From Jan. 19 to Feb. 22, Hot Springs' Knights of Columbus Council 6419 conducted its annual Right to Life/Baby Bottle Campaign. This year's fundraising event was organized and executed by David Myers, programs chairman. The project began when Myers, with the help of brother Knights and Squires, handed out 800 baby bottles at the end of all the Masses at St. Mary's and St. John's Catholic churches and St. Vincent Hot Springs hospital. The families returned these bottles during the next five weeks filled with their cash donations.
All of the money raised during these annual baby bottle campaigns is donated to Change Point, the local pregnancy care and parenting resource center, and is used to help support the volunteer nurse, Kelly Jo Whitlock, in her work, operating the ultrasound machine that Council 6419 purchased in 2012.
Grand Knight Andy Anderson presented Joann Carter, director of Change Point, with donations totaling $8,400. The money collected by the council during their 2015 Baby Bottle Campaign totaled $7,746. This was a 20 percent increase over 2014. The additional $654 was raised and donated in 2015 by All Saints Catholic Church in Mount Ida.
Society on 03/29/2015