At 7:30 PM Tuesday evening, December 28, 2010, at the Immaculate Conception Spiritual Renewal Center in Putnam, Connecticut, Fr. Marcel Poirier, the provincial of the North American province, was finally able to officially open the provincial chapter, after a full day’s delay due to an early winter New England blizzard that left at least one delegate stranded in Dallas and others holed up at home because of impassable roads.