Invitations to the November 14, 2009 Kentucky Colonels Day on Millionaire’s Row at Churchill Downs have been mailed. We mail at non-profit rates and thus it may be a week or more before you receive your invitation. Colonels for who we have email addresses will receive their invitation by email.
As of Friday, April 24, we have 3 tickets available for the Kentucky Colonels Derby Extravaganza. We also have a few seats available in the Museum (the party) that do not include track tickets. For Oaks day, we have track ticks available. HOWEVER, they are not located together. If you’re interested, contact HDQ by email or phone 502-266-6114.
Robert Gaylord Price who served 24 years as a Trustee of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels passed away on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. General Price was deeply involved in his community of Ashland as well as the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a whole. His leadership and guidance will be greatly missed. Services will be conducted Saturday at the Fairview Baptist Church in Ashland. The family has requested that sympathy expressions be in the form of donations to the Honorable Order’s Good Works Program.
We’re working on a new and exciting event for Kentucky Colonels here at HDQ… Kentucky Colonel’s Day on Millionaire’s Row at Churchill Downs. Details are still being worked out but we have scheduled the date for November 14, 2009. The photos show one of the two rooms for Millionaire’s Row. This one is known as Millionaire’s Row 4 (4th floor of the Downs). The other is Millionaire’s Row 6. The working plan is that we will have both rooms. Together they hold approximately1,300 people. We have also included a photo of the home stretch and finish line taken from Millionaire’s Row 4.
SORRY… SOMETHING IS BROKEN WITH THE PHOTOS. PLEASE CHECK BACK.
Governor Palin’s office call Hdq. today to acknowledge receipt of her Kentucky Colonel Commission and related materials. Palin was commissioned a few weeks ago by Governor Beshear. Last fall, during the campaign, President Obama was commissioned by the Governor.
Colonel HDQ. is one of the few places in metro Louisville with power so we’re here and working. Several staff members are getting warm for the first time in a couple of days because they have no heat at home. If you tried to call yesterday (1-28-08) you know we were not open. That was because most of us had to cut trees out of our driveways or from in front of the door(s) before we could get out.
If you are a newly commissioned Colonel, please know that it may be a few weeks before you hear from the Honorable Order. We process the Executive Orders received from the Governor’s Office as rapidly as possible but there generally is a delay between the issuance of the Order and receipt of our copy. Once we have received the confirmation, we will contact you by mail to ascertain that we have the correct name and address. When that is confirmed, your Membership Card will be issued. IF it has been more than 2 months since you received your commission and you have not heard from the Honorable Order, it is very possible that we did not receive a valid address for you. If it has been 2 months or longer, please email: members@kycolonels.org.
Kentucky Colonels from Toronto, Canada and Northern New York got together for what sounds like a wonderful evening late last month. Colonel Derwin Mak filed this report with Headquarters:
Toronto Encampment Report, October 2008
Seven Kentucky Colonels attended the encampment: Col. Dr. William Basztyk of Toronto; Col. David Birtwistle of Toronto; Col. Maurice Janeczko of Alden, New York; Col. Stephen Lautens of Toronto; Col. Derwin Mak of Toronto; Col. Ernest Stoakley of Mississauga, Ontario; and Col. Timothy Zack of Elma, New York. Also attending were Col. Lautens’s wife Rhea and Col. Stoakley’s wife Susan.
Photo: the encampment holds the Kentucky flag in the Wings Room of the Royal Canadian Military Institute.
An American Civil War veterans association, the Grand Army of the Republic, had a tradition of badges and medals for its encampments. To emulate this tradition, the commander of the Kentucky Colonels Toronto encampment, Col. Mak, created a decoration called the Kentucky-Toronto Friendship Star as a memento of the encampment. It resembles a breast star of an order of chivalry .
Each person attending the encampment received a Star and an accompanying certificate. The Colonels in Toronto also voted unanimously to award the Star to the Hon. Steve Beshear, Governor of Kentucky; Col. Glen Bastin, Senior Ambassador of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels; and science fiction author Col. John-Allen Price of Lewiston, New York, who could not attend the encampment because he was driving a U.S. military veteran to a hospital for a surgery.
When Colonel Derwin Mak, commander of the encampment, discussed the menu with the maitre d’ of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the maitre d’ recommended the soup of lobster bisque versus Col. Mak’s plebeian preference for minestrone soup. The maitre d’ also strongly suggested that Col. Mak choose a dessert of brandy snap basket with assorted ice creams and sorbets. And so the menu chosen was:
Lobster bisque
Breast of chicken Wellington
Seasonal vegetables
Roasted mini red potatoes
Brandy snap basket with assorted ice creams and sorbets
Port
Coffee and tea
The food was excellent, as usual with the Royal Canadian Military Institute.
The next evening, the Priory of St. James of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, an order of chivalry, held its annual investiture dinner at the Royal Canadian Military Institute. The Knights Templar also had a lobster bisque soup and a dessert of brandy snap basket with assorted ice creams and sorbets. A coincidence?
All Colonels present at the encampment agreed that they should hold another encampment in spring 2009 at the latest, though all also agreed to avoid the snowy season.
Sorry there haven’t been any new posts for a little while. It has been busy at Hdq. for the last few weeks. We are thankful for that. During October we generally receive 50% of all Good Works Program donations received during a calendar year. The average October produces in excess of 21,000 pieces of mail. Despite the economy, Kentucky Colonels are coming through again. Our donations for October are running just slightly behind 2007. THANK YOU.
Ambassador Glen
2009 Membership Cards, Pomperoser and Emporium catalog are “in the mail”.
These items are mailed under our non-profit mailing permit. That means it may be a few days before yours arrives. If you have not received the mailing by the end of the month, please contact Headquarters.