Do you remember your first baseball glove? California lodges are teaming up again with the Junior Giants, the charitable arm of the San Francisco Giants, to provide baseball mitts for underprivileged Bay Area children. Teams of lodges are competing to give the most mitts. Our goal is 2,000 mitts by Aug. 24!
Labor Day is upon us, traditionally viewed as being the symbolic end of summer, a day of rest for the working folks and their families, the return to school, the start of the National Football League season and that of the NCAA.
September also brings along the 161st Annual Communication of Grand Lodge , which begins at 1:00 pm on Friday, Sept.24 and ends Sunday, Sept. 26. You must be a Master Mason to attend. A brief description of resolutions and legislation is listed in this bulletin. In particular, I’d like to remind the brethren that the carried over Recommendation No.5 (Procedures on Ballot Box Rejections) of our Past Grand Master Larry Adamson is on the agenda. This troublesome issue is present in many Masonic Lodges, and it is hoped that a resolution will be achieved to prevent a single member from blackballing prospective candidates for inappropriate reasons. Clearly, Grand Lodge has stated that PRIVATE objection to the Master is the PROPER way to avoid an ugly situation, and NOT by use of the cube in the ballot box which is considered a cowardly act and does not show good Masonic conduct.
