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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
I was born in Ft Sill, Oklahoma in 1972. 6 months later I made the first of many moves
as I traveled the world with a father in the Army. Some of the many places we lived in were, Kansas, Nebraska, Germany (a total of 6 years), and I graduated
High School in Hawaii.
After I graduated High School, we
moved back to the family farm in Santa
Paula, CA. Where we grow lemons, avocados (even have a
few of the Pinkerton variety which is named for our family), and at the time
also had a 300 head herd of Black Angus cattle.
I attended University at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo studying Ag Business. My life of travel caught up with me while I
was at Cal Poly, as I couldn’t stay still and found myself doing a one year
exchange program at Lincoln University in New Zealand.
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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