Volume 100 Number 14
ˇ ´ VESTNIK S P J S T
Benevolence
H E R A L D
★ Humanity
ISSN —07458800
★ Brotherhood
April 4, 2012
Proceeds to benefit Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center
SPJST to sponsor Seventh Annual Bloomin’ Temple Car Show
Saturday, April 21 will be filled with music, classic cars, carnival rides, arts/crafts, food, and fun in downtown Temple, Texas, at the Bloomin’ Temple Festival. The festival opens Thursday, April 19 with a carnival, and Friday evening includes the carnival and musical entertainment. SPJST will host Saturday’s car show on Central Avenue between 2nd and 6th Streets. The show is organized into 35 classes. Vehicles will be independently judged, and more than 100 trophies will be awarded. Trophies will also be presented to the top three people’s choice entries. Other special awards including club partici-
bers). The car show will also include prize drawings and a silent auction. All proceeds from this year’s Bloomin’ Temple Car Show will benefit the Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center, located at 119 West French Avenue in Temple. This year’s event will feature a bit of Czech Fest. Mu-
pation, distance, mayor’s choice, best engine, best paint, best graphics, and best interior will be presented. A special SPJST Award will be presented to an SPJST member. Car show entry fee is $20 per vehicle ($15 for SPJST members) before April 18. After April 18 and day of show registration is $30 ($25 for SPJST mem-
seum volunteers will have special displays like sauerkraut-making and lacemaking. To celebrate this Czech Heritage Celebration at Bloomin’ Temple, our car show theme is “Spring Polka Party!” We encourage participants to decorate their vehicle display area for Best “Spring Polka Party!” Vehicle Display. Judging will be at 1 p.m. Several awards will be presented. And, be sure to sign up at the festival for the Kolache Eating Contest and the Czech Spelling Bee! Prizes will be awarded in both contests. Accordion Cowboy Chris Rybak will entertain for your lis-
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SPJST partners with Museum, TCGS to host Czech speaker April 17
60 Years of Young Smiles
District Three Youth Counselor Bessie Petr of Lodge 84, Dallas explains the great times she has had over the past 60 years as a youth leader in the SPJST Youth Program. She was presented a plaque by Supreme Lodge President Brian Vanicek, left, and State Youth Director Frank Horak at the Youth Leaders Workshop held March 24.
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Interest Rates.......................................3 Important Dates ...................................3 Convention Corner..............................3 District News........................................6 Lodge Section......................................8 Reunions ............................................16
SPJST Home Office, Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center, and Texas Czech Genealogical Society will host “Bondage to Freedom — Czechs Celebrate Life” on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at the SPJST Home Office, located at 520 North Main Street in Temple. The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. and includes “Sights and Sounds of the Czech Lands,” reception and social, light refreshments, and special guest speaker Zdenek Janik. Guests will also be encouraged to tour the Czech Heritage Museum and Genealogy Center, located across from the SPJST Home Office, and the
Inside This Week’s Vestnik
In Memoriam ......................................17 Youth Section ....................................18 Vestnik Project ..................................19 Czech Culture ....................................24 Advertisements.............................28-29 Lodge Calendar .................................30
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Construction begins at Lodge 88, Houston
Czech Military Museum and Czech Veterans’ Wall of Honor, located downstairs at the SPJST Home Office. Zdenek’s topic is “Czech Political Culture from 1918 to Present.” He will begin with the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 and focus on the changes after the fall of Communism. Zdenek received high school diplomas from Woodsfield High School in Ohio in 1994 and Slovanske namesti in Brno, Czech Republic, in 1995. He graduated from Masaryk University in
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Lodge 9, Snook youth: Fraternalism in action
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Youth Leaders honored for years of service