The Unit
Feb, 1995
Yonkers Raceway Night
Saturday evening, April 22nd will be
the annual Boyd night at Yonkers Raceway.
There will be a Buffet Dinner,
free
program and your admission to the clubhouse, all at a cost of $30.00.
All are welcome, but seats are limited.
For
further
information or to make reservations contact the Hotline at (914)
237 - 2747.
St. Patrick's Day Dinner
Dance
W.J. Boyd Council and St. Raymond's Council will collaborate
on a joint St. Patrick's Day dinner dance at
St.
Raymond's Council on the evening of March 18th. The cost of the evening will be $25.00 for reserved seats, or
$35.00
for seats purchased that evening at the door. The evening will feature a hot
buffet, open bar and musical entertainment.
If
you wish to join us for the "wearin' of the green", please contact
John Honan at (718) 733 - 9701 or Dennis Farley
at
(914) 476 - 0929.
K of C Shuffleboard
League Starts
A K of C shuffleboard is scheduled to start on March
3, 1995. The Council has already
registered one team,
but
there is room in the league for more teams if there is enough interest. A team can have six players on their roster,
and
wives
or girlfriends are welcome to participate.
Leave a message on the Hotline soon if you are interested.
All Knight Card Game
Here's an invitation to all you high rollers and wheeler
dealers - Come to the council on March 4th for the big
poker
game of the year! The game will run
from 7:00 PM until ??? and is open only
to members of Boyd Council.
Bring
your wallets and your poker faces and prepare to have a good time.
Softball
Tryouts/Practice Scheduled
Softball tryouts will be held on
Sunday, April 23rd at 11:30 AM in Van Cortlandt Park at the Flats. The season
will
start in the second week of May. Boyd
returns fifteen of their seventeen players from last year's championship team
and
is looking to "twopeat".
Spots will be tight, but a few will be up for grabs.
" 30 - 20 - 10
" CLUB WINNERS DRAWN
The "30 - 20 - 10"
drawing was held on December 15th, 1994
and listed below are the winners and their prizes:
-
(30%) Ed Crean, PGK - $651.00
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(20%) "Softball 5" - $434.00
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(10%) The Dart Team - $217.00
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Five free entries were also awarded for the next drawing.
. Thanks to Chairmen Ed Crean, Dennis
Farley and John Finn for making this venture such a success, and don't miss
the
next one that comes up.
Jai Alai
Boyd's second annual Jai-alai trip
was held on Sunday, November 20th, as a luxury bus (featuring 14 T.V. sets)
took
30
hopeful passengers from McLean Ave. up to Milford, Connecticut. Rich Condon
co-ordinated the enjoyable day, which
featured
a full course dinner, the fast-paced action of
Jai Alai, some winners and, alas, some losers too.
Monday
Night Football Pool
The
Monday Night Football box pool came to end with two members sharing the
final nine weeks worth of prizes:
Carmine Tabacco $300.00
Gerry
Conroy $600.00
K of C Free Throw
Tournament
Boyd Council sponsored a Knight's of Columbus free throw
tournament on Sunday,
January
8th, in the St. Barnabas elementary
school gym, that attracted almost 50 boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 14.
The
winners were:
Age Boy Girl
10 Matt
Saunders Molly O'Keefe
11 Ryan Fitzmaurice Erica
Badillo
12 Kevin Curry Melissa Lindsay
13 Kevin
Supple Caroline Penny
14 Jim
McCaffrey Karen Orefice
Bob Ellis did an outstanding job
organizing this event, from securing the gym to coordinating the paperwork and
distribution
of
awards. Bob would like to thank his team of volunteers for helping to ensure
the success of this endeavor, including Mickey Brady,
Bill
Burns, Gerry Conroy, Kenny Davitt, Jim Falconi, John Finn, Jerome Lindsay, Jim
Maher, Rob Nugent, Carmine Tabacco and
GK
Bill Reilly. The Council also wishes to thank St. Barnabas for the use of their
gym for this event, particularly Fr. Toner, Sr. Nancy
McNamara
and Regina Saunders.
In
Prayerful Remembrance of the Faithful Departed
John
O'Connor
Daze and
Knights
Best wishes to Joe Crean and Liz on the birth of their son
Zachary.....Nice to read the heart-warming article in the New York Post
about Tim Crowe from softball rival Vera Cruz
Council. Tim, exemplifying the K of C ideals
in action, donated half of his $1,000 football
contest prize to another entrant in the pool who
was homeless.....We hear Rich Condon celebrated a milestone recently.....Looks
like
Ed Crean found himself a great part-time job to
bring in a little extra cash flow - it's called the 30/20/10 club drawing - and
what a great
touch bringing Dennis Deegan in to pick out the
winning ticket.....Gerry Conroy and Carmine Tabacco finding similar side jobs
called the
Monday Night Football Pool.....Bob Rehm threatens
to boycott the Super Bowl until they come up with an NFC vs NFC format.....We
hear Jim Maher is laying low in Woodlawn,
waiting for the heat blow over on the Staten Island Free Throw mixup - Bob
Ellis claims he
knew something was amiss when Jim told him that
he got the date from Ed Sullivan - hmmm.....Boyd owes a big debt of thanks to
the many
members ( the majority of them softball players
) who helped us clean out our Yonkers storage site. This will result in a $1500
annual savings.
Another weight-loss wager is definitely in
order.....Bill Reilly appeared to really enjoy his All Hallows Reunion based on
the many pictures in
their newsletter.....Did Bob "Tex"
Ellis really have Jim Maher trapped at an ATM on McLean Ave?.....Did JJ Jordan
and Vinnie LaRegina
really quit softball to be scab baseball
players.....Did Bobby "Buttons" daughter Kerianne really make the
first left-handed layup in family history?
Saw Dennis Farley's son Brian recently
recognized for some late game heroics in the Gannet newspaper.....Could Timmy
Rehm's mail delivery
really be that slow? - maybe Joe Carey is
involved in this somehow......