July is Minnesota Month at the George Washington Masonic Memorial
The spotlight goes on a different Grand Lodge from across the United States every month and July 2009 is Minnesota month. If you are going to be in the Washington, D.C. area this month, be sure to visit the George Washington Masonic Memorial and check out the special display. If you can't make it to Alexandria in July, why not visit them on the web?
Time again to get ready for the Great Minnesota Get Together, our Minnesota State Fair.
It's that time again. Our great Minnesota Get Together will be running from Thursday, August 27th through Labor Day, Monday September 7th. Our KidsID booth will be up and running at the education building again this year. You may have read that we are in the process of transitioning to the more comprehensive CHIP program that many of you saw demonstrated at the Grand Lodge Annual Communication in St. Cloud. However for this year we will be helping folks by handing out the Take 25 information. Take 25 is a program of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Take 25 aims to heighten awareness of children's personal safety issues. With a focus on prevention, the campaign encourages parents, guardians, and other role models to spend time talking to kids to teach them ways to be safer.
Here is the update. We are behind for filling positions at the KidsID booth. This year we still will have three shifts with 4 positions per shift, shift 1 9am-1pm, shift 2 1pm-5pm, and shift 3 5pm-9pm. We need a total of 144 positions to cover the fair and as of today we only have 47. Only 97 more to go, and I know we can do it. Please help us.
Thursday Aug. 27
shift 1 4 positions needed
shift 2 3 positions needed
shift 3 4 positions needed
Friday Aug. 28
shift 2 4 positions needed
shift 3 4 positions needed
Saturday Aug. 29
shift 2 3 positions needed
shift 3 4 positions needed
Sunday Aug. 30
shift 1 1 positions needed
shift 3 4 positions needed
Monday Aug. 31
shift 1 4 positions needed
shift 2 4 positions needed
shift 3 3 positions needed
Tuesday Sept. 1
shift 1 4 positions needed
shift 2 4 positions needed
Wednesday Sept. 2
shift 2 4 positions needed
shift 3 4 positions needed
Thursday Sept. 3
shift 1 4 positions needed
shift 2 4 positions needed
shift 3 4 positions needed
Friday Sept. 4
shift 3 4 positions needed
Saturday Sept. 5
shift 3 1 position needed
Sunday Sept. 6
shift 1 3 positions needed
shift 2 4 positions needed
shift 3 4 positions needed
Monday Sept. 7
shift 1 3 positions needed
shift 2 4 positions needed
shift 3 4 positions needed
If there is a particular day and shift time you would like to have let me know. If it is not taken you'll get it.
Thanks for all you do.
Bruce L. Clarke
The leadership of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota is taking a very hard look at replacing our long running KidsID child identification program with the national CHIPS program, sanctioned by the North American Conference of Grand Masters. Visit the MasoniCHIP website for more information on this comprehensive new program.
Brother Howie Damron's Masonic Ring song is getting plenty or air time on YouTube.
A photo essay from the 50th Anniversary Rededication of the Masonic Memorial Cancer Hospital at the University of Minnesota, October 4, 2008, commemerating the 100 million dollar, fifty plus year partnership of the Masons of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota.
