There is nothing like spring in Colorado. Beautiful warm days, cool nights bring trails filled with runners, walkers and bikers outside to enjoy the scenery. Spring also brings the Knights of Columbus Colorado State Convention. This year’s event was held in Keystone and this is the 3rd one that I have attended along with making one brief appearance at Supreme’s National Convention.
State Chaplain Fr. Brad Noonan started us off with a nice presentation that began with a quote from Pope John XXIII – “Don’t get pushed by your problems, Focus on your dreams”.
The weekend was filled with Resolutions of thanks to our clergy, state officers, Supreme, ladies auxiliaries, degree teams, the deceased and the like. The Tootsie Roll Drive has a new name. It is to be known as the “Campaign for People with Intellectual Disabilities”.
I was able to make two nominations at the convention. The first one was to nominate our council to host the State Soccer Tournament. The second nomination was much bigger. I had the honor and privilege to Nominate Jon Herskovits to serve a second year as State Warden. That was really cool.
During the report of our District Deputy to the convention, he specifically mentioned the 3,000 pounds of food that our council organized and donated to the Denver Rescue Mission during 40 Cans for Lent.
Our council won 4 awards, Surge with Service, Shining Knight Award and this year we bounced up to the division with the largest councils in the state. And we still won 2ND PLACE. Roger Giudici won an award for his work in the 4th Degree. These awards are a statement on the wonderful work that all of you do for your church, family, community, youth, culture of life and council.
Thank you again for all that you do, Mother’s Day will be filled with Spaghetti, Roses for Mom’s and packages of lily seeds passed out to Moms on Mother’s Day. And A Rose for Motherhood is another new program we have.
Viviat Jesus
Joe Musso, Grand Knight