Hamburgers on the grill. Council members prepared and served sausage wraps and chopped barbecue beef as well.
The council booth served about 600 sandwiches providing $2,100 to the St. William building fund. Tom Bayer's hard work as this year's council chairman for the K of C festival booths made Council 9368's effort a great success!
The Council-sponsored Squires Circle helped slake the thist of the multitude, selling about $400 worth of soft drinks.
Transforming our Culture for Life
There will be a three day "Transforming Our Culture For Life" event running Nov. 3-5, as detailed in a pdf file found in the News section of the website at the State level, and involves Archbishop Daniel DiNardo. The schedule features a 4th degree Honor Guard turnout, and includes pro-life speakers such as Fr. Frank Pavone, Fr. Mitch Pacwa, extraordinary guitarist Tony Melendez, and others.
When calling 800-731-4500, Knights and their families will also receive valuable discounts if they also attend the event's benefit dinner on Friday nite with Fr. Pacwa.
The Omni Westside Hotel has discounted block rooms available for reservation by conference-goers nearby (281-558-8338) and event planners hope to see many attendees from cities across Texas.
Attendance at this event would qualify as one of the five Pro Life items a Knight could do to earn the KofC's ProLife ACE Wings Award.
Please see the flyer in the News section of the K of C State Website 
for all information.
First Knight of Columbus-Bishop will be Canonized
Rafael Guízar Valencia Known for His Zeal
ROME, OCT. 10, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Bishop Rafael Guízar Valencia will become the seventh Knight of Columbus to be canonized, but the first bishop of the Catholic organization to be declared a saint.
Pope John Paul II declared six other knights saints in 2000, all of whom were martyred in Mexico during the persecutions of the 1920s and 1930s.
"We welcome the canonization of our brother knight, Bishop Guízar Valencia, and know that his life of courage and legacy of evangelization will be an inspiration to each of our 1.7 million members around the world," said Carl Anderson, supreme knight.
Anderson said that he will attend the Oct. 15 canonization ceremony in Rome, presided over by Benedict XVI.
Rafael Guízar Valencia (1878 -1938) was born in Cotija de la Paz, Michoacan, Mexico, and ordained a priest in 1901.
With the start of the Mexican revolution in 1910, persecution of the Catholic Church became severe, and Father Guízar Valencia became a special target because of his outspoken defense of the Church.
He went underground, disguised as a junk dealer, in order to be able to continue his work as a priest. In 1915, when the Mexican government issued an order that he be shot on sight, he escaped to the United States, and then went on to serve the church in Guatemala and Cuba.
While in Cuba, he was consecrated bishop of Veracruz, Mexico. The end of the revolution enabled him to return to Mexico in January 1920. He joined the Knights of Columbus in 1923.
Seminary
As bishop, he founded a clandestine seminary to train future priests, noting that a "bishop can do without a miter, a crosier, and even a cathedral, but never without a seminary, because the future of his diocese depends on the seminary."
Bishop Guízar Valencia was forced to flee Mexico once again in 1927, during the persecution of the Church under Mexican President Plutarco Calles.
He returned in 1929, the year the Church reached an accord with the Mexican government.
After his return to Mexico, Bishop Guízar Valencia continued his ministry, and became known as "the bishop of the poor."
He died of natural causes on June 6, 1938, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on Jan. 29, 1995.
Thanks...
Thank you for your prayers and your e-mails of good thoughts for our daughter. We had a long but wonderful day. Christina gave birth to a baby boy, Markus Andrew, at 5:48 p.m., Thursday, 10-26-06. He weighed 7 lbs. 14oz. and was 20" long. Mother, Father, and son are doing well and many smiles and tears were shed for this beautiful gift from God. This is our 8th grandchild and we feel truly blessed. We now have six grandsons and 2 granddaughters. We have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving with our granddaughter, Tess born August 31 and now Markus.
--Bill and La Verne Rinkin
God Bless,
Victor Mendoza 
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