SEPTEMBER 2017 The Trestleboard A publication of Sun City Lodge # 72 F&AM Remember...You Can “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the mes you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can. ” - anonymous
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SEPTEMBER 2017
The
Trestleboard
A publication of
Sun City Lodge # 72
F&AM
Remember...You Can
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you
can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can.” - anonymous
Over the last months of my new job I have pondered the meaning of the twenty-four inch gauge. As humans we try very hard to keep up with the times, trends, and culture we live in. We want to devote our time to many things, such as family, friends and God. I’ve noticed that sometimes we lose sight of why we work and become very materialistic in our climb to the top and can find ourselves imbalanced in our daily life. We each know somebody that gave work more attention than their family and be-came divorced or neglected their work and would eventually find themselves unemployed.
We all want the nice car, or the big house and we want it now, so we work overtime, have two or three jobs, so that we can maintain or obtain the status we want. I myself have thought about talking a part-time job just to earn more money when I don’t even need it. However, I remembered the lesson of the twenty-four inch gauge.
The twenty-four inch gauge is a rule two feet long, which is divided by marks into twenty-four parts each one inch in length. The Operative Mason uses it to take the necessary dimensions of the stone that he is about to prepare. It has been adopted as one of the working-tools of the Entered Apprentice in Speculative Freemasonry, where it divisions are supposed to represent hours. Hence its symbolic use is to teach him to measure his time so that, of the twenty-four hours of the day, he may devote eight hours to the service of God and a worthy distressed Brother, eight hours to his usual vocation, and eight hours to refreshment and sleep. In the twenty-four inch gage is a symbol of time well employed.
I don’t believe that God wanted mankind to work or play all day, but to have a balanced life. This balance comes through the individual fulfillment through hard work, service to others, and strength through rest and refreshment. I was asked once if I like my job (which I do) and I replied, “a job is a job”. Whether you flip burgers and McDonald's or work for Goldman Sachs, it’s something to take pride in, you are earning your wages.
Sincerely and Fraternally,
Mark Nelson
Junior Warden
From The south
Stated Meeting Dinner Menu
The ladies of the, Peoria Chapter # 59 Order of the Eastern Star, Proudly and with great care
prepare and serve the meals at the Sun City Lodge Stated Meetings.
MENU: Chicken Enchiladas, Spanish Rice, Re-fried Beans and Dessert
The cost for dinner is $8.00
Reservations would be appreciated at least 3 days in advance.
We have 224 members. We have one waiting for a demit (Earl Chambers). We have two entered
apprentices who appear to have dropped out. We have one Fellowcraft (Rolland Rogge). We have
one to vote on. I think we are doing very well. Our average age is 70.12
NECROLOGY
None Reported, Praise God
“Remember him before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it”. ~ Ecclesiastes 12:6-7
Masonic tradition calls on us to aid and assist all distressed brothers, withersoever dispersed. While we are getting better at assisting our brothers, we have been neglecting our ladies and their needs. If any of you know of a sick or distressed brother or a Masonic widow in need, please call the lodge office at 623.972.2217.
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Articles and other Trestleboard submissions are due no later than the 15th of the month. If your submission is not received and other arrangements have not been made, it will not be printed. All Trestleboard submissions must be sent via e-mail in Microsoft Word format, to WM. Craig Montgomery, at: [email protected]. If you have questions, please call Craig at 623.521.5580
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Mail to: P.O. Box 1353, Sun City, AZ 85372
SEE YOUR NAME HERE!
New DeMolay State Officers Sun City Masonic Center Related
At the 21-23 July 2017 Arizona State DeMolay Convention/Conclave in Tucson, two of the new DeMolay
State Officers have strong Sun City Masonic Center connections.
Installed as the State Deputy Master Councilor is Harrison Cantrell. Many of the Sun City Lodge members
know Harrison as a recently raised Master Mason who attends meetings of Sun City Lodge when his
schedule of work/school/DeMolay duties permits. Harrison served as Master Councilor of Glendale Chap-
ter and now is serving the Arizona State DeMolay Association as a state-wide officer.
Installed as the State Junior Councilor is Caleb Crabtree. Caleb has been serving as the Master Councilor
for PV Chapter, which meets in the Sun City Masonic Center, and was a critical part of the transition of PV
Chapter relocating to Sun City Masonic Center from Paradise Valley.
Sun City Lodge and the Masonic groups meeting in the Sun City Masonic Center are proud to see these
fine young men recognized for important leadership positions with Arizona State DeMolay Association.
New Miss Arizona Job’s Daughter
Bethel #22 is Proud to announce Miss Kyra Rial, the new Miss Arizona Job's Daughter. She is a Past Hon-
ored Queen of her bethel. She is not only involved with Job's Daughters, but she is active in Rainbow and
DeMolay. She currently is the Worthy Advisor at Glendale Assembly, and is the Arizona DeMolay State
Princess. In addition to her Masonic youth involvement, she attends ASU. She is the recipient of Masonic
Scholarships and keeps a balanced life. She is the daughter of Mike Rial, Marshal of Sun City Lodge #72.
Her mother is Susan Rial who is a Past Honored Queen, Past Grand Bethel Honored Queen from the State
of Washington, and a recipient of the degree of Royal Purple. Kyra has made the Bethel so proud and will
represent the Job's Daughters International very well.
Past Master’s fellowship
The Past Masters meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 8:30 am. Location
changes monthly. All Past Master are welcome. You don’t have to be a Past Master
from Sun City Lodge # 72. Our purpose is to assist the Worshipful Master, the
Officers, and the Lodge in general.. We also perform Masonic Funeral services when
requested. Contact Dave Miller PM at 602-317-6136 to schedule our services.
Join us at Jacques’ Bistro
A Glendale DeMolay Fundraiser Dinner
Sunday September 24th, 2017 5:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m.
Located at: 6831 N 58th Ave, Glendale AZ 85301
Option.
You will be served by your own DeMolay members
You will have your choice of Meatball Sandwiches, Chicken Parmesan, or a
Vegetarian Option.
There will be a Silent Auction and a 50/50 Raffle
Tickets are $12.00 each purchased before the event $15.00 at the door
Sun City Lodge # 72 will hold a Trilogy Veteran’s Show on October 28,2017 at 6:15 p.m. The cost of the ticket will be $10 a person. We will have non-alcoholic beverages available, but feel free to BYOB, wine and beer plus any snacks you would like to share at your table. Cups, paper plates and utensils will be provid-ed. We are looking for a great show with musical numbers, skits and special guests for a fun evening.
The Trilogy Vet’s club has many missions serving vets i.e.; Providing furniture for Vet’s who were homeless and need items in their new units. We also support the Madison Outreach center, that on an ongoing basis provide monthly meals to homeless vets. In the past our group has supported Operation Stand Down, collecting jeans and other items for this particular program. In addition, we have assisted in the Toy’s for Tot’s program and “ breathern a Street Mis-sion” along with support for other Vet programs including social or Legislative activities.
We invite you to come and enjoy a great evening with lots of enjoyment and fun. Hope you can attend.
Please contact Brother Bob Meizinger at 623-349-3253 or thru email at [email protected]
Stewart Council #16 meets on the 3rd Monday of the month at Sun City Lodge #72 in Sun City. Our potluck begins at 6:30 and our meetings start at 7:30.
This last weekend we had our grand sessions in Mesa. There was a lot of official visitors from neighboring states and a lot of very useful information was discussed about the future and direction of Masonry in Arizona and the Councils in specific.
The two main areas of discussion concerned membership and retention. Our emerging leadership program is de-signed to bring “new Blood” into the craft and improve the leadership skills they bring to the table. Stewart Council has 65 members and while we added 5, we lost 5 and remain at 65 companions.
We had fair amount of legislation to review but the most noteworthy and discussed was to review that was present in all York Rite bodies was the instance the any elected officer must have a current dues card to preside over a chapter or commandery. The legislation did not pass but it is clear and evident that all elected officers must be in GOOD STANDING while serving.
St Andrew meets on the second Saturday of each month, Officers, sword and
ritual training at 7:30AM coffee & donuts 8:00AM Conclave at 9:00AM
Oasis Chapter RAM meets on the third Friday each month.
Pot Luck. 6:30PM Education. 7:00PM Meeting. 7:30 PM
The Sir Knights of St Andrew Commandery will be meeting on Saturday 09 September 2017 at the Sun
City Masonic Center. Coffee and doughnuts at 8:00 A.M. with meeting opening at 9:00 AM.
I would like to first congratulate five of our Commandery Sir Knights being installed in the AZ Grand Com-
mander Line; SK Doug Roberts, SK Dave Miller, SK Steve Wieters, SK Adrian Gohn, and SK Brian Turner.
I know these SK's and the rest of AZ Grand Commandery are going to do great things this Year.
Please bring in a Brother for greet and meet if they are interested in the Commandery.
We will be continuing some interesting education on "The Order of the Knights Templar", by W.F. Wilke.
This is just a brief history and book review done by James Burnes in 1829.
Stewart Council No 16 Cryptic Masons
Meets at Sun City Lodge N0 72
Welcome back Companions, The hot weather will be gone soon and we can get back our tasks. The Ari-zona Grand York Rite recently held their Grand Sessions. The event was held in Mesa Arizona. All three bodies presented and voted on legislation and elected and installed the new Officers, and Trustees. There was also a lot of fun and good fellowship, even the ladies had a great time playing cards, and visiting local points of interest. The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Arizona elected Joseph F. Zito as its new Grand High Priest. If you would like to know the results of the legislation that was presented and voted on, you can attend our next Chapter meeting, or contact me or Pat Hayes. One of the tasks we need to tackle this fall is our membership Program. It will be starting September 1
st. Our new Veils should be here very
soon, I hope they will be here before our next meeting, which will be September 15th. Please plan on at-
tending. It will be great to see you. Steve Wieters Excellent High Priest
Oasis Chapter N0 15 Royal Arch Masons
Meets at Sun City Lodge No72
Saint Andrew commandery no 17
meet at sun city lodge no72
VA BINGO
The West Valley York Rite Bodies have chosen to participate in supporting Bingo ac-
tivity at the Phoenix VA Home. On Wednesday, July 12 2017, three Companions/Sir
Knights initiated the assistance. Pictured below are the three participants: Corey
Chavez, Doug Robertson, and Myles Sagen.
This joint effort by Oasis Chapter, Stewart Council, and St Andrew Commandery is an
activity to involve members in outreach to the community and extend the fellowship
of the Freemasonry to others. The event sponsorship involves providing several
small prizes for winning/playing the Bingo games as well as sodas to the Vets playing
Bingo for refreshment. There was much gratitude expressed to the three volunteers
for their time and contribution.
If you would like to participate in this York Rite outreach activity in the future, con-tact Doug Robertson (602.391.5634, [email protected]) or Dave Miller (602.317.6136, [email protected]).
Why is Freemasonry a Ritual Practice?
What makes something a “ritual?” Is it an evil connotation? Is it something sinister? Why then is Freemasonry con-sidered a ritual practice? How could something so full of moral virtues practice something ritualistic?
The use of the word ritual is described as the regular practice of the same series of ceremonies at each meeting.
Often there is a connotation of something sinister or counter to popular practice by the use of the term ritual.
To the contrary, it is instead meant to imply that the degree ritu-als are an established or prescribed practice to con-vey the knowledge and symbolism of the Fraternity in a repetition to impart their teachings.
What this means is that the same ritual ceremony is practiced with each candidate to induct him into the fraternity so that each man undergoes the same experience creating a unifying shared experience. That practice imparts the three principal tenets of the fraternity which are Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth.
Daina Montgomery Worthy Matron and Craig Montgomery Worthy Patron, Welcome everyone back for a fun filled year at Sun City #66. We meet for breakfast at the Royal Cafe every 2nd Tuesday of the month, please join us on Sep-tember 12, 2017 at 9 am. All are invited as well as guests. On September 13th, 2017, we will be having our School of Instruction with our DI Ilene Douglas at the lodge at 6:30pm, Please bring your ritual and plan on attending. Then a big welcome back from being dark, our 1st meeting back will be SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2017 @ 7:30 please everyone come out and visit with us as we start back this “All Aboard Eastern Star Year” REMINDER to all we will be having Initiation On October 17th, 2017 so PLEASE be working on your parts so we can welcome our new member Vicki with our great ritual work. Grand Chapter was totally fun with Ellen O'Malia and Randy Ahrens. $5000. was donated to Re-generative Medicine. Our chapter contributed $1200 as part of this donation. We are proud of you! The installation of the new Grand Chapter officers was beautiful, sparkly, burgundy and gold gowns. We are blessed with Tori Loll and Perry Casazza as our leaders for this coming year. Here is a list of the Sun City #66 appointments. Sandy Greeneltch PM …Grand Organist Rosemary Bennet PM …. Associate Grand Organist Daina Montgomery WM …. District Instructor-District 10, Co-chairman Distinguished Guests Com-mittee, Chairman Directory/Calendar sales. Sandy Munster PM …Fiesta Day, Stars over AZ reporter, Banquets, Grand Representative Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island Sheri Goodman PM… Election committee John Bennet PP… Asst. Grand Sentinal John Munster PP …General Grand Chapter Appt. Hummingbird, Chairman of Regenerative Medi-cine We encourage all members to sign up for E mail at [email protected] This gives you infor-mation of all upcoming events. Now is the time to get those dues paid. $27.00 if you haven't already paid them. Now get ready for a fun filled year. Respectfully submitted, Sandy Munster PM
QADESH TEMPLE NO 35 SUN CITY NILE CLUB
Ladies Ladies Ladies , Our time meet again is coming up soon, October 2
nd, 2017 is the official date we are back from
being dark, So mark your calendars to attend our luncheon meeting. In the meantime, let’s be gearing up for our Queens Visit on November 15
th, 2017 at El Dorado
with purchasing Gift Cards for the Hospitals, Below you will find a list of what Gift cards to get and some other much need things for the hospitals, so add a little to your shopping list each week and before you know it we will have a Big supply of Donations for the Hospitals. We Can Accept: Gift Cards (Target, Walmart, I-Tunes, Michaels, prepaid Visa). Dolls (Disney princesses and Barbie’s are great) or Super Hero and Star Wars figures. Toy cars and trucks, Play-doh kits, Coloring books, colored pencils, markers, crayons or arts and crafts sets. Infant and toddler toys, New Release DVDs, Legos (smaller sets) Much Needed Items for Teens: Headphones, Hair accessories, nail polish, Sports hats/t-shirts with local and national sports teams. Video games for X-box 360, Wii, Xbox One games, PS4 games. Here’s hoping all is well with everyone and I am looking forward to seeing you all very soon! Daina Montgomery – President Sun City Nile Club
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PV DeMolay Chapter has moved to the Sun City Masonic Center and is now regularly meeting on the 1st and 3rd Sun-
days of the month. However, for September, due to the Labor Day Holiday, the Chapter’s Stated Meeting will be on
Sunday, 10 September, beginning at 4:00 PM. The Roundtable meeting for September will be on Sunday, 17 Septem-
ber, also at 4:00 PM.
On Saturday, 26 August, the Chapter hosted a Laser Tag event at the Sun City Masonic Center. The goal was to de-
velop prospects for Chapter membership. As this item is being written in early August, the event’s results will be re-
ported in the October issue of the Trestleboard. Special thanks to the Sun City Lodge Trustees for permitting the use
of the building and to the members of Sun City Lodge for their generous financial support of this activity.
In August, there was also a Pool Party at Dad Bryon Howe’s residence. This event, plus the Laser Tag activity on 26
August, were part of a major effort by PV Chapter to increase membership of local teenage youth.
Over the 21-23 July weekend, the Arizona DeMolay Annual Convention was held in Tucson at the Hilton East. Receiv-
ing special recognition was Tiffany Rial, the PV Chapter Sweetheart, as Sweetheart of Year. Also receiving special
recognition as DeMolay of the Year was Caleb Crabtree, who is currently serving as Master Councilor for PV Chapter.
PV Chapter was well represented at the annual conclave/convention by both advisors and members.
DeMolay is a Masonic youth organization for young men between the ages of 11 and 21 years of age. DeMolay
Chapters confer two degrees for membership. The members engage in a variety of service and fun activities. Service
events include working with adult Masonic groups and working in local community charity events. DeMolay mem-
bers enjoy social activities with members of locally Masonic sponsored Rainbow Girl Assemblies and Job’s Daughter
Bethels, as well as recreational events involving sports and electronic game challenges. The Chapter meetings are
run by the youth Chapter officers with guidance from the Dad Advisor.
Currently, the following Sun City Lodge members serve on the PV Chapter Advisory Council: Jim Almrud; Glynn Ley;
Dave Lowry; Dave Miller; Craig Montgomery; and Mike Rial. For further information about becoming a member of
DeMolay, how to become a member of the Advisory Council, or PV Chapter meetings/events, contact Dave Miller at
Bethel #22 has had a very full and exciting summer. Some traveled to Pennsylvania for Supreme Session, and re-ceived Supreme Bethel Representative positions. The girls then came back to attend Royal Retreat. Bethel #22 is very excited to have Miss Kyra Rial win the Miss Arizona Job's Daughters International Pageant. We are so proud of the hard work and the love she has for the order. The Bethel had their first meeting on August 22nd. It went well with a lot of instruction. Tori Cantrell preceded over the meeting. On Sunday August 27th,they had their Go to Church Sunday at CCV in Surprise. It was a great sermon and the pastor spoke about becoming engaged in our spir-itual growth. On September 12 we have a Bethel Meeting. On Tuesday, September 26th at 7:00pm we have our honor our PHQ's. We invite all PHQ's and MM of Job's Daughters to come out and share your stories of Job's Daugh-ter with us. We always like to hear of what it was like then. Our Bethel is planning on going to California for Su-preme Leadership. This is a great opportunity for the daughters to get a better understanding of what our role is and how to improve. We will get to spend time at Disneyland while we are there.
Save the date:
October 10 @ 7:00pm- Bethel Meeting
October 22 Halloween Tea, come have some witches brew with us.
October 24@ 7:00pm- Honor our Dads and Masons night. Please come out and see our meeting. We always like to have side liners.
If you know a young lady from the ages of 10-20 we would love to meet her.
Bethel #22 meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7:00pm We hope to see you there.
We are excited to start the new term. The Jobie-2-bee is a program for young girls who are not old enough to be Job's Daughters. This year the Supreme Guardian has appointed a Supreme Bee Keeper. Her name is Beki Lane. She They get introduced to a little bit about Job's Daughters and get to attend activities with the girls. We are 9 bees strong and the girls are absolutely amazing. It is so much fun to watch them grow and interact with the girls.
Our hive meets the 2nd Tuesday of the Month. We are planning on having a social at 6 to start our meeting at 6:30.
If you know of young ladies under 10 years old, we welcome them to be part of our hive. We will participate with the activities with the older girls, and get to know them well. Our next meeting is September 12th.
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