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UPCOMING EVENTSNovember 5 EDW & CCA meetings CFP 7:30pm

November 5 LUK meeting CH 7:30pm

November 10 Fish Club meeting CH 7pm

November 12 O&C meeting CH 7:30pm

November 15 Family Breakfast MH 9am - 12pm

November 19 Fraternal Benefits Night CFP 7:30pm

November 20 Memorial Mass & Dinner MH 6pm

November 21 JB-LF 5K Festival EDW 8am

Sign up to volunteer or run!

November 24 CCA BoD meeting CH 7pm

November 26 Thanksgiving dinner

November 29 Advent begins

*Every Sunday we pray the Rosary at 12:30 within Mary’s Circle. If it’s raining we move

inside the mansion.

November 2015 Founded May 20, 1923 Number 5 Edward douglass whitE CounCil 2473 arlington, Virginia

Knight lifE

KNIGHT OF THE MONTH Dan Valentini has been a member for three years

now. He is close friends with last month’s Knight of the Month, Chris Hudson, and they are often seen together volunteering at nearly every event we hold.

Dan is one of those guys who is “all in” when needed, never at a half measure. He never hesitates to look for the opportunity to lend a hand or to give kind support to another member. He is one of the gentlemen who visits our mansion on a regular basis and can always be found laughing, enjoying the company of his fellow Knights.

He is truly one of many people at EDW who help us be the special council that we strive for.

In honor of Dan’s service a donation will be made to Holy Transfiguration Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

GRAND KNIGHT’S MESSAGE

November is always a special month for EDW. It’s the month we remember and pay our respects to those brothers who are no longer with us physically.Several of the council leadership were at a State meeting in October. When we

gather with our fellow Knights throughout Virginia we are constantly reminded that we are a unique council. Invariably we’re asked how we do what we do. To the man we always acknowledge that we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us.The Knights of Columbus has always been a gathering of families. Families freely bound to one another in love and a desire to look after each other in good and bad times, up close and from a distance. As Grand Knight I’ve been present for various events and gatherings, I’ve enjoyed all of them to one degree or another. But this Memorial Mass each November is the very essence for why I and all Past Grand Knights serve. These solemn remembrances are what keep us anchored to our cause; that of serving you and all our families. These men who have passed away this year became members of our council knowing that we would become an extension of their families.This past year we have seen at least 20 of our brothers enter their eternal rest. These men and their families have served our council for a combined 952 years. It is our McGivney Duty to remember these men and to care for their families. These brothers were not just fraternal members of EDW; they were husbands, companions, fathers, grandfathers and friends who served their families, the community, the nation and God in varying endeavors. Some of these men had illustrious public and private sector careers, each one of them lived their lives to the very best, enjoying their wives, children, grandchildren and in some case even great grandchildren. They each found time to live out their faith by volunteering and donating their efforts to aid their neighbors. We are grateful for the example they have shown their families and our fellow Knights. I encourage you to please attend the Memorial Mass November 20 in the Main Hall and stay for dinner to honor these men, their widows and all who came before us. Mercifully, John White 73rd Grand Knight

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CounCil offiCers 2014 - 2015Grand Knight: John White .......................202 352 7955Chaplain: Fr. Joseph Giordano ................703 528 3800Dep. Grand Knight: Chris Bannon ...........703 869 1460Chancellor: Joe BakerFin. Secretary: Jerry Garren PGK ............202 498 1638Treasurer: Jim Tuomey ...........................703 395 3894Recorder: John Kosobucki ......................571 282 4785Advocate: Lecturer: Vince Long PGKWarden: John Rovinski, Jr.Guard: Tom Gavin ...................................703 281 1434Guard: Chris HudsonTrustees: Bob Dannemiller PGK...............703 685 3795 Steve McTeague PGK ..............703 969 1570 Art Gamotis PGK .....................703 448 0332Fraternal Benefits AdvisorsRobert J. Canter Jr., CSA, FICF, LUTCF ....301 952 0180Christopher M. Stio PGK ..........................703 585 4978Luigi Tanzi ..............................................240 793 7213

Council Office703 536 9656 x 2

Council Home Mansion703 536 9656 x 3

In case of illness or death of a memberPlease call Jerry Garren PGK

202 498 1638Committee Chairmen: 6-Point Program: Chris Bannon ..............703 869 1160Church Activities: Art Gamotis PGK ........703 448 0332Community Acts.: John Cormany ............703 876 4654Council Activities: Art Gamotis ...............703 448 0332Fraternal Activities:Youth Activities: David DeLoatche...........703 200 3949 Mike Bauer PGK ...........703 204 9189500 Club: Steve McTeague PGK ..............703 969 1570Advertising: Rick Vranesh PGKBlood Drive: Ray Fioramonti ...................703 524 1804Charity: John Pfundstein .........................703 455 9112Culture of Life: Luigi & Suzanne Tanzi .....240 793 7213K.C.I.C.: Jim Holland PGK .......................703 533 1550Knight Life Editor: Rick Vranesh PGK ......571 468 5133Kovar: Art Gamotis PGK .........................703 448 0332Ladies U-Knighted: Katie McCarthy ........703 241 2374Membership: Greg Strizek ......................703 346 4387Organ Donor Chairman: Jerry Garren .....202 498 1638Retention: Jim Holland ...........................703 533 1550Special Activities: Norm Marcocci ..........703 263 9771Waiters: Bob Muschamp ........................703 237 8475

Columbus Club of Arlington 2015Board Officers

Grand Knight: John White ..................202 352 7955Dep. Grand Knight: Chris Bannon .....703 869 1460President: John O’Neill III ...................571 437 9415Vice President: Greg Strizek ..............703 346 4387Secretary: Bill Wester ........................703 521 2841Treasurer: Tom Maguire .....................703 314 5213Asst. Treasurer: Jerry Garren FS PGK ...202 498 1638

Board DirectorsOwen J. Beirne, Jr ..............................202 746 2404Tim Walthall .......................................703 525 6245 Bob Dannemiller DD, PGK ..................703 685 3795Larry Harrison ....................................703 980 4852Tom Hazzard ......................................703 536 4769

Club StaffGeneral Manager Peter Silano ...........703 595 1546Operations Manager Nick Beirne ...703 536 9656 x 310 Manager Jeff Koch .................. 703 536 9656 x 311

events.columbusclub@gmail.comSummer Camp Director Jill Burdick-Zupancic

703 536 9656 x 4Pool Phone in Season: 703 536 9656 x 313

Knight Life is published monthly by the Edward Douglass White Council #2473, Knights of Columbus. 5115 Little Falls Road, Arlington, VA 22207-1899. Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Edward Douglass White Council or the Knights of Columbus. Comments should be directed to the Grand Knight.

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John Corrado Scotty Skotek Ed Watkins Jack Bottash Kay Halpin Ed Kunec Maria Willson Leo Maimone PGK

SICK AND IN OUR THOUGHTSPlease remember the following members and their families in your daily prayers. If

you have time, give them a call or drop them a note.

NOTICE In lieu of the regular meeting on November 19th we will be hosting a

Fraternal Benefits Night in the C. F. Paradise Room. Please see the Fraternal Benefits advertisement on page 6 for further

details.

FAMILY OF THE MONTH The Neal Lawson Family

In February of 2014 there was a horrific traffic accident in front of Not-tingham Elementary. Jennifer Bush Lawson died while loading one of her children in her vehicle. Quite honestly the tragedy could easily have involved any one of the Nottingham mothers or fathers. Inadequate off-street parking, a too narrow of a street and a commercial truck contributed to the incident.

If this had happened to my family I don’t know how I would be able to handle it. I would most likely cocoon my family away in sorrow and self-pity. However, Neal in time has done just the opposite. He has shown his children and his neighbors how to honor and respect a life well worth remembering.

All three of the Lawson’s children had difficult births; thankfully they had quality health insurance to aid them. Knowing that not all families in our area have that safety net Neal created the Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation to honor her memory with a mission Jennifer cared deeply about. The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation (JB-LF) aims to provide high quality prenatal and postnatal care to the economically vulnerable in Arlington County.

Neal approached EDW to partner in their first major fundraiser. We happily signed on as host and platinum partner! Please join us in supporting the Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation Memorial 5K and Family Fun Day on Saturday, November 21st on the grounds of the Knights of Columbus.

The race will be followed by a kids’ fun run and family activities including: music, food trucks, a beer truck, photo booth, face painting, moon bounce, and much more.

I want to invite and encourage you to please sign up to volunteer or run in the race. Take a look at the full page flyer on page 5 to find out how.

I’ll see you there!John WhiteGrand Knight

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MANAGER’S CORNER PETER SILANO

Thank you to everyone who participated in our annual Columbus Club Crab Fest. Thanks to Shoreline Seafood for the awesome crabs. Our attendance continues to grow from year to year, this year 180 strong. We look forward to next year. Special Thanks to Janet Walsh for continuing to make the Children’s Halloween Party such a great event.

Our main focus in November is our Annual Thanksgiving Day Dinner, Sponsored by the KofC and hosted by Thom and Marijo Galvin. As most know, we serve approximately 2500 meals both in house and delivered. Anyone wishing to volunteer for Thanksgiving Day please contact Thom and Marijo Galvin at kocthanksgiving@gmail.com. They will provide you with the hours of operations as well as job assignments. We look forward to seeing you at the Fam-ily Breakfast, November 15, and Mass & Supper Club on November 20, 2015. We here at the Columbus Club wish all a very Happy Thanksgiving.

FISH CLUB NEWS The EDW Fish Club will be having a meeting in the

council mansion Tuesday November 10th at 7pm.We will be discussing various topics such as our upcoming

Fish Club Christmas party which will be held on Saturday evening, December the 5th. Hope to see you all at both events!

Sincerely,Chris HudsonFish Club Co-Captain

31ST THANKSGIVING CHARITY EVENT As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday season, let us reflect

on all of the blessings, which God has given us and how we might share those blessings with others in our community. This year EDW will once again be serving the greater Arlington community and its surrounding areas. You can get involved with our upcoming Thanksgiving Event by donating 20 lbs. turkeys (cooked/unstuffed) in an effort to reach our goal of 250 turkeys.

Financial donations are needed as well, those can be sent to the council office to the attention of the Financial Secretary. Note “Thanksgiving 2015” in the memo section.

In addition we will need drivers for our O’Connell buses, these drivers will need to contact Thom Galvin at 703-798-7822 as soon as possible.

For further information, please email the Galvin/Nassar Team: kocthanksgiving@gmail.com

COLUMBUS CLUB ANNUAL MEETING& BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION

JANUARY 7The Columbus Club of Arlington will hold its annual meet-

ing on Thursday, January 7, 2016 in the Main Hall after the regular council meeting that evening. The council meeting starts at 7:30 PM.

Among other agenda items that night we will hold an elec-tion to select five (5) members of the board. The nominating committee is asking any interested member in good standing who wishes to serve on the board to send his name to Mike McMorrow at m.j.mcmorrow@verizon.net. Mike is serving as the chair of the nominating committee. Other members of the committee are Mike Wilhelm, Al Camacho and Mike Bauer.

If you are unsure and have questions regarding responsibili-ties you can ask the nominating committee. You can also reach out to any current or former directors or Past Grand Knights.

Nominations should be submitted by November 11 for in-clusion in the December Knight Life. As always nominations will also be accepted from the floor on the night of the meeting.

This article does not serve as the official meeting notice under our bylaws. We will publish that notice, along with a list of candidates, including current board members seeking reelection, in the December Knight Life.

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Susanne & Luigi Tanzi

In a field that negotiates a fine line between euthanasia and prolonged artificial life support, the comfort care professionals cherish life, whether it lasts three minutes or three months.

The first case the neonatologist, Elvira Parravicini, took on were those of two women expecting children with Trisomy 18 and, strikingly, “they wanted to continue their pregnancy to be able to hold their babies. So then I said, ‘I can counsel these mothers; I’ll follow them. When the children are born, we’ll provide them with comfort care.’ But I didn’t even know well what I was saying.” The neonatologist only knew she wanted “the life of those two children to be wonderful, and for those women to have a chance to be mothers to the very end.” This was in 2006. From that day, obstetricians and secretaries began sending her all the mothers who decided to keep their babies, those in doubt, and those who could not abort because the diagnosis came after the 23rd week. Dr. Elvira Parravicini’s hospice was born between the lines and operates this way. It is not a ward, exactly. Neonatal Comfort Care is a special medical/nursing treatment that happens in the delivery room, in the post-partum, in the NICU, prepared when and as it is needed. It is a fascinating development “for all of us, also for the nurses, because it requires everyone to engage humanly,” says Elvira. “Techniques are not enough.” Comfort care for newborns does not have a model; it is not theorized about and she did not study it in books. Asked where she learned it, she smiles and says, “From my mother.”

Elvira’s team also evolved along the way. “Currently our team includes a clinical care coordinator and a social worker dedicated to this program. Moreover, other professionals, such as psychologists, child life specialists, feeding specialists, and chaplaincy collabo-rate in our multidisciplinary team. Obviously we work together with physicians and nurses from OB and NICU. In 2006 I started alone, then, one by one, almost all of these sought me out first, asking to work with me.” The strongest reason for this commit-ted interest, and least articulated, are those beautiful inexplicable moments, even amidst such suffering, of welcoming and loving a new one into the world. “I continue to do what I do because I can’t remember one case out of hundreds in which the mother and father were not grateful, glad in the midst of their tears. They tell me, ‘You helped us to be parents.’ And these people are very diverse; this is rarely a ‘moral’ or ‘religious’ choice. Instead, it is the response to a desire written in the heart.”

Elvira’s myriad experiences include caring for newborns in comfort care who did not die, in contrast to the prognosis — Ale-jandra, one such child, just celebrated her 7th birthday. Since most

situations are not black and white, she says, “For me, it’s always very dramatic. It engages my freedom — mine and that of the parent.” She offers everything she has to each unique child, while they are present, as when she baptized a pair of identical Siamese twins before they died. They were there on the bed, embracing each other, when the 15-year-old parents agreed they would like them baptized. Dr. Parravicini began to make the sign of the cross on the first: “I baptize you Keela...” The boy-father suddenly grasped her arm: “No! She’s Kayla....” In his distinction of one identical twin from the other just minutes after they were born, Elvira asserts, “The gaze of that father on his daughters was like that of God. Only He loves us this way. One by one.”

CULTURE OF LIFE

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8AM-12PM

Knights of Columbus5115 Little Falls RdArlington, VA 22207

To register, volunteer or sponsor the race, visit: www.jenniferbushlawsonfoundation.org

RAIN ORSHINE!

The Jennifer Bush-Lawson Foundation began in memory of Jennifer

Lawson who lost her life in February 2014 in a tragic accident, leaving

behind her husband and three young children. The foundation honors

her memory by providing economically vulnerable mothers and babies

access to high quality prenatal and postnatal healthcare in partnership

with Virginia Hospital Center and Arlington Pediatric Center.

JenniferBushLawsonFoundation

FEATURING:5K Run/Walk, Kids Fun Run, Food Trucks, Beer Garden,

Bounce Houses, Face Painting

and More!

NOVEMBER 21, 2015SATUR

DAY

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HONOR FLIGHT September 29th marked a special evening for our

Honor Flight program and for the council. At our in-vitation the 28th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. P. X. Kelley was present to visit with the World War II and Korea veterans from Boston. Gen Kelley, in his post-military career, was chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. During his tenure as chairman he was responsible for building both the World War II Memorial and the Korea War Memorial. Kel-ley while visiting with the veterans at their tables and speaking to the full audience spoke of his time leading the commission and of his gratitude to the Knights of Columbus as the first recipient of the Knight’s Mat-thews and Swift Educational Trust Scholarship which is presented to the children of military personnel killed or permanently injured in the line of duty.

Gen. P. X. Kelley and Rev. James Cregan, Associate State Chaplain reminiscing about their shared military service.

Sept. 29th Boston veterans standing for the presentation of the colors.

FRATERNAL BENEFITS NIGHT: Retirement Planning for the 21st Century

SAVE THE DATE, NOVEMBER 19, 2015, 7:30 PM

The Council is organizing a one-hour Fraternal Benefits Presentation in the Main Hall.

Topics to include

1. Preparing for Retirement – how to maximize your Social Security dollars prior to collecting Social Security.

2. Enhancing Your Family’s Financial Future -- presentation will feature information about: how to get into the zero percent tax bracket so that you can keep more of your retirement money income tax free.

Attendees will receive a free Personal Planning Workbook (one per couple), which helps guide you in your personal and estate planning.

There will not be a K of C Business Meeting this night and all Brother Knights, spouses, and other members of the EDW Community and public at large are invited to attend this pre-sentation. Light refreshments will be provided.

RSVP is also requested by November 13.

Please send an email to Luigi Tanzi at luigi.tanzi@kofc.org or call 240-793-7213 to confirm your attendance or get additional information.. We need at least 25 participants to hold this event.

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT EDW We’re heading into that busy, yet festive time of year, with

Thanksgiving, then Christmas Holidays. After this busy, and often hectic, time of year you’ll be ready to get with friends for another New Year’s Eve gala at EDW. If you’ve not spent a New Year’s Eve at EDW you’ve missed a very enjoyable evening, particularly if you like to dance to a good band.

The evening begins at 6:30pm with an open-bar and light hors d’oeuvres. Note: during this one-hour “social” period, alcohol and mixed drinks will be included in ticket cost. Thereafter, it’s BYOL. Beer, wine and soda are included in ticket cost - all evening. EDW’s “Redcoats” will start serving a 3-course dinner at 7:30pm. Entrée selections are: beef tenderloin, chicken cordon bleu or broiled salmon. The very accomplished “Jim Bowie Band” will play a wide assortment of dance music from 9pm until (at least) 12:30am.

Also included: Several door prizes; a bottle of champagne on every table for New Year’s toasting; and a continental breakfast. All this for the very low ticket cost of $110 per couple; $55 per single.

You may call the office to purchase tickets 703-536-9656. You will be asked to make your entrée selection no later than December 21. Tickets will NOT be available online this year.

Tickets will be available at the Columbus Club office, 5115 Little Falls Road, N. Arlington on or about November 1st (from 8 am to 4:30pm). Any questions, concerns, suggestions, or offers to help are greatly appreciated and welcome, please contact Bob Muschamp at (703) 489-2856. Anyone needing help obtaining tickets, let me know.

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MEMORIAL MASS Celebrant

The Reverend Joseph Giordano

November 20, 2015 6:00PM

Main Hall

In honor and remembrance of those Edward Douglass White Council brothers who have entered God’s presence since our founding in 1923.

We especially will remember those who have left us this past year.

Donald J. Horton Oct 27, 2014

Raymond P. Ryabik Dec 5, 2014

Frank R. Lushe January 5, 2015

Timothy C. Murphy January 8

Russell A. Martin January 12

Vincent D. Boylan February 5

Henry Rackowski February 8

Anthony J. Bruno February 14

Jeffery T. Balestrieri February 25

Thomas J. Thom March 29

William E. Tavenner May 19

John E. McLaughlin June 22

George J. Martini June 26

Franklin P. Michels July 6

Thomas J. Murphy July 20

Herbert M. Hart August 3

Carl E. Fanucci August 6

Louis A. DeSanti August 7

Edward S. Watkins September 21

Theodore J. Baroody Sr. September 29

Please join us at this very special EDW tradition to pay respect to our brothers

and their families who’ve given of themselves to God, our community and our Church. Dinner will be served immediately following the Mass.

Please see the Supper Club notice on page 10 for menu and pricing details.

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Are you ready for some fun??? I hope so, because the 12th Annual Halloween Party is almost here!!! Please don’t forget to stop by and enjoy this pleasurable event. Once again, the Old Council Home will be transformed into the house on haunted hill. You only have a few days left to find a costume that may win you a fabulous prize in the Costume contest. Shakedown is back to provide great music and there will be lots of weird and wonderful food. Cash Bar, costume contest, live band, yummy food, and great friends – what’s not to like? This fun Adults Only party starts at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 31. So grab a babysitter and come on by. This is an event you really don’t want to miss. If you are around the night before and want to help decorate – please come on up to the Old Council Home anytime after 6:30 to lend a hand.

Save the Date! LUK is having their annual Christmas Tree Decorating event on Saturday, November 28 beginning at 6:30 p.m. As always, we are having a “pot luck” get together to kick off the Christmas season. Please bring a Christmas ornament to spruce up the tree and snacks to share. If anyone is looking to downsize your old decorations and is trying to find a new home for them, please drop off any decorations in good condition and we will try to make your old decorations look elegant in the Old Council Home.

It is already time to prepare for the annual Thanksgiving din-ner to benefit the less fortunate citizens located in the Arlington community and the surrounding areas. We are looking for volunteers to donate cooked turkeys for this very worthwhile venture. If you would like to help, please drop off a cooked (unstuffed) twenty-pound turkey from November 23 – 25. For more information, please contact Thom and Marijo Galvin at kocthanksgiving@gmail.com.

LUK is having its annual Christmas party meeting on Thursday, December 3. All LUK members (past and present), friends of LUK, and potential new members are welcome to attend. Everyone who wants to participate in the Christmas gift exchange is asked to bring a wrapped gift worth $20. This is a great meeting for potential members to attend.

It is customary for LUK to wish their members a happy birthday in the monthly Knight Life article. We have no mem-bers with birthdays in November. Therefore, we are soliciting members with birthdays in November, as well as any other month. If you are interested in helping out with these fun events or coming by to meet new friends, please join us. We meet at 7:30 on the first Thursday of each month at the K of C Old Council Home. Our next LUK meeting is November 5.

LADIES U-KNIGHTED NEWSJo Balsamo Wood

Live Band! SHAKEDOWN

Costume Contest! Prizes!

2014 costume winners celebrate!

Sponsored by Ladies U-Knighted and EDW Council

*No Cover Charge* Cash Bar

Free Heavy Appetizers

For Adults 21 and Older

Saturday, Oct. 31 9 p.m. – 1 a.m.

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GOLF GROUPBy Larry O’Brien

Autumn Golf in the Shenandoah Valley: New Market, VA—technically it wasn’t fall, but it was close enough and you still had to wear a wind shirt or sweater for the first part of the morning. Winning teams in the following order were Bob Brever, Dick Ryan and Bob Hughes, -3; Dick Higdon, Danny Mansay, John Stockman and John Curtis, -2; Jack Sinclair, Lou Lane, Tony Gallucio and Jack Creamer, +1. Lowest gross included Jack Sinclair, 76; Dick Ryan, 84; John Stockman; 83, and John Curtis, 102. And no, those are not their ages! Lowest net included Dick Higdon 74, Dick Ryan, 67, John Stockman, 63, and John Curtis, 77. Closest to the pin on September 9th included John Curtis (Miller Course #3—it’s Miller Time!), Dick Ryan (Creek Course #2) and Jack Sinclair (Creek Course #7). Closest to the pin on September 10th included Dick Ryan (Creek Course #2), Lou Lane (Creek Course #4) and Lou Lane (Creek Course #7).

On the dailies closest to the pin at Herndon Centennial was Danny Mansay and at The Gauntlet was Joe Capello. Winners for the K of C in the American Legion Stapleford Competition were Jack Sinclair in A flight and Bud Daily in B flight. Closest to the pin at Reston was Lou Lane.

In Memoriam: Unfortunately we lost three valuable and ex-ceptional brothers this year. Russ Martin, Ed Watkins and Tom Wilson passed on. Let’s remember them and golf brothers from prior years in our prayers. They blessed us with great memories on many courses.

Whether you’re a seasoned golfer, a neophyte or someone in between, it doesn’t matter. Golfers in the EDW Golf Group run the gamut.

The EDW Golf Group joined several years ago with the American Legion and Elks to form the Northern VA Golf Association. This allowed the larger group to leverage both rates and better courses that include, among others, South Riding, Reston National, The Gauntlet, Quantico Medal of Honor, Virginia Oaks, Penderbrook, Goose Creek, Pleasant Valley, Prince William, Osprey Landing, Old Hickory and West Park. There are two out-of-town trips still available for this year: our Aug. 11-13 trip to Carroll Valley, fairly close to Emmitsburg, MD, is still open until June 8. If availability closes, you can go on stand-by, should someone not be able to make it. The final trip is to Shenvalee is Sept 8-10, and the cut-off for sign-up is Aug. 15. Shenvalee is located in New Market about 97 miles from EDW.

Our daily June, 9am tee times, are: June 1 at Forest Glen, June 15 at South Riding and June 24 at Goose Creek.

Come enjoy yourself and the camaraderie of your fellow Knights in a relaxed atmosphere, pleasant surroundings, and to do so economically. In November we have a banquet where we present awards, make announcements and share stories, some of which are true.

Annual dues are $30. If you have any questions or need more information, feel free to call Larry O’Brien at 703-978-5651 (evenings and weekends) or email him at obrienclu@cox.net

OUTSTANDING DISTRICT DEPUTY 2014 – 2015

Congratulations to our very own Bob Dannemiller for being awarded the Virginia Outstanding District Deputy for the past year by the Immediate Past State Deputy, Steve Burnley.

Virginia has 30 Districts each with deputies hand selected by the State Deputy. The District Deputies, to be chosen have had to prove themselves to be top per-formers at their councils, in their districts and parishes.

Bob Dannemiller with Gen. P. X. Kelley, Honor Flight Dinner.

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Memorial MassSupper Club Dinner

November 20, 20156:00pm – Mass, 6:45pm Dinner

SoupBeef Barley

Chicken Noodle

Salad Bar

EntréePork Tenderloin with Sautéed Apples

Roasted Rosemary ChickenBroiled Tilapia with Lemon Butter

Scalloped PotatoesVegetable Medley

DessertArray of Cakes & Pies

Reservations by Noon November 18, 2015703 536-9656 x 311

Adults $15.00 ~ Children $6.00

Knights of ColumbusFamily Breakfast

November 15, 2015, 9:00AMOmelets Cooked to OrderBelgian Waffle Station

Scrambled EggsSausage Links

Sausage PattiesBacon

Corned Beef HashHam

ScrappleSausage GravyChipped Beef

Home Style BiscuitsSeasoned Home Fries

Cheesy Potato CasseroleFrench toast Sticks

Regular or Cheesy GritsFried Apples

Fresh Fruit SaladAssorted Breakfast Breads & Pastries

Fruit CobblerAssorted Juices

Coffee, Tea or MilkThis is an all you can eat Buffet

$10.00 – Adults$5.00 – Children 10 and underFree - Children 3 and under

Tax and tip included in price

LONG-TERM CARE PLANS OFFER PEACE OF MIND

Since its addition to the Order’s product portfolio in 2000, long-term care (LTC) insurance has provided the Knights of Columbus with an excellent opportunity to further serve members and their families. And, for our long-term care policy holders in the United States, there’s an added bonus.

It’s called “Provider Pathway,” a program offering access to a network of long-term care providers at discounted rates. The network includes discounts on products, such as hearing aids, diabetic supplies, personal emergency response systems, and durable medical equipment,

as well as skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, and adult day care. Eligibility for participation in this program is open to Knights of

Columbus long-term care insurance policyholders, their spouses, de-pendent children, parents and parents-in-law. All providers are fully credentialed and meet state licensing requirements.

If you haven’t yet spoken with us about long-term care insurance, you owe it to yourself to do so. There are a few decisions to make in choosing a “plan” — a comprehensive plan that covers care whether you’re at home or in a facility, or one that covers facility only; daily benefit amounts and benefit durations (how much and how long it will last); and the length of the elimination period (waiting period) before benefits kick-in.

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Steak NightCH 6:30pm

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Seafood SpecialCH 6:30

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