Volume 105 Number 7
ˇ ´ VESTNIK S P J S T Benevolence
H E R A L D
★ Humanity ISSN —07458800
★ Brotherhood
February 15, 2017
My Story
By Marcela Vaculík of SPJST Lodge 54, West
Marcela Vaculík, right, of Lodge 54, West is pictured with her friend Dana and Dana’s husband Jiri.
SUPER CEREAL FOOD DRIVE
Everybody has a life story to tell,
and some of us had experiences in our life that are different. This is my story about how I arrived to Texas. All this I recalled when on June 20, 2016, my son Jon and I left for a visit to the city of Bowmanville, which is close to Toronto in Canada. The purpose of this trip was to meet a friend that I have not seen since 1980 when I came to this country as an immigrant. Let me start from the beginning . . .
State Queen/Lodge 202, Jourdanton Youth Club President Amanda Hoggard, left, receives a donation from District Seven Director Bob Bayer for the SPJST Super Cereal Food Drive. Looking on is Lodge 202 Youth Leader Regina House. Youth clubs across Texas are collecting cereal boxes between now and April 1 to be donated to local food banks. Contact your local lodge youth club for more information or to donate. —Photo by Sandra Hoggard, Assistant Youth Leader
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Readers Write ......................................3 Important Dates ...................................3 Interest Rates ......................................3 SPJST Car Show Info..........................4 District News .......................................4 Supreme Lodge Meeting Minutes ......5
Inside This Week’s Vestnik
Lodge Section ..................................11 In Memoriam ......................................25 Youth Section ....................................21 Czech Culture ....................................27 Advertisements ............................28-29 Lodge Calendar .................................30
Scenes from SPJST State Tarok Tournament
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In early 1979, my brother-in-law Josef met with my future husband Jan’s uncle Karel at a church conference. Jan’s uncle asked Josef if he knows of some single girl that his nephew Jan would like to exchange letters with. We started to communicate, and we did not have any perspective chance to meet. It was still in the deep time of the communist regime in Europe. Jan asked me to leave Czechoslova-
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S.P.J.S.T. Senior Living hosts Century Celebration
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Lodge 196 Houston-West youth wins science fair awards