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Knights of Columbus Mystical Rose Council 49 Deputy Grand Knight and Program Director Tyler J. Labranche holds Council 49’s 2013 - 2014 Star Council Award, right, and the council’s 1889 charter. Photo by John D. Ryan.

 

 

BROOKLYN —  Mystical Rose Council 49, Knights of Columbus, of Wauregan, has earned the distinction of Star Council, one of the Catholic fraternal organization’s top awards, for the most recently completed fraternal year. 

Connecticut Knights of Columbus State Deputy Thomas J. Vita said Mystical Rose Council 49 is one of only 19 local K of C councils in Connecticut to earn the Star Council Award in the last fraternal year, putting it in the top 10 percent among the 190 councils statewide. To earn the award over the course of the year, Council 49 members recruited five new members, successfully promoted the Knights’ fraternal insurance program and sponsored or participated in more than two dozen service-oriented activities in Wauregan, Brooklyn and Hampton.

The Council in Wauregan was founded in 1889.

Council 49 Grand Knight Clifford C. Soucy reeled off a partial list of Council 49’s activities, including putting on pig roasts for the parishes and fund-raising to help to buy a new ultra sound machine so local mothers could see their unborn babies, marching in Plainfield’s 2014 Memorial Day Parade, holding a memorial service for the council’s deceased members, helping to clean Sacred Heart Cemetery with local Cub Scouts, co-sponsoring a reception at Our Lady of La Salette Church in Brooklyn for Norwich Bishop Michael Cote, raising money for northeastern Connecticut’s Special Olympics team, and, just last month, hosting a regional event in Brooklyn where the Supreme Council gave away over 275 winter coats to needy, local children throughout Windham County. 

 

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