The January 23 meeting will have an update on Knights of Columbus financial and insurance programs from our field agent, McClellan. 

Our guest speaker for the February 27 council meeting will be Fred Domke of the Bridge Bread Bakery.  Bridge is a non-profit St. Louis charitable retail bakery enterprise located on Cherokee Street in St. Louis.  It provides gainful employment to people without safe and stable housing.  While learning the business, many of these people continue to work for Bridge while others leave to join other bakeries or start their own.

Brother Knight Gregory Casalone will be our guest speaker for the March 26 council meeting.  He represents the Rural Parish Mobile Dental Clinic which was established in 2019 by Archbishop Carlson and Dr. John Landgraf. The clinic treats dental patients who do not have insurance and are below the poverty rate, such as a family of four who earns less than $60,000/year.  The clinic’s impressive treatment statistics encompass all aspects of dentistry. Dr. Casalone practiced dentistry for 43 years in Elsberry, and started with the clinic in June 2021 as co-director and staff dentist.