Council News
The latest Council of Deliberation news.
Masonicare Quality of Life Fundraiser
Brethren! Help Us to Help Seniors!
The Masonicare Quality of Life Fundraiser Walk will take place on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at Great River Park Amphitheater in East Hartford. Masonicare needs you to help recruit walkers for this event. This fundraiser helps the Masonic Charity Foundation provide for the needs of residents and patients in all its facilities when no other funds are available.
More information, along with downloadable forms, can be found on the Quality of Life Fundraiser page on the Masonic Charity Foundation website.
Please talk this up among your friends and co-workers, and help get sponsors and walkers! Better yet, challenge your lodge or Valley to participate!
For your convenience, you can download a Registration Brochure that will provide more information. You may also downlaod a Booster Form.
Please show your support for this very important event.
IMPORTANT CORRECTION REGARDING CONSISTORY DAY ANNOUNCEMENT
In the most recent issue of CT Freemasons the information regarding Consistory Day in the Valley of Hartford article was incorrect.
The correct agenda for Consistory Day, May 1, 2010, is as follows:
- 2:00pm:
- Registration
- 2:45pm:
- Ladies leave for their program at the Shrine, which will commence at 3:00pm
- 3:00pm:
- Dignitary Introductions
- 3:30pm (or before):
- 20th Degree (Lafayette Consistory with some Prince Hall brothers assisting)
- 4:15pm:
- 32nd Degree (Nathan Hale Consistory)
- 5:00pm (or before):
- 31st Degree (Connecticut Consistory)
- 6:00pm:
- We will join our ladies at the Shrine for a one-hour cocktail reception
- 7:00pm:
- Dinner
Please pass this information on to all Scottish Rite Masons you know.
A correction will appear in the next issue of CT Freemasons, as well as in the April issue of View of the Valley.
Connecticut Council of Deliberation, June 11, 2010
The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Council of Deliberation will be held on Friday, June 11, 2010 at Bayview Lodge in Niantic. Watch the websites for more information.
Connecticut's Newest 33rd Degree Masons
An article has been posted, with photo, about our 2009 Class of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General.
Six Connecticut Brethren to Receive 33°
Six Scottish Rite Brethren from Connecticut have been nominated for election to receive the 33°, Sovereign Grand Inspector General, Honorary Member of the Supreme Council, in Philadelphia, PA in August, 2010.
The brethren so honored are as follows: From Valley of Bridgeport, Whitney P. McNulty, MSA; from the Valley of Hartford: Newton Buckner III; from the Valley of New Haven: Martin Ede; from the Valley of Norwich: Winston Dean, Carl J. Mossberg, MSA; and from the Valley of Waterbury: Russell Griswold.
The Connecticut Council of Deliberation congratulates these brothers on their nomination!
Supreme Council Dues Reduction Program
Wouldn't it be great if something you did on a regular basis helped you reduce the amount of your Scottish Rite dues? Well, now it can!
The Supreme Council has begun a program to allow individual Scottish Rite masons to reduce their dues by shopping through OneCause. With OneCause, you register on their site, associate with your cause (in our case the "Scottish Rite Freemasonry, NMJ" cause), and purchases made through participating online merchants, begun via the OneCause website, will apply a percentage of the transaction amount to your dues. The maximum percentage is 20%, although the average percent is between 2% and 6%.
To sign up, you need an email address, and must specify your cause. A link on the Supreme Council Membership Services web page will take you right to the appropriate OneCause page, or you may follow this link directly.
Once on the OneCause page, if you click "Shop to Support This Cause" in the left hand navigation area, you'll be taken to a page to register. If you select the "Help" link in the upper left, you can read a list of Frequently Asked Question. There are other helpful links on the front page, including a short flash video to explain to you how the program works.
If you shop regularly online with merchants like Amazon, Staples and many others, a percentage of your purchase is applied to your dues. The only requirement is that you start the shopping experience from the OneCause page, by clicking on that merchant's link.