Giving Thanks Lord God, Creator of all,

You have filled us with Your Gracenow fill us with gratitude

for life, health, family, friends, faith,and the food we are about to eat.Makes us ever mindful of all those

who do not have enough to eat;the homeless, the helpless,and those who have no one to love and care for them.Bless the farmers, workers,

truck drivers, and merchants andall who helped prepare this meal.

Through this food and Your Spirit give us strength sufficient to do Your Will,to share the abundance of the earth,

and to make You known to all we meet.We pray in Jesus' name.

Amen.Father Joseph Veneroso, M.M.

Anoka County FairWe have been informed that the 2020

Anoka County Fair has been canceled. Consequently we will be losing a major source of funding for the next budget year. This would have been our fifteenth year of selling tickets at the Fair.

Tom Clifford

Vol. 31 No. 12 Osseo/Maple Grove Council 9139 June, 2020

Greetings,

I hope you and your families continue to be healthy and were able to take time

over the Memorial weekend to honor and give thanks to those who served our na-tion and are no longer with us.

We have just received word that the Anoka county fair is officially canceled which is a large volunteer event and fund-raiser for our council. We are still hopeful that we will be able to hold our tootsie roll drive to support the youth camps and special youth athletics later this summer. Breakfast, bingo and other events are being penciled in the calendar but we will adhere to the state and church guidelines if and when these events can be held.

In May our council wrote checks in the

total amount $3,597.10 including $500 each to ‘CROSS’, ‘CEAP’, ‘Pen-nies for Seminarians’, ‘Jim Campbell Re-ligious Scholarship Fund’, ‘Student Loan Fund’ and a $1,000 check to St. Vincent de Paul’s school scholarship. Please be proud to be a Knight and support Supremes ini-tiative of “Leave No Neighbor Behind” program by donating blood if possible or money or time to support food banks across the world.

This month our state convention was held virtually via a conference call and was well attended with over 200 delegates calling in. Congratulations to Dave What-muff for being elected to the position of State Deputy. Our councils list of officer nominations for the 2020-2021 fraternal year is in the next column.

God Bless

Brother Knights please pray for the people on our prayer list: Michelle Cameron, (Tom's daughter); Janet Mountin (Steve's mother); Tim Ryan, Mike Marsh (Ruben Pryzbillas son-in-law) & his brother Virgil, Amber John-son (daughter-in-law) of Bill Johnson, Mike McGee, Michael Dellapaolera, Ardell John-son, (Greg's mother), Jay Frazer, Bruce Gug-gemos, Carl Keeney, Heather Olson-Tveita (Scott Passmore's daughter), Marie Jochim, Mike Ball, Harry Long, Chuck Lynde, Dorothy Olmstead (Tom's wife); Rich Scherber, Peter Crego, Evan Steeves, son of Mark Steeves; Bob Fasching & his daughter Arlene Niles; Marty Whatmuff (Dave's wife); Bill Peloquin Sr.; Marlys Wishy (Jim's widow), Austin Loeffler, Joyce Kirscher (Jack’s wife), Don Kramer, Toy McGee (Larry’s wife), Christine Munoz (Bob Clark’s daughter), Joan Ahner, (Dave's wife).

Remember family members & friends who are sick or are having surgery, men and women serving in the military and those men studying for the priesthood or deaconate. If you know of any Knight or family member who you would like to be included on our prayer list please call Dave Wilhelm, 763-425-7754 or Tom Heltemes, 763-425-2314 or e-mail: tom@heltemes.com

Grand Knight’s Message Ken Smith, Grand Knight

OSSEO/MAPLE GROVE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUSST. VINCENT de PAUL PARISH

Membership Meeting, 1st Tues., 7:00 p.m.West Meeting Room

Council9139

Every Sat. at 10 a.m. the rosary

is prayed at the Robbinsdale Abortion Center,

3819 West Broadway, RobbinsdaleEVENTS HAVE ALL BEEN

CANCELEDJune 2, ZOOM Membership

meetingJune 21, Father's Day

Calendarof Events

Brother Knights,

As we enter into these summer months everyone is getting ready

for time outdoors, BBQs, going to the cabin, being out on the lake, and changing up the routine for a little while. I am certainly looking to change up my own routine a lit-tle bit this summer. With the return of public liturgies, I am hopeful that I will have opportunities to encoun-ter parishioners around the church a bit more than I have for the past few months. Though I have seen and vis-ited with folks here and there as they stop by the Church to pray, outside of confessions I haven't had many op-portunities to visit and catch up with people.

I have been so thankful that many people continued to take advan-tage of our regular confession times throughout the past few months and the other opportunities that people

took to encounter God's love and His grace. I hope that as we are able to return once again that everyone has a renewed desire to experience these gifts from God.

I am aware that some people will not be ready to come to a public Mass for any number of reasons and that is perfectly fine. Each person will re-turn when they are ready and when they do I hope that the desire within them to know, love, and serve God is as strong as ever.

When we return, it will not be the way that we remember and like-ly won't ever be the way we used to do things but that is okay. One of the beautiful things about the Church is that she is ever ancient and ever new.

The Church forever changes in or-der to meet the needs of its members without ever abandoning those truths and practices that Jesus himself estab-lished. We have learned a lot over the past two millennia and I am sure that as long as we remain faithful to Jesus and open to the movements of the Holy Spirit, the Church will survive for millennia to come.

Stay strong brothers and allow the Lord to stir up in your hearts a greater desire for Him.

Fraternally yours in Christ

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 9139 JUNE, 2020

Non-Profit Org.U.S. POSTAGE

PAIDMaple Grove, MN

Permit No. 67

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS6826 118th Avenue N.Champlin, MN 55316

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

Business Meeting 1st Tuesday of MonthPlanning Meeting Last Tuesday of the Month

Ken Smith, Grand Knight

Fr. Andrew Zipp, Chaplain

The Value of the Guaranteed Purchase Options on your Children’s policies

As a father, you worry about your children and do everything you can to protect them. Many of you have purchased life policies from the Knights or are contemplating such coverage. If you have taken this important step don’t forget about the valuable benefits included with those policies, including the Guaranteed Purchase Option provisions.

When you insure a child, you are protect-ing his or her future. If you purchase a policy for your child from the Knights of Columbus with a guaranteed purchase option, it guar-antees that more insurance can be purchased for that child at certain set dates, without proving insurability. When the child turns 17, and every three years around the time the young adult turns 25, 28, 31, 34, 37, and 40 you or they are able to increase their cov-erage without regard to any medical issues they may face now or in the future.

Take it upon yourselves to ensure your young adult children are taking advantage of these options. Many times the Knights are unable to maintain contact information for these insureds to allow us to contact them about their benefits. And as many of you know, some of these young adults do not re-alize the advantage of obtaining permanent life insurance at an early age. So help them out and encourage them to at least talk to me to consider the advantages of these options.

Contact me today to update the contact information for any of your children that you have policies on, or discuss the many policy options for child plans. Plans can be put in place which are paid up front with premiums on deposit or paid over10 or 20 year periods to be completely paid up with policy cover-age for life. Grandchildren can also be cov-ered and policies paid by the grandparents assuming the father of the child is a Knight or eligible to become one. Dan FalstadKofC Field Agent(612) 310-5254dan.falstad@kofc.org

State ConventionThis year due to unforeseen cir-

cumstances the annual Knights con-vention was held by telephone. The Minnesota Knights of Columbus ex-hibited great expertise and the con-vention was held with little inconve-nience. There were 207 delegates on the phone call and voting was very efficient.

The highlight of the convention was the nomination and approval of the State officers. David Whattmuff from Council 9139 was elected State Deputy effective 7-1-2020

We also elected delegates and Al-ternates to the Supreme Convention 2020.

The last item of interest was the resolution that left the per capita payments at $8.00 per member.

I wonder if the format of a phone convention will be the new normal. There should be a money savings but will the personal touch be lost?

Carl Crimmins

Election of OfficersThe nominating committee has

nominated the following Brother Knights to lead Council 9139 for the year 2020-2021. Election of officers will be at the June membership meeting.Grand Knight .......Ken SmithDeputy GK ...........Carl CrimminsChancellor ...........Ryan JohnsonTreasurer ...............Dan JohnsonRecorder ...............Mark BergeronWarden .................Darrell HealyAdvocate ..............Bruce GuggemosInside guard .........Bruce DahlmanOutside guard ......Ben Kadrmas3 yr. trustee ..........Paul Greninger2 yr. trustee ..........Kevin Ahlers1 yr. trustee ..........Russ Funk

Happy Father's Day

From the Editor: Deadline for the newsletter is the 15th of each month. If any Brother Knight has any information to be published, please feel free to mail it to me at 9955 Pilgrim Way, Maple Grove or e-mail it to: tom@heltemes.com DIRECTORS please get me an article before your event & following the event to keep all members informed.--Tom Heltemes, Editor--425-2314

Looking for atax deduction?• Don't sell your car, DONATE

IT!! If you or someone that you know has a car, truck, boat or

maybe a motor home that runs,save the hassle of selling it and

donate it to a good cause. We even take vehicles with rust, oil leaks

and dents no problem. Call Broth-er Knight Paul Greninger 763-425-7316 for details on how to donate.

Thank you to those who have.

2019-2020 CounCiloffiCers & DireCtorsGK, Ken Smith ........................443-4268 mplssmiths@comcast.netDeputy GK, Carl Crimmins .... 493-5364 carlmnpipetrades@aol.comChancellor, Dan Johnson ...... 228-2105 bunjee49@msn.comChaplain ..................... Fr. Andrew ZippTreasurer, Gary Hanauska ..612-889-9325 bigjdracing@gmail.comRecorder,Ryan Johnson .. 763-213-7703 ryanjohnson110@gmail.comWarden, Mark Bergeron ...........438-4907 mmldbergeron@gmail.comAdvocate, Bruce Guggemos 612-237-4979 bbguggemos@gmail.com In. Guard, Bruce Dahlman .... 227-6155 bmdahl2134@comcast.netOut. Guard, Chris Ayika ............ 416-4700

Chris.I.Ayika@xcelenergy.comFinancial Sec., Kelvin Landeis kelvinll@comcast.net Trustees:(3-year) Paul Greninger ....... 425-7316 PaulandKim9918@gmail.com(2-year) Kevin Ahlers ........... 427-2330 kaahlers@comcast.net(1-year) Russ Funk ................ 420-5527 funkx012@umn.eduLecturer, Dave Wilhelm ..612-708-6379

dwilhelm110@comcast.netMembership, Recruitment & Retention: Robert Moreland .............. 557-0874 Bob Clark .......................... 424-5509Program Director Dan Johnson

228-2105 -- bunjee49@msn.com Council Act. Director Jeff Boos ............................ 657-0004Family Directors: Darrell Healy ..................... 425-7506Community Act. Directors: Marty Carman ................... 315-1803Youth Act. Directors: Jesse Puhl ........................... 559-2964Church Act. Directors: Tom Olmstead ........... 763-427-3581Pro-Life Act. Directors Mark Bergeron .................. 503-7341 Duane Crosland .............. 442-1033Ga mbling Director, Tim Ryan ..............

783-2490 Leaflet Editor, Tom Heltemes 425-2314 tom@heltemes.comDist. Dep., Pat Farrelly .. 763-218-3816 pfmaplegrove@aol.com KC Ins.--Dan Falsted .........612-310-5254 Dan.Falstad@KOFC.ORGKC WEBSITE:

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Our Founder’s Vision of Disability Income Insur-ance

In 1882, Father Mc-Givney outlined the three grades of death benefits ($500, $1,000 and $1,500) as well as the “Sick Benefit Deposit, from which a member in good standing maydraw (a maximum) of five dollars per week for thirteen weeks, the amount there after, if sickness continues, to be reg-ulated by the Council to which the member belongs.”

Father McGivney knew the impor-tance of protecting income from an unexpected illness or injury. That is why in 2011 the Knights of Columbus developed Income Armor Disability Income insurance as an instrument designed to provide replacement in-come in the event of an illness or injury. The Income Armor Disability Income Insurance provides you the opportunity to protect perhaps your greatest asset – your ability to earn an income.

In the 135 years since, the Order has grown to include life insurance, disability income insurance, long-term care insurance, and retirement products. Give me a call today at 612 310-5254 and join the many other Catholic families who have benefits from Knights of Columbus.Dan Falstad, KofC Field Agent612)310-5254 dan.falstad@kofc.org

Seminarian Ordination

The ordination ceremonies are still scheduled to happen for four of the sem-inarians that our council supports. Bill Duffert was ordained to the Transitional Diaconate on May 9th. The ordination was held at the Basilica of St Mary starting at 10:00. Deacons Paul Hedman, Tim Tran and Austin Barnes will be ordained to the priesthood on May 30th. This ceremony will be held at the St Paul Cathedral start-ing at 10:00. These ordinations are very spiritual and are well worth attending. Copies of notices sent to me by Deacon Barnes, show information regarding his first Mass and also information regarding the May 30th ordination. Check the Sem-inaries of St .PauI website if you plan to attend either ordination. With the Covid 19 restrictions changing weekly, you will want to verify that they are still scheduled. Please keep these men in your prayers. Dave Wilhelm

June 21