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GRAND CHAPTER YEAR OF 2007 - 2008 COMMITTEES

 

OUR WORLD OF YOUTH

Joanne Bornstine, Kirkland, Chairman

Steve Wilt, Port Orchard, Co-Chairman

Jeannette Turner, Naomi, 2 years

Debbie Wheeler, Esther, 2 years

Scott Montgomery, Alpha, 3 years

Lara Peterson, Lakeside, 3 years

 

PARLIAMENTARIAN

Doris Kelley, Golden Rod

 

PRINTING

Terry Wiggins, PGP, Chairman

Joanne Clark, PGM,

Phil Green, WGP

Roy Sharp, AGP

Sandra Henry, Grand Secretary

Dean Haave, Chairman of Finance

Tom Schenewerk, PGP, Chairman of Jurisprudence

 

PROFICIENCY BOARD

Marilyn Hoots, PGM, Chairman

Ann Gates, PGM, 2 years

Joanne Clark, PGM, 3 years

 

PUBLICITY

Marla Miller, Centralia

 

RECYCLED STAMPS FOR CANCER

Gladis Rudd, Greenwood, Chairman

Doris Edwards, Oasis

Nancy Hansen, Mt. Baker

Melanie Cherry, Priscilla

Lou Reel, Spokane

Helen Thieman, Narcissus

Virginia Mulhaney, Rada Uphus

Betty Jacobs, Martha Washington

Mary Lou Mosby, Okanogan

Lucille Watts, Esther

Joyce Zierdt, Delta

John Gayne, Maple Leaf

 

SESSION CHAIRMAN - 2008

Linda Miller, Mt. Baker, Chairman

Steve Doran, Mt. Baker, Co-Chairman

(To be continued...)

 

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GOLF TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Here are the results from the 7th Annual OES Charity Golf Tournament held on August 10th at Whispering Firs Golf Course on McChord AFB.  Many many thanks to all those who helped make it a success.  We had a total of 79 golfers participate and 55 helpers & BBQ only people in attendance.

 

Low Gross—Team 3A—Dave Owen, Andrew Henrickson, Armand Boatman, Todd Undam

Low Net—Team 1A—Bill Hammontree, Greg Dolbin, Ron Moll, Greg Hammontree

 

Men’s Teams

1st Place—Team 5A—Paul Snypp, Kevin Hull, Jeff Jahns, Mark Howard

2nd Place—Team 13A—Robert Hopkins, Clay Conway, Larry Gruginski, Jack Taggert

 

Mixed Teams

1st Place—Team 3B—Ken Sissons, Grason Lane, Bob Beck, Sandra Fisher

Tie for 2nd Place

          Team 14A—Roy Carriveau, Danielle Carriveau, Haley Whithers, Erika Mueller

          Team 15A—Gary Pitcher, Charles Tewalt, Denise Tewalt, Tony Tewalt

 

9-Hole Teams

Tie for 1st Place

Team 10A—Kay Johnson, Charlotte Wilson, Dottie Hardenbrook, Linda Miller

Team 11A—Bob Danforth, Barbara Danforth, Betty Power

 

Last Place Team—Team 17A—Terry Wiggins, Jason Wiggins, Ron Richards, Janet Sebastian

 

Long Drive Hole #17

          Men—Jeff Jahns

          Ladies—Danielle Carriveau

Nearest to Pin—Hole # 12—Ladies—No one made the green

Nearest to Pin—Hole #15—Men—Ron Moll

Putting Contest—Mark Howard

 

Golfers who have played in all seven tournaments:

          Gary Osborne, Penny Norvell, Al Butterfield and Sue Burnett

 

We had a total of 34 holes ($3,550) sponsored by 31 chapters, 2 associations, 3 other Masonic bodies, 10 individuals/couples, 2 businesses and 1 corporate.  With the sponsorships, raffle, mulligans, putting contest, pie sales, beverage carts and the BBQ approximately $5,000.00 will be realized for the Scottish Rite Childhood Language Disorders Tacoma Valley Sponsorship Program.

** Clayton & Mary Ellen Sparks, Bill & Alice Hammontree and Charlotte Miller, committee members

 

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THE GREAT OUTDOORS

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INVITATION

 

Victory Chapter #161 invites you to an Honor Night for

 

ROMA NELSON

 

Grand Representative of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Friday, September 14, 7:30 PM

 

Millwood Masonic Temple

3219 N. Argonne RD

Millwood, WA

 

Dinner:  5:45 PM

A Taste of Nova Scotia and P.E.I.

Donation:  $10.00

RSVP:  Maxine:  509-926-4153

Kay:  509-924-9069

Email:  Roma at georgeRAN@juno.com

 

Donations will go to Cancer Research, one of the Grand Chapter Charities in memory of David Jones, Past Patron of Victory Chapter #161 and also Adelphi $188.

 

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SOME CUTE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

 

(As taken from the Spokesman-Review ... 08/16/07)

 

The Slice by Paul Turner

Motorcyclist hits pickup, flips into bed

    A motorcyclist crashed into a U-turning pickup and flipped into his bed Wednesday, only to be driven for a block before the truck stopped.

    The 47-year-old male motorcyclist, whose name was not available late Wednesday, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, said Cpl. Tom Lee of the Spokane Police Department.  Jim M. Wilson, 62, who did the illegal U-turn in his pickup at Francis Avenue and Cedar Street, was arrested for vehicular assault after being processed for DUI.  He was not injured. 

    Wilson stopped at Francis and Adams Street, where citizens reportedly detained him until police arrived shortly after 6 PM, Lee said.  Paramedics attended to the motorcyclist, who was still in the truck bed even though his motorcycle was a block west.

    A city bus had almost smashed into the pickup at Cedar but was able to stop in time, Lee said.  Early 911 calls reported that the motorcyclist hit the bus.

    Assistance Chief Brian Schaeffer, of the Spokane Fire Department, said the crash was 'possibly one of the oddest I have been to.'

 

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BLUE LODGE AGENDAS

 

August 20 (Monday)

* Langley Lodge No. 218 ... Stated Meeting; 7:00 PM.

August 21 (Saturday)

* Skykomish Lodge No. 259 ... Stated Meeting; 2:00 PM.

* Whidbey Lodge No. 15 ... Stated Meeting; 6:30 PM. 

 

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MASONIC NEWS

 

Scottish Rite, Orient of Washington 2007 New Selectives ...

 

Thirty-Third Degree Inspectors General Honorary

Robert Eugene Adams, Seattle

Charles Richard Davis, Kennewick

Raymond James Drummond, Olympia

Garry Allan Gerking, Tacoma

Patrick Terry Marlatt, Everett

Charles William McQuery, Everett

Gary Allen Rhodes, Everett

Duane Elmer Ryden, Tacoma

Samuel Schneidmiller, Walla Walla

Wayne Irvine Smith, Everett

John Howard Stokes, Bremerton

Harold Eugene Tucker, Spokane

Conrad Ardell Zachary, Spokane

 

32nd Degree Knights Commander of the Court of Honor

Charles Edward Anway, Bellingham

Wayne Cecil Betts, Everett

James William Chase, Kennewick

Giovanni Miceli Chimienti, Spokane

Robert Dale Conley, Wenatchee

Stanley Chester Cybulski, Tacoma

Hernan Banos Divinagracia, Everett

Roy Conrad Eckard, Kennewick

Kevin Eugene Gent, Tacoma

Christopher Blair Greene, Walla Walla

John Harold Geiner, Seattle

Charles Tracy Heberle III, Tacoma

John Hopkins, Kelso

Ivan Isaacson, Olympia

Roy Louis Johnson, Hoquiam

Charrison Wesley Lochaby, Everett

George Arlon Lofthus, Seattle

Rod S. Mason, Olympia

Joseph Dale McMichael, Walla Walla

Timothy Edward Mensinger, Kennewick

Curtis Richard Neal, Wenatchee

Lance Neville Otis, Bremerton

Malcolm Charles Parker, Vancouver

Michael Lee Sanders, Vancouver

Sviatoslov Steve Serteroff, Bremerton

John Robert Sleeth, Bellingham

Charles Thomas Sims, Vancouver

Earl Emitt Simpson, Yakima

Arne Thorkeldsen, Seattle

Douglas Eugene Tucker, Spokane

Michell Jon Turley, Tacoma

Gary Elwood Welch, Yakima

Ruel Titus 'Curley' Werner, Spokane

John Cornelius Wyman, Spokane

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Dear Brothers:

    The Brethren of District No. 11 cordially invite you to attend their Annual Outdoor 1st Degree on Saturday, August 25, 2007, being hosted by Mt. Olympus Lodge No. 298.  The Degree will be conferred in the 'Outdoor Lodge Room' of Quilcene-Jefferson Lodge, 170 Herbert Street, Quilcene.

    Lodge will open at 10:00 AM.  Lunch will be served following the Degree conferral.

    In order to make adequate arrangements for the lunch, please notify me of your attendance via email at seteroff@earthlink.net or at Steve Seteroff, PO  Box 847, Quilcene, WA 98376.

    Fraternally,

** Steve Seteroff, Deputy of the Grand Master, District No. 11

P. S. Brining a new, unwrapped toy to contribute to the Toys-for-Tots toy box would be greatly appreciated.

 

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DID YOU KNOW ...

 

** Woman's Day 6/1/07

 

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St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1562-1641)

 

Jane Frances was wife, mother, nun and founder of a religious community. Her mother died when Jane was 18 months old, and her father, head of parliament at Dijon, France, became the main influence on her education. She developed into a woman of beauty and refinement, lively and cheerful in temperament. At 21 she married Baron de Chantal, by whom she had six children, three of whom died in infancy. At her castle she restored the custom of daily Mass, and was seriously engaged in various charitable works. Her husband was killed after seven years of marriage, and she sank into deep dejection for four months at her family home. Her father-in-law threatened to disinherit her children if she did not return to his home. He was then 75, vain, fierce and extravagant. Jane Frances managed to remain cheerful in spite of him and his insolent housekeeper.
            When she was 32 she met St. Francis de Sales, who became her spiritual director, softening some of the severities imposed by her former director. She wanted to become a nun but he persuaded her to defer this decision. She took a vow to remain unmarried and to obey her director.
            After three years Francis told her of his plan to found an institute of women which would be a haven for those whose health, age or other considerations barred them from entering the already established communities. There would be no cloister, and they would be free to undertake spiritual and corporal works of mercy. They were primarily intended to exemplify the virtues of Mary at the Visitation (hence their name, the Visitation nuns): humility and meekness.
            The usual opposition to women in active ministry arose and Francis de Sales was obliged to make it a cloistered community following the Rule of St. Augustine. Francis wrote his famous Treatise on the Love of God for them. The congregation (three women) began when Jane Frances was 45. She underwent great sufferings: Francis de Sales died; her son was killed; a plague ravaged France; her daughter-in-law and son-in-law died. She encouraged the local authorities to make great efforts for the victims of the plague and she put all her convent’s resources at the disposal of the sick.
            During a part of her religious life she had to undergo great trials of the spirit—interior anguish, darkness and spiritual dryness. She died while on a visitation of convents of the community.

            Quote:   St. Vincent de Paul said of Jane Frances: “She was full of faith, yet all her life had been tormented by thoughts against it. While apparently enjoying the peace and easiness of mind of souls who have reached a high state of virtue, she suffered such interior trials that she often told me her mind was so filled with all sorts of temptations and abominations that she had to strive not to look within herself...But for all that suffering her face never lost its serenity, nor did she once relax in the fidelity God asked of her. And so I regard her as one of the holiest souls I have ever met on this earth” (Butler’s Lives of the Saints).

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LOWRY'S HINTS

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RECIPES

 

Bananas Foster

2 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons brown sugar
2 bananas
Pinch cinnamon
1 tablespoon banana liqueur
1 ounce rum or brandy
Vanilla ice cream

TO PREPARE:  Mix butter and brown sugar in saucepan. Cook over medium heat until it is caramelized. Cut bananas in quarters. Add and cook until tender. Add cinnamon and liqueur; stir. Add rum or brandy to top of mixture. "DO NOT STIR."  Use extreme care and light. Spoon over vanilla ice cream while flaming.
SERVES: 6
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Bistro Onion Burgers
from Campbell's Kitchen

1 1/2 lb. ground beef
1 pouch Campbell's(R) Dry Onion Soup and Recipe Mix
3 tbsp. water
6 hamburger rolls, split and toasted
Lettuce leaves
Tomato slices

Directions:  MIX thoroughly beef, soup mix and water. Shape firmly into 6 patties, 1/2" thick each . COOK patties in skillet 10 min. or until done. SERVE on rolls.

Top with lettuce and tomato. Serves 6.

Kitchen Clip:  Serve with store-bought potato salad and cole slaw, with some cookies for dessert.

Food For Thought: Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted. ~ Marilyn Kaytor

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Cameo Cake with White Chocolate Frosting

INGREDIENTS FOR THE CAKE:
1-1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter
3/4 cup water
4 ounces white chocolate, broken into pieces
1-1/2 cups buttermilk
4 large eggs, lightly beaten
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup plus 3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped toasted pecans
2-1/4 cups sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda

INGREDIENTS FOR WHITE CHOCOLATE FROSTING:
4 ounces white chocolate
11 ounces cream cheese, softened
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
1-1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

TO PREPARE: 

    Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans. Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Add water. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. Add chocolate, stirring until it melts. Stir in buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla. Set aside. Combine 1/2 cup flour and pecans, stirring to coat. Set aside. Combine remaining 3 cups flour, sugar, and baking soda in a large bowl. Gradually stir in chocolate mixture. Fold in pecan mixture. (Batter will be thin.) Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes.  Remove from pans. Let cool completely on wire racks.
    White Chocolate Frosting: Melt chocolate in top of a double boiler over low heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Set aside to cool, about 10 minutes. Beat cream cheese and butter. Gradually add chocolate, mixing constantly, until blended. Slowly mix in powdered sugar until smooth. Add vanilla. Mix until blended.

    Spread frosting on tops of two layers then stack layers on a serving plate. Use wooden picks to stabilize the two layers. Add third layer. Frost top and sides of cake. Refrigerate until ready to serve. SERVES: 8-10.

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Garlic Fried Chicken

1 egg, well beaten
1 pinch baking powder
2 teaspoons garlic puree
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 fryer
Salt and pepper, to taste
Seasoned flour
1/4 cup shortening

TO PREPARE: Mix together the egg, baking powder, garlic puree, and olive oil. Cut the chicken into serving pieces. Salt and pepper it and put it into the egg mixture, allowing it to soak several hours (even overnight). Use a china bowl. Rework the liquid into the chicken before removing from the bowl. Roll the chicken in flour that has been seasoned with salt and pepper. Heat shortening on low heat until very hot and fry chicken on low heat until done and brown (about 30 minutes). SERVES: 4
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Broccoli Salad

2 bunches broccoli florets
1 pound bacon, divided
1 cup currants or golden raisins, divided
1 cup unsalted sunflower seeds, divided
1 red onion, chopped, divided
1/2 cup candied orange peel, divided

DRESSING:
1 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar

TO PREPARE THE SALAD:  In a sauté pan over high heat, cook bacon until crisp. Remove from pan, drain and coarsely chop. In a large bowl, combine broccoli, bacon, currants, sunflower seeds, onion and orange peel. Reserve some bacon, currants, sunflower seeds, onion and orange peel for garnish.
TO PREPARE THE DRESSING:  In a small bowl, whisk mayonnaise, sugar and vinegar. Pour over salad approximately 1/2 hour before serving and toss well.
To serve, spread broccoli salad in rectangular serving dish and place garnishes in long rows down center. SERVINGS: 6 - 8

 

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JOKES

 

    I am five feet, three inches tall and pleasingly plump. After I had a minor accident, my mother accompanied me to the emergency room.

    The ER nurse asked for my height and weight, and I blurted out, "Five-foot-eight, 125 pounds."

    While the nurse pondered over this information, my mother leaned over to me.  "Sweetheart," she gently chided, "this is not the Internet."    

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    One day a State Trooper was pulling off an expressway near Chicago. When he turned onto the street at the end of the ramp, he noticed someone at a chicken place getting into his car. The driver placed the bucket of chicken on top of his car, got in and drove off with the bucket still on top of his car. 
    So the trooper decided to pull him over and perform a community service by giving the driver his chicken. So he pulled him over, walked up to the car, pulled the bucket off the roof and offered it to the driver. 
    The driver looked at the trooper and said, "No thanks, I just bought some."
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    If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him and never says it’s not quite as good as his mother made it...  Then buy a dog.  
    If you want someone always willing to go out, at any hour, for as long and wherever you want.  Then buy a dog.  
    If you want someone who will never touch the remote, doesn’t care about football, and can sit next to you as you watch romantic movies......  Then buy a dog.  
    If you want someone who is content to get up on your bed just to warm your feet and whom you can push off if he snores ...  Then buy a dog.  

     If you want someone who never criticizes what you do,  doesn't care if you are pretty or ugly, fat or thin, young or old,  who  acts as if every word you say is especially worthy of listening to,  and loves you unconditionally, perpetually.  Then buy a dog.  

    But, on the other hand, if you want someone who will never come when you call,  ignores  you totally when you come home, leaves  hair all over the place, walks all over you,  runs  around all night and only comes home to eat and sleep,  and  acts as if your entire existence is solely to ensure his happiness... Then buy a cat!  

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    A guy had told all of his friends about the great steak he'd eaten downtown the day before. A group of them decided to head down and see if was really as large and delicious as he was making it out to be. 
    The group was seated in the back of the restaurant. After looking over the menu, they ordered and waited, hungrily, for their large, delicious pieces of gigantic steaks. 
    To their collective disappointment, the waiter brought out some of the smallest steaks they'd ever seen. 
    "Now see here," the very embarrassed guy said to the waiter. Yesterday when I came down here you served me a BIG, juicy, steak. Today, though, when I have my friends invited, you serve small miniature steaks! What is the meaning of this?" 
    "Yes, sir," replied the waiter, "yesterday you were sitting by the window."

 

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HELOISE

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AND A WORD FROM YOURS TRULY

 

    We speak of how dry it is over here in our neck of the woods.  I received an email from my friend NOB Lowry  (north of the border) who said that:  It's so dry, that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling, the Methodists are giving out wet-wipes, the Presbyterians are giving out rain-checks, and the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water!  (This was supposed to be about his home-state of Mississippi ... but thought I would change it to Eastern Washington!) 

    A couple of weekends ago, we traveled down to the Clarkston/Lewiston area once again and visited with my dad.  On the last morning, we went to breakfast with him at the Evergreen Retirement Center where he lives.  At his table are usually two women and another man.  One woman wasn't there so Ted and I took her place.  I noticed that the woman sitting across from me looked so familiar and finally I asked what her name was!  Jean Reinbold!  Those in our area remember her as Past Queen of El Karnak Temple, Daughters of the Nile, plus attended Magnolia Chapter and played the piano (or maybe the organ) with Mitzi Davis in a duet.  We had a great visit, but she so misses her friends in the Spokane area and I know that she would enjoy cards, letters.  Her address is 1215 Evergreen Ct., Apt, 103, Clarkston, WA 99403.  She said that her vision problems resulted in moving to the Clarkston area where she is close to one of her children.   Grand Marshal Gloria Hodges' sister Peggy is in charge of Evergreen and it is so good to see her occasionally.  Peggy is a member of Vineland Chapter in Clarkston.  My dad thinks she is A-OK ... and we agree!!!

    We are planning on attending the Scottish Rite Supreme Council in WA, DC later this month and I have emails from several ladies (CO & OH) who will be attending the festivities with their husbands, also.  One lady from Colorado is planning on visiting the OES Headquarters on Tuesday morning. She is President of the International Grand Secretaries Association and as she said, she thought it seemed fitting that she should at least see our International Headquarters.  Gee!  That sounds like fun!!!  When Ted received his 33° (White Cap) back in 2001 at the Bicentennial Celebration in Charleston, SC, there were so many people there that I believe it will probably be fruitless to even attempt to meet up with these ladies.  I know one is staying at the Capitol Hilton where we will be ... so that narrows it down.  The Supreme Council this year will have both the Southern & Northern Jurisdictions in attendance.  In our area, the Scottish Rite Masons are of the Southern Jurisdictions (for those who are wondering ...)  I would imagine that the lady's husband from Ohio will be of the Northern Jurisdiction.  We shall see!  It promises to be fun, though.  I do know that Grand Master Wayne Smith will be receiving his 33° as well of Junior Past Grand Master Chuck McQuery at this session of the Supreme Council.  

    It is finally clouding up!!!  My little computer weatherbug says that we are to have 50% chance of rain tomorrow and 70% tomorrow night.  That means 120%!  YEAH!  But on Monday, it goes down to 50% during the day & 40% at night which = 90%!  If all this does not come to pass ... I will have to water my plants!!!  Bummer!

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I do appreciate hearing from you ... with news of your chapter, etc.  Just send them to: 

 

Connie Shrum

Past Grand Chaplain, 2006-2007, GC of WA

Past Matron x 2;

Secretary, Zillah Chapter #111, Newport, WA

Martha, Bethlehem Chapter #87, Deer Park, WA
Email:  starsofwa@washingtonoes.org
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