Bishop Malesic Blesses Gilmour Council’s $28,750 Ultrasound Machine

Operations Center Lease Agreement Signed

Membership dues letters are in the mail. Dues are $36 per year. Pay $41 if you want to chip in $5 for KofC Charities (GIMME 5). Pay by check.

Bishop’s Brunch… Council #310 Trust Donates Another $600 to Borromeo Seminary

KofC Keep Christ In Christmas art Contest… SFA’s Julianna Yeager is 2nd in state contest, GETS PLAQUE

Gilmour Council Meetings Move Into St Paschal Baylon’s Eymard Room

Breakfast With Santa @ SFA’s Caddy Hall

The St Francis of Assisi PTO reported that we served 396 breakfasts on December 10th. That is a record and far surpasses last year, which itself was a 20% increase over 2021. Gilmour Council 310 purchases, prepares, and serves the breakfasts for the benefit of the PTO

Council Christmas Party: Saying GOOD-BYE to the Sherwin-Gilmour Party Center

Just under 100 diners enjoyed a last supper on the evening of December 10th. The 2023 Council Christmas Party on December 10th served as the council’s GOOD-BYE to the Sherwin-Gilmour Party Center, built in 1960 as council headquarters.

The building has served us well for all that time, and there’s no real way to assess the charitable impact of the hard work it enabled Gilmour’s knights to do. There’s no real way to fully appreciate how much the structure fostered brotherhood within the council, with the dinners and dances, council and officers’ meetings, football games on the big screen, and gin rummy and pool upstairs.

SGPC was the home to many council Masses, KofC exemplifications, and Gilmour 310 memorial services. Guest speakers included bishops and priests, estate planners, cancer survivors, and even football coaches teaching teamwork. Awards were made there to knights and bluecoats and families of the year; financial grants in the tens of thousands of dollars were awarded to special needs groups, parishes, schools, eagle scouts, and many others.

It takes a great deal of time and a great deal of effort to operate a banquet facility, and the Gilmour, Inc. directors contributed many hours just to make the party center run. In the end, this hard work will give the party center its lasting legacy. The Gilmour Council 310 Trust will distribute the fruit of this labor for many years to come.

Holy Cow! What a Bunch of Junk.

operations center @ SPB IS up and running

Gilmour Council’s new Operations Center, so named by carpenter Brother Joe Cooney (OpsCtr, but read: glorified garage), is in operation. About 20 brother knights, on Saturday, December 16th and in the week after Christmas, picked through the furniture, supplies, records, and cabinets the council has collected over the 62-year history of the Sherwin-Gilmour Party Center. The goal of the work was to transfer that property the council needs at the new 24x16’ structure built on the St Paschal Baylon campus. Special thanks to Brothers Kevin Pellini, Jerry Kazimir, and Mitch Scudellari, who lent their trucks to the effort, and to Mary Lou Scudellari, who found a buyer for our pool table. The garage houses the council’s picnic and dinner equipment, KofC paraphernalia, refrigeration units, golf cart, signage, and other items and records. The building augments council meeting activity, which moved to the St Peter Eymard Room in the SPB complex in January, 2024. The move effort was about 1/4 takeaway, 1/4 giveaway, and 1/2 throwaway.

Turkey Giveaway November 13th

20 Gilmour knights helped BP Service Station owner Paul El Hindi give away 400 turkey meals at this annual event. The event is a joint effort with a retailers’ association, the city of Lyndhurst, and El Hindi, with the Gilmour Council lending the manpower. Knights kit the meals and load them into the cars of needy Lyndhurst residents. Local food banks share in the largesse.

Gilmour Again Wins Star Council Award

Gilmour Council 310 has again won the Knights of Columbus Star Council Award for its 2022-2023 fraternal year. Winning councils achieve insurance, program, and membership goals that perpetuate the success of the KofC.

SPB Parish Picnic A Success

Each year, Gilmour Council purchases, prepares, and serves the food for the SPB parish picnic. Held again in the St Peter Eymard Room, the picnic celebrated the 70th anniversary of the parish. Bishop Malesic was on hand to celebrate the 10:30Mass, and several hundred parishioners enjoyed the food prepared by the knights and the SPB ladies Guild.

Gilmour Council Celebrates 125 Years

Shown here: Ben Capretta and Lady Diana—-The Kitchen Crew of Tim and Wendy with FS Bill Marvaldi and Brother Dominic Pistone—-Knight of the Year Mitch Scudellari—-PGK Capretta with state deputy marc siracusa, state advocate jim maslach, and District deputy-PGK George Metz—-FAMILY OF THE YEAR MICHAEL AND JENNIFER VACCARINO and Children—-Lifetime Award Winner Frank DeFlorio—The 125TH anniversary certificate from supreme knight kelly

The Gilmour Council #310 Trust contributes to Lyceum Gala, the Ohio KofC Seminary Fund, SPB Spring Fling, CSC Community Days, Zelie’s Home, and AM1260 Radio Station WCCR.

New VA Phone: 800-MyVA411 (800-698-2411)