Knights of Columbus Soup Supper

Often imitated, but never duplicated, the Iowa Great Lakes Knights of Columbus Council 5043 will hold its annual Soup Supper Sunday, November 1. This year’s event will be held at St. Mary’s Parish Hall. Two shifts will be served, with the first from 4-5:15 p.m. and the second from 5:30-7 p.m. Proceeds go toward helping others in the community, while sampling tasty soups and enjoying the socializing.

The menu will feature five soups – vegetable beef soup, chicken noodle soup, sauerkraut and sausage soup, chili, and ham and bean soup – as well as delicious dessert. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children 6-12 years. Children 5 and under are free. Tickets are limited . . . only 400 will be sold this year. For tickets or more information, please call 712-339-1004.

Iowa Great Lakes Council 5043 is one of the most active in Iowa, in the past two years contributing more than $18,000 to local community needs, including Hope Haven, Iowa Helping Hands Fund, Special Olympics, Upper Des Moines Opportunity, American Wheelchair Mission, the Grotto of the Redemption, Cherish House, Lake Park Dinner Date, as well as to local family, community and parish needs.

Spirit Lake Knights sponsor annual youth events including the Free Throw Competition, as well as the Tootsie Roll Drive for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Labor Day weekend.

The Knights of Columbus is an international Catholic family fraternal service organization with 1.9 million members in more than 16,000 local councils, with each Knight called to live a life of charity, unity, and fraternity. Last year, Knights donated more than 49 million volunteer hours and nearly $200 million to charitable and benevolent causes, sponsoring projects to benefit their church, councils, communities, families, and youth. A few examples of their work include distributing 8,891 wheelchairs, supporting more than 1,200 pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes, and giving nearly 181,000 coats to help warm children in need.