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I wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all and look forward to a very giving Christmas Season for Council 4442. There are many activities coming up, both social as well as opportunities to display charity, unity, and fraternity. Take advantage of your talents and use them for the good! For one example, read below what our newest Life Member is organizing again this year. Thank you, Dave. And my Thanks to all the many knights of our council who display works of charity each month.
Tony Fabrizio, GK.
From Dave Thompson:
I have served as Chairperson of the Christmas Day Dinner for the Parish of SS. Mary & Joseph for the past two years and once again will be doing the dinner on Sunday, December 25, 2011, at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Main Street, Salem, NH, from 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
The dinner is open to all regardless of Church affiliation– we have in the past served senior citizens, those who have no place to go, those who are all alone, families, those who have lost loved ones. Information is sent to the senior citizen complexes in Salem as well as to those receiving food baskets from Salem and those who receive children’s gifts from the Salem Christmas Fund volunteers.
The first year we served approximately 58. Last year we served close to 100 including driving meals to a couple of housebound recipients in Salem. It is our hope that this will become a “yearly community event” with other Churches and groups participating. Given the current state of the economy, it is anticipated that more and more people will be in
need of this undertaking.
We serve a full-course turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
If anyone is interested in helping with this endeavor, we will need donations of turkeys, desserts, vegetables, etc. We will also need help to cook, serve, and clean up.
For more information, you may contact me at: 898-1217.
Thank you,
David C. Thompson, Jr
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