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The Crescens Crusader A publication of Crescens Lodge #33, Knights of Pythias “The First INTERNATIONAL Honor lodge!” Serving New Castle, Indiana since 1872 in the name of “Friendship, Charity and Benevolence” Vol 34 No. 2 October, 2011 ********************************************************************************************************** In memoriam Since our last publication in late April, the Pythian Sisters have been stricken by death as Past Chief Wilma Ashby of Venus Temple #50 passed away on May 16th with a large group coming to her service in respect. Frankton Temple #264 was deeply saddened at the passing of Past Supreme Representative Sandra Mitchell on June 17th. Many Pythians from all over Indiana gathered for Sandy's memorial service to show our love for her and the family. May God strengthen all of these families and the loved ones and friends that have been left behind.
Knight News – The second and third quarter of 2011 have flown by with a lot of the usual summertime activities including Grand Lodge and Grand Temple. We will not dwell much on the past. Your lodge repaired on of the large murals on the wall in the lodge room that was trying to peal off and it has now been secured. …The big Knight float has been busy appearing in parades in New Castle, Knightstown, Middletown, Sulphur Springs, Cambridge City and Mooreland. Thanks to PGC Shorty Messer and GOG Jerry Weilenman for making sure that it gets there and back! Several of us attended the Grand Chancellor and Grand Chief's reception and had a blast! Good luck to GC Steven Breedlove and GC Stephanie McKee for a very successful year!...We also had great time at the several picnic during the summer!....'Tis The Season was once again at the farmer's Pike Festival. While the weather ranged from a record 100 degrees to a cool and rainy 60 degrees. We still had decent sales and will return next year…..Your lodge also sold 50/50 tickets Anderson Speedway. We did fairly well but need more help in the future. Thanks to all who helped!... Pythian Night at the Races was also held at Anderson Speedway. A good time was had by the attendees. We even had Ohio Pythians there! THANKS to Brother RICK DAWSON for his hospitality!!...Make sure you come to lodge and get involved. We NEED and WANT your impute and attendance! We meet every Tuesday at 7:00 pm with the last Tuesday being a joint meeting with Brotherhood 3-5-7, a meeting which you are welcomed to attend. On that meeting we eat at 6pm with a pitch-in and have lodge at 7 pm. See you at lodge real soon!! website - For those of you who are on line, you can keep up to date in between editions of the Crusader on our exciting website which is: www.knightsofpythiasofnewcastle.com. Make sure you check it out today! WE NEED YOUR CORRECT E-MAIL ADDRESSES!! E-mail - If you have an e-mail address, why not let the Lodge or Temple know what it is! We send out many e-mail messages and reminders about upcoming events. Please send your e-mail address to Lodge Secretary Denny Adams at: dennyvoiceofandersonspeedway@msn.com or Sisters to maridene@msn.com and we will put you in our address book. That way, when we have a death notice or something that we need to get out quickly, we can contact you right away. This will be VERY helpful in keeping in contact with you on a timely basis. Sister sass - Please pay special attention to these important dates: Temple Inspection on October 15th at 9:00 am followed by a soup lunch. This will be held jointly with Muncie, Frankton, Orestes and Hope Temples….November 9th will be the annual Rollcall meeting for Muncie Temple at the Sirloin Stockade beginning at 6:30 pm….December 3rd at 12 noon we will meet at Sue Hutson's home for the District #3 Christmas Party. You are to bring a covered dish and a $10 gift for exchange. We hope you be at Temple meeting real soon! Dokey Dope - The Dokey bus trip to the Indianapolis Indians was an absolute blast! The Indians came from behind and won in the bottom of the 9th again in an exciting game. We had a full bus that we got from the Sulphur Springs Christian Church. Votary Rob Simmons gave us some discount tickets, so this was a much cheaper trip than normal! We stopped at Golden Corral on the way back for some chow. Votary Shorty Messer is our latest door prize winner, picking up $55.00 greenbacks at the last meeting. The September meeting will be on the 26th in Frankton with the October meeting in Muncie with the annual pitch-in, and hot dog cook out. (NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION) Then it is back to New Castle in November for the winter. See you at the next Dokey meeting! Nomad news - Our Santha meets at Welcome lodge hall in Muncie, usually on the first Sunday of the month. Hope to see you at our next Darbar. Our Sympathy -Is extended to the family of Brother Shorty Messer and Beverly at the loss of his cousin Alice Yeager in Mt. Summit and to Brother Everett McCauley at the passing of Mac's wife Helen on August 18th. Congratulations –to Brother Tom Alexander and to Sister Maridene Adams on being selected as the 2011 Volunteers of the Year by Crescens Lodge and Venus Temple. Also congrats to Brother and Mrs Kurtis Clontz on the birth of their baby girl in August!! Donations - We made the following donations lately: Little Red Door - $100 (in memory of Roni); Shenandoah Little League (team) - $320; NCHS Senior Nite Club - $50; New Castle Babe Ruth (team) - $300; local poster contest awards - $175; Wilbur Wright Birthplace - $50; Protest For Pluto - $100; 4-H Association awards - $80.50; Friends of Hope (our little Brother in India) - $180; Salvation Army - $25 so far in 2011 - $5744.50 Sickness and Distress - Please remember the following Brothers and Sisters in your prayers: Brother - Carl Jones - at an extended care living facility “ - Jim McKim at home “ - Sam Ingle at home “ - Everett McCauley at home “ - Phil Cronk at an extended living facility in Richmond “ - Jack Kimble - at home - on oxygen part of the time “ - LaRue Cross - at home " - Keith Goff - at home - recovering from heart cath. " - Tom Hiner at home Sister - Kitty Conway at an extended care living facility in South Bend “ - Freda Weber - in an extended care facility in Ohio " - Margaret Adams - at home " - PGC Cotta Titus at home " - Gloria Jefferson - at home " - Sherry Goldsberry - recovering from headaches and back pain at home Several Brothers and Sisters have good days and bad. If you know of someone who is ill, please let us know at 765-533-4287 or by the lodge e-mail. 'tis the season - 'Tis The Season/Sherry's Flowers has absolutely went bananas as we have the most stock ever within the confines of 1206 Broad Street! You have got to come in and check out all of the new items! All kinds of beautiful home décor…"everything from angels to zebras" awaits you at 'Tis! PLUS we have out Fall and are in process of getting out Christmas! Sherry has created beautiful Fall arrangements and they are ready for you with Christmas coming soon! And of course…year around saddles for the monuments for all seasons. We also have many items for funerals for you to select from in our all new "In Memory Room". 'Tis is open M-Sat 11 am to 4 pm and sometimes open earlier by chance thanks to our super volunteers Tom Alexander, Jerry Weilenman, Jameson McGrew, Jess Adams, Denny Adams and Sherry & Dean Goldsberry. Without them it would not happen!. Give us a call at 765-529-7600. Pythians always get a discount at 'Tis! Operation Christmas child BIG SUCCESS!!! - Al Hilal Temple #33, DOKK, proudly presented to it's members the program in 2010 called "OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD". This program was brought to you by Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Crusade. In a nut shell it asked us to put together a shoe box sized package and fill it with specific items which was shipped somewhere around the world to an under privileged child last Christmas. For those of you that took part…be PROUD of your selves!!! Over 5.5 MILLION boxes were collected in the United States and over 8.8 MILLION boxes were distributed in over 130 countries around the world!! WOW!! I don't know about you…but that just gave me goose bumps to be a part of that great calling from God!!!! If you weren't a part of it in 2010, we are already planning to make a BIG splash for 2011!!! Look for the information coming soon! GRAND CHANCELLOR/GRAND Chief's project - prepare now! - Grand Chancellor Steven Breedlove and his sister Grand Chief Stephanie McKee have chosen Peyton Manning Children's Hospital as their project during their term. They are asking all Pythians that attend the Knights of Pythias All American Christmas Parade to bring a new unwrapped toy with them to give to Santa upon his arrival at his headquarters following the parade. They will be taken to Peyton Manning Children's Hospital on behalf of the Knights and Sisters and all Pythians. What an AWESOME cause!! Let us all back our Grand Chancellor and Grand Chief and fill Santa sleigh on November 19th. We are going to be privileged to have Supreme Chancellor Edwin Wright and his lovely lady PGC Joyce in attendance! We hope you will be there for our after parade dinner to meet and greet them.
Jesse Edwards, a senior at Winchester High School not only won our local poster contest but also the state contest. Jesse's poster went on to the Supreme Lodge contest where it was judged to be the National Champion!! In celebration of this great achievement, Crescens Lodge #33 will be hosting "Jesse Edwards Night" on Tuesday, September 27th and we hope you will come and join us for this grand affair! Dinner will begin at 6:00 pm with the awards ceremony and official $1,000 check presentation to follow. There will be several dignitaries present to salute this fine young man for his awesome accomplishment. This celebration is open to all who wish to attend, member or not! It will be held in the beautiful Crescens Lodge Castle, 1208 1/2 Broad Street in downtown New Castle.
Next Family Fun Outing Is Set
The family fun outings continue throughout the district on the third Sunday of the month, usually at 4:00 pm. in October, we have the rare opportunity of taking in a pre-planned Pythian event on or usual date of October 16th but with a meeting time of 2:00 pm instead. It will be held at the W.G. Smith Auditorium in Memorial Park on SR #3 north of New Castle. It will be the start of the Holiday Festival for Crescens Lodge and they will be hosting a Fall Bazaar, a chili cookoff, with sandwiches, nachos, chili desserts & drinks. Around the grounds will be a giant car show which saw 100 cars last year! So bring one, bring all to New Castle on October 16th for the Knights of Pythias Holiday Festival! It will be a GREAT family fun outing!! If you would like to be a vendor at the bazaar, it is only $20 total for 2 days! On Saturday, October 15th from 11am to 3 pm we will have the bazaar PLUS downstairs in Smith will be a pork Bar B Q lunch!! Yum! Yum! Come out and enjoy!! October
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