New York State Senator Jack Martins speaks at our 141st Anniversary Lincoln Dinner. A great speech, great friends and patriots, and a great gathering to “Make New York Great Again!”
“These are turbulent times in 2016. But in turbulent times there are opportunities. Each one of us has the opportunity to make a difference. We can turn around the last seven years of this country and set us back on the road to properity. This is going to be great Republican year!” – Senator Jack Martins
Lincoln Dinner Chairman
The 141st Anniversary Lincoln Dinner was an unparalleled success breaking all previous records for attendance, journal ad sales, raffle basket sales and overall kudos and congratulatory messages from almost everyone who attended. With his distinctive laudatory flair, Dinner Chairman James Trent said “everything this Republican Club does is doomed to success,” since we were expecting the dinner to top out at about 200, but more than 300 guests attended, who packed the Palm East/West Ballroom at the famous Antun’s of Queens Village. Congratulations to all who participated and worked hard behind the scenes to make this event our greatest success to date!
(Pick up a copy of a local paper, especially the Queens Chronicle, newspaper or online edition, and you will see numerous letters every week bashing Trump and the GOP candidates with such venom and hatred, without a single response from our side. Except for my letter below. We need to write and respond. Let’s give these fools a piece of our mind and let them hear our voices! – Phil Orenstein)
This patriotic piece about St. Patrick’s Day was written by Frederick R. Bedell Jr., the Grand Knight of St. Anastasia Knights of Columbus Council #5911 and a member of the Queens Village Republican Club. We wish all our members and friends a very Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
St. Patrick’s Day is Thursday March 17th and it is a time to celebrate with parties and parades. It is a time to honor St. Patrick who reportedly brought the Catholic faith to Ireland. In my opinion it is also a time to honor all the Irish who came to America as immigrants as well as other immigrants and came here to make a better life for themselves and their families. They came here and worked very hard and some who gave up their lives to make America free for Democracy and the great nation America is today. My own family two brothers, one born in Ireland and the other in England came here in 1776 to fight in the American Revolution. According to my father – Frederick R. Bedell Sr.- they wanted what the new country had to offer and that was freedom and a desire for a better way of life. My grandfather according to my father enlisted as a drummer boy and who lied about his age to fight under General Sherman during the Civil War to make all people free. He latter after the war farthered 13 children, my father being the youngest. My father during WWI served as champlain and during WWII served as a air raid warden. There are many others who had similar stories which had made America great and a nation where many Irish have come here. So this St. Patrick’s Day think of St. Patrick but also think of all those Irish immigrants who came here to make what America is today.
