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Making Good Men Better, Since Time Immemorial! September 2018
Stated Meeting 1st Thursday
Dinner 6:30pm Meeting 7:30pm
Special Meetings Thursdays
Dinner 6:15pm Meeting 7:00pm
Concordant Bodies
Lucerne Lake, Ch. 13 OES 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 7:00pm Jobs’ Daughters, Bethel #288 1st and 3rd Mondays, 7:00pm
Brethren,
Welcome back after our break! Hopefully everyone had a chance to recharge and spend some time with the family.
September promises to be a busy month. Brothers Eduardo Yumang and Jojo Randa have requested Saturday 3rd Degrees on the 8th and 29th respectively. Mr. Matt Baggett has been waiting patiently for his 1st Degree on the 13th. Brother Chris Hausvik will have his 2nd Degree on the 20th.
We have our Jobs’ Daughters Tribute on Saturday, September 15th. I ask every one of our Brothers to make an effort to attend this function. We always see them providing for us at our stated meetings but these young ladies, and their adult counterparts, are truly exceptional in their dedication and hard work to make Bethel #288 known throughout the state. Their values are our values, and I personally want to thank everyone associated with the organization for all that they do. You are an inspiration! So Brethren, please join me in showing our love and support on Saturday the 15th at 2pm for a late lunch.
Finally, the new year is quickly approaching. I ask each of you to think about what you can do to support Welcome Lodge in the coming year. Chairs will be opening in next year’s lineup, both in the Lodge and on the Temple Board. We could really use your support. Have a great month Brethren!
Fraternally,
Jack W. Cloud, PM Worshipful Master
A Note to the Family
If you are receiving the Trestle Board and wish to continue to receive it, we
are happy to continue mailing it. We also know that some of the families
of our departed Brothers no longer wish to receive it. If that is the case,
please notify Jack Cloud at [email protected] and we will be happy to
update our mailer. We would also just enjoy hearing how the family is
doing if you want to let us know. Thank you.
Welcome Lodge No. 255 647 W. Bush St.
Lemoore, CA 93245
Phone: (559) 381-2112 Website: http://welcomelodge255.org
Email: [email protected]
Welcome Lodge No. 255
Trestle Board F. & A. M. of the State of California
From the East Worshipful Jack Cloud, PM
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Master Jack W. Cloud, PM
Senior Warden
Melvin L. Perez, PM
Junior Warden Edwin J. Kaczynski
Secretary
Clayton Holmes
Treasurer Richard D. Cadiente
Chaplain
Joel Gonzalez
Lodge Leadership
Building Manager Edwin J. Kaczynski
Trustee / Board Member
Fabian V. Gonzalez Trustee / Board Member
Rupert R. Beckford Trustee / Board Member
Virgilio S. Algador
Senior Deacon Eli A. Malicsi
Junior Deacon
Tracy J. Miranda
Marshal Rupert R. Beckford
Senior Steward
Virgilio S. Algador
Junior Steward Billie B. Solomon
Tiler
James L. Withycombe
Candidate Coaches Melvin L. Perez, PM* Jack W. Cloud, PM Danilo T. Espiritu, PM Edwin J. Kaczynski James L. Withycombe
Audit Billie B. Solomon Allan N. Overby
2018 Lodge Committee Members
Lemoore Masonic Temple Association Secretary / Ex-Officio: Master
Jack W. Cloud, PM
Scholarship Bermie E. Pascual, PM*
Melvin L. Perez, PM Charles D. Dimaano, PM
James L. Withycombe Norman W. Stewart
Delinquent Dues Herminio E. Valdeabella, PM*
Clayton Holmes Richard D. Cadiente
Hiram Award Melvin L. Perez, PM* Pat P. Cerdenola, PM
Joselito R. Sanchez, PM James L. Withycombe
Rupert R. Beckford
Masonic Widows Edwin J. Kaczynski*
Eli A. Malicsi Richard D. Cadiente
James L. Withycombe Rupert R. Beckford
Membership Development Edwin J. Kaczynski*
Billie B. Solomon Allan N. Overby Audie T. Bedia
Investments Richard D. Cadiente* Charles D. Dimaano, PM Edwin J. Kaczynski
*Chairman: Shall call at least one regular meeting of the Committee and present minutes to the Secretary.
Ex-Offico: Senior Warden Melvin L. Perez, PM
Charity Jack W. Cloud, PM* Melvin L. Perez, PM Edwin J. Kaczynski
Officers Coach
Herminio E. Valdeabella, PM
President Eli A. Malicsi
Chief Financial Officer Tracy J. Miranda
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Bro. Eli Malicsi
Temple Board President
Temple Board Association
Bro. Ed Kaczynski
Building Manager
September
Temple Board Meeting Tuesday, September 4th, 6pm
Rentals
September 1st (Sat)
Secretary’s Corner Brother Clayton Holmes
CURRENT PROJECTS
SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS
Welcome Lodge Celebrates Your Special Day!
Happy Birthday Brothers!
2nd Leo Ceniceros 3rd Ryan Deguzman 3rd John Dunlap 4th Jack Mann 4th Donal Ziemer 9th Reynaldo Cruz 10th Wendell Cadiente 12th James Chrisman 13th Kevin Mettlen 14th Ray Reyes 15th Marc Jeffries 17th James Nguyen 18th Stephen Dias 18th Norman Stewart 19th Michael Encina 20th Audie Musngi 25th Freddy Harrell 26th Joseph Maffi 29th Romeo Gonzales
Solar Panels Bids are submitted to Grand Lodge for approval to install solar panels on the Lodge. (Pending Documentation)
Wireless PA System The Board has approved the purchase of a
wireless PA system for the Lodge, depending on compatibility of current speaker system.
(Awaiting Funding)
Hand Rails in the East Over the July/August break, Hand rails will be installed in the East for easier access up
and down the stairs at that station. (Rails built, installed in September)
September Calendar
3rd Mon 7pm Job’s Daughters, Bethel 288 Meeting
4th Tue 6pm LMTA Meeting
6th Thu 7:30pm WL255 Stated Meeting
8th Sat 2pm WL255, 3rd Degree, Brother Yumang
11th Tue 7pm Lucerne Lake, Ch. 13 Meeting
13th Thu 7pm WL255, 1st Degree, Mr. Baggett
15th Sat 2pm WL255, Jobs Daughters Tribute (Lunch)
17th Mon 7pm Jobs Daughter, Bethel 288 Meeting
20th Thu 7pm WL255, 2nd Degree, Brother Hausvik
25th Tue 7pm Lucerne Lake, Ch. 13
26th Wed 6:30pm Dist. 506 SOI, Hanford
27th Thu 7pm WL255, (Degree pending)
29th Sat 2pm WL255, 3rd Degree, Brother Randa
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Saturday September 15th, 2018
2pm
Please join us at Welcome Lodge #255 for a late lunch as we celebrate our Daughters and their adult mentors. These young ladies are true professionals in the way they approach their responsibilities and their competitions around the state. We truly appreciate all that they do for Welcome Lodge and we are in awe of their energy as
they travel around the state.
This is a rather formal event. Please dress accordingly to show your pride in the Bethel. Tuxedos are not required, but suits and dresses would be appropriate. We look forward to a great turnout.
The main course for lunch will be baked and grilled chicken.
Coming Events!
Tehran Shrine
Shrine and Masonic Family Picnic
Saturday, September 15 BBQ Competition open to Local Masonic Lodges beginning
Friday evening and ending in the picnic on Saturday.
Contact Gary Campbell for Info: (559) 355-9571
SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION DISTRICT 506
Next Scheduled:
Wednesday, September 26, 6:30pm, Hanford
Candidates and Degrees
There are four open dates through September and October to advance through the degrees. November and
December are busy with Lodge elections and the Holidays. Study your Proficiencies and Grand Lodge Course. It’s
great information to teach you the philosophies and values of Masonry.
Coaches are available to assist you!!! Just Ask!!!
Knocking
Mr. Matthew Baggett
(Approved)
Entered Apprentice
Bro. Paul Jones
Bro. Christopher Hausvik
Bro. Billy Antes
Fellow Craft
Bro. Joseph Randa
Bro. Eduardo Yumang
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It was a Freemason who penned these immortal
lines: Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
The author of these lines was Sir Walter Scott, and
the lines are from the “Lay of the Last Minstrel,”
published in 1805. Scott was a member
of St. David Lodge No. 36 on the roll
of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. He
had become a Master Mason in that
lodge on March 2, 1801—just a few
years before he wrote these memorable
lines. Scott may have had in mind the
lessons that Freemasonry taught him
about love of country, and then as now,
the ritual of Freemasonry clearly states
the importance of the linking of
Family, Flag, and Country. Listen to
what we tell an Entered Apprentice
Mason:
As a Citizen you are enjoined to be
exemplary in the discharge of your
civil duties, by never proposing or
countenancing any act which may have a tendency to
subvert the peace and good order of society; by paying
due obedience to the laws under whose protection you
live, and by never losing sight of the allegiance due to
your country.
There is no doubt that Freemasonry not only
encourages patriotism and a love of one’s country, but
expects that to be one of the leading characteristics of a
Freemason. And yet, Freemasonry is a universal
brotherhood, the ties of which reach across national
boundaries, and—as the Constitutions of 1723 state—
“… Masonry becomes the Center of Union, and the
Means of conciliating true Friendship among Persons
that must else have remain’ d at a perpetual Distance.”
During the Revolutionary War, for example, there
were not only Masons on both sides of the conflict,
but Masonic lodges as well—military lodges attached to
regiments in the American Army and in the British
Army. These lodges carried their paraphernalia in “lodge
chests,” which sometimes were captured by the enemy.
We know that there were instances when a truce would
be called in the fighting so that the paraphernalia could
be returned to the other side. Loyalty to one’s country
did not undermine a belief on either side that
Freemasonry was important enough to stop the war for a
moment, and act as brothers on the field of battle.
The Civil War also abounded in stories of
brotherhood despite the heated emotions that prevailed
amongst the troops on either side. Allen E. Roberts has
documented many of these episodes, and one of them is
memorialized in the Friend to Friend statue on the
battlefield at Gettysburg, erected by the Grand Lodge of
Pennsylvania, and pictured elsewhere in this magazine.
How does this come about? And how can Masonry be
both patriotic, and at the same time universal in its
brotherhood?
First, Freemasonry never asks a man
to choose between his family and his
country and his fraternity. At the core of
Freemasonry is a clear and
unambiguous commitment to take care
of one’s family—and a brother’s family
as well. And that commitment extends
to his country as well. Secondly,
Freemasonry clearly teaches that all
men, whatever their “native land” may
be, are entitled to our regard. We learn
in the First Degree of Masonry that we
should “regard the whole human species
as one family. …”
Lastly, Freemasonry shows that the
path of brotherhood can lead us into
new ways of understanding—ways that
allow us to rise above our own present interest, and
place ourselves in the shoes of
another. That is what is behind the stories of unexpected
acts of charity and kindness toward a man who was
otherwise an enemy in time of war. It enabled a Union
soldier to render an act of charity and kindness to a
Confederate soldier even in the midst of war—because
his “enemy” was also his brother. Love of one’s country
does not preclude loving others who serve a different
flag and a different nation. In that sense, Freemasonry is
truly universal.
Reprinted from California Freemason, Winter 2007 Past Grand Master John L. Cooper III
Masonic Wisdom
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Bethel No. 288 Lemoore
Raisa Beckford Bethel Guardian
Such a busy summer for our daughters!
July 13: After finally recovering from Grand Bethel
The daughters joined other Central Valley Bethels as
well as some of the Grand Family in our Association
picnic! It was held at the Fresno State Bowling Alley.
The daughters bowled, had lunch, and had tons of
fun!
August 12: The Daughters of the Central Valley strike
again! This time at the Island Water Park. There was
about 80 people in attendance and very few reports
of sunburns
August 24: The last event of the summer! Central
Valley Masonic Youth Night at the Grizzles! The
weather was just perfect for baseball, food, and
awesome Friday Night Fireworks!
