Volume 102 Number 6
ˇ ´ VESTNIK S P J S T Benevolence
H E R A L D
★ Humanity
ISSN —07458800
★ Brotherhood
February 12, 2014
Vestnik Valentines Pages 17 to 28
Meeting, Greeting, Helping in Needville
For their first community event, newly organized Lodge 81, Needville Youth Club assisted Fort Bend County Czech Heritage Society with its annual soup tasting supper fundraiser on January 31. Youth members enjoyed meeting former Lodge 88, Houston Youth Leader and Assistant District Five Youth Counselor Jeanette Bender. Youth are, left to right, Baley Stavinoha, Madison Schultz, Anna Gadway, Brianna Nesvadba, Evan Stavinoha. More on page 31.
Czech Visits SPJST, Temple
Happy 100th, Sister Agnes!
Congratulations to Agnes Albina Reznicek of Lodge 154, Fort Worth! Sister Agnes celebrated her 100th birthday on December 16, 2013. She has been an SPJST member since July 8, 1940. See more photos of her celebration on page 11.
SPJST Supreme Lodge President Brian Vanicek, left, introduces Tomas Hart, head of the economic section of the Czech Republic embassy in Washington, D.C., to SPJST and community officials last week. Mr. Hart visited the Home Office and Temple along with several Texas cities last week to promote two-way trade between the Czech Republic and Texas. More on page 8.
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Important Dates ...................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 Around the District..............................3 Job Postings........................................5 Lodge Section......................................6 In Memoriam ......................................16
Inside Th is Week’s Vestnik
Death Claims......................................16 Youth Section.....................................29 Czech Culture ....................................32 Advertisements.............................34,37 Czech Cultural Calendar...................36 Lodge Calendar .................................38
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Lodge 139 Danbury member donates can tabs to RMH
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Lodge 258 Seguin awards birthday celebrant
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DYCs, Assistants meet in Temple