to keep it short however, i.e. 20 minutes max.

7. Free Throw Competition
The Golden Valley, Wayzata and Medina councils will be participating in the Free Throw Competition this year. Details:
• St. Bart’s will host the local competition for the Wayzata and Medina councils on Sunday Jan 21 with a 1:15 registration and a 1:30 start time.
• Golden Valley Council will host the district competition at Good Shepherd on Sunday February 11th (Thank you Golden Valley!) with timing to be determined. The Wayzata and Medina Councils will be taking the lead on planning and conducting the district competition.
• Regional competition is February 25th at St Vincent de Paul in Brooklyn Park, registration starting at 8:00am.
• State competition is April 7th at Cathedral High School in St Cloud, registration starting at 8:15am.

8. Upcoming Major Degrees

DAY	DATE (2017)	LOCATION	1st Deg.	Start	2nd Deg.	Start	3rd Deg.	Host DD	Phone
Sat	10/28	St Peter’s N St Paul	Local	9:00am	Dist 55	10:15am	West Metro	Jim Hurt	651-777-5829
Thur	11/30	Anoka KC Hall Anoka	Local	6:00pm	Bob Nichols	7:00pm	NE Metro	Rick Hirschfelt	763-248-0516
Sat	12/9	Mary, MotC Burnsville	Local	8:00am	District 55	9:30am	SW Region	David ilk	913-485-2868

9. Star Tracker (published 10/15/2017)

Father McGivney Award (Membership)
Council	Members	QUOTA	MTD GAIN	MTD LOSS	MTD NET	YTD GAIN	YTD LOSS	YTD NET	PERCENT
Wayzata 3758	155	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Loretto 9601	72	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Long Lake 12293	63	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Medina 13096	139	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Golden Valley 13506	71	5	0	0	0	0	1	-1	-20.00
Founder’s Award (Insurance)
Council	Members	QUOTA	MTD GAIN	MTD LOSS	MTD NET	YTD GAIN	YTD LOSS	YTD NET	PERCENT
Wayzata 3758	155	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Loretto 9601	72	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Long Lake 12293	63	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Medina 13096	139	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Golden Valley 13506	71	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Missing Reports (All reports are in!)
Council	185	365	1295
Wayzata 3758
Loretto 9601
Long Lake 12293
Medina 13096
Golden Valley 13506

10. Upcoming District Deputy Council Visits
Father George Council #3758 Wayzata Monday November 13, 7:30PM
Good Samaritan Council #13096 Medina Tuesday November 14, 7PM