A parish event for all ages to celebrate the wonderful community here at St. Francis of Assisi.
Enjoy dinner with your entire family, refreshments served by us, brother Knights, kid’s games, including batting cages from the Iowa Cubs. Inflatables including a bounce house, giant slide. Bingo for every age and live music provided by a talented group of our own parishioners.
Tickets cost $8 for adults, children ages 3 – 12 are only $5 and kids under 2 are free. There is a family maximum of $25. Tickets will be sold after each Mass in September. Please buy your tickets in advance so we can get a good count for food preparations as your meal is included in ticket price.
Thank you to all brother Knights and their children who helped hand out the tootsie rolls at various locations.
Thank you to all the donors who came to the St. Francis of Assisi Blood Drive on July 17, 2010. We had 26 whole blood donations and 2 double red cell donations. The blood drive took place from 07:30 AM – 10:30 AM in the Parish Hall.
If you were unable to attend our drive and would still like to donate, you can look up the next available mobile blood drive nearest to you at:
http://www.membersforlife.org/iowa/mobilesch/bdc_zip.php.
Our next blood drive will be held on 11/6/2010.
Your help is needed…
Guardians and Conservators serve persons who have become Wards of the State. Due to reasons of mental, physical, or other incapacity, they are unable to make important decisions for themselves.
Caring people with compassion and life experience can bring peace of mind and stability to people who have neither family nor friends capable of helping them.
To inquire about Volunteer programs, contact:
Ann Swizdor, DHS Adult Unit, 515-725-2686, aswizdo at dhs.state.ia.us
The debate on health care legislation has now reached its final and most critical stage, with final votes expected in Congress within the next two weeks.
The legislation is being fast-tracked through Congress using a rare parliamentary maneuver known as “reconciliation.” This procedure will push the bill through Congress over the objections of a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives that wants to remove abortion funding from the bill.
Very soon the House will be asked vote on a Senate bill containing provisions that would overturn the thirty-year federal policy against tax-dollar funding of abortion. If the Senate bill is approved by the House, it goes immediately to the President’s desk and will be enacted into law. A second “reconciliation” bill will then be voted on by both houses to make changes to the new law. These changes will not amend the abortion mandates enacted through the Senate bill.
The American Catholic bishops oppose the Senate bill, calling it “deficient” because it contains multiple pro-abortion provisions and federal subsidies for abortion. It allows for federal dollars to flow to abortion providers in community health centers; it allows for federal subsidies for overall health plans that cover abortion. Lastly, it provides no conscience protection for those who refuse to participate in abortion.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including brother Knight Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI), is working to ensure that health care legislation contains language that would ban abortion funding. They need the support of brother Knights from across the United States.
I urge you to encourage every Knight in your state to contact their representatives in Congress. Ask them to go to the Knights of Columbus homepage at www.kofc.org for instructions on contacting Congress.
Your immediate action is critical. If the Senate bill becomes law, it will be the largest expansion of abortion in our country since Roe v. Wade.
Fraternally,
Carl A. Anderson
Supreme Knight
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