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Grand Knights May 2003 Report - Flip Hogan I trust everyone had a special Easter. I hope the Easter season continues to be blessed and special to each of you and your families.  Our council has had a very busy couple of months, and though our fraternal year is drawing to a close, we still have other Special Events upcoming:  Cinco de Mayo Celebration on May 2 @ the Koury  Center. Please help if you can.  This is a new event for us, and a make up for Arts Round the Square.  One of our own members, brother Ed Burch as mentioned previously will be ordained as a priest on May 31, and Fr Ed will say his first Mass @ Blessed Sacrament on June 1 @ 1PM. There will also be a reception immediately afterwards. This Special Event for our Parish and the Knights should not to missed....See Page 1 of the newsletter for more >>

LifeTree Alert  - www.lifetree.org/ltree.html This is an important week at the North Carolina legislature for pro-life bills!  Crossover Day has been extended to Thursday, May 1st.  Those bills without a direct financial impact on the state budget must be enacted in one of the chambers (House or Senate) by May 1, 2003 to have a chance of becoming law in the next two years.  We sent information about several bills last month.  Three of them are at a critical stage and key le gislators must be contacted about them now – Ban on Assisted Suicide, Woman's Right to Know, and Extend Conscience Protection. Our April 19 alert focused on S145 (now entitled “Assisted Suicide”) and the Senate Judiciary II Committee.  This bill would ban assisted suicide.  Sen. Forrester has drafted a new proposed version of the bill (“version 6”), which addresses each of the problems we highlighted in the original “Physician Assisted Suicide” bill.  We know that the committee chairman and members have heard these concerns from many of you.  They have responded, and the “version 6” draft of this bill deserves an expression of your support.  Please contact Senator Forrester about S145 and thank him for making the changes.  Please contact the Chairman and members of the Judiciary II Committee and encourage them to adopt this revised (“version 6”) language.   ...For more information, see the lifetree website or click here for the newsletter and see page 3.