Knightscorps.org

I know I haven’t been doing great with updates lately, but my wife and I had our first child in early October, and it’s been a little nuts around here. Anyway, I just received an email from the Neuleibs with this attachment:

OBITUARY

We all loved Brian dearly but God saw a need to call him home. Although he left us way too soon, we humbly give thanks to the Almighty God for his life among us and the gentle nature that endeared him to all the lives he touched. How “Special” he must be – to be called home on the Day that we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Please keep the McCain family in your thoughts and prayers during this holiday season.

I completely forgot to mention on here (but was reminded by three drum corps friends) that this year’s DCI championships will be on ESPN2 this evening at 10 PM Eastern / 9 PM Central / 7 PM Pacific. For more info, you can go here: http://www.dci.org/tv/

So, I was reading one of the local newspapers here in Macomb, and on the front page was an article about a new marching percussion organization in Macomb called KnightFire Percussion. According to the article, they were “formed in 2006 to provide continuing education in indoor marching and ensemble percussion to students in the surrounding area”.

To read a copy of the article, you can click here - knightfire.jpg
Also, in the photo in the article, there is a man helping out by the name of Brian Irons. I don’t know if he’s the same Brian Irons who marched in the ’80s, but I’m sure someone out there can let me know.

The point of the article is that they are looking for donations and sponsorships so they can purchase equipment for the organization. If anyone would like to offer assistance, you can find out more information at the group’s website: http://knightfirepercussion.org/.

Paul William “Hoogie” Hoogerwerf, 54, of Aurora, Ill., formerly of Atkinson and Geneseo, passed away on Sunday, April 15, 2007, at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 18, at Vandemore Funeral Home, Geneseo. The Rev. Robert K. Freeman and the Rev. Don Niswonger will officiate. Inurnment will be at the Oakwood Cemetery, Geneseo, where military rites will be accorded by the Geneseo VFW Post 5083. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. today at Vandemore Funeral Home, Geneseo. According to his wishes, cremation rites have been accorded. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials may be left to Geneseo High School Marching Band.

Paul William “Hoogie” Hoogerfwerf was born on May 30, 1952, the son of Alvin and Barbara Lemke Hoogerwerf. He was a graduate of Atkinson High School. Paul served his country in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War.

He was united in marriage to Laura Head on Oct. 15, 2005, in Naperville, Ill.

Paul was a retired cartographer.

He had attended First United Methodist Church, Geneseo, and Grace United Methodist Church, Naperville. Paul had been a long time member of the Knights Drum & Bugle Corp, Geneseo. He enjoyed working with the Geneseo High School Marching Band.

Survivors include his wife, Laura; his mother, Barbara, Atkinson; two brothers (and spouse), Mike Hoogerwerf, Slater, Iowa, Rob (Pam) Hoogerwerf, Geneseo; one sister (and spouse), JoAnn (Carl) Borkgren, Moline; several aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. He was preceded in death by his father, Alvin Hoogerwerf.

My email is now working again (for those of you who had tried to contact me in the past few weeks). This should also fix the issue with the spam showing up in the guestbook (as in, I recieve an email whenever a post is made to the guestbook, so now that my email is working again, I know when something is posted, and I can delete it if it’s spam).

In other news, the remaining funds from the reunion were donated to the website account. As of this posting, we have $403.07 in the account, which, with the new hosting service, will cover us for about 6 years of hosting. With the next reunion planned in 5 years, we should be just fine. That being said, donations are still always welcome so that if something should happen to me, or if the reunions stop becoming regular 5 year occurrences, then we’ll have backup funds to keep it running for a while.

Also, the new hosting service apparently has a pretty nice easy way of setting up a RSS feed for postings. For those of you who know what those are, I’ll see if I can get it working for news updates for the site. I’ll post something if I can get it working correctly.

Thank you to everyone for your support, and be sure to keep me up to date with changes in email addresses and other info.