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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT

WHEN: Saturday, June 15, 2024WHERE: Hot Springs Village----Granada Golf Course

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On July 17, the Knights of Columbus Council hosted its third annual fundraiser for the Little Rock Diocese’s Seminarian House of Formation, which serves primarily as a home for those discerning a vocation to the priesthood. The event was held at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church. Grand Knight Bob Honzik chaired the planning for the fundraiser and served as emcee for the program.

The dinner was a sellout with 286 people in attendance. Over $15,600 was raised from ticket sales and donations from the diners as well as from other parishioners and knights. Along with the $35,000 from the previous two fundraisers, the Council has now raised more than $50,000 for the House of Formation.

Pictured (l-r) following the presentation of the check: Father Bill Elser, Monsignor Scott Friend, and Bishop Anthony Taylor.
Pictured (l-r) following the presentation of the check: Father Bill Elser, Monsignor Scott Friend, and Bishop Anthony Taylor.
Special guests included: The Most Reverend Anthony Taylor, Bishop of the Diocese of Little Rock; Monsignor Scott Friend, Diocesan Vicar General and Vocation Director; Father Tony Robbins, Pastor of congregations in Camden and Magnolia; Father Bill Elser; and, seminarians Alex Booth, Guillermo Caballero, Omar Galvan, Ben Riley, Nelson Rubio, and Emmanuel Torres, representing the 43 seminarians currently in the program. This number represents one of the best ratios of seminarians per Catholic of any diocese in the country, easily in the top ten.

Chef Danny Celestin prepared the meal with assistance from his crew of knights. Following a crab cake appetizer, the knight wait staff led by Ed Cudworth served the menu of catfish, shrimp, clam strips, and stuffed crab with Cole slaw, baked potatoes, and hush puppies. The dessert was Father Bill's famous homemade ice cream.

Monsignor Friend spoke about the need for expansion of the House of Formation into adjacent facilities no longer used by Our Lady of Good Counsel parish to accommodate apartments for the bishop and the vocations director, additional rooms for visiting priests and for seminarians needing housing between their assignments, as well as for distance learning classrooms and a workout facility.

At the close of the program, a Spiritual Bouquet of prayers by the knights was given to Monsignor Friend in which they “asked God to give him the strength to continue the successful recruitment, placement, and educational funding of diocesan seminarians.”

Music was provided by knight keyboardist Larry Linteau from Malvern. Under Ed Cudworth’s leadership, the following volunteers made up the wait staff: Jim Anderson, Ron Boudreaux, Tony Cifelli, Ed Doyle, John Froning, Mike Garstecki, Dave Johnston, Gavin Kelsey, Cliff Kernen, Scott Krantz, Larry Lipsmeyer, Ed Miller, Dan Murphy, Milt Spaniel, John Sutey, Gordon Wilson, Wayne Winters, and Gary Wolfer.

Table centerpieces
Table centerpieces
Mary Anne Honzik led the volunteers who made the center pieces in a process modeled after an assembly line. They included: Pat Anderson, Patte Brandt, Pat Cuba, Pat Cudworth and daughter Chris, Pat Dunne, Nancy Froning, Darlene Garstecki, Claudia Keearns, JoAnn O'Brien, Pat Widlowski, and Kathleen Witchger. Some of the seminarian dolls as part of the centerpieces were taken home by the seminarians and Bishop Taylor was given his. Dee Griffin made rosaries which were blessed by Monsignor Malone, and she had extras that could be taken home.

The following knights responded to the call from ticket sales coordinator Scott Krantz: Dick Breckon, Tony Cifelli, Ed Cudworth, Buddy Dixon, Tom Donnelly, Ed Doyle, Jim Dyer, Steve Fetcko, John Froning, Jack Griffin, Sam Justice, Gerald Krawczynski, Bill Maher, Dan Murphy, Bill Patterson, Milt Spaniel, Jack Widlowski, Gordon Wilson, and Dave Witchger.

There was a total of 47 knights volunteering 221 hours and 22 spouses adding 50 hours to successfully host this event.