Tuesday, October 1, 2013
President's Message October 2013
PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE
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| Division One President Kevin Ellis |
October 2013
Brothers,
Who
knew that the months of September and October would be so busy a season for the
AOH? We are now into the fall season,
and there will be a lot of events that Division One will be taking part
in. A look back on the events of
September is in order.
We
held our annual picnic along with the ladies of Division 19 in Redmond Filed on
September 7th and everyone had a great time. Special thanks to TA and Jim Walsh for all of
the preparations and work that went into this event. We also had a very successful day the McLean
Avenue Street Festival on Sept. 14th. We had several people fill out new membership
applications and we look forward to having them formally joining our ranks at
our Division meeting in October. There
were 20,000 people who attended the street festival this year, and I’m fairly
confident that we will be back on Mclean Avenue for the festival next
year. Members attended The 5th
Annual Hudson Valley Irish Festival on Sept. 21st. Always a great job by our brothers in
Division 18 Peekskill. I was honored to
attend a ribbon cutting ceremony at The Aisling Irish Center to open their new
expansion along with brothers Mike Morley and Liam Mclaughlin. There were several representatives of the
Irish Government in attendance including Eamon Gilmore, The Irish Minister for
Foreign Affairs & Trade, Anne Anderson, The Irish Ambassador to the U.S.,
and Noel Kilkenny, Irish Consul General in New York. It was wonderful to see the entire community
come out to celebrate the expansion of this vital neighborhood resource.
In
October, there seems to be an event happening every weekend.
·
The weekend of October 5th The
AOH National President hold his testimonial dinner in Suffern.
·
On Sunday, October 6th, The AOH,
along with The Sisters of Life will sponsor a Respect Life Mass at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC. Members are
reminded that the mass will begin at 10:15am.
Suits and sashes for this event.
·
Division One will sponsor The 5th
Annual FireFighter Sean Tallon Memorial Gaelic Football Tournament on Sunday,
October 20th at 1:00pm at Paddy’s Field in Woodlawn. Division One Sports Chairman Joe Hallinan is
once again handling the arrangements for this.
·
The AOH Westchester County Board will be
holding a very special event on Sunday, October 27th at the Irish
Cultural Center in Peekskill. Gerry Conlon, a member of the Giulford Four and
portrayed by Daniel Day Lewis in the Oscar Nominated film “In the Name of The
Father” will be on hand to meet and greet everyone. He will be signing his newly released book
“Proved Innocent”. A dinner and film screening will also take place that
evening. Tickets are $25 and will be on
a first come first serve basis.
All of
this and much more will be discussed at our monthly meeting and I look forward
to seeing all of you there.
Yours
in our motto,
Kevin
Ellis, President
Division
One, Yonkers
