St. Catherine of Siena Men's Club
In our 39th year of Service and Support

The President’s Message

November 2001

The school fair, one of the major milestones of the year has now come and gone.  The fair was a tremendous success, and all of you who helped set-up, work the fair booth’s, and take down the fair booth’s deserve a big “Thank You”.  A special thanks goes out to Todd Roser, Steve Hebert, Roy Labourdette, and Peter Comeaux.  These guys worked tirelessly to make sure that we had everything we needed to make our part of the fair a success.  Todd and Steve handled the organization of the set up and take down of the fair booths; great job guys this is the fastest I have ever seen this job done.  Roy handled the organization of the road kill booth.  Some of our other members, or members wives who deserve special recognition at the road kill booth are Armand Michel, Tim Durand, Donald Duzac, Bill Hightower, Rick Obrien, Jerry Madere, Charlie Giraud, Jerry Giroir, Kim Labourdette, and Melanie Junker, and many others.  Peter Comeaux handled the nickel slide booth like he invented the game.  Also, thanks to all of our members who signed up to work a shift or a double shift, because of your efforts our job was made easy.  We also had a great Family Donut Mass on October 14^th.  Good job Donald; “We loved the bignets”.  As you can see the success of the fair and other events was a combined effort of many talented and dedicated members of our club.  This is what makes our club so special and my job as President of this club a real pleasure. Thanks to everyone.

Now for the details of our plans in November and December.  The first big event in November is our regular meeting.  Please make plans to attend the meeting on Wednesday, November 7^th at 7:30 PM in the cafeteria.  Last year the attendance at this meeting was very low, let’s make this year a record.  Please remember to pay your dues if you haven’t done so, and put a down payment on your $10,000.00 raffle ticket.  Remember, according to our by-laws, dues have to be paid by this November meeting.  We may need to have a work party this month to take care of cleaning up our river road locker.  We will let you know the date of the work party at our meeting. The BIG EVENT in December is our Family Christmas Brunch, on December 16th.  This is a great family event when we go to church at 11:00am and then go to the cafeteria for a brunch with the whole family.  We will also set up a Christmas Tree in the schoolyard at our December 5^th meeting.  If you have any extra Christmas Tree Lights please bring them to the November meeting and give them to Steve Hebert.

As you can see our events slow down a little in November and December because of the holidays, but pick up again at the beginning of the year.  I won’t be able to attend the November meeting because I will be out of town, so Han’s will step in to run the meeting.  I want to make sure that everyone knows how much I appreciate all of the hard work that was put into making the fair a success and I hope that all of you have a great Thanksgiving.

Remember: We Work Hard, Play Hard and Pray Hard.

Paul

“Da Pres”