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Our Lady of the Lakes Council # 6318 - Carmel, New York
| 10 Fair Street | Carmel, New York 10512 | (845) 225-6318 |
Breaking News Alerts
Updated Nov. 11, 2025
Holiday on the Lake / Our Christmas Village
Saturday, Dec. 6th!
It's the most wonderful time of the year!
Here's the run down on the many fun holiday events taking place in Carmel on Saturday, December 6th!
- Start your day off with some Christmas shopping at the St. James Parish Annual Christmas Bazaar in the school gym from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
? - Our Ladies Auxiliary is hosting their fifth "Our Christmas Village"! There's loads of fun for the whole family inside our Council Hall starting with "Kids' Candy Bingo" (2:30 p.m. sharp); "Story Time / Cookies and Milk with Santa" (3:15 p.m. sharp); and there will be kids' crafts and an area for photos with Santa & Mrs. Claus. Visit more than 55 high-quality vendors in the huge, outdoor holiday market, and enjoy the offerings from the Hudson Valley's finest food trucks, all in the county parking lot behind our building, until 9 p.m. Bring the whole family!
- Our Council will once again provide a free Children's Christmas Party with dinner for our members' families starting at 4:30 p.m. Adults will enjoy a pot-luck dinner, so please bring a dish for the community table. Santa will be attending, so please bring a gift (value $20) for each child you bring, for Santa to distribute. RSVP to Grand Knight Rick or Anthony Falco by email or call/text (914) 450-4475 if you are attending.
- Starting at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, we will make our way over to the Paladin Center parking lot to line up for the Parade of Lights (steps off at 6:30), with our very own parade float. We need marchers! Come and march behind our Council banner and with our float! We'll once again be handing out thousands of glow necklaces to the crowd along the parade route. Help us assemble them before the parade and then hand them out as we march!
- There are many other events going on in this year's Holiday on the Lake, including Hayrides with Santa, trolley rides, live music, Chowder Fest at Cornerstone Park, choirs and a Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony honoring veterans in Cornerstone Park, and lots of other festive activities.
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WE'RE NOW ON INSTAGRAM!
FULL NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE NOW ONLINE!
An archive with links to all available back-issues of our newsletter and emailed news updates is now available on our Council Activities page.
There you will find links that will take you to all of our digital newsletters since we began using Constant Contact as our email platform in June of 2016. At the bottom you will also find a link to an archive of PDF file versions of available newsletters from 2002-2014.
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IMPORTANT: News and Communications Policy
Due to the ever-changing nature of communications technology, this news page is now only used as a secondary source of urgent communications to members and for general reference. Here is how you can keep up with what's going on with our very active Council!
EMAIL
Primary communication to all Council members and Ladies Auxiliary members will be through email.
All users: If you think you are not receiving our emails and have provided your email address to our webmaster, first check your "Spam" or "Junk" folder. If you find our emails in there, mark them as not-spam or not-junk and consult your email provider for how to "white list" our email address so our messages are delivered to your Inbox. If you are not receiving our emails and they are not in your spam/junk folder, email our webmaster from your current address. We still have several bad email addresses on file that need updating!
Gmail users: Gmail often "filters" our emails to folders other than your Inbox, such as your "Social" or "Promotions" folder, without you knowing about it. Check all of your Gmail folders and if you find our emails in a folder other than Inbox or Spam, go to your Gmail Settings ("See all settings"), then go to the "Inbox" tab, scroll down to "Filtered mail" and then select "Override filters." All of your emails will then be delivered to your Inbox.
NOTE: If you unsubscribed from our Constant Contact email list at any time, we cannot add your email address back to the list without you providing permission directly to our email vendor. To re-subscribe, just click here and insert your email address and name.
EVENTS CALENDAR
A current list of all upcoming events for the next several months is maintained on our Council's Google Calendar. Please refer to our calendar to know what's going on! You may view the calendar by clicking the Upcoming Events tab on our web page.
For ease of access and to receive event reminders, add our Council calendar to your personal calendar on your smart phone. Instructions on how to subscribe to our calendar appear on our Upcoming Events page.
NEWSLETTER
To receive our newsletter ("The Lake Current") and other information, you must sign up for our email list. Email our Webmaster by clicking here and ask to be added to the email list. You may also subscribe by filling out the webform after clicking here.
An archive with links to all available back-issues of our newsletter and news updates is available on our Council Activities page.
You do not need to be a member to receive our newsletter. Just send us your email to be added to our list.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) allow us to communicate with our members and friends in a timely, efficient, and cost-effective manner. All council events (fundraisers, social functions, etc.) will be listed as "Events" and/or feed posts on our Facebook page. Pictures from select past events will be posted to our social media accounts.
Please "like" our Facebook page to see all of our posts in your timeline! Please "like" and share our posts to help them gain maximum exposure to all of our members.
Follow us on Instagram: carmelknights6318.
Follow us on "X" (formerly Twitter): @CarmelKnights or click here to view our feed.
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FOURTH DEGREE
Information for Mother Cabrini Assembly #1572, including news and upcoming meeting dates, may be found on their website, here.