American Cancer Society
Annual Relay For Life
June 20 - 21, 2008

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Knights of Columbus 8747 Team

My Worthy Brothers,

It is once again time to join the fight against cancer. This is the 7th or 8th year in a that the City of Milpitas has sponsored a Relay for Life Event. Council 8747 has entered a team in each of those years.

I am asking you to each consider joining our team. A team is normally at least sixteen persons (one for each hour that the relay is conducted). The team has at least one member on the Sports Complex track every hour.

I can tell you that it's lots more fun to walk with someone else than to go by yourself. Connie usually walks with me, but I have been known to walk with Brother Knights just to keep them company!

This is a family event and there are lots of activities to interest all age levels. There is entertainment on stage, a survivor lap followed by dinner, the lighting of candles in prepartion for the Luminaria ceremony, snacks, movies till dawn............well you get the idea. If you haven't been
there before, your missing out!

I am writing this email from the American Cancer Society Milpitas Relay website. It gives us the abiltiy to each have a web page connected to our Team page from which we can email friends and family to solicit donations.

You can join the team on this site, solicit funds, and monitor how our team is doing towards our goal. You can also learn more about Relay, the ACS, and its purpose!

So please join me in making a difference. Contact me at 946-5958 or 421-7087 and get a member packet.

Follow the link back to this website and use its capabilities. The more the merrier (and the more money we will dontate.)

One of these years I would like to compete with the Protestants!

Skipper
Grand Knight
St. Elizabeth Council 8747

Click here to visit my personal page.

Click here to view the team page for Knights for Life

ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE?

If not, you will not be eligible to vote in the upcoming June Primary Elections.

If you are registered to vote, we encourage you to become acquainted with the issues and candidates and to exercise your right to vote.

As an added note, for those members who reside in Santa Clara County, if you are an absentee voter, watch your mail box because the Registrar of Voters has already mailed out your ballots.

End of the 2007-2008 Columbian Year
Is Rapidly Approaching

The end of the 2007-2008 Columbian Year will soon be upon. Hints of this are already being seen. Lists of candidates are being read. Elections are being planned, if not already held. New officer teams are making their plans for next year's activities and events. The State Convention occurs this coming weekend in San Jose.

Here at kofc8747.org, there is also a humdrum of activity going on behind the scenes. For those of you who are not frequent visitors to this site, one of the activities that takes place when transitioning from one Columbian Year to the next is the archiving of all newsletters and calendars published on this site throughout the Columbian year.

For a brief period of time in July and August, there will exist two areas that will contain newsletters and calendars, the current Columbian Year, and the next Columbian Year. We refer to this as the transition period.

Toward the end of August, the links to the files for the previous Columbian Year's newsletters and calendars will be disabled and only the current Columbian Year's newsletters and calendars will be available.

What all Knights in good standing need to realize is that these newsletters and calendars are not destroyed but stored away. This web site has maintained all of the newsletters and calendars published on its pages since its founding years ago. In the not too distant future, we will be bringing these previous years' editions back for immediate retreival but right now, we are limited by certain server restrictions.

Any Council, Assembly, or Knight who needs to get a copy of a back edition of a newsletter or calendar published on this site has to do no more than place the request via e-mail to: ebacal@ebcglobal.net

Receiving Announcements From Supreme
Via E-Mail

In a recent communications exchange with Member Services, our Webmaster, Ed Blake, was advised that there is a way any member of the Knights of Columbus can sign up to receive important news releases and announcements.

All that any Knight needs to do is go to the Supreme Website at http://www.kofc.org/un/index.cfm

On the left hand side of screen is a box titled E-Mail Updates. When a member enters his e-mail address and clicks on the GO button he will be able to receive special news releases and announcements.

The member might receive a confirming e-mail to confirm his election.

Members are urged to take advantage of this service as there are events and announcements that need to get out quickly to the overall membership.

Thought For The Week

In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Eric Hoffer