SPECIAL CAMPS JUNE 4 – 9 ADULT WEEK FOR AGES 21+ JUNE 11 – 16 FOR CHILDREN AGES 8-20

Hello Knights-camp flyer 2017 Our campers are cheering, as registration for Special Camps has begun! Can you please help us spread the word, invite your friends with intellectual disabilities to a week long summer vacation in Oregon, IL.  Special Camps is an all volunteer run camp, endorsed by the Illinois State Knights of Columbus for … [Read more…]

February Feed My Starving Children Food Packing Feb. 18

 It’s cold out there!  Just wanted to let you know that we are doing it again in 2017!  The Knights of Columbus annual Feed My Starving Children Food Packing Event is scheduled for Saturday, February 18, 2017.  Each of you helped make this event a success last year.  I hope that you enjoyed yourself at this worthy event and that you will consider … [Read more…]

Did You Know – Myths of Christmas

     Want more Christmas? How about celebrating it again on March 25, a more likely date for Christ’s actual birthday!      (The information for this DYK comes from Candida Moss, University of Notre Dame professor of the New testament, published December 22, 2016, in the Chicago Tribune.)      Early Christians developed the theological view that … [Read more…]

Final Talley of $7,582 Collected in the Sept. Tootsie Roll Drive. Fund Distributions Announced

Collections were up from $6207 in 2015. Congratulations to a great effort. Of the $7582, $975 was used to pay for the candy. The remaining was submitted for distribution as follows: Ill State Council Charities, Inc.                           $ 758 Cupertino Home                                                    $4096 Special Camps                                                        $ 864 Western DuPage Special Recreation District  $ 864 Diocese of Joliet … [Read more…]

Thank You – Knights / Special Camps Christmas Party

Colleen asked that I pass this on to our volunteers. I know I will miss some so I ask you to think of who you remember were present and pass this on to them as well. ——————————————————————————————————— Ho ho ho! Thank you to the wonderful Knights of Winfield, West Chicago and Warrenville, the great turn … [Read more…]