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We have scheduled First Degrees for Henry Chavez and Terry Nottingham on Tuesday January 31st. at 7 p.m. Members and sojourners are welcome to attend. Masters Message from the East JANUARY 2012 Brethren: This is time for the end of the year report about your Lodge in 2011. This was a year of transition for your Lodge. Starting with our January 2011 Stated Meeting, we have met on Saturday mornings, becoming a daylight lodge, with a luncheon and speaker afterwards. This allows for Masons who cannot get out a night, and family and friends invited to a luncheon with a speaker. I wish the attendance was greater, but we do have guests attend and we have had some very interesting speakers that have expanded our knowledge of the community and Masonic programs. We initiated 2 men, raised one, and had one affiliation, for a gain of two members. We had one man withdraw and five men die, for a loss of 6 members. Our current membership of Master Masons is now 72. The Lodge building has seen extensive renovation and preparation for increased rental as this is necessary to keep the operational costs within the needs of all the Masonic organizations meeting there. This has led to all the Masonic organizations realizing they have to work together and was seen in the Friendship Dinner we had in December. We continue our membership in the Tulare Chamber of Commerce, attend Chamber mixers to show people in the community who we are and that we discuss memberships to those who express interest. We have encouraged our officers to do a presentation at your Stated Meeting regarding a subject of Masonic education. Overall we have been working to Educate, Engage and Excel, the strategic plan for our fraternity as outlined by Grand Lodge and an outline of what we need to be doing to create a viable and growing Lodge. Fraternally, Steve Presant P.M., Master |
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Be sure to set aside the 3rd Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. every month for a fun lunch and program! Our Stated Meetings start at 10 a.m., followed by a lunch at 11:30 a.m. Donations taken for lunch. Although only Master Masons may attend the Stated Meetings, the lunch is open to all family and friends! Our January 21st luncheon will provide us an opportunity to enjoy the top three videos that won honors at the last California Masonic Grand Lodge competition. Our February 18th luncheon will provide us an opportunity to recognize our Masonic Sweetheart Widows of our past deceased members. If you know somebody who would be an interesting and informative speaker, let the Master know. Meet our Marshall, Rob Pinkerton
After I graduated High School, we
moved back to the family farm in Upon graduation from Cal Poly I moved back to Santa Paula and worked for several companies selling avocados and citrus. In 2004 I took a job that brought me to Visalia. I currently work at Paramount Citrus selling citrus fruit across the country. Through friends and now family, I meet my wife Toni. We were married in 2008, and have son, Robert, who was born Oct 2009, and a daughter who is due to be born February 1st of next year. I joined OBL 269 after seeing an ad in the Valley Voice for the “On the Level” program. I hadn’t been thinking of the Mason’s, but after seeing the ad I couldn’t stop thinking about them. My grandfather was active with the Shrine, and I remember his fellow Masons as being some of the nicest people I knew. Grandma is in Eastern Star, and both my mom and sister were Job’s Daughters. Since joining I have truly enjoyed the warmth and friendship with which I have been accepted with, and can say that the men, and their families I have meet through the Lodge have fit the memory I had of Masons as some of the nicest people I know. I am proud to call myself a Mason, and your brother. |
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