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$com Volume 52 Number 3 USPS 0359-540 Rochester, New York Circulatio 3355 March 2014 Late Aoucemet - Have-a-Heart Campaig achieves $20,000 Goal! R\W\ George A.$ Foeher, who is Chairma of the Have-a-Heart Campaig, which solicits fuds at area Malls for the Roald Mc- Doald Houses i Rochester, has iformed the Masoic Times that prelimiary tabulatios of the

Foeher, who is Chairma of the Have-a-Heart Campaig, which solicits fuds at area Malls for the Roald Mc- Doald Houses i Rochester, has iformed the Masoic Times that prelimiary tabulatios of the

It s a Small World, Thaks to Techology It was t so log ago that residets i skilled ursig ceters had to rely o letters ad postcards to keep i touch with loved oes.

Ester Burt, a eighbor of the Quees Household i the Health Pavilio of the Masoic Care Commuity, is able to talk to her so, Wally, who lives i Beijig, Chia, thaks to a commuicatio tool called Skype.

Damascus News 9- Editor s Corer 2 Eureka Lodge 2 Geesee-Wyomig District 14 Lalla Rookh Caldro 3 Lalla Rookh Grotto 3 Livigsto District 15 Lookig Ahead 2 Masoic War Veteras Memorials 19 Moroe District

the Masoic Care Commuity Accordig to Ester, it s almost like beig i the same room. Aother similar iteret tool is called Facetime.

Ester was excited to see them, as well as talk to them. It was hard to believe they were a world way. Ester was usig a ipad, oe of two that were doated by MCC voluteer Lou Barille.

1 Masoic Geesee-Wyomig Livigsto Otario/Seeca/Yates TimesMoroe & Waye Districts Servig the Masoic Commuity Sice 1963 Website: Volume 52 Number 3 USPS Rochester, New York Circulatio 3355 March 2014 Late Aoucemet - Have-a-Heart Campaig achieves $20,000 Goal! R\W\ George A. Foeher, who is Chairma of the Have-a-Heart Campaig, which solicits fuds at area Malls for the Roald Mc- Doald Houses i Rochester, has iformed the Masoic Times that prelimiary tabulatios of the receipts from the evet reached the goal of $20,000. Complete details will appear i our April issue. It s a Small World, Thaks to Techology It was t so log ago that residets i skilled ursig ceters had to rely o letters ad postcards to keep i touch with loved oes. May times, they could go years without seeig family members face-to-face. But thaks to techology, ad the geerosity of our voluteers, that has chaged. Ester Burt, a eighbor of the Quees Household i the Health Pavilio of the Masoic Care Commuity, is able to talk to her so, Wally, who lives i Beijig, Chia, thaks to a commuicatio tool called Skype. Skype utilizes the iteret to allow participats to hear ad see the people with whom they are talkig. What s Iside? Damascus News 9- Editor s Corer 2 Eureka Lodge 2 Geesee-Wyomig District 14 Lalla Rookh Caldro 3 Lalla Rookh Grotto 3 Livigsto District 15 Lookig Ahead 2 Masoic War Veteras Memorials 19 Moroe District 4-8 Order of the Easter Star 3 Otario/Seeca/Yates Scottish Rite News Waye District 15, York Rite News Dated Material By Kathy Cotio-Turer Director of Commuicatios ad Marketig for the Masoic Care Commuity Accordig to Ester, it s almost like beig i the same room. Aother similar iteret tool is called Facetime. Ester, with the assistace of voluteer Kelly Villeeuve, recetly coected with Wally Burt ad Ester s 10-year-old graddaughter, Ella, who live i Chia. It was 9:30 a.m. i Utica ad 9:30 p.m. i Beijig! Ester was excited to see them, as well as talk to them. It was hard to believe they were a world way. Ester was usig a ipad, oe of two that were doated by MCC voluteer Lou Barille. The ipad is small eough to be portable, but large eough to allow our seiors to see who they are talkig to. Thaks to Lou s cotiued geerosity, ad Voluteer Kelly s time, several of our residets have bee able to coect with family who are livig far from the Masoic Care Commuity. A special thak you to the Royal Arch Masos who recetly doated a Adroid Notebook that ca perform tasks similar to the ipad. The techology is amazig, allowig our residets to commuicate face-to-face with family ad frieds all over the world. Usig a computer to Skype or Facetime might remid some of us of those sciece fictio shows such as Star Trek or Buck Rogers, but today it s become commoplace. We see such a beefit to our Masoic Care Commuity seiors i beig able to make these coectios ad welcome the doatio of additioal ew ipads, or similar items to accommodate more residets. Moroe District Table Lodge Hoorig the M\W\ James E. Sulliva, Grad March 31, 2014 at Damascus Shrie Ceter 979 Bay Road, Webster Social 6 p.m. (Cash Bar) Buffet Dier ad Program 7 p.m. 9 p.m. Souveir Cao Cost - $35 per perso* *Pre-paid reservatio required NO EXCEPTIONS Reservatios limited to the first 140 received. NO TICKETS SOLD AT DOOR! Submitted by Kamel Oussayef, 33, MSA I am writig to you to itroduce the latest Norther Masoic Jurisdictio publicatio - Freemasory through the Veil of a Aciet Frech Mauscript - a aotated traslatio of the Book of Wisdom. It is oe of the mauscripts of the world-famous Doszedardski Collectio. Our Supreme Coucil published the book i December, 20, as oe of the may memetoes for the celebratio of its 200th Aiversary. It is a traslatio of a old Frech mauscript that I worked o over a period of 5 years at the Scottish Rite Masoic Museum ad Library i Lexigto. It cotais iterestig facts that are still relevat to better uderstad preset day Masory. The historical evets cotaied i the book also help explai the geesis ad growth of Scottish Rite i North America. I ca assure you I have o fiacial iterest i this very iformative ad hadsomely desiged publicatio. My request is solely aimed at makig sure that this precious mauscript is discovered ad ejoyed by our Brethre. The distributio of this book will also help isure that similar documets are traslated ad offered to the public i the future. The book has bee very well received by Masoic Scholars here i the Uited States as well as i foreig coutries. This book may be obtaied at: i the webpage s Quick liks: Scottish Rite NMJ Shop uder Book of Wisdom. If you have ay questios, feel free to cotact me at (781) Uderstadig the Root Cause of Disease By Myro Thursto III Assistat Director of Developmet ad Commuicatios Research scietists ad laboratory techicias at the Cardiac Research Istitute at Masoic Medical Research Laboratory (MMRL) are ivestigatig the geetic basis for iherited cardiac arrhythmias. Ivestigators like Rya Pfeiffer, Geetic Screeig Supervisor i the Molecular Geetics Program, are tryig to uderstad disease at its root cause so ew treatmets ad cures ca be developed to help treat the ailmets caused by the geetic defects. Everyoe iherits geetic variatios from their parets. This is the basis of evolutio, but also the mechaism by which a geetic predispositio to disease ca develop. Every family has diseases that are passed dow from oe geeratio to aother. These may iclude various forms of heart disease, cacer, high blood pressure, or psychological ailmets. Sciece has taught us that early every disease has either a geetic cause or geetic predispositio, which may be further promoted or suppressed by our eviromet. At MMRL, Rya ad his coworkers, workig uder the di- Rya Pfeiffer Supervisor of Geetic Screeig Cotiued o Page 19 Save the Date Saturday, April 5th Perito Park - Fairport For registratio ifo, either call (585) or dyslexia.ceter.rochester.y@gmail.com Damascus News see page 9

2 Website: www.moroemasoic.com N Email: masoictimes@gmail.com 59! Fifty-ie Degrees!

Our stop over i Clevelad took care of that. We disembarked oto the tarmac where the frigid Witry blast greeted us...o jet way there. If I told you it was good to be home, I might be fibbig a bit.

We could t get the little guy out of the pool, while the rest of us soaked up the Vitami D. We also participated i several activities held at the resort.

2 2 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com 59! Fifty-ie Degrees!! That was the differece i temperature readigs from the time we left Tampa Iteratioal Airport ad touched dow i Buffalo. It did t take us log to reacclimate to the North coutry. Our stop over i Clevelad took care of that. We disembarked oto the tarmac where the frigid Witry blast greeted us...o jet way there. If I told you it was good to be home, I might be fibbig a bit...but it is. We are somewhat relaxed ad refreshed from the brief respite, but it s ice to be i familiar surroudigs amogst frieds ad family. Not that we did t have a great week ad good time. We could t get the little guy out of the pool, while the rest of us soaked up the Vitami D. We also participated i several activities held at the resort. We especially ejoy playig (ad wiig a few) trivia games. Now we are ready to tackle the remaider of the Masoic year with vigor. We have several evets comig up, ad I hope to see may of you there - Webster s 150th Aiversary; the Moroe District Table Lodge; the Moroe District Widows Lucheo; the District Joit Ivestiture Service ad the Apro Presetatio Dier. Lots of stuff to do ad, look at that, I ve brought Summer alog already! Thaks for readig. MARTIN IPPOLITO Electricia (585) Electrical Work Telephoe Jacks Burglar Alarm Systems Cable TV Paddle Fas BARTHOLOMEW HEALTH CARE GROUP COMMITMENT TO QUALITY SINCE 1955 We provide all the comforts of home at each of our four family owed facilities. CREST MANOR Providig Skilled Nursig ad Rehabilitatio Services FAIRPORT, NEW YORK EAST SIDE Providig Skilled Nursig ad Rehabilitatio Services WARSAW, NEW YORK LEROY VILLAGE GREEN Providig Skilled Nursig ad Rehabilitatio Services LEROY, NEW YORK THE GREENS OF LEROY Idepedet Seior Livig LEROY, NEW YORK TO LEARN MORE, PLEASE VISIT Masoic Activities Lookig Ahead APRIL Lete Seaso Fish Frys: April 4th, 11th ad 18th Damascus Shriers, Shrie Ceter Olive Brach Lodge, 12 Bak St (Commuity Ceter) LeRoy 5 LIV District Ladies Night 6 Feast of the Pascal Lamb, Shrie Ceter 12 O/S/Y District Survivig Spouse Lucheo, Clifto Sprigs Coutry Club 12 LIV District Luch for Peddler s Market 20 Easter 26 Scottish Rite Sprig Reuio, Shrie Ceter MAY 3 Moroe District Widows Lucheo, Burgudy Basi 5-6 Grad Lodge Sessios, New York City 18 O/S/Y District Memorial Service, Uited Church of Phelps 23 DATE CHANGE - Moroe District Joit Ivestiture Service, Fairport Lodge Hall JUNE 7 Moroe District Apro Presetatio Dier, Shrie Ceter W\ Robert Mallory III Elected Eureka Lodge Worshipful Aually, the Price Hall Masos i Rochester elect a Worshipful, as is customary i Masoic Lodges. This year the members of Eureka Lodge, the oly Price Hall Lodge i Moroe Couty, have chose Robert Mallory III as their leader. W\ Mallory shared i a iterview, I hope, that uder my admiistratio, we ca build more iteractios with Masoic Lodges i Moroe Couty ad broade our Masoic relatioships. Furthermore, he stated, As the umber of Masos cotiues to declie i Masory ad i our commuity, it is importat we recogize all of our Masoic Brethre ad fidig ways to sped time together is a great way to ehace that recogitio. W\ Mallory ca be cotacted most efficietly by at: robert.mallory@hotmail.com. Special Year Eureka Lodge No. 36, Price Hall Free & Accepted Masos, Aual Tribute to Our Widows Sposored by the Masoic Service Bureau Saturday, May 3rd, at the Burgudy Basi, 61 Marsh Road; doors ope at 11 a.m.; luch served at oo. Agai, we are askig each Lodge to appoit a Brother to coordiate your Lodge Brothers ad Widows ivolvemet. No Tickets Will Be Mailed Letters are beig set to all Secretaries of the Moroe District Lodges with a form to retur to the Masoic Service Bureau. It will require: The ame of each perso attedig Their choice of Etreé - Sliced Sirloi of Beef or Stuffed Chicke Breast A check for the full amout. The cost for the sit dow lucheo is $18. Should you have ay questios, cotact Garry Craker, Committee Chair at You may also cotact the Masoic Service Bureau Office at Phoe Masoic Times 0314 Clip ad mail to: 979 Bay Road, Suite 2 Webster, NY City State ZIP Address March 2014 DAMASCUS SHRINE 5th Aual Seeca Casio Bus Trip Suday, April 6th $32 per perso Gio Tours ad our Hostess, Carm, ivite you to sit back, relax ad have fu o the trip up ad back i a luxury coach. Icludes doatio to Shriers Hospitals for Childre Bus Roud-trip Fare $20 Slot Dollars ~ $5 Food Voucher Pizza bread, wie, soda & water o trip up Sacks, cookies, raffles ad Karaoke by Carm o the way home all raffles for trip attedees. ITINERARY Meet at Shrie Ceter Bus leaves at 11 a.m. sharp Arrive at Casio 1 p.m. Ejoy the Casio, shop or sightsee i Dowtow Niagara Falls, NY Bus departs at 6 p.m. sharp Retur to Shrie Ceter approximately This trip is ope to all - Shriers, Masos, OES, family ad frieds! Call early - oly 40 seats available! Call the Shrie Office at (585) to reserve your spot ad pre-pay with credit card, or sed a check to: Damascus Shriers, 979 Bay Rd Webster, NY Paymet with Reservatio is due i the Office by Moday, March 31st at Noo. was Chartered 5 years ago, ad Worshipful Mallory ad his Lie of Officers are addig special programmig to the Lodge Trestleboard this year to commemorate the Aiversary of that special evet. He hopes readers ca participate i some of the activities. I additio to electig W\ Mallory, the Lodge elected Seior Warde, Hugh Dougall; Juior Warde, Lomax Campbell; Treasurer, Michael Brow;, James Waters; ad 3-Year Trustee, Past Michael Nix. Webster Lodge No. 538 Sesquiceteial Celebratios Thursday, March 6th 4:45 p.m. - Re-dedicatio Ceremoy at Webster Masoic Hall Social - 5:30 p.m. ~ Dier - 6:30 p.m. ~ Program - 7:00 p.m. Webster Golf Club, 440 Salt Road, Webster Speaker - Most Worshipful James E. Sulliva Grad of Masos i the State of New York Periodical postage PAID at Webster, NY ad additioal mailig offices POSTMASTER Sed address chages to: Masoic Times 979 Bay Road, Suite 2 Webster, NY Phoe: Submit articles & photos to: masoictimes@gmail.com Busiess bmasoic@rochester.rr.com Website Published Mothly except July ad August. Closig Date for Articles is the 5th of the Moth precedig the Moth of publicatio. Staff Editor Skip Waterstreet Compositor Ja Porter Computer Graphics Mike Bocklage Productio Assistats Garry Craker Barb Goodrich Herb Specer Mat Gigold, Emeritus Bev VaHube, Emeritus Published by Masoic Service Bureau Garry Craker...Presidet James De Lorezo... Vice-Presidet Gary Saford... Herbert Specer...Treasurer Prited by Empire State Weeklies, Ic. Subscriptio Rates Domestic Subscriptios: Idividual, $10.00 per year. Group rate: $9.00 per year per member. Group subscriptios for Allied, Associated or Cocordat Bodies are billed at $2.00 per year for those members who are already subscribers to the Masoic Times; $9.00 for o-subscribers. Iteratioal Subscriptios: $40.00 per year (set First Class Mail). Name Are You Movig? Prit your NEW address below (icludig seasoal chages)

March 2014 Website: www.moroemasoic.com N Email: masoictimes@gmail.com 3 Order of the Easter Star Moroe District OES HiLights DDGM R.W. Beverly Thompso 392-7546 garybvthompso@aol.com DGL R.W. Tom Richederfer 377-7782 tomrich@rochester.

wished the greeest shamrocks ad the warmest sushie too, To make this very special time just woderful for you!

Plas were made for a May 15th meetig whe the Grad Matro will visit Associatios. School of Istructio The School of Istructio o February 1st at Uity Lodge wet well with about 35 people attedig.

A thak you to Pat Pearso ad Mae Bauer for doig the 50/50 raffle; the proceeds are goig to the Dream Factory of Rochester.

com I take this time to persoally thak those who were able to atted the Istallatio.

3 March 2014 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com 3 Order of the Easter Star Moroe District OES HiLights DDGM R.W. Beverly Thompso garybvthompso@aol.com DGL R.W. Tom Richederfer tomrich@rochester.rr..com The gree shamrock of March teases us with thoughts of the gree of Sprigtime If shamrocks are a promise that good luck is o the way, Ad sushie i a sky of blue ca brighte up a day, The you are wished the greeest shamrocks ad the warmest sushie too, To make this very special time just woderful for you! Past Matros Associatio O Jauary 16th, Vickie Gross led the Past Matros meetig after members ejoyed luch together. March 20th is the ext meetig i Specerport, preceded by a brow-bag luch at oo. Plas were made for a May 15th meetig whe the Grad Matro will visit Associatios. School of Istructio The School of Istructio o February 1st at Uity Lodge wet well with about 35 people attedig. After treats ad coffee, provided by the District Lecturer, Tom Richederfer wet over all of the Ritual chages from Grad Sessios last October. A thak you to Pat Pearso ad Mae Bauer for doig the 50/50 raffle; the proceeds are goig to the Dream Factory of Rochester. Moroe District Murder Mystery Dier Saturday, March 8 th Lalla Rookh GROTTO News Frak Habitzreuther, Moarch lallarookhgrotto.com M.O.V.P.E.R. Frakly Habitzreuther Moarch aimalhab@aol.com I take this time to persoally thak those who were able to atted the Istallatio. A special thaks to our of Ceremoies, Prophet Dick Topal, who provided us with ourishmet, ad to the Shrie who provided Potetate, Joe Di Tucci, ad Chief Rabba, Waye McCrosse, to serve our liquid refreshmets. Grad Matro s Official Visit After the School of Istructio, the Lie Officers Clubs met to pla for the April 26th Grad Matro ad Grad Patro s Official Visit. Request from Chapters Moroe District will be doig a basket raffle at their visit. I am askig each Chapter to doate a themed basket for the raffle table. If ay idividual could also doate oe, it would certaily be appreciated sice we eed may baskets to make it iterestig ad profitable. Their Official Visits to other Districts i our area i April are: Saturday, April 12th - Oswego District Friday, April 25th Otario/ Seeca/Yates District Saturday, April 26th Moroe District Suday, April 29th - Geesee/ Wyomig District Let me kow if you pla to atted ay of these ad wat to share rides. Keep i mid the reservatios eed to be i about a moth before the evet. See your Chapter for further details. Murder Mystery Dier Moroe District s Murder Mystery Dier is o Saturday, March 8th at Uity Lodge Hall i Specerport startig at 5:30 p.m. Grapes of Frath takes place o a yacht somewhere i the Mediterraea Sea i Tickets are $15 each, which icludes puch ad appetizers, soup, mai etrée, dessert ad the who-doe-it play. The audiece is ecouraged to take part by dressig i the styles of the time, listeig to the clues as they are icluded i the text of the play ad solvig the mystery of who committed the murder. Great food, great music, great etertaimet, ad A committee has bee set up to review ad update our curret By-Laws. It has bee 11 years sice they have bee looked at ad I believe their review is log overdue March 19th will be our Prophet Briga-Brother Night. We will be havig a Cored Beef ad Cabbage Dier i hoor of St. Patrick s Day. Ay prospective Prophet will be our guest; for all Prophets, the cost will be $5 - a reasoable price for a great meal. If you pla o attedig, please RSVP to me at: aimalhab@aol. com or by callig Sickess ad Distress Prophet Ke Hutchiso is at a ursig home o Maple Aveue i Sodus. Cards may be set to his home Stillmeadow Way, Williamso, NY Prophet Mike Postilli is still goig through treatmet at home - 88 Uderwood Aveue, Hilto, NY, Prophet Fred Corell is still hospitalized Dea Road, Specerport, NY, at Uity Lodge Hall, Specerport Social - 5:30 p.m.; Dier ad Play - 6 p.m. $ 15 per perso ~ Reservatios Required by March 1st RSVP to Beverly Thompso - Ph: or garybvthompso@aol.com This story takes place o a Mediterraea Yacht i You are welcome to dress i that time period if you wish... it could add to audiece ivolvemet. We hope you ca joi us! This evet is a fudraiser for the OES District Special Project The Dream Factory of Rochester. great fellowship is what you will get if you come. Reservatios are eeded immediately if you have ot telephoed me already. Proceeds will go to the Dream Factory of Rochester. Grads Associatio Thursday, March 27th - The Grads Associatio will meet at Fairport with a dier at 6:30 p.m. ad the meetig at District Deputies Orgaizatio Friday, March 28th - District Deputies luch ad meetig at Keea s Restaurat i Irodequoit. Tri-District Friedship Night Hoorig Musicias & Veteras Moday, March 31st - Here s hopig March comes i like a lio ad goes out like a lamb sice we will be travelig to LeRoy for the Tri-District Friedship Night, which ivolves ot oly Moroe District, but Geesee/Wyomig ad Erie Districts as well. Each Chapter i Moroe District has members who will be participatig i the evet. This year, Musicias ad Masoic Veteras will be the hoored guests. It should be a grad evet. Thak you Doa Laudry ad Doree Rhodes for attedig the plaig meetig. District Official Visits The very ext day after the Tri-District evet, Moroe District will start their ow special evets - Official Visits by the District Deputy Grad Matro ad the District Grad Lecturer. Tuesday, April 1st - Fairport Chapter, Tuesday, April 8th - Mary Jae Holmes Chapter, Brockport, We hope may Easter Star members will visit these Chapters at these times. May sideliers make the occasio eve more special so I ecourage you to atted as may Official Visits as possible. My motto is To be happy, you eed someoe to love, somethig to do ad somethig to hope for. The followig Irish Blessig follows that so closely I m sure these Prophets would appreciate hearig from us i some way. I kow we all ca spare a couple of miutes to brighte their day with a visit, card or call. Those Prophets maturig this moth are Douglas D. Fix, Edward C. Miller, Keeth R. Miler, Louis Nios, Alfred Pulcio III, Richard W. Topal ad Cyril White. By Bev Murray, MCO We thak all who celebrated our 66th Birthday with Lalla Rookh Caldro; it was a special time for us. I wish each of you a Happy St. Patrick s Day ad, to those of you who are celebratig a birthday i March, you get May there always be work for your hads to do, May your purse always hold a coi or two, May the su always shie o your widowpae, May a raibow be certai to follow each rai, May the had of a fried always be ear you, May God fill your heart with gladess to cheer you. Atted Grotto Meetigs Moday March 3rd Board of Goverors Meetig Grotto Office - 7 p.m. Wedesday March 19th Prophet Brig-a-Brother Night Cored Beef & Cabbage Dier 6:30 p.m. - $5 per perso Meetig - CLIP AND SAVE! Iformatio Hot Lie Frak Habitzreuther to celebrate twice. Ejoy! As the caledar marches right alog, Sprig will be here soo alog with some warmer weather, I hope. Our ext meetig is scheduled for March th at Hope to see you the. God Bless each of you or as we say, May the Peace of God Abide with Us.

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$Ill\ Brother Albert Mackey, i his Ecyclopedia of Freemasory, idicates that a Table Lodge was bor out of custom.$ A Little Backgroud First Whe a Lodge goes from labor to refreshmet, the Lodge remais i sessio, but is i recess. That is ot ulike whe we were i school.

A Little Backgroud First Whe a Lodge goes from labor to refreshmet, the Lodge remais i sessio, but is i recess. That is ot ulike whe we were i school.

While at refreshmet, we remai uder the watch of the Juior Warde, whose charge it is to see that we do ot pervert the meas of refreshmet to itemperace or excess.

Some of our Lodges to this day cotiue that traditio. I ve always foud the repast a ice way to coclude my time at Lodge for that particular eveig. The Table Lodge that I am familiar with, is a baquet.

Everyoe i the room had to be a Freemaso, icludig servig Brethre.

The space betwee the legs of the horseshoe was occupied by the servig Brethre.

4 4 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com Moroe District District Deputy Grad - Phillip Hurwitz District Deputy Grad Moroe District R W Phillip Hurwitz phurwitz@frotieret.et Moroe District Table Lodge March 31st So what is this gatherig they call a Table Lodge all about? It s ot metioed i our Stadard Work. Ill\ Brother Albert Mackey, i his Ecyclopedia of Freemasory, idicates that a Table Lodge was bor out of custom. A Little Backgroud First Whe a Lodge goes from labor to refreshmet, the Lodge remais i sessio, but is i recess. That is ot ulike whe we were i school. School was ot closed durig recess; we just were give a break from our studies. That s the case i Lodge; whe we go from labor to refreshmet, we take a break from our labors to refresh ourselves. While at refreshmet, we remai uder the watch of the Juior Warde, whose charge it is to see that we do ot pervert the meas of refreshmet to itemperace or excess. A Table Lodge was at oe time a simple repast, where Brothers would come together after Lodge (their labors) to ejoy some fellowship, alog with somethig to both eat ad drik. Some of our Lodges to this day cotiue that traditio. I ve always foud the repast a ice way to coclude my time at Lodge for that particular eveig. The Table Lodge that I am familiar with, is a baquet. Accordig to Brother Mackey, our Table Lodges are pattered o the form prescribed by Frech Masos. These baquets were held outside the Lodge Room ad o the 1st Degree. Everyoe i the room had to be a Freemaso, icludig servig Brethre. The baquet table itself was i the form of a horseshoe, with the Worshipful at the head, the Seior Warde at the Northeast, ad the Juior Warde at the Southwest. The space betwee the legs of the horseshoe was occupied by the servig Brethre. Brother Mackey believes that the form of the table was a fuctio of practicality, rather tha of symbolism; but shares oe theory. Sice the etire circle represets a year, or a complete revolutio of the earth aroud the su; the the semi-circular shape of the table represets half a revolutio, or six moths. I tur, this six-moth period refers to the seasos of Summer ad Witer, whe the most importat Table Lodges were held. A Table Lodge would ope with a ivocatio to the G.A.O.T.U. Durig the course of the baquet, there were seve obligatory toasts. They are: 1. To the health of the Sovereig or Chief Magistrate of the State (I the U.S.A., to our Presidet); 2. To our Grad 3. To the of the Lodge (offered by the Seior Warde) 4. That of the two Wardes 5. That of the visitig Brethre 6. That of the other Officers of the Lodge, icludig ay ew Iitiates or Affiliates 7. To all Masos wherever they may be The terms that Frech Masos used at their Table Lodges cotiue with us to this day. Some of these terms are: Napkis Flags Table Tracig Board Plates Tiles Spoos Trowels Kives Swords Forks Pickaxes Bottles Casks Glasses Caos Bread Rough Ashlar Red Wie Strog Red Powder White Wie Strog White Powder Beer Yellow Powder Coffee Black Powder To Drik Fire Ad this is very Frech. The Table Lodge is closed with the Frateral kiss, which is passed from the aroud the table. Give that we trace our roots to the Grad Lodge of Eglad, it seems appropriate that we, istead, joi hads ad sig that farewell peed by Worshipful Brother Robert Burs, Auld Lag Sye. I hope to see may of you at our District Table Lodge o March 31st at the Shrie Ceter. This is our opportuity to thak our Grad ad our Grad Lie for all they have doe for our District ad for Freemasory. Grad Directors of Ceremoies R W Michael Huesto mph0523@ frotieret.et R W Robert Buchaa Are you thikig Sprig? We all have had eough of the white stuff ad it s time for suy days. District Table Lodge Your District Leadership Team has bee busy fializig the plas for the Moroe District Table Lodge which will be held o March 31st. This evet is a great way to help us thak M\W\ James Sulliva, Grad of Masos i the State of New York, our appreciatio for his leadership ad for attedig the may fuctios ad evets i the Moroe District. As a Grad, M\W\ Sulliva has bee there for all of us. Please, we eed your help to support this evet so you ca persoally thak the Grad. Grad Lodge Sessios We also thak W\ Steve Micheer for a good job this year as the Presidet of s ad Wardes. We hope the s have made their reservatios for this year s Grad Lodge Sessio i New York City. If you eed help to complete your reservatios, please let us kow ad we will help you make the arragemets. R\W\ Rob Buchaa ad I thak the Lodges for the hospitality exteded to us whe visitig. We have ejoyed the Degrees ad spedig time with the ew Brothers as well as talkig with the seior members. Have-a-Heart Campaig Thak you to all the Lodges ad Brothers who helped make this year s Have-a-Heart Campaig successful. It really takes everyoe workig together to make it happe. For the strog leadership of R\W\George Foeher, ad his may hours of plaig, we owe him a big thak you. Wrappig Up the Masoic Year With oly two moths remaiig before the ew District Officers start their term we hope to visit the Lodges ad thak you for supportig us these past two years. If we ca be of help to you, please let us kow. We would love to help with ay Masoic Educatio questio that ay Brother may have. God Bless you ad Happy St. Patrick s Day. Moroe District s ad Wardes Associatio By Stepha Micheer, Presidet At our Jauary meetig, we had a fairly good turout. Ke Hecker, Juior Warde at Uio Star Lodge, prepared a great Chicke Dier with all the fixigs ad pie for dessert. It was outstadig hospitality. The meetig started with a dyamic roudtable discussio about various happeigs goig o at the Lodges that were represeted. It was a opportuity for those who atteded to hear that may of the challeges that we face at our idividual Lodges are similar to the challeges experieced by our Brothers who are priciple Officers at other Lodges. I other words, we re all i this together ad our commo experieces as s ad Wardes i our Lodges offer us a chace to lear from ad support oe aother. I particular, I was ecouraged to hear what others had to say regardig tryig to icrease attedace at meetigs. Also, at the last meetig, a iitial listig of Lodge Programs beig offered was shared. We still have ot received resposes back from more tha half of the Lodges i our District. I trust that, if your Lodge has ot respoded to the survey, you probably already kow this. I also hope you will help us out by returig the survey. We will be tryig oe more time to get a survey back from the Lodges we have t heard from. Ufortuately, without more Lodges participatig, our resource list looks kid of slim ad its beefit to the Seior Wardes who are plaig their Trestleboards for ext year, is questioable. This is disappoitig. Aother topic of discussio at the last meetig was begiig preparatios for goig to Grad Lodge the first weeked i May. A sample itierary was passed out, which icluded some activities we could participate i as a group o the Saturday ad Suday before Grad Lodge. This icluded some possible shows we could atted, some sightseeig optios, ad chaces to have some meals together. Of course, these were just prelimiary ideas ad, at our future meetigs, we will discuss this further. Our ext meetig was scheduled for February 25th. It was to cocetrate o plaig for the Grad Lodge Trip ad further discussio o the i-progress Resource Survey. Moroe District New York Masoic Safety Idetificatio Program R W Doald Tubma Co-Chairma datubma@yahoo.com Rick Dows Co-Chairma rcdows@rochester.rr.com Traiig Coordiator James MacDuff jim.kc2vxw@rochester.rr.com I Jauary, James MacDuff ad I met with Masoic groups to gai support to upgrade the equipmet by securig ew cameras, readers ad a ew laptop computer. Support was foud with s ad Wardes as well as the Moroe District Purple Club. If you ca thik of fudraisers to help get moey for this cause cotact us. We received ew supplies ad the equipmet is ready to go! We really feel that the uits are operatig at optimum ow, but upgrades are eeded. We coveyed a message to the groups that Grad Lodge would like every child ad every Seior/Seasoed Citize i assisted livig facilities ad ursig homes i New York 1118 Log Pod Road South of Maide Lae March 2014 State processed for idetificatio. While watchig the eveig ews, I too ofte see a istace where havig the ID of a perso could be ivaluable. There are too may tragic evets agreed? We have ad will be askig all Lodges ad Cocordat Bodies to help. Brethre, we wat to make greater use of the ID equipmet by havig evets supported by each Lodge. We wat to process as may folks as possible this year ad make the most of our talets ad equipmet. It is possible with your support ad help. Thik of opportuities i your commuity - either childre or seior citizes - who ca beefit ad be protected by your efforts. We have had a very successful year. We had requests for the equipmet through this Witer ad will be teamig with the Mary Cariola Ceter for several evets oce the weather breaks. Notably, Webster Lodge has scheduled several ID opportuities i Jauary ad February i several Webster locatios ad i Rochester to iteract with youth ad with Fire Bur Prevetio activity. The Missio of the NY MSID Program is to provide a vital commuity service to: Aid i the recovery of a child. Aid i the recovery of a adult or seior citize. Ecourage Masos to become ivolved i their commuities. Promote a positive image of Masory ad Masoic Life i our commuities. Broadeig public awareess ad recogitio of Masory. It does ot take much to set up a evet ad staff it just a little creativity ad forethought. Cotact Iformatio about the Masoic Safety ID Program is available olie at: You ca cotact Do Tubma at if you have questios or suggestios. We ca be reached most easily by to schedule a evet at: datubma@yahoo.com or rcdows@rochester.rr.com Music Lessos MARTIN IPPOLITO (585) Begiers Welcome Piao - Keyboards Orga - Accordio (585) Pre-plaed Fueral Arragemets By Appoitmet Formal Chapel o Premises Complete Fueral Arragemets At Oe Coveiet Locatio Persoal & Digified Service For All Faiths Geeral Price Lists Available Cetral Greece Area Locally Owed

March 2014 Website: www.moroemasoic.com N Email: masoictimes@gmail.com 5 ERAC Lodge No. 163 website: www.eraclodge163.org 2d & 4th Modays, 979 Bay Road, Webster 14580 W Charles D.

com Hopefully you have all bee stayig warm despite the bitter cold ad sow that Jauary ad February have brought us. With ay luck the moth of March will be all lamb ad o lio.

Brother Bejami Frakli Lookig Back February was a busy moth for ERAC Lodge.

5 March 2014 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com 5 ERAC Lodge No. 163 website: 2d & 4th Modays, 979 Bay Road, Webster W Charles D. Crawford cdcrawford21@gmail.com W David G. Upham (315) dgupham@gmail.com Hopefully you have all bee stayig warm despite the bitter cold ad sow that Jauary ad February have brought us. With ay luck the moth of March will be all lamb ad o lio. Day Light Savig Time is here; remember to set your clocks ahead o Suday, March 9th. Early to bed, ad early to rise, makes a ma healthy, wealthy ad wise. Brother Bejami Frakli Lookig Back February was a busy moth for ERAC Lodge. We participated i the Have-a-Heart Campaig for the Roald McDoald Houses, givig away hearts at Eastview Mall o February 3rd ad 14th. Several Brothers braved the cold to support this great evet; thaks to Nick Aasta, Jim MacDuff, Adam ad Mike Sukheko, Ker Hayes, Mike Kolla, Joh Hellaby, Dave Crawford, Mike Pavoe, Lew Pera, Sam Friedma ad Chad Crawford (apologies if ay participat was missed.) Our February 10th meetig was chaged slightly to accommodate for some ufiished 1st Degree work. The History of ERAC Lodge, presetatio by Brother Paul Bielewicz was postpoed util the March 24th meetig. Light from the 1st Degree was preseted by Brother Dave Figado. Upcomig Evets Our March 10th meetig will be Past s Recogitio Night. I ivite all Past s lookig for a ight out of the house to come joi ERAC Lodge as we celebrate all those who have served i the East at this Tiled meetig. Brother Dave Figado will also be presetig Light from the 2d Degree. Our March 24th Tiled meetig will be The Morga Affair, preseted by Brother Mike Sukheko. Also The History of ERAC Lodge presetatio by Brother Paul Bielewicz. Please make your dier reservatios by cotactig Brother Bruce Katz, Juior Warde, by phoe or (preferably) by at: brucek8189@aol.com. Please iclude ERAC i the Subject Lie. Reservatio due by Friday before the meetigs. Other happeigs i the District you will wat to atted March 19th - School of Ritual at Uity Lodge Hall, Specerport, 7:30-9 p.m. March 31st - District Table Lodge at Shrie Ceter,6-9 p.m. Deadlie for reservatios is March 17th. Is your reservatio i to Phil Hurwitz? Space is limited to the first 140 Brothers. Ritual Work Rehearsals Moday, March 17th - 3rd Degree Rehearsal, 7 p.m. Suday, March 30th - 3rd Degree Rehearsal, 7 p.m. I ivite all Masos who desire further light i Masory, or are iterested i gettig ivolved i the Ritual itself, to atted our rehearsals. Please cotact Brother Jim MacDuff at: jim.kc2vxw@rochester.rr.com. Waka-Hubbard Lodge No d & 4th Modays W Agelo DiCataldo kdicataldo@frotieret.et R W Joh Zabel secretary@wakahubbard.org 1822-A Pefield Road, Pefield By R\W\ Joh Zabel We had a great Jauary with the Raisig of Brother Pablo Chapa Blaco as a Maso. It was a excitig time as the full Degree was doe by members of the Lodge, thus helpig to qualify us for the Meacham Award - aother hoor for the Lodge. February saw our first Brother Brig-a-Fried Evet. There were several visitors preset for whom the presetatio wet very well. We will see how we do with Petitios. O a iterestig ote, W\ Agelo DiCataldo had a problem gettig to the evet. O the way, he got a flat tire right outside a tire store. Of course, they were ot able to help him immediately, so he called Brother Ed Hutley who, alog with a fried, picked him up ad took him to the fuctio. They arrived a little late, but did ejoy the evet. Our first meetig i February saw the Walk-About Program preseted by R\ W\ Joh Zabel. This was a way of itroducig our ewer Brothers to the Officers ad Protocol of a Lodge meetig. We attempt to do this program at the meetig followig the 3rd Degree. We like our ew Brothers to feel comfortable i comig to Lodge meetig ad participatig i the activities of the Lodge. Prior to the first meetig i February we held a Valetie s Dier Party. Yes, it was a week ahead of the real Valetie s Day, but it allowed the Lodge to have a fuctio that did ot iterfere or coflict with other Masoic Valetie s Parties. Brother Justi Log was the host ad provided the music ad karaoke for the eveig. The meal was excellet ad the eveig was ejoyed by all. Upcomig Evets March will see us goig over the history of Waka-Hubbard Lodge ad its costituet parts. This will be preseted by our historia R\ W\ Joh Zabel. He has built this history o his ow research plus that of his father ad gradfather as well as past members of both Warre C. Hubbard Lodge ad Pefield Uio Lodge. We will also preset what we call the wacky words from some of the Degrees. Actually, the words are ot wacky, but have a very iterestig origi ad some are ot commoly used i moder coversatio ad defiitely ot i textig. For the last meetig of the moth we pla to cofer the 2d Degree o our Etered Appretices. Hopefully, our Metors ad Sposors will have worked with them for their proficiecy examiatio so they will be prepared, ca move to Fellowcraft ad help them approach their full membership i the Lodge. The Lodge is improvig its Ritual work ad is workig to get more iterested Brothers ivolved i helpig with the coferrals. Lastly, if you do ot have your 2014 Dues Card, cotact the to fid out how you ca get yours. Ispiratio Lodge No. 109 website: 2d & 4th Tuesdays - W Scott Rice srice180@gmail.com R W Derek VaHoute derekhoute1@mac.com 979 Bay Road, Webster By R\W\ Skip Waterstreet Have-a-Heart Campaig We had great support at the Have-a-Heart Booth at The Mall at Greece Ridge o Super Bowl Suday ad raised over $500. I am sure the Brothers of Ispiratio Lodge stepped up, i their usual supportive way, to cover the booth for this terrific beefit for the Roald McDoald Houses. Sickess ad Distress Brother Kevi Gerhard has had some pretty serious set backs followig his surgery ad remais hospitalized to the best of my kowledge. Please cotiue with the prayers for his speedy ad complete recovery. It was good to see Brother Derik Plaisted i Lodge for our 3rd Degree followig his recet surgery. He told me he is doig well ad is back to work o limited duty. I ve had o other reports o Brothers or their family members i eed of our aid or assistace, or ayoe with improvig coditios or happy evets, for that matter. Please be sure to let me kow if you hear of ayoe havig difficulties. I d rather have umerous people tell me the same thig, tha o oe call because they thik someoe already did. Comig Evets March 11th - The meetig is a Regular Commuicatio. March 25th - 2d Degree assumig that our ewly Iitiated Brothers will achieve proficiecy i the 1st Degree material ad be ready to move o. Please mark the followig dates o your caledar ad pla to atted May th - Aual Meetig ad Electio of Officers Jue 10th - Tetatively Empire State Weeklies, Ic. Webster Pritig Corporatio 46 North Aveue Webster, NY (585) Specializig i Newsletters Priters of this Publicatio scheduled for a Ope Istallatio of Officers 3rd Degree If you missed the presetatio o Jauary 28th by the Ispiratio Lodge Degree Team, you missed a most uique presetatio of the Hiramic Leged. Our Seior Deaco, Brother Rya Rampli, has bee istrumetal i obtaiig Brothers for various roles i all the Degrees ad schedulig the ecessary rehearsals. As that Tuesday progressed, more ad more of the participats iformed him of illess, which depleted the Cast. He was able to recruit a few last-miute replacemets, icludig two visitors from Caada (W\ Robert Armstrog ad W\ Brock McCulloch) who were hoored ad thrilled to be asked to help. However, Brother Rampli stepped i ad filled multiple roles above ad beyod what he was plaig to do. There are t too may i Lodges who could or would do what he did that eveig. It was marvelous to witess! Aother Year Oce agai we say Happy Birthday to those celebratig i March Harvey Aderso ad Patrick McWhiey (1st); Harry Coates ad Ralph Rizzo (3rd); Keeth Laza (4th); Clyde Siverd (8th); G. Thomas Grape (9th); William Carr (10th); Adam Gerke (12th); Jay Rodgers (15th): Joseph Meli (19th); Roald Freida (20th); Douglas Fix (21st); Aaro Jordo (23rd); Brado Tilburg (24th) ad Carl Ester (31st). We hope you ejoy your day! Fairport-Flower City Lodge No d & 4th Modays W Adrew Woeppel (716) woeppel@gmail.com Fairport Masoic Hall 87 South Mai Street W Berard D. Lazerso lazerbdl2@aol.com Is Sprig here yet? It is get- tig closer every day! March should come i like a lio ad go out like a lamb. Have-a-Heart Campaig A big thak you to the Brothers who helped staff the Have-a-Heart booths at Eastview ad Marketplace Malls. We raised moey for a very worthy cause ad had good fellowship at the same time. Welcome O Jauary th, we welcomed two ew Brothers by coferrig the 3rd Degree o Brothers Michael Frazer ad Athoy Paola. May they be eriched i their travels through Freemasory ad fid true comradeship i their membership. Degree i March The 2d Degree will be coferred o March 24th with Brother Paul McLaughli i the East. There will be a rehearsal o March 23rd. All participats should kow their part from the Fall coferral. If you caot take part or would like to do somethig, please cotact Brother Paul McLaughli. This Sprig the Lodge will be hoorig the area s Eagle Scouts for their achievemets i our commuity. This evet will be ope to Masos, family ad frieds. Come ad show your support. More details to follow. Codoleces We exted our sympathy to the family of Brother Roy Forest, who passed to his reward o Jauary 6th. We remember him with fod memories. March Birthdays The followig Brothers were bor i the moth of March: Murray Kellogg (2d), Samuel Katz (3rd), Daiel Bliss (12th), Tomislav Trapaovski (16th), Michael Johso (20th), Adrew Woeppel (21st), Seymour Margolis (23rd), Joh Lidsay (25th), Doald Camero (27th) ad Joh-Paul Altieri (29th). We wish for all of you a special day ad a happy, prosperous ad healthy year ahead. Who Is He? Icrease Alle Lapham was Cotiued o Page 6 Fairport-Flower City ew Brothers, welcomed by W\ Adrew Woeppel (ceter), are Michael Frazer (left) ad Athoy Paola.

6 Website: www.moroemasoic.com N Email: masoictimes@gmail.com Fairport-Flower City Cotiued from Page 5 bor o March 7th, 1811, i the Tow of Macedo (at that time i Palmyra).

People i States that usually ejoy eve temperatures ad weather have had to check to see what tomorrow will brig. Welcome to the real world. Icrease s ucle was a Charter Member of Fairport Lodge i 1859.

NORTHFIELD Lodge No. 426 www.orthfieldlodge.org 1st & 3rd Thursdays, W Stepha Micheer 387-9487 smichee@ rochester.rr.

I am appreciative of the Brothers who have stepped up to take parts i the eveig s ceremoies.

I hope that ext year we ca take pride i the fact that our Lodge has eough active Brothers to pull this off ourselves.

6 6 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com Fairport-Flower City Cotiued from Page 5 bor o March 7th, 1811, i the Tow of Macedo (at that time i Palmyra). He fouded the Uited States Weather Bureau i All weather data comes after that date. Now we eve have a Weather Chael. People i States that usually ejoy eve temperatures ad weather have had to check to see what tomorrow will brig. Welcome to the real world. Icrease s ucle was a Charter Member of Fairport Lodge i Come to Lodge ad get the rest of the story. As usual, I recommed that you check out all the ews i the Masoic Times for a fuller uderstadig of what is goig o i the exteded family of Freemasory. NORTHFIELD Lodge No st & 3rd Thursdays, W Stepha Micheer smichee@ rochester.rr.com W Joh A. Dudley, jdudley1@rochester.rr.com 17 Church Street, Pittsford March Ahead O March 6th we will hold our 3rd Degree. I am appreciative of the Brothers who have stepped up to take parts i the eveig s ceremoies. Although we will eed some assistace from the Shrie Degree Team to fill out roles, we are very close to beig able to do this ourselves. I hope that ext year we ca take pride i the fact that our Lodge has eough active Brothers to pull this off ourselves. Our curret class of four has great promise ad I hope they will get ivolved i the busiess of our Lodge. To our soo to be class of Masos, I wat you to kow it is oe thig to go through the Degrees. However, there is a etirely deeper appreciatio of the meaig of the Degrees achieved whe you participate i doig them. The Brothers who take part i puttig o the Degrees uderstad the more sublime meaigs through the disciplie ad commitmet of study that it requires. Goig through the Degrees your first time is oly a scratchig of the surface. You might suspect there s a little more there; a little more to it, that the mystery has t bee completely revealed. It has t. It ca take a lifetime to gai a appreciatio for the deeper sigificace of the Degrees. I urge you to take up the study with your Brothers ad I sicerely hope our ew Brothers will become Helpig Families Share Memories sice Thursday, May 29th at 7 p.m. ivolved ad take a active role i the future of Northfield Lodge. We welcome you to our oble Fraterity. Warig: Bagpipes! O March 20th, Northfield Lodge is pleased to welcome Brother Peter Cormack, from Uio Star Lodge, who will do a presetatio etitled Warig: Bagpipes! Music That Ca Stir the Spirit ad Terrify Foes. Pete is a log-time Maso ad piper ad if you ve atteded ay Masoic evets where you ve heard bagpipe music, well the, you kow who he is. We look forward to hearig him talk about ad play this fasciatig istrumet. It should be a great ight. Fially, Brothers, your Lodge has doe much to ecourage your attedace. The Lodge pait ad décor have bee fresheed up. We have meals before each ad EVERY meetig. We have a detailed Trestleboard with a variety of Masoic-orieted programs of educatio, elightemet, ecouragemet, etertaimet ad ethusiasm (the five Es). There is eergy i the air. We eve recetly had a mior repair to the boiler which gets the Lodge ice ad toasty very quickly. We have doe what we ca to reach out to you ad let you kow we welcome your attedace. The ext step is up to you. Wo t you come out to a meetig ad re-discover what our Fraterity is all about? I hope to see you soo. Uio Star Lodge No. 320 Website: 2d Modays, W Keeth J. Tomaszewski ke@kjtgroup.com R W Gary R. Saford 27 Freshfield Rise, Fairport ggsaford@aol.com 3 North Mai Street Hoeoye Falls Recetly, I preseted a program about the Priciples of Freemasory ad their relatio to the foudig of the Uited Pre-Need & Medicaid Plaig Fueral & Crematio Services Memorial Evet Plaig David P. Crawford, Licesed Maager 495 N. Wito Road Rochester, NY (Betwee Browcroft & Humboldt) States. Brotherly Love, Relief ad Truth were the priciples I focused o. I described how each had a fudametal role i shapig the Bill of Rights, as well as the overall philosophy of our Foudig Fathers. While sectaria discussio was ot part of the Lodge Room discussio that eveig, I preseted how, i our system of govermet, all of the Priciples of Freemasory were ecessary coditios for our Republic to thrive. Abset ay of these i its etirety, we might as well cosider our great experimet a failure. I wated to call particular attetio to the priciple of Relief, ad its implicatios for ay society. Relief is to act for, to the best of our abilities, those i distress without detrimet to ay who are depedet upo us ad to give support to outside charities. A society that provides relief to its costituets as a guidig priciple, o its ow accord ad without forced redistributio, has little eed for macroecoomic itervetio from govermet bodies to help those i eed. I attaiig this balace, the efficiet ad practical executio of due process ad idustry is least ecumbered ad lets all idividuals most effectively ad efficietly prosper. This is especially evidet whe Relief is coupled with Truth. Abset false pretese, abset a wato exploitatio through dishoest meas, society flourishes as a whole. Have-a-Heart Campaig The impetus for this moth s article, ad its focus o Relief, comes from the time of year ad the observace of so may Brothers ad their families, ad the commuity, comig together for the Have-a-Heart Campaig, to support the local Roald McDoald Houses ad their missio. As previously commuicated to Uio Star Lodge, the Roald McDoald Houses have bee, ad remai, a vitally importat part of this ad may commuities. Masos from Moroe ad surroudig Districts cotiue to be proud supporters of that missio. Through the Aual Have-a-Heart Campaig, we ot oly help provide eeded Relief for families, we work together, i Harmoy, for all of our bettermet. To see the outpourig of support remids me that Relief persists. I estimated that about 1 i 20 of those who doated told us that they had, or someoe they kew had, stayed i the local Roald McDoald Houses. Of course, credit for establishig a veue for providig this Relief goes to may Brothers. From our ow Lodge, may Brothers immediately voluteered for shifts. Others, like Brother Mark Hutto ad R\W\Gary Saford took additioal steps ad facilitated the opeig ad closig of shifts at various Malls. Ad where would ay of this be without R\W\ George Foeher s commitmet, passio ad dedicatio to Relief. Workig i Harmoy, the efforts of all of those who led a had ad time to the Roald McDoald Houses families truly helps us all. It is o more evidet tha at this time of year. We look forward to truly embracig Relief at the most basic level i years to come, as we fulfill our obligatio to ourselves ad others ad cotiually hoe that Temple ot made with hads. March Birthdays Here is wishig a most happy birthday to our March celebrats - Alle Foeher, Mark Armbruster, Adrew Cotraccia, ad Alle Hopkis, Jr. Please joi us, Uio Star Brothers ad Brothers from across the Craft, for ay of our regular meetigs held every 2d ad 4th Moday i the most beautiful Lodge, right here i Hoeoye Falls. C L I O LODGE No st & 3rd Tuesdays W Peter J. Matthews, Jr clio.pete@gmail.com W Michael Postilli mpostilli@gmail.com 287 East Aveue, Hilto Recet Evets With the icy cold weather upo us, Clio warmed thigs up with our Secod Aual Chili Cook-Off where a hot time was had by all. We more tha doubled the etrées from our previous cook-off ad more tha quadrupled the tasters. Everyoe had a fatastic time ad more Chili tha they could ever wat. Takig top hoor this year was Brother Do Cambisi wiig the apro. Brothers Matt Reiter ad Pat Herrig tied for secod. A coi toss determied that Pat got secod ad Matt got third. Although there was o medal for fourth place, I fiished i that spot ad will give myself a hoorable metio. I m writig the article, so I ca do that. Our 2d Degree was held o Tuesday, February 4th, ad was easily oe of the best Degrees of which I ve ever witessed or bee a part. Everyoe ivolved was firig o all cyliders. Seior Warde, Matthew Scheffer, sat i the East for the first time that eveig ad coferred the De- March 2014 gree upo seve ewly passed Fellowcrafts. Cogratulatios to the Fellowcrafts ad to Brother Matt who hadled the Degree like a old pro. Kudos to all who worked it, ad a special thaks to Brother Jaso Morrissette from Northfield Lodge for his outstadig job o the Middle Chamber Lecture. The Q&A Lecture was agai flawlessly performed by our risig stars Brothers Brett DeHollader (yes, he s related to you kow who) ad Jeremy Mesig. Aother of our ewer Brothers, Cody Groth precisely delivered the Workig Tools like a fie Craftsma. It does me proud to see our youger Brothers gettig so ivolved i Ritual ad it s ice to kow the Lodge will be i such good hads whe I ride off West ito the suset come Jue. Have-a-Heart Campaig Saturday, February 1st was Clio s first date for staffig the Have-a-Heart Booth this year. We had a ice showig of Brothers, icludig a couple of our Etered Appretices. It s ice to see that dedicatio early o. District Deputy, R\W\ Phil Hurwitz, also joied us as we gathered i the doatios. Two more dates are ahead of us at this writig ad I thak all the Brothers who have voluteered for these evets, although I kow all will say that o thaks are ecessary. Cored Beef Euchre Spaghetti Kiplig It is a especially busy moth for us. Aside from our Regular Commuicatios o March 4th ad March 18th, we will be holdig our Aual Cored Beef Dier o Saturday, March 15th at the Lodge Hall. Dier icludes Cored Beef, Cabbage, Potatoes, Veggies ad Dessert all for the low price of $9. If you ve yet to partake, do yourself a favor ad joi us. Brother Bill Hu puts o the best Cored Beef Dier this side of Killarey ad that s o blarey! Dier starts at 4 p.m. ad advaced tickets are available. Call Bill at for tickets or more iformatio. Due to a schedulig coflict with the Hilto Bowlig Alley (where our Touramet is beig held), the Euchre Tourey has bee rescheduled for Suday, March 23rd. Please see the ad i this editio or check our website for further iformatio. Our Spaghetti Dier this moth falls o March 26th. As always, it starts at 4:30 p.m. ad the cost is $7. Brother Jeremy Mesig ad I have bee collaboratig o a video program ceterig o Brother CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE DINNER Saturday March 15th Servig 4 p.m. til Goe at Hilto Masoic Hall 287 East Aveue, Hilto $9.00 Icludes: Cored Beef & Cabbage Rolls & Butter ~ Beverage & Dessert Sposored by Clio Lodge Ifo or tickets: (585)

7 Website: www.moroemasoic.com N Email: masoictimes@gmail.com March 2014 Clio Chili Champs (from left to right): Matt Reiter (2d) Do Cambisi (1st) ad Pat Herrig (3rd).

We have icorporated the voice talets of several of our Lodge Brothers as well. Brother Mesig is puttig the fiishig touches o the video ad we pla to debut it at our March 18th meetig.

We will hold a (hopefully) brief busiess meetig first ad the watch the video, which we are estimatig at a 20- to 30-miute rutime.

Armstrog ad Cody M. Groth. May you each ejoy your day.

7 7 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com March 2014 Clio Chili Champs (from left to right): Matt Reiter (2d) Do Cambisi (1st) ad Pat Herrig (3rd). Photo by Jeremy Mesig Spaghetti Dier Clio Lodge Hall 287 East Aveue; Hilto March 26th Adults - $7; Child $4 Servig 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Rudyard Kiplig s poem The Mother Lodge. We have icorporated the voice talets of several of our Lodge Brothers as well. Brother Mesig is puttig the fiishig touches o the video ad we pla to debut it at our March 18th meetig. Ay Brothers iterested i joiig us are ivited out to Clio for the premiere. We will hold a (hopefully) brief busiess meetig first ad the watch the video, which we are estimatig at a 20- to 30-miute rutime. If the fial product turs out as well as we are expectig, we would be happy to jourey to other Lodges ad preset the program. March Birthdays Clio exteds birthday greetigs to Brothers William J. Armstrog ad Cody M. Groth. May you each ejoy your day. Hawaiia Shirt Day Before sigig off this moth, I wat to metio that our first meetig i April happes to fall o April Fools Day, so istead of dress shirts ad jackets, leave your jackets at home ad wear your tackiest butto-up shirt. This will still be a Regular Commuicatio, Apros will be wor ad Miutes will be take, but we ll have a bit of fu at the meetig as well. Ayoe wearig regular dress clothes will be appoited to the pael of judges ad vote upo the best goofy shirt. Upcomig March Evets 4th - Regular Commuicatio, 15th - Cored Beef Dier, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. 18th - Regular Commuicatio, 23rd - Euchre Touramet, 1 p.m., Pleasure Laes Bowlig Ceter, Hilto 26th - Spaghetti Dier, 4:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Util ext moth, take care ad I hope to see you at all our various evets! WEBSTER Lodge No st & 3rd Thursdays W Joe A. Lewis joelewis4@gmail.com James F. Clacy jclacy2@rochester.rr.com 30 Orchard Street, Webster Submitted by R\W\ Dave Alle Well, all the major holidays are goe ad all that is left are the memories ad the fiacial resposibilities. I hope the memories are great ad the, oh well, you kow, are miimal. Suday, March 23rd 1 p.m. $10 per perso ($20 per team) Pleasure Laes Bowlig Ceter 144 South Aveue, Hilto Same Parter Throughout Sacks Provided ~ Cash Bar Cotact (585) for More Iformatio or Visit: We are very fortuate to ot have suffered ay passigs sice I last reported. W\ Brother Ke Hutchiso is still with us if ot i a Metal State, at least beig take care of physically. Brothers Walt Coe ad Fred Corell are still with us but i eed of a visit as of this letter. O a lighter ote, we still retai the School of Ritual Baer oly because of the weather ad the excellet Work doe by your Officers. Eve our AGL could t fid fault except a i that was t dotted. It s ot official as of this date, but our W\M\ Brother Joe Lewis has bee approached to fill oe of the A.G.L. Positios. Should this come to be, let s all give him the same support that we have give W\ad V\W\ Brother Paul Kolacki the past two years. He has a very Full Plate ad will eed all the help we ca give him. Have-a-Heart Campaig Brother Jeremy Kox, our Juior Warde, did a fatastic job coverig for me, of recruitig ad fulfillig the schedule for the Have-a-Heart Campaig. Sesquiceteial Celebratio I hope that all have fulfilled their obligatios. Our Seior Warde, Brother Ally Borrio, has more tha see to it that everythig has ru like clockwork. W\ Brother Joe depeded o him for the majority of the program. With the help of several of your Past s ad others, you ca be very proud of what has bee accomplished. All we eed ow is for the weather to cooperate. Welcome To our ewly made Masos, welcome. You have both show your willigess to participate. I hope this will cotiue as we appreciate the iterest you have show. Do t be afraid to speak up if you do t uderstad what is happeig or if you would like to become ivolved i ay program or activity. You are the future of Webster Lodge, my Brothers. Spaghetti Diers As usual, Brother Nick Haldoupis ad crew served 150 plus Spaghetti Diers o February 7th. I do t have the fial figures, but believe me, if this program ever stops, there will be a awful lot of disappoited local patros. So, if you are free the first Friday eveig of the moth, either come ad help or partake. You ca t beat the price or the food. Hope all is well ad we will see you at the Celebratio. Util we meet i the Quarries, may God go with you ad keep you ad yours safe ad secure. UNITY Lodge No d & 4th Modays, W Jeffrey VaSice (717) jvasice@rochester.rr.com R W Clifford Short short4us@rochester.rr.com 3 South Uio Street Specerport It is ow March, ad Sprig is thikig about makig a appearace. I, for oe, welcome it! It has bee a log, cold Witer. We have had a very productive SPAGHETTI DINNER Friday, March 7th 5 p.m. 7 p.m. Webster Lodge Hall; 30 Orchard Street Adults - $8 Childre - $4 For Takeouts, Call Witer i Lodge, ad I am lookig forward to a great Sprig to wrap up my year as. Oe major project we have bee workig o is the kitche. As you may be aware, we have bee makig some improvemets to our kitche i the Lodge Hall ad here for all the members is a update. Last Witer we put a ew floor dow; this year we istalled a ew hood system over the grill ad stove. The hood system is a exhaust ad fire suppressio system with lights ad, if I may say so, it came out great! There was a lot of work that wet ito gettig this doe, despite quite a few delays for various reasos. But ow it is complete, ad we passed all the local ispectios eeded. Allow me to recogize a few key players who put i may hours of their persoal time to make sure it was doe Garry Craker ad Cliff Short really headed up this project. The ext time you see these Brothers, please be sure to thak them for their efforts. We also had a doatio from Ja Porter of Starlight Chapter; she doated ew curtais for the kitche. Thak you ALL who helped make the remodel complete. The ext part of the remodel is istallig a three-bay productio sik, ad a separate had-wash sik. The three-bay sik was doated by Brother Mike Edelma, Ad the labor for istallatio of the sik will be doe by Brothers Bob Sogi ad Scott Corey. A huge savigs there! At the February 10th meetig, we had a History of the combied Lodges preseted by R\W\ Joe Privitera. Thak you, Joe, it was very iterestig. Upcomig Evets Now for March! We have some great evets plaed. O March 10th we have a Awards Night plaed. We will be recogizig may Brothers for their years of service, so please pla o attedig Lodge. I am aticipatig a very large turout. We will have a dier at 6:30 p.m., prepared by Etoleah Chapter, OES. Lodge will Ope at O Wedesday, March 19th, we are hostig the District School of Ritual at Pla o attedig; we will be exemplifyig a portio of the 1st Degree - I believe we will be doig the Charge. O March 24th, we will cofer the 2d Degree. Dier at 6:30 p.m., prepared by Starlight Chapter OES. Lodge will ope at Be here to support our ew Brothers o their path Cotiued o Page 8 Uity Lodge is Hostig a Home Show Saturday, March 22d 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Suday, March 23rd 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Free Admissio at Specerport Masoic Hall 3 South Uio St Come See the Products of Numerous Vedors* Some refreshmets ad beverages available. *Ay questios or eed iformatio, cotact Joh Lemke at (585)

$I closig, I leave you with the followig thought: Remember, You re a Maso Whe the pressures of recessio Make us cocetrate o greed, Take heed, a worthy Maso Cares about aother s eeds; Hoorig the M\W\$ James E. Sulliva, Grad March 31, 2014 at Damascus Shrie Ceter 979 Bay Road, Webster Social 6 p.m. (Cash Bar) Buffet Dier ad Program 7 p.m. 9 p.m. Souveir Cao Cost - $35 per perso* Do t let pressures

James E. Sulliva, Grad March 31, 2014 at Damascus Shrie Ceter 979 Bay Road, Webster Social 6 p.m. (Cash Bar) Buffet Dier ad Program 7 p.m. 9 p.m. Souveir Cao Cost - $35 per perso* Do t let pressures

Coffee, Tea, Cookies ad Ice Cream What you give is like a bubble Wheever you assist, What it costs i time ad trouble Is soo after, ever missed; ~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Pre-paid reservatio required NO

Reservatio Deadlies: Group Sales - March 3rd (10-ticket limit) Idividual Sales - March 17th Dress Code - Busiess Suit or Blazer with Necktie Brother, bear that obligatio You accepted o your kee, It s

pray, I ll remember I m a Maso. Ad behave like that today. Always seek more Light, my Brothers! O-At-Ka Lodge No. 759, 2d & 4th Wedesdays W Terrace O. Wright 739-4278 wright8way@ hotmail.

So much has happeed i such a short amout of time ad it is i great part due to the reewed iterest ad participatio of all cocered Brothers.

8 8 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com Uity Lodge Moroe District Table Lodge Cotiued from Page 7 to more Light. I closig, I leave you with the followig thought: Remember, You re a Maso Whe the pressures of recessio Make us cocetrate o greed, Take heed, a worthy Maso Cares about aother s eeds; Hoorig the M\W\ James E. Sulliva, Grad March 31, 2014 at Damascus Shrie Ceter 979 Bay Road, Webster Social 6 p.m. (Cash Bar) Buffet Dier ad Program 7 p.m. 9 p.m. Souveir Cao Cost - $35 per perso* Do t let pressures of the momet Make your obligatio sway, Stop ad help a falle Brother Or aother by the way; Tossed Salad, Chicke Frech, Baked Ziti, Salt Potatoes,Vegetable Crab Salad, Fruit Salad, Rolls & Butter, Coffee, Tea, Cookies ad Ice Cream What you give is like a bubble Wheever you assist, What it costs i time ad trouble Is soo after, ever missed; ~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Pre-paid reservatio required NO EXCEPTIONS Reservatios limited to the first 140 received. NO TICKETS SOLD AT DOOR! Reservatio Deadlies: Group Sales - March 3rd (10-ticket limit) Idividual Sales - March 17th Dress Code - Busiess Suit or Blazer with Necktie Brother, bear that obligatio You accepted o your kee, It s i direct relatio To your ow security; Never hesitate, my Brother Square your actios ow ad say, I ll remember I m a Maso, Ad behave like that today; With regard to huma kidess Ad the Golde Rule, I pray, I ll remember I m a Maso. Ad behave like that today. Always seek more Light, my Brothers! O-At-Ka Lodge No. 759, 2d & 4th Wedesdays W Terrace O. Wright wright8way@ hotmail.com R W Gordo E. Bell gbell14546@aol.com 5 Brows Ave, Scottsville I ope this moth s article o a ote of geuie gratitude ad appreciatio. So much has happeed i such a short amout of time ad it is i great part due to the reewed iterest ad participatio of all cocered Brothers. First, our ad Treasurer, Brothers Gorde Bell ad Evar Miller, have doe so much i squarig away all the Lodge documetatio ad ecessary paperwork. This has bee a truly moumetal effort to the beefit of the Lodge. Next, Juior Deaco, Eric Cradell, ad his miio, Brother Do Tubma, have completed the ew furace istallatio duct work, much to the relief of our gas bill ad the froze attedees this frigid Witer. Our Seior Deaco, Mack Thompso, wore out his vacuum cleaer thoroughly coverig the etire Lodge rooms ad makig them shie agai. Brother Steve Phillips stepped up to the plate agai to be the Lodge Chairma for the Have-aHeart Campaig ad filled all the required slots. He is also workig towards aother memorable Table Lodge i the ear future. Our Seior Warde, Tim White, has ot oly bee istrumetal i all our Ritual guidace, but with the help of his wife, Shelly, we have bee well fed i the recet past. Also, I thak everyoe who has take a part i makig our Degree work more fu ad iterestig. March 2014 New three-statio commercial sik (top) ad widow curtais (above) i the kitche at Uity Lodge Hall. We are curretly i the process of re-defiig the Rules ad Regulatios of our Scottsville Masoic Guild with some legal cousel ad help agai from Brother Do Tubma. For Ret I would like to oce agai re-istitute our uique Reta-Maso Weeked i April for the Scottsville Area with the proceeds goig towards the W.C.H.S. Scholarship fud that was set up log ago ad has ot bee grated i a umber of years. This is a beefit to the commuity of which we are a part, ad oe of our obligatios. Mark Your Caledar March 26th - 2d Degree April 23rd 3rd Degree May 21st - I would like our last meetig to be a combied Ope Meetig whereby we will host a Brother Brig-a-Fried Night alog with the Award Night. We are celebratig mul- tiple Brothers - some with 60 years i the Craft. As we (hopefully) wid our way out of these Witer doldrums ad look forward to Sprig ad Summer, I ecourage each ad every oe of you to come forward with ideas ad plas to cotiue our camaraderie outside of Lodge fuctios, such as golf outigs, pool party, family picic i Medo Pods Park or the like. These are the thigs that bid Brothers together ad forge lifetime friedships ad Brotherly love. Farewell Brother My last item is a sad oe. Brother Jack Miller, a 53-year Maso i Oatka Lodge, was called to the Great Architect o May 5, 20. Brother Jack was a good fried, a good ma ad lived by the Teets of Freemasory. He will be missed by so may. Util ext time, be well ad do good. Seeca Lodge rehearsal. Keep it up guys! Our ivolvemet i the Havea-Heart Campaig closed out our February evets ad Seeca did itself proud oce agai. Thaks to all Brothers who took part. I do t kow our fial total as of yet, but I kow we did a great job! Our March meetig will be the Lodge of Remembrace. Maybe it is a strage thig to say, but it is oe of my favorite meetigs. It gives me the opportuity to remember those whom I admired ad befrieded ad it gives me a opportuity to re-live the feeligs ad experieces of those who have touched my life - Masoically ad persoally. Though it is a somber ceremoy, it is beautiful ad is a woderful way to recogize ad remember those who have goe to the Great Architect i Heave. Somehow, oce the ceremoy is cocluded ad we retire to our Fellowcraft bar for a toast, I feel a positive glow istead of sadess. I feel we have doe right by the Brothers who have passed ad they would be pleased ad No d Tuesdays W Jack R. Breitug jbreitug@rochester.rr.com W Raymod Glegg rglegg@rochester.rr.com 30 Orchard Street, Webster February was a busy moth! We coducted our Fellowcraft Degree, brigig our ew Brothers oe step closer to becomig Masos. Juior Warde Jeff Quartley did a fatastic job as ad Brother Ray Cradall did a beautiful job deliverig the Middle Chamber Lecture. Thaks to everyoe for makig the Degree such a success! Lodge Brothers cotiued takig a active role i Fellowcraft evets. Brother Armad Gallucci orgaized a Amerks game gettogether that was a blast! Brother Pierre Suarez orgaized a bowlig outig followig a Degree proud. It also seems to cemet them as a permaet part of the Lodge, eablig them to live forever i our hearts ad memory. So, if you all would be so gracious to joi me i celebratig the Brothers who have passed, I hope it will brig you the same peace ad satisfactio it brigs me. Our April meetig will wrap up the Degree Seaso with our presetatio of the Maso Degree. This is a remider to everyoe to atted all rehearsals ad study your parts! March Birthdays I take this opportuity to recogize our Brothers bor i March: Greg Obeauf (4th), Ed Miller (5th), Ke Nelso ad Stu Walthour (6th), Jeff Quartley (11th), Keve Blazey (22d), Tom Hedrickso (30th) ad Armad Gallucci (31st). Thak you to our March-bor Brothers for your service to our Lodge o matter how log ago it may have bee. Whether you live ear or far, Seeca Lodge wishes you a heartfelt ad most happy birthday! Fially, do t forget to cotiue makig doatios to the Fellowcraft Bar Project. Each ad every doatio is matched with restaurat.com Dier Certificates! If you are ever iterested i visitig our Lodge ad ejoyig oe of the fiest meals i the District, please cotact Juior Warde, Jeff Quartley, at Phoe: or jeff.quartley@gmail.com. Remember, a reservatio made is a reservatio paid! ad reservatios are a must!!! FAME Lodge No d & 4th Thursdays W Jaso Gartlad jcgart182@gmail.com V W Daiel Walker optida@frotieret.et 979 Bay Road, Webster We have made it through the majority of our Witer Seaso ad has it bee a tough oe. Attedace at some of our meetigs has suffered due to the extreme weather, but it is better to be safe tha sorry whe travelig. I hope by the time this article reaches you, the cold grip of Witer has started to ease ad travel to Lodge is less of a adveture. March Meetigs Our first meetig is March th. We will begi the eveig at 5:30 p.m. with a social hour ad at 6:30 p.m. we will feast o a St. Patrick s Dier. Our meetig will start at Our secod meetig of the moth is o March 27th. This meetig we will be rehearsal for the 1st Degree. Have-a-Heart Campaig I thak all the Brothers who helped with this year s Havea-Heart Campaig. The Roald McDoald Houses provide a very importat service to our commuity ad it is aother way Freemasory supports orgaizatios like the Roald McDoald Houses. We hope to see you at Lodge. Lear more about your Visit our MCCNY.COM

March 2014 Website: www.damascusshriemasos.org Email: office@damascusshriers.org 9 Damascus News Damascus Shrie Ceter No.

org Joseph di tucci Potetate What a moth we had i February! Thak you to Scott Lasky ad his Crew, who set up ad pulled off a fatastic Super Bowl Party. We had almost 100 people i attedace.

Despite the wicked Rochester weather, the Shrie Table Lodge was a huge success. We had about 75 i attedace alog with Imperial Sir Waye Lachut.

The first wet to Noble George Corbett for the first doatio of 2014 to Shriers Hospitals for Childre - Erie ad the other was to the Widows Sos, Grad Chapter New York, for the largest doatio by a

5th Shrie Meetig, Ballotig, Fellowship Night, Tiled 15th Murder Mystery Dier, Ope to the Public 28th Diva Meetig, 8 p.m.

18th may 2d & 3rd Next-to-New Sale, Ope to the Public 5th 7th for Childre i Erie ad Sprigfield. Improvemets i the Shrie Ceter You may have oticed a few chages aroud the Shrie Ceter.

From what I have bee told, the sig was origially from the Dowtow Temple. A few years back, the sig was badly damaged; i efforts to restore our temple history we were able to get it fixed.

The goal is to offer a more pleasurable experiece to our members ad reters.

9 March 2014 Website: Damascus News Damascus Shrie Ceter No. 2 March 2014 Shrie ad Diva Meetigs Dier Reservatios Required Call: (585) or (585) by Moday NOON Shrie Office Hours Moday Friday 9:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. Website: Joseph di tucci Potetate What a moth we had i February! Thak you to Scott Lasky ad his Crew, who set up ad pulled off a fatastic Super Bowl Party. We had almost 100 people i attedace. It is a great sight to see the buildig packed ad everyoe havig such a great time. The atmosphere was fu ad upbeat ad the food was outstadig! Despite the wicked Rochester weather, the Shrie Table Lodge was a huge success. We had about 75 i attedace alog with Imperial Sir Waye Lachut. The crowd was lively, the wie was flowig, the firig caos were boomig ad Ucle Ralph cooked a fatastic steak for everyoe! Geerosity is Rewarded Damascus Shriers preseted two awards that eveig. The first wet to Noble George Corbett for the first doatio of 2014 to Shriers Hospitals for Childre - Erie ad the other was to the Widows Sos, Grad Chapter New York, for the largest doatio by a o-shrie Club or Uit. The Widows Sos doated over $10,000 to the Shriers Hospitals Damascus Trestleboard 2014 march 3rd Diva Meetig, 8 p.m. 5th Shrie Meetig, Ballotig, Fellowship Night, Tiled 15th Murder Mystery Dier, Ope to the Public 28th Diva Meetig, 8 p.m. 29th Nile Istallatio at Webster Lodge, Ope Let Fish Fry - Ope to the Public March 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th april 2d Shrie Meetig; Hot Sads Ceremoial Let Fish Fry - Ope to the Public April 4th, 11th ad 18th may 2d & 3rd Next-to-New Sale, Ope to the Public 5th 7th for Childre i Erie ad Sprigfield. Improvemets i the Shrie Ceter You may have oticed a few chages aroud the Shrie Ceter. First, for your ejoymet, we focused o the bar area. We added two more TVs ad spruced up the iside. Secod, we set out the Shrie eo sig to be reovated. From what I have bee told, the sig was origially from the Dowtow Temple. A few years back, the sig was badly damaged; i efforts to restore our temple history we were able to get it fixed. Throughout the comig moths, the Shrie will be buzzig with workers ad projects to improve the buildig. Our goal is to re-ivest ito maitaiig our buildig. The goal is to offer a more pleasurable experiece to our members ad reters. A few projects up ad comig are paitig of the Diig Room, updatig the bathrooms, re-buildig the side deck ad fixig major issues with our plumbig ad electrical systems. Please bear with us as the reovatios take place; we will do our best to make sure they do ot iterfere with ay activities of our members or reters. Mark Your Caledar April 2d Regular Stated Meetig, this will be our first Hot Sads Ceremoial of the year. Please come ad support our ewest members. Special Recogitio ad Thaks I recogize the dedicated Nobles of the Aubur Shrie Club. These getleme have worked diligetly throughout the years collectig pop tabs to raise moey for the Hospitals. This year they reached a moumetal mark of over $10,000 Now that's a lot of pop tabs!!! Thak you so much Brothers for your hard work ad dedicatio to the Damascus Shrie ad our Hospital System. My Brother Nobles, I hope you all have a ejoyable moth ad expect to see you soo. Diva Meetig, 8 p.m. Shrie Meetig, Past Potetate s Night Cruz Nights May 9th thru September 5th scott lasky assistat rabba I am excited that we are off to such a great start. The Super Bowl Party we had was a huge success! We had almost 100 people atted ad ejoy good food ad great compay. I thak the Nobles ad frieds who made this such a memorable evet. We pla o havig aother oe for ext year's game ad hope to make it eve bigger! Lete Fish Diers Fish Diers are here startig Friday, March 7th, ad cotiuig each Friday through April 11th. Come ad ejoy our World Famous Fish Fry. We pla o offerig other meu items as well, for kids ad Boy, talk about a old fashioed Witer! I do t believe we have witessed such a wide spread area of cold, sowy weather across our great coutry i a log time. The log-rage forecast idicated a February thaw should occur later i the moth. Oh well! It s just oe day closer to Sprig flowers ad gree grass. There seems to be a lack of protocol at some of our meetigs. I wat to set the record straight. Partially, I thik it s because of watchig others that thik they have it ad ufortuately it carries o. Specifically, what we call the SA- LUTE. The Military Salute is used whe recitig the Pledge of Allegiace ad durig the sigig of the Natioal Athem of the USA, Caada ad Mexico. The Fez is NEVER removed whe the Military Salute is used. I have see too may times where our leaders take off the fez both at Shrie meetigs ad at Club meetigs. A Noble who is wearig a fez will execute a Military Salute whe the colors are withi six paces from him ad he will ot remove his fez. After the Colors have passed, he should discotiue the Salute. I hope this clears up this practice. A Imperial Officer, as well as a past Imperial Officer, is always addressed as Imperial Sir ever as Illustrious Sir. It s embarrassig to the Nobility whe improper protocols are used, so, hopefully, this istructio will be remembered by all. Eve though this is Witer, the usage of the Shrie Ceter is ever lackig i activities. With upcomig Lete those lookig for a alterative to fish. If you are iterested i helpig, please sed me a at: slasky91@gmail.com ad let me kow what days you are available to help. I am tryig to set up a work schedule so we have eough help we eed each week. Cruz Nights are Comig! Warm weather will be here soo ad so will Damascus Cruz Nights! Our plaig meetig will be 7 p.m. o Friday, April 4th. We have coveietly scheduled it o a Fish Fry Night so you ca ejoy dier before the meetig if you are hugry. Norris "The Boss" Shapiro ad I have bee appoited Cruz Night Chairme agai ad are lookig forward to aother great year. Please check our Facebook page: damascuscruiseight to get the latest updates for Cruz Nights ad other evets happeig at Damascus. Fish Frys, Lodge meetigs, Uit ad Club Meetigs, it is a busy place. We would ask that each group that uses the premises, PLEASE clea up after your fuctio. Too may times we fid trash cotaiers ot emptied ad material left behid i the kitche. It s ot fair for the ext reter or group to have to clea up someoe else s mess. We wat this Shrie Ceter to be a showplace; we all eed to work together to keep it that way. Dues have bee comig i at a steady pace, but cosider this a getle remider if you have t paid or you are i arrears, please take the time to get your Dues i to the Office. We would appreciate it. Til ext time. Hey, Dad, did you see this? Our ewest reader Ia Laza, so of Ke Laza. He is catchig up o the Masoic Times ews. Friday Night Fish Frys March 7th thru April 18th

10 Website: www.damascusshriemasos.org Email: office@damascusshriers.org March 2014 Shrieabilia By Derek VaHoute Somethig a little differet came across my desk the other day from Noble Doald Osbore.

10 10 Website: March 2014 Shrieabilia By Derek VaHoute Somethig a little differet came across my desk the other day from Noble Doald Osbore. Oe of his hobbies is Stamp Collectig. He recetly purchased a collectio of evelopes from a fried i Massachusetts. Amog the collectio was a evelope from Mout Siai Temple i Motpelier, VT, dated December 11, It cotaied a copy of the Program for the 18th Aual Meetig to be held at o December 14, The busiess of the meetig was to receive reports from the Treasurer ad Recorder ad ay other busiess that may come before the Temple. I additio, the Aual Electio of Officers ad two Represetatives to the Imperial Sessio would take place. There will be o work at this meetig. A short poem was also metioed You ever will regret the satisfactio you will get By assistig i the future i the Lie To help your fellow Brothers, elighte lots of others, By showig them the beauties of the Shrie. Roud-trip tickets will be o sale from several small tows to the meetig at Covetio rates o the Motpelier ad Wells River Railroad. At the close of the meetig, a Baquet will be held by Commad of Ill. Potetate Edwi O. Hibbard ad siged by Charles H. Heato, Recorder. Just a ice little look back o the early years of the Shrie. Mout Siai was Chartered o October 31, 1876; curretly it has a membership of 556 members. I Love the Parades! By Jim Kah, Coloel of the Uits The Potetate has requested your participatio i the first Call-out Parades of What is a Call-out Parade? This term is used by the Potetate to request all Clubs ad Uits to participate i the parades to the best of their ability. Marchig or sittig - if your legs are ot as youg as you are, we have fire trucks o which you ca joi the parade! Mark Your Caledar Saturday, March 15th - St. Patrick s Day Parade, The lieup is off East Aveue i Dowtow Rochester. Saturday May 10th - Lilac Festival Parade, the lieup is o Sciece Parkway off of South Aveue. Thursday, July 10th - Webster Firemes Parade More details to follow o Costat Cotact. Please call Jim Kah with ay questios at (315) Thak you for all your support. God Bless. God Bless Our Troops 2014 Salmo Fishig for the Kids This evet supports Shriers Hospitals for Childre Saturday, Jue 21st at Reel Excitemet Charters Poit Breeze/Oak Orchard, NY Cost - $125 per perso Official Publicatio of Damascus Shrie A.A.O.N.M.S. Waye A. McCrosse CHIEF RABBAN chiefrabba@damascusshriers.org Scott E. Lasky ASSISTANT RABBAN assistatrabba@damascusshrier.org Gary L. Burke High Priest & Prophet James R. Rya ORIENTAL GUIDE orietalguide@damascusshriers.org Michael P. Huesto TREASURER treasurer@damascusshriers.org Derek E. VaHoute RECORDER recorder@damascusshriers.org Jerry W. Lack 1st CEREMONIAL MASTER 1stcm@damascusshriers.org Directors Staff Dier Meetig Wedesday March 26th Yellow Mills Dier 2534 Route 31, Palmyra Order off the Meu Social Time - 5:30 p.m. Dier - 6:00 p.m. Ladies ad Guests Ivited Casual Attire Call Vace Collom (585) vcollom1@rochester.rr.com with ay questios or to make reservatios 979 Bay Road, Webster, NY (585) Fax - (585) office@damascusshriers.org Joseph C. DiTucci POTENTATE March Birthdays Christia Cordts 2d CEREMONIAL MASTER 2dcm@damascusshriers.org Charles A. Feller MARSHAL marshal@damascusshriers.org Keeth J. Laza CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD captaiguard@damascusshriers.org Bruce C. Berhard OUTER GUARD outerguard@damascusshriers.org Vace R. Collom, Jr. DIRECTOR director@damascusshriers.org Skip Waterstreet, EDITOR Damascus News (585) masoictimes@gmail.com Actio Required!!! It s time to reew the Damascus News Boosters... a way i which you support this publicatio. If you are iterested i beig a Booster for 2014, please sed $15 to the Damascus Shrie Office. Ayoe iterested i advertisig their busiess i this Damascus News pullout sectio, please cotact Kari Staples i the Shrie Office ( ) Damascus News Boosters Boss & Mrs. Boss Dale & Jea Shatzer Dea & JoA Smith James Toogood Charles & Diae Waterstreet Cy & Olga White Icludes 5-Hour Fishig Trip 4 People per Boat Luch Afterwards at the Black North I All participats meet at the Black North I Parkig Lot at 6:00 a.m., Otario Street; Ket, NY. Boats will begi leavig the docks at 6:30 a.m. promptly. Reservatio with Full paymet must be made by Jue 1st to secure a spot i a boat. Cotact Damascus Shrie Office for Reservatios (585) office@damascusshriers.org Mail paymet (Payable to Damascus Shriers) to: Damascus Shriers Att: Fishig Derby 979 Bay Road, Webster, NY For further iformatio, icludig lodgig, cotact Bob Sogi at (585) reelxite@rochester.rr.com Harvey Aderso William Armstrog Thomas Baroody Gary Baxter Gordo Bell Joh Beett Gregory Blair II Chapi Blake Larry Blazey Albert Broccolo Joh Bryce III Kevi Burke Bruce Christopher Robert Clark James Clevelad Harry Coates Frakli Davis II Kevi Faro Robert Fox Joshua Gilhuly Darold Grat, Jr. G. Thomas Grape William Gurett Gle Hedges Jaso Higley Sherwi Isaacs Hugh James Timothy Jeigs Bruce Katz Murray Kellogg Wilfred Kershaw George Kerstetter, Jr. Keeth Laza Neil Laudry William Lear Joh Lee Bradley Lewis Joh Maiville Albert Ma Patrick McWhiey Richard Miles Keeth Miler Patrick Nicholso Richard Palmer Larry Pritchard Thomas Pusateri Clayto Ruggles Frakli Russell, Jr. Paul Scheck Gle Scott Gary Shultz Steve Sill Raymod Smith William Smith George Stato, Jr. William Sulliva Richard Topel, Sr. Richard Trescott Curt Valleti Jeffrey VaHoute Natha VaLoo Lloyd Verbridge Scott Waldeis Joel Walker William Warder Dale Waterhouse Scott Wells Philip Westcott, Jr. Cyril White Eldo White Berislav Zlokovic

March 2014 Website: www.damascusshriemasos.org Email: office@damascusshriers.

org Everyoe is remided that the ew site is a work-i-progress ad iformatio is still beig added, chaged ad fie-tued.

Each Shriers Hospital Ceter has a distict presece withi the ew site, providig specific iformatio about that Ceter.

11 March 2014 Website: What s New i Erie By Bob Howde New Shriers Website Up: Chages/Additios Cotiue The ew Shriers Hospitals for Childre Website has bee lauched ad ca be see at: Everyoe is remided that the ew site is a work-i-progress ad iformatio is still beig added, chaged ad fie-tued. The re-desiged website has a ew look ad the overall fuctioality that is vastly improved from the old site. Each Shriers Hospital Ceter has a distict presece withi the ew site, providig specific iformatio about that Ceter. The ew site is desiged to help icrease the umber of patiets receivig care at the Shriers facilities, to icrease doatios to the system ad improve the overall presetatio of the site for its visitors. The site is maitaied by the Shriers Hospitals for Childre Corporate Public Relatios Departmet i Tampa. Staff Recogized for Service Durig Child Life Moth March is Natioal Child Life Moth ad Shriers Hospitals for Childre - Erie Ambulatory Surgery Ceter ad Outpatiet Specialty Care Ceter salutes Kristi Maguire ad Michelle DeRooy, our Child Life Specialists, for what they do for Erie patiets ad families. The Child Life Workers are the oly health care providers i a child healthcare settig who are able to say they ever cause discomfort to a patiet. Kristi ad Michelle support the patiets through may procedures ad use distractio to make it less stressful for the childre. While it may look like play activity, these tactics are importat for the patiet s comfort ad well-beig. The Child Life Specialists also serve as advocates for the child ad offer somethig very special ad uique i their care. I additio, Kristi ad Michelle teach the patiets ad families about procedures ad surgical experieces i terms the patiet ca uderstad. The psychosocial eeds that childre have whe they go through a fearful, stressful evet are addressed, ad itervetios are delivered so childre ca cope ad leave the Erie facility with a positive, healthy midset. This is a service that helps Shriers - Erie provide the best quality care to our patiets, ad helps make Shriers Hospitals for Childre - Erie Ceter a very special place. Erie Movemet Lab Part of Study Assessig Pitch Cout s Bearig o Athletic Ijury I baseball ligo, pitch cout is the umber of pitches throw by a pitcher durig a game. The correlatio betwee pitch cout ad throwig arm ijuries has bee a hot-butto issue i baseball for years ad ow is the focus of a ew study by Shriers Hospitals for Childre - Erie, Mercyhurst Uiversity Departmet of Sports Medicie, UPMC Hamot. Ofte a startig pitcher will be removed from the game after 100 pitches, which is regarded as the maximum optimal pitch cout for a startig pitcher. But is 100 a arbitrary bechmark? Studies have tried to address the questio, but most have looked at the way pitchers throw ad how the motio chages with repetitio as predictive of fatigue. This ew research project looks at motio, but it will also measure shoulder muscle stregth ad, for the first time, biomarkers. Biomarkers (short for biological markers) are used widely i medicie to predict serious illesses like diabetes ad cardiovascular disease. Could they predict joit stress i a pitchig arm? Twelve studet-athletes from the Mercyhurst Uiversity baseball team are servig as test subjects. Usig high-speed cameras to track idividual s movemets as they throw, motio studies will be coducted by Shriers Hospitals for Childre - Erie uder the guidace of project parter Kevi Cooey, PT, Maager of Rehabilitatio Services ad movemet aalysis at Shriers Hospitals for Childre - Erie. He will be assisted by Jake Gdovi, a Graduate Studet i Exercise Sciece at Mercyhurst ad a Graduate Assistat at the Shriers Movemet Aalysis Lab. Samples of studet-athletes blood draw before ad after pitchig sessios will be tested by UPMC Hamot to possibly diagose joit stress i their bodies. Usig euromuscular testig techology, players will also be evaluated for shoulder stregth before ad after throwig. This research project is a commuity partership that pools resources from major health care facilities like Shriers Hospitals for Childre ad the Uiversity of Pittsburgh Medical Ceter (UPMC) ad academic istitutios like Mercyhurst Uiversity. This study may ot chage the face of Major League Baseball i the ear future, but if it ca demostrate a likage betwee the elemets of motio, stregth ad biomarkers i predictig fatigue, it might lay the groudwork for further studies ad, ultimately, a more authetic measure for determiig pitch cout that could be implemeted at levels from Little League to Major League. For additioal iformatio, cotact: Bob Howde (814) Geeva Shrie Club By Lace McFetridge, Presidet Christmas Ball O December 21st, the Geeva Shrie Club held their Aual Christmas Ball. The evet was well-atteded with over 90 people ejoyig the eveig. Highlights of the eveig were the spectacular gift baskets graciously doated by the Aubur Shrie Club as well as several check presetatios made to both Shriers Hospitals for Childre i Erie ad Sprigfield. Plas are uderway for the 2014 gala evet. The Geeva Shrie Club meets the 4th Moday of each moth - with the exceptio of Jue, July ad August - at Noa s Trattoria Restaurat. Attitude adjustmet at 6 p.m.; Dier at 7 p.m., orderig off-the-meu. (l-r) Lyle Maldoo, Emeritus Member of the Erie Hospital Board ad Past Potetate, Frak Russell Jr, Associate Member of the Erie Hospital Board. Perry Shrie Club By Ed Hollwedel The Jauary 23rd meetig was pretty well atteded cosiderig the stormy ad cold ight. Our speaker for the eveig was Mara Rooey, ower ad operator of the Dacig Goat Yar Shop, which is located at 11 West Buffalo Street i Warsaw. With a backgroud i theater i New York City, she soo decided to ope her ow shop i Wester New York, as the big city was ot for her. She loved to crochet, but quickly leared to kit ad bega her missio of promotig her arts. Her shop has bee ope sice 2010 ad displays a large assortmet of yars, accessories ad fiished products as examples of what ca be accomplished. Some are for sale but she also teaches classes so her studets ca produce their ow yar products like hats, mittes, scarves, socks, shawls, sweaters or whatever your heart desires. Ladies ad me ca all lear this fu hobby. Charles Feller, our Diva Represetative, shared ews from the Damascus Shrie Ceter. He provided iformatio Aubur Shrie Club By David Bowma Do You Have the Aswers? Whe I was i High School, we got ew Trigoometry books. Our teacher was i the habit of assigig the odd-umbered problems oe day ad the eve-umbered the ext day - after we had goe over the previous day s aswers so we had a patter o how to solve the problems. If we did well the first day, we were exempt from the secod day s assigmet. We always asked Miss Hockebore if we could have the odd umbers the first ight. As you have probably guessed, the aswers to the odd umbered questios were i the back of the book. Poor Miss Hockebore did t lear of our ploy util halfway through the year. But the real losers were us. We had the aswers, but ot the questios or the skills to do it o our ow. Goig forward to today istead o all upcomig evets ad prompted us to try to atted as may as we could. The ext meetigs will be o the 4th Thursday of each moth as follows: March 27th - Lumberyard Restaurat; the program will be a photo Moose Hut by Charlie Feller. That s right, a moose hut with a camera ot a gu. It souds very iterestig. You will ot wat to miss it. April 24th - Hole-i-the-Wall Restaurat; the program will be Tami Treutlei. Tami ad her husbad just bought the oly theater i Warsaw. She will tell us what plas they have for this great old etertaimet attractio. May 22d - Lumberyard Restaurat; Jim Va Sickle will tell us about Idia Artifacts. Jue 26th - The Club o Silver Lake; Howard Wood is makig the plas for this Ladies Night evet to hoor our Ladies. All meetigs start at 6 p.m. to socialize; we order off of the meu for dier at 6:45 p.m. I look forward to seeig everyoe soo. of usig the Ecyclopedia ad fidig the aswers, we use our computers to Google, Big or Yahoo our way through. These are just thigs I thik of whe I wat to just look i the back of the book istead of doig my homework. I Jauary, we heard Sue Dwyer talk about her iche i Couty Govermet. I hope you wet to the Valetie s Party i February. March Meetig falls o St. Patrick s Day. We are goig to party like the Irish at the Aubur Lodge Hall with music ad dace. Meu will iclude Cored Beef ad Cabbage, Guiess Irish Stew, Soda Bread, a samplig of Irish Desserts ad, maybe, a little Irish Coffee. Wear your gree ad joi i the spirit of the day. This is a BYOB ight ad it will oly cost you $10. Where else ca you go o St. Patrick s day for that? Frot Row (l-r) Lyle Maldoo, Frak Russell Jr., Keeth Pollard, Lace Ward, James Kah. Back Row (l-r) Lace McFetridge Presidet Geeva Shrie Club. (l-r) Keeth Pollard, Emeritus Member of the Sprigfield Hospital Board, Lace Ward, Board Member of Sprigfield Hospital Board ad Past Potetate, James Kah Associate member of Sprigfield Hospital Board.

12 Website: www.damascusshriemasos.org Email: office@damascusshriers.org March 2014 Zama Temple No.

th Saturday,March 29, 2014 Two O clock p.m.

of Burgudy Basi ~ 61 Marsh Road, Pittsford Arrival Time - 6:30 p.m. ~ $30 per perso ~ Deluxe Buffet Paid Reservatios Due by March 15th Make Checks Payable to Zama Temple No.

m. at Damascus ~ Shrie Ceter 979 Bay Road, Webster Salad ~ Pasta ~ Dessert $15.00 per perso Ope to the Public Come see our Potetate ad Treasurer play critical roles!

12 12 Website: March 2014 Zama Temple No. 14, Daughters of the Nile Cordially ivites you to the Ope Istallatio of Officers ad the Crowig of Pricess Barbara Jea Smith Saturday,March 29, 2014 Two O clock p.m. at Webster Masoic Hall 30 Orchard Street, Webster ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A Receptio Dier follows i Victoria Room of Burgudy Basi ~ 61 Marsh Road, Pittsford Arrival Time - 6:30 p.m. ~ $30 per perso ~ Deluxe Buffet Paid Reservatios Due by March 15th Make Checks Payable to Zama Temple No. 14 ad Sed to: Carol Colegrove; 8 Cythia Drive; Geeva, NY Ph: (315) Zama Temple No. 14 Daughters of the Nile presets a Murder Mystery Dier March 15th Social - 5:30 p.m. Dier & Show - 6:30 p.m. at Damascus ~ Shrie Ceter 979 Bay Road, Webster Salad ~ Pasta ~ Dessert $15.00 per perso Ope to the Public Come see our Potetate ad Treasurer play critical roles! Reservatios due by Friday, March 7th For reservatios Cotact Debi Burke at Leave a message ad phoe umber. HD TV Raffle Grad Prize: p Led HD TV Tickets: 1 for $5 or 3 for $10 Drawig o March 15th at our Murder Mystery Dier Fuds support Zama Temple No. 14, Daughters of the Nile who support the Shriers Hospitals for Childre Damascus Legio of Hoor Meetig Wedesday, March 12th Damascus Shrie Ceter 979 Bay Road, Webster Social Hour - 5:30 p.m. (Hors d oeuvres Cash Bar) Dier - 6:30 p.m. Salad * Swiss Steak * Mashed Potatoes * Vegetable Rolls & Butter * Coffee * Dessert $12 per perso RSVP o later tha Friday, March 7th at (585) or cylegalrx@hotmail.com Thak you, Jay Hurzy, for your services to rebuild the Shrie Logo eo sig. Everyoe is ejoyig it! * * * * * SIGN & LIGHTING SERVICES LLC * * * * * Sales * Service * Istallatio Phoe: (585) Rte 104, Otario, NY Damascus Shrie Friday Night Fish Frys Ope to the Public Every Friday Night Durig Let March 7th thru Good Friday, April 18th 5:30 p.m. 8 p.m. Cost - $10 at Damascus Shrie Ceter Dier Icludes: Famous Fish Fry ~ Choice of Salt Potatoes or Fries Choice of Coleslaw or Gree Salad ~ Roll & Butter (Chicke Nuggets, Pasta ad Weekly Specials are also available) For more iformatio, Cotact: (585) or office@damascusshriers.org Damascus Shriers Euchré Touramets Last Saturday of the Moth Sprig Seaso March 29th April 26th May 31st - Ed-of-Seaso Party after Touramet All Touramets ad Parties are Ope to the Public Registratio: 6 p.m. 7 p.m. Touramet Starts: 7 p.m. $5 per player ~ 25 Euchré ~ 50/50 Raffle For more details: office@damascusshriers.org (585) Damascus Shrie Ceter

13 March 2014 Website: attedees at geeva shrie club s 20 christmas party Drumli Square Lodge Cotiued from Page 15 Lodge was held with some 30 participats who ejoyed a iterestig eveig of Fellowship. Our Etered Appretices were Passed to the Degree of Fellowcraft o February 16th ad we are lookig forward to their Raisig o March 19th. As we had assistace from District Brothers i the Work i February, we will agai be grateful for the help ecessary to successfully brig these ew Brothers to Further Light. This IS what Masory is about! If you are willig ad able, come ad atted the Ritual for our ewly to-be-raised Masos. Dier will be served at 6:30 p.m., for which reservatios ca be made by at: kremac7@gmail.com or by callig Joh Krest at (315) o later tha March 10th. Meetig ad Ritual at It is aticipated that aother iterestig eveig will take place o March 5th of this moth as we pay homage to our Past s from Walworth, Macedo, Palmyra ad Drumli Square as well as several curret members of Drumli Square who were s of other Lodges ot ivolved i our cosolidatio. While our scheduled commuicatios are rapidly comig to a close, there are several iterestig evets scheduled i the comig weeks ad moths, so please make a effort to atted wheever you ca. You are always welcome ad there is always a Brother available to refresh memories, if eeded. No Brother ever eeds to be cocered about beig embarrassed. As always, I would remid you to remember the Masoic Care Commuity ad the Masoic Brotherhood Fud. It is ot ecessary to make a large doatio but ay amout is always appreciated. Camp Turk, the Masoic Care Commuity, Scholarships for our Youth, the Masoic Medical Research Laboratory, Masoic Veteras ad Masoic Relief, just to ame a few, are all worthwhile causes. They eed our support. By the way, REMEMBER, Sprig ad Summer always follow WINTER ad I hope they come SOON!!! Harloff Fueral Home SERVING YOUR NEEDS SINCE S. Washigto St. E. Rochester, NY Birthday Party o March 19th at the Caadaigua VA Hospital. After a especially hard Witer, we will have a Regular Busiess Meetig o March 27th. We meet for luch at 12 James A. Hard/ Waye Charter Noo, followed by a meetig at Post No p.m. Commader We lamet the recet passgordo W. Palmer ig of Brother Bill Fredeburg, gwarre14580@yahoo.com whose friedship ad log seradjutat Deis Gellasch vice has bee greatly appreci ated. He was a ethusiastic dgellasch@rochester.rr.com member of the Post Color Guard James A. Hard/Waye Char- as log as he was able ad has ter Post No. 12, Masoic War created a vacacy i the raks Veteras will have their Mothly ot easily filled. Support the Masoic Brotherhood Fud Campaig

14 Website: www.moroemasoic.com N Email: masoictimes@gmail.com Geesee-Wyomig District Deputy Grad - Gary Buseleher (585) 591-5754 Olive Brach Lodge No. 39, F. & A.M.

$com 12 Bak Street, Le Roy 14482 By R\W\ Neil Bedford Olive Brach s Lete Fish Frys will start o March 7th ad cotiue every Friday durig This Witer has certaily seemed to be colder, sowier ad more harsh$ Early February saw our District cotiue our support of the Roald McDoald Houses i Rochester by coverig two days for the Have-a-Heart Campaig at Eastview Mall i Victor.

Early February saw our District cotiue our support of the Roald McDoald Houses i Rochester by coverig two days for the Have-a-Heart Campaig at Eastview Mall i Victor.

14 14 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com Geesee-Wyomig District Deputy Grad - Gary Buseleher (585) Olive Brach Lodge No. 39, F. & A.M. 1st Wedesdays W William MacPherso ardow3@ms.com R W Neil R. Bedford H) ; C) bedford67@gmail.com 12 Bak Street, Le Roy By R\W\ Neil Bedford Olive Brach s Lete Fish Frys will start o March 7th ad cotiue every Friday durig This Witer has certaily seemed to be colder, sowier ad more harsh tha may i recet memory. While we may all have cosidered the optio of hiberatio as a solutio, the Brothers of the Otario-Seeca-Yates District have stayed busy this Witer. Early February saw our District cotiue our support of the Roald McDoald Houses i Rochester by coverig two days for the Have-a-Heart Campaig at Eastview Mall i Victor. Brothers from several Lodges aroud the District combied to cover the shifts. We had a woderful time workig together to support a terrific cause. I thak each ad every Brother for givig your time ad helpig to make this Campaig a success. Degree work cotiued aroud the District as five Brothers were passed to the Degree of Fellowcraft at Joh Hodge Lodge i Naples. The Ritual work was excellet ad 40 Brothers from aroud the District were o had to support the Cadidates ad the Lodge. Degree work will cotiue throughout the Witer ad Sprig aroud the District. Please make a effort to atted. Let. There will be eat-i ad take-outs available startig at 4:30 p.m. For pre-orders, please call the Lodge at Brothers, please come, brig your frieds ad support our Lodge s mai fudraiser of the year. Upcomig Activities March 8th - The Iteratioal Order of the Raibow for Girls, Batavia Assembly of Olive Brach Lodge, will be holdig a Breakfast fudraiser from 8 util 11 a.m. at the Commuity Ceter. Please led your support. The Girls will also be attedig Grad Assembly i Otario/Seeca/Yates District Deputy Grad - Jed Bradow (315) District Deputy Grad Otario/Seeca/Yates District R W Jed Bradow (315) jkbradow@yahoo.com I kow our Cadidates appreciate the support, as do the Lodges holdig the Degrees. Geeva Lodge had a excellet program o trappig. Eight Brothers from Ark Lodge atteded ad brought the Travelig Trowel alog for extra measure. As of this writig the Travelig Gavel remais at Garoga-Sicerity Lodge. The locatio of the gavel ad trowel are updated regularly o the O/S/Y iformatio page of our District website: Upcomig Evets March 8th O/S/Y District Associatio meetig, Milo Lodge Hall, Pe Ya at 9 a.m. For those wishig, Breakfast will be at 8 a.m. at the Wager Restaurat (across the street). The purpose of the Associatio is Commuicatio ad Brotherhood. All Brothers are welcome ad ecouraged to atted. March 8th - The Masoic Developmet Course will be offered by the Grad Sword Bearer, R\W\ Robert Haggi, immediately followig the O/S/Y District Associatio meetig. Please cotact R\W\ Brother Haggi at rhaggi@ms.com to make your reservatio. April 12th - The O/S/Y District Survivig Spouses Lucheo will be held at the Clifto Sprigs Coutry Club at Noo. This is a very special way for us to cotiue to remember ad support our survivig spouses. Further iformatio regardig reservatios ad program will be forwarded to the Lodges directly. May 3rd-7th - Trip to New York City for Grad Lodge. Our Olive Brach Lodge No. 39 Presets Midieval Table Lodge May 10th - 3 p.m. Cost - $25 per perso Reservatios by April 25th Limited to 50 Brothers Beer * Wie * Soda Dier Meu Caju Hardboiled Eggs ~ Tomato Juice Cocktail Salad Roll ~ Pulled Pork Sliders Sorbet ~ Shrimp Cocktail Giat Turkey Leg ~ Salt Potatoes ~ Rolls ~ Dessert For Reservatios, cotact Bill MacPherso, Cell: ; ardow3@ms.com or Neil Bedford, Cell: ; bedford67@gmail.com Ark Lodge No. 33, F. & A.M. Chartered rd Wedesday W Thomas C. Abraham (315) abrahamtk@roadruer.com W Thomas Smart 493 E. Bluff Dr, Pe Ya O Jauary 23rd, eight Ark Lodge Brothers delivered the Travelig Trowel to Geeva Lodge ad helped ope the Lodge. They had a very iterestig program, preseted by Vo Straha, o trappig i New York State. He showed several types of traps ad may furs from aimals he had trapped. It was a woderful eveig of Masoic Fellowship ad I hope Ark ad Geeva Lodge will be able to pool their resources ad do more together. O Jauary 29th, several Brothers traveled to Farmerville-Uio Lodge i Iterlake to participate i a Table Lodge. Elleville, April 10th - th. May 10th - Our 2d Aual Medieval Table Lodge will ope at 3 p.m. The cost this year is $25 per perso; you will ot go away hugry. The Table Lodge will be limited to 50 Brothers. See our ad above for details. Sad News It is my sad duty to iform the Brothers of the passig of W\ Douglas S. Poole, Secre- District will agai be travelig to New York by trai ad stayig at the Ediso Hotel. Details have bee commuicated to each Lodge ad are available from the DDGM if eeded. May 18th - The O/S/Y District Memorial Service will be held at the Uited Church of Phelps at 2 p.m. whe the Brothers from our District who laid dow their Workig Tools i 20 will be remembered. Please visit our District Website at: for updated ews, evets ad iformatio. The website is updated regularly ad has both District ad specific Lodge iformatio available. tary Emeritus of Olive Brach Lodge. He was called home to the Great Architect of the Uiverse o Jauary 30th. Doug became a Maso i Geeseo Lodge o Jue 9th, 1988, where he later became. He affiliated with Olive Brach Lodge i 2001 ad became its ad the log-time. He will be greatly missed by all who kew him. The guest speaker for the eveig was the Grad Lecturer, R\W\ Robert Strag, Jr. O February 3rd, a Brother received the Degree of Fellowcraft at Joh-Hodge Lodge i Naples. Ark Lodge wishes to thak the Joh Bolto, his Officers ad Brothers for a woderful dier ad Degree. R\W\ Robert Haggi gave a excellet Middle Chamber Lecture ad W\ Al Ma did the Aswers to the Questios ad gave the Charge. Our Officers ad Brothers exted warm Frateral wishes to Brother Ma as he celebrates his 99th birthday o March 28th. O February 7th, Brothers Abraham, Rouse, Smart ad Verstrighe represeted Ark Lodge ad the O/S/Y District at Eastview Mall staffig the Havea-Heart Booth o behalf of the Masos of the Geesee Regio to help raise fuds for the Roald MacDoald Houses i Rochester. My Brothers, all these activities demostrate what Freemasory is all about. Whe Brothers meet, act ad part we are able to develop a deeper bod oe for aother ad ejoy the true meaig of Brotherly love ad affectio. It is so importat that Brothers visit other Lodges to see the Degrees ufold ad see old frieds ad make ew oes. I am amazed, but ot surprised, by the way we are all treated whe we visit aother Lodge. The hospitality is uequaled as each Lodge makes you feel right at home. After all, we are i our home - a Masoic Lodge - o matter where that might be. What is the defiitio of a Maso? A Freemaso is distiguished from the rest of makid by the uiformed, urestraied rectitude of his coduct. Others are March 2014 hoest i fear of puishmet from the law, religious i expectatio of reward, or fearful of the devil. A Freemaso is just, ot because of writte laws but because of laws writte i his heart by the figer of the Great Architect of the Uiverse. He restrais his passios because they caot be idulged without ijury to his eighbor or himself. He gives o offese because he does choose to be offeded. A Freemaso cotracts o debt which he is ot certai he ca discharge, because he is hoest upo priciple. A big Frateral thak you to R\W\ Jed Bradow, DDGM; our Staff Officer, R\W\ Robert Haggi; ad AGLs R\W\ Fred Newto ad R\W\ Steve Durso, for their tireless efforts o behalf of the O/S/Y District. All of you have bee a ispiratio to your Brothers i the District ad I kow you all will cotiue to be a valuable resource i the District. Upcomig Evets March 8th - Masoic Developmet Course at Milo Lodge, Pe Ya. Breakfast at the Wager Restaurat at 8 a.m. March 19th Stated Commuicatio Garoga-Sicerity Lodge No st & 3rd Tuesdays W Keeth Gibbs 47 Hoffma Ave. Geeva, R W Clayto Ruggles claymar4250@fltg.et 67 Otario Street, Phelps By R\W\ Bob Ruggles We have started havig fudraisers with some success. Pacake Breakfasts will be looked at more i the future. Vetera Supporters Our February 4th Commuicatio was like a uscheduled Past s Night. The Wardes Chairs were occupied by W\ Paul Adams i the West ad W\ Fred Wheeler i the South. W\ Erest Day served as Seior Deaco ad R\W\ Jed Bradow was Juior Deaco. The East was occupied by Brother Stephe Durso, Jr., curret Seior Warde, as the is recuperatig from kee surgery. All did a fie job with the appropriate Ritual, with a bit of promptig. Remember, the first meetig of the moth begis with a Potluck Meal at 6:30 p.m. Come joi us. O May 1st, the Lodge will be sposorig a Blood Drive at the Phelps Commuity Ceter betwee 2 ad 7 p.m. We could use help with registratio ad i the Catee. If you could help for a couple of hours, cotact the or. Sickess ad Distress It was good to see Brother Carlso back after his surgery. We also wish a speedy recovery for W\ Gibbs. From the s Desk Brothers who have ot doe so are remided to remit their Dues. It s importat to stay curret, so the possibility of beig

March 2014 Website: www.moroemasoic.com N Email: masoictimes@gmail.com 15 dropped for No-Paymet of Dues ca be avoided. I am agai requestig that Brothers sed me their email address.

March Birthdays We sed March Birthday Greetigs to Robert Taylor III (7th), Charles Aderso (22d), Ramo Howard (22d), Garry Waye District District Deputy Grad - Jay DeWispelaere (315) 483-0475 District

As we all aticipate Witer turig to Sprig ad the promise of Summer beyod, we must also aticipate the busiess that each Lodge must coduct over these ext few moths.

Please cosider makig the trip with your Brothers this year to coduct the importat busiess of ruig this great eterprise we call Freemasory.

15 March 2014 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com 15 dropped for No-Paymet of Dues ca be avoided. I am agai requestig that Brothers sed me their address. Havig your address is useful for cotactig Brothers o short otice. Thak you. March Birthdays We sed March Birthday Greetigs to Robert Taylor III (7th), Charles Aderso (22d), Ramo Howard (22d), Garry Waye District District Deputy Grad - Jay DeWispelaere (315) District Deputy Grad Waye District R W Jay A. DeWispelaere (315) dewispelaerejay@yahoo.com We have edured the Witer ad the first day of Sprig is ow oly a few weeks away. As we all aticipate Witer turig to Sprig ad the promise of Summer beyod, we must also aticipate the busiess that each Lodge must coduct over these ext few moths. Grad Lodge All s of Waye District Lodges have received commuicatio regardig attedig Grad Lodge Sessios i May. Fial plas for travel ad lodgig will be made soo. Please cosider makig the trip with your Brothers this year to coduct the importat busiess of ruig this great eterprise we call Freemasory. Chagig of the Guard Electio of Officers will be coducted by most Lodges over the ext several moths. It is time to begi cavassig for Brothers iterested i steppig ito Lie as leaders of their Lodge. As each Lodge cosiders its lie for the comig year, look to those Brothers who have show qualities throughout the past few moths that will beefit the Lodge; leadership, orgaizatio, commuicatio ad itegrity will help move the Lodge ad the Fraterity forward. Associatio Meetig The March s ad Wardes Associatio meetig will be Moday, March 10th. I believe V\W\ Joe Gree, AGL, is or- Clock (23rd) ad Clayto Ruggles (23rd). Masoic Aiversaries The followig Brothers were Raised i March: 1954 Nelso Gulvi Robert Lash 1972 Norma Schafer 1981 Stephe Phillips 1989 Robert Patrick, Jr Keeth Gibbs Shaw Grube Livigsto District District Deputy Grad - Doald Muger (585) Euice Lodge No st Thursdays W David Howlett aqfbcoach1@gmail.com R W Richard Trescott rtrescot@frotieret.et 3141 State Street, Caledoia What a busy ed of the year we are goig to have, ad what a great predicamet we are i. With the acceptace by the committee of our last two Cadidates, we are movig forward with a Degree schedule for the Sprig. Degree Schedule Our 1st Degree will be o March 6th. As usual, we will meet at the Gusmoke Restaurat at 6 p.m. for dier. Our Cadidates are ivited so it ca be a chace to get to kow them a little better o a social basis. The Degree will begi promptly at gaizig the dier ad program for the ight. Stay tued for more iformatio about this evet. Ritual Reaissace Saturday, March 29th - Ritual Reaissace Project, 8 a.m., Shrie Ceter,Webster. The Ritual Coordiator of each Lodge should make plas to atted this sessio. Commuicatios regardig the program have bee forwarded to each Lodge. Please cotact your Lodge or regardig other Ritual Reaissace Project Sessios i ad aroud the Cetral Wester New York area. Grad Director of Ceremoies Waye F. Edward Ted Powley (315) soduspowleys@ms.com Masoic Developmet Course Brethre, the Masoic Developmet Course (MDC) will cocetrate o the 3rd Degree at our fial sessio o Saturday, March 1st. You ca still joi us at Sodus Lodge, 4 East Mai Street, Sodus from 9-11 a.m. It will give you a flavor for the MDC for the future. Road to the East The participats have agreed they would like to jump right ito the Road to the East Course so we fiish before May. Our first sessio will be o Saturday, March 29th at Sodus Lodge, from 9-11:30 a.m. The secod sessio is tetatively scheduled for April 12th. The fial sessio is tetatively scheduled for April 26th, so we do t iterfere with Easter activities. Call (315) The 2d Degree will be o April 3rd, with dier at the Gusmoke Restaurat at 6 p.m. ad Degree at If you are iterested i havig a part i either Degree, please cotact Mike Grady for the 1st Degree or Joh Gallat for the 2d. Our 3rd Degree will be o May 15th. We will have a dier at the Lodge at 6 p.m.. We will be askig for reservatios for that dier as it will be prepared i-house. We have already set up Metorig Classes for our four Cadidates which will be led by Joh Gallat, Jim Maig, ad Mike Brow. I m really lookig forward to these evets; it s goig to be quite a thig havig the Lodge full of Cadidates ad Brothers from our Lodge ad the District coferrig Degrees! A rehearsal is scheduled for the 1st Degree o March 5th - please make every effort to atted. Sprig Caledar We also have several other evets scheduled for the Sprig. April 5th is the District Ladies Night. I am makig a cocerted or me at: soduspowleys@ms.com if you pla to atted so I have your course materials. The total cost is $50 for The 24-Ich Gauge ad refreshmets. The Leadership ad Educatio Committee firmly believes that every participat should have his ow copy of The 24- Ich Gauge. However, each Lodge should have a copy as well for its Officers use. I believe the more participats we have, the better the Course will be. This Course is appropriate for ayoe i the Lie of Officers of a Lodge. Agai, otify me as soo as possible so I have your materials for our March 29th kick-off sessio. By-Laws Review Several Lodges have foud they eed to update their By-Laws to allow the Lodge to close for severe weather. This would have bee very useful with this Witer s polar outbreaks. Whe was the last time your Lodge By-Laws were reviewed ad updated? Your Lodge should be able to provide you with the curret By-Laws if you ask for them. Sodus Lodge has chaged their meetig time from 8 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. by chagig their By- effort to have as may of our Widows ad Ladies there! We might eed drivers for some of the Widows, but put this date o the caledar for you ad your Lady. O April 12th we will be puttig o a Luch for the Peddlers Market. Jim ad Rick are puttig together the meu ad makig the plas. We will eed some voluteers to help serve ad clea up. April 26th will be the basemet cleaout. We will eed may strog backs ad hads as we look to clea ad reorgaize it. Voluteer Now August 3rd will be our Golf Touramet. We eed sposors ad voluteers, as well as golfers. Dick Trescott is the frot ma for the Touramet, so please call him. We had a successful Havea-Heart activity at Marketplace Mall. Dick, Jim, Joh, Ed Hopkis, ad I worked the 6-9 p.m. shift ad had a good time meetig people ad gettig them to doate. Our Shake the Witer Blues dier at Yiai s i Gates was Laws i December. I hope to see you at the March s ad Wardes Associatio meetig. Our DDGM has bee workig hard to provide us with iterestig programs. Dier is served at 6:45 p.m. ad we are usually closed by 8:30 p.m. If you ca oly atted the meetig, it starts at It s a great way to meet Brothers from other Lodges! God bless you, your family, our service persoel ad our Coutry! Lastly, I ve icluded a picture of the Apro we discovered durig our archeological dig i the Lodge. I would love to kow if ay of you kow aythig about it. We thik it is the Apro of a Brother who came from Irelad i the early 1800s, but kow little more about it. We are hopig to hag some of the pictures we foud somewhere i the buildig soo. As you ca see, there is much to be doe. Please drop i ad visit or help. We d love to see you alog the way! Drumli Square Lodge No st & 3rd Wedesdays W Joh P. Krest kremac7@gmail.com R W William C. Joes wjoes@rochester.rr.com Palmyra Masoic Hall 161 East Mai Street O February 5th, a Table Cotiued o Page Hoselto Chevrolet Rochester s Choice for Service Specializig i Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, Potiac ad Satur Vehicles Call Us at For a Appoitmet Mike Frazer Parts & Service Director fatastic. We eded up with six couples for a woderful eveig of food ad coversatio. Thak you, Derek Howlett, for settig it up ad Joh Gallat for brigig the roses for each of the Ladies. We will do this agai soo! Mike Huesto Service Maager All Service Work Doe With Itegrity

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16 16 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com March 2014 Scottish Rite NEWS Cosistory Chapter Rose Croix Coucil of Prices of Jerusalem Lodge of Perfectio Ill\ Keeth Rick Howe, 33 Commader-i-Chief Comig Attractios We are lookig forward to our Sprig Reuio (4, 18, 27, 31 ad 32 ) scheduled for Saturday, April 26th, at the Damascus Shrie Ceter. The Valley of Buffalo will be workig with us ad presetig the 27 ad 31. College of Freemasory Just a remider: the date is set ad place is reserved for our ext College of Freemasory. Sublime Price Bill Edwards, 32, is rampig up for the program to be held o March 28th, There will be more iformatio o this i future articles. This is a sigature evet for the Valley of Rochester ad is talked about throughout the Norther Masoic Jurisdictio, as well as the Souther Jurisdictio. Let s get the word out, so that our Brothers ca make their plas i plety of time. Road Trip Dates Set Reuio dates are set for the Valley of Nashville, Teessee. We must ow see if there is eough iterest to proceed. The chose dates are April 10th through April th. O April 11th ad 12th, we will witess the Kadosh ad Cosistory Degrees. A basic package of $500 per perso has bee quoted, that will afford us four days ad three ights ad icludes bus trasportatio, hotel ad tour. Sublime Price Gordo Hubble, 32 DSA, has agreed to chair this evet. It is ow time to make your reservatios; call the office at Lite from the Rite Our membership chairma, Joh Lemke, 32 DSA, ad his team will be presetig his play The Peacemakers o Thursday, March 20th at the Shrie Ceter. There will be a presetatio o Scottish Rite. Brig your Brothers. A spaghetti dier will be provided by the Valley of Rochester. Please call for your dier reservatios. Social begis at 5:30 p.m. (cash bar). Dier will be at 6:30 p.m., followed by the program at 7:30 p.m. See you there. Note: we had a great time o Jauary 18th as Horellsville Lodge hosted our Rite o the Road evet. Thaks for your hospitality Brothers. Childre s Dyslexia Ceter has Moved! By A Kaczka, Director Please be advised that as of February 1st, the Childre s Dyslexia Ceter i Hoor of Frak & Bette Paul moved ito a NEW locatio with ew cotact iformatio. Childre s Dyslexia Ceter 144 Metro Park, Ste 1 Rochester, NY Phoe: Fax: dyslexia.ceter.rochester.y@gmail.com Musigs A little bit o light from the CIC part 3 (Cotiued from last moth). I 1240 the Kights received a earest petitio from the Duke of Polad for aid agaist the Turks, who were ravagig his domiios, ad by the eormous multitude of their hosts were able to defeat ay army he could brig ito the field. The Kights accepted the ivitatio ad took part i a series of bloody ad obstiate battles, i which they lost may combatats. Also, they had a ew eemy to ecouter i the Duke of Pomeraia, who had bee their ally, but who ow sided with the Prussias agaist them. I the war that esued the Duke was defeated, several of his strogholds were take, ad he was obliged to sue for peace. However, i 1243, the Duke recommeced hostilities, ad with more success. Culm was besieged. Great miseries were edured by the ihabitats ad the slaughter was so great i the cotiuous battles that very few me remaied. The Bishop eve couselled the widows to marry their servats, that the populatio of the tow might ot become extict. The war was cotiued for several years with varyig fortue, util the Duke of Austria was able to mediate a peace. About this time a disputed electio caused a schism i the Order, ad two rival Grad s for several years divided the allegiace of the Kights, till Hery de Hohelohe was recogized by both sides as. Durig his term of office, successful war was carried o i Courlad ad other eighborig coutries, which resulted i the spread of Christiaity ad the advace of the power of the Order. At the same time, the Teutoic Order took part i the crusades i Palestie, ad shared with the Templars ad Hospitalers the successes ad reverses there. I the may coflicts i which they participated, the Kights, though ofte defeated, steadily advaced their domiio, ad erected fortresses, which became the ceters aroud which cities ad tows ultimately arose. Amog these were Datzic, Koeigsberg, Elbig, Marieberg, ad Thor. By the year 1283, the Order was i possessio of all the coutry betwee the Vistula ad the Memel, Prussia, Courlad, part of Livoia, ad Samogitia; commaderies were established everywhere to hold it i subjectio, ad bishoprics ad moasteries were fouded for the spread of Christiaity amog the heathe populatio. I the cotests betwee the Veetias ad the Geoese, the Teutoic Kights aided the former, ad i 1291, after the loss of Acre, the Grad took up his residece i Veice. About this time the Pope origiated a scheme for the uio of the three Orders of the Hospitalers, the Templars, ad the Teutoic Kights, ito oe great Order, purposig at the same time to egage the Emperor ad the kigs of Christedom to lay aside all their quarrels, ad combie their forces for the recovery oce ad for all of the Holy Lad. Difficulties without umber, which proved isuperable, preveted the realizatio of this scheme. Amog these was the objectio raised by the Teutoic Kights, that while the Hospitalers ad Templars had but oe object i view - the recovery of Palestie, their Order had to maitai its coquests i the North of Europe, ad to prosecute the spread of the true faith amog the still heathe atios. I 09, whe all hope of the recovery of the Christia domiio i the East had bee abadoed, ad o further crusades seemed probable, it was determied to remove the seat of the Grad from Veice to Marieberg. At a chapter of the Order held there, further regulatios were agreed upo for the govermet of the coquered coutries, some of which are very curious, but give a iterestig picture of the state of the people ad of society at that period. Thus it was commaded that o Jew, ecromacer, or sorcerer should be allowed to settle i the coutry. s who had slaves, ad geerally Prussias, prisoers of war, were obliged to sed them to the parish church to be istructed by the clergy i the Christia religio. Germa aloe was to be spoke, ad the aciet laguage of the coutry was forbidde, to prevet the people hatchig cospiracies, ad to do away with the old idolatry ad heathe superstitios. Prussias were ot allowed to ope shops or tavers, or to act as surgeos or accoucheurs. AASR Valley of Rochester Officers Rochester Lodge of Perfectio Thrice Potet Michael Nohle, 32 Rochester Chapter of Kights of Rose Croix Most Wise Adam Juod, 32 Allegiace The Bodies of the Scottish Rite, sittig i the Valley of Rochester, State of New York, ackowledge ad yield allegiace to the Supreme Coucil, 33, Aciet Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasory for the Norther Masoic Jurisdictio of the Uited States of America, whose Grad East is i Lexigto, Massachusetts ad whose officers are: Ill Joh William McNaughto, 33 Sovereig Grad Commader Ill Robert F. Ogg, Jr., 33 Grad Miister of State Ill James F. Niehoff, 33 Ill Richard H. Welkley, 33 Ill Frederick D. Greee, 33 Active Members for New York Ill Peter J. Samiec, 33, Past Deputy/New York Ill P. Michael Nielse, 33 Ill Peter J. Samiec, 33 Grad Lieuteat Commader Ill David P. Specer, 33 Deputy for New York State Active Emeritus Members for New York Rochester Coucil of the Prices of Jerusalem Sovereig Price Derek E. VaHoute, 32 MSA Rochester Cosistory Commader-i-Chief Keeth R. Howe, 33 1st Lt. Commader James MacCoell, 32 2d Lt. Commader Joh Lemke, 32 Ill Stephe R. Whittaker, 33 Ill G. Michael Morris, 33 Ill Bruce Widger, 33, Past Deputy/New York Ill Gary A. Heigse, 33 Ill Edward R. Trosi, 33 Ill Harold L. Aldrich, 33, Past Deputy/New York Deputy's Represetative - Ill Charles O. Hacock, 33 Treasurer Ill Jack VaElzakker, 33 Ill Robert L. Aderso II, 33 Geeral Committee Members-at-Large Ill Gle A. Stahl, 33 (2014) Berard D. Lazerso, 32 DSA (2015) Gary L. Burke, 32 MSA (2016) Ill Charles R. Frear, 33 (Emeritus) 811 Ayrault Road, Suite 3, Fairport, NY Office (585) ; (800) secretary@valleyofrochester.org Aciet Accepted Scottish Rite Websites: Valley of Rochester, AASR New York State Coucil of Deliberatio Supreme Coucil, Norther Masoic Jurisdictio Childre s Dyslexia Ceter - I Hoor of Frak & Bette Paul 3300 Moroe Aveue, Suite 330, Rochester, NY Office (585) ; Fax (585) ; rochcet@rochester.rr.com A Kaczka, Learig Ceter Director Joh W. Paul, Chair, Board of Goverors Valley of Rochester Sprig 2014 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ MARCH March 19th - Rite o the Road at Livoia Lodge Hall Brother Brig-a-Brother Night Meetig - - The Peacemakers Presetatio ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ March 20th - Brother Brig-a-Brother/ Brother Brig-a-Fried at Shrie Ceter Social - 5:30 p.m. ~ Dier - 6:30 p.m. (**) Program - ~ The Peacemakers - a Civil War Era Short Play by Valley of Rochester Players ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ APRIL April 6th - Feast of the Paschal Lamb at Shrie Ceter 3:00 p.m. Sharp - Program followed by Prime Rib Dier (**) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ April 17th - Light from the Rite Meetig at Shrie Ceter Guest Speaker - Jeff Williamso - Makig ad Keepig Masos Social - 5:30 p.m. ~ Dier - 6:30 p.m. - $15 per perso (**) Meetig - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ April 26th - Sprig Reuio at Shrie Ceter 4 Video, 18, (27, 31 by Valley of Buffalo) ad 32 Cadidates are to be preset by 8:30 a.m. Coffee & Douts - 8:00 a.m. ~ Degrees - 9:00 a.m. Luch (**) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ MAY May 15th - Electios ad Istallatio at Shrie Ceter Social - 5:30 p.m. ~ Dier - 6:30 p.m. (**) Valley Program - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ May 17th - Reuio Baquet at Cobblestoe Creek Coutry Club Special presetatios ad recogitio of ew members. Social - 6:00 p.m. ~ Dier ad Program - 7:00 p.m. (**) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ** Make your reservatios O Time! Do t be Late! At least 5 DAYS prior to ay activity (585) or secretary@valleyofrochester.org Go to Valley Caledar for more details: Why ot sig up o our Permaet Meetig Meal Reservatio List?

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s had the right to follow their ruaway servats, ad to pierce their ears; but if they dismissed a servat before the ed of his term of service, they must pay him a year s wages.

17 March 2014 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com 17 The wages of servats were strictly settled, ad o icrease or dimiutio was permitted. Three marks ad a half a year were the wages of a carpeter or smith; two ad a half marks of a coachma; a mark ad a half of a laborer; two marks of a domestic servat; ad half a mark of a urse. s had the right to follow their ruaway servats, ad to pierce their ears; but if they dismissed a servat before the ed of his term of service, they must pay him a year s wages. Servats were ot allowed to marry durig time of harvest ad vitage, uder pealty of losig a year s wages ad payig a fie of three marks. No bargais were to be made o Sudays ad festivals, ad o shops were to be ope o those days till after morig service. Sumptuary laws of the most striget ature were passed, some of which appear very sigular. At a marriage or other domestic festival, officers of justice might offer their guests six measures of beer, tradesme must ot give more tha four, peasats oly two. Playig for moey, with dice or cards, was forbidde. Bishops were to visit their dioceses every three years, ad to aid missios to the heathe. Those who gave drik to others must drik of the same beverage themselves, to avoid the dager of poisoig, as commoly practised by the heathe Prussias. A ew coiage was also issued. The ext half-cetury was a period of geeral prosperity ad advace for the Order. It was egaged almost icessatly i war, either for the retetio of its coquests or for the acquisitio of ew territory. There were also iteral difficulties ad dissesios, ad cotests with the bishops. I 08, the Archbishop of Riga appealed to Pope Clemet V, makig serious charges agaist the Order, ad edeavorig to prevail upo him to suppress it i the same way as the Templars had lately bee dealt with. However, Gerard, Cout of Holstei, came forward as the defeder of the Kights. A formal iquiry was opeed before the Pope at Avigo i 23. The pricipal charges brought forward by the Archbishop were that the Order had ot fulfilled the coditios of its sovereigty i defedig the Church agaist its heathe eemies; that it did ot regard excommuicatios; that it had offered isolece to the Archbishop, ad seized some of the property of his see, ad other similar accusatios. The Grad explaied some By Joh Lemke, 32 DSA 2d Lt. Commader The future is the time to do ew thigs. Right ow is ot good. There is so much to do ow that treadig water seems appropriate, maybe eve positive. I m sure most me desire to chage i a positive way. May me wat to grow persoally, but fid reasos, good reasos they thik, to stay put. Decisios ca be postpoed. It seems there will always be tomorrow. Everyoe is busy. You re Ivited I Masory, a path for growth is the Scottish Rite. Let me ivite all Brothers readig this to atted the Ope Meetig the Scottish Rite will hold o Thursday, March 20th. If you are a Scottish Rite Brother, please brig a Brother whom you thik might like to fid out about the Scottish Rite. We will preset The Peacemakers. This is the ew Licol Degree, a Degree ayoe ca see, which takes place right before the ed of the Civil War. It has bee well received. I will also preset a overview o a theory o how we fit ito the great cycles of history ad how each geeratio seems to have a particular place. It seems, for example, that the Boomer Geeratio of these matters, deied others, ad produced a autograph letter of the Archbishop s, i which he secretly edeavored to stir up the Grad Duke of Lithuaia to make a treacherous attack upo some of the fortresses of the Kights. The ed of the matter was that the case was dismissed, ad there is little doubt that there were serious faults o both sides. The times were ideed full of violece, cruelty ad crime. The aals aboud with terrible ad shameful records, bloody ad desolatig wars, ad idividual cases of oppressio, ijustice, ad cruelty. Now a Grad is assassiated i his chapel durig vespers; ow a judge is proved to have received bribes, ad to have iduced a suitor to sacrifice the hoor of his wife as the price of a favorable decisio. Wealth ad power led to luxury ad sesuality, the weaker were oppressed, oble ad bishop alike showig themselves proud ad tyraical. There are ofte two cotradictory accouts of the same trasactio, ad it is impossible to decide where the fault really was, whe there seems so little to choose betwee the coduct of either side. The coclusio seems forced upo us that huma ature was i those days much the same as it is ow, ad that riches ad irresposible authority scarcely ever fail to lead to pride ad to selfish ad oppressive treatmet of iferiors. Whe we gaze upo the magificet cathedrals that were risig all over Europe at the biddig of the great of those times, we are filled with admiratio, ad disposed to imagie that piety ad a high stadard of religious life must have prevailed; but a closer acquaitace with historical facts dissipates the illusio, ad we fid that the, as ow, good ad evil were migled. The history of the Order for the ext cetury presets little of iterest. I 88 two of the Kights repaired to Eglad by order of the Grad, to make commercial arragemets with that coutry, which had bee redered ecessary by the chages itroduced ito the trade of Europe by the creatio of the Haseatic League. A secod commercial treaty betwee the Kig of Eglad ad the order was made i I ll cotiue this i my ext article; there is much writte o this subject. Source of this iformatio was: org, Teutoic Kights: Their Orgaizatio Ad History by F.C. Woodhouse. is quite differet from Geeratio X, ad the you have the Milleias. There are four geeratioal archetypes. Licol, for example, was of the same type of geeratio as the Boomers. Hece my portrayig Licol may fit for reasos eve beyod appearace. The way each geeratio looks at thigs affects greatly the great cycles of America. Some thik we are ow i a crisis aalogous to the Civil War ad the Revolutioary War, but have t yet reached the climax of the crisis. The geeratio just older tha the Boomers is the Silet Geeratio ad the geeratio older yet is the GI Geeratio. Believe it or ot the GI geeratio ad Geeratio X should be aalogous types. Atted ad see how these great cycles may affect your life ad Masory. Of course, the theory may be rubbish but makes sese to may. Me joied Masory like mad i the Civil War. I a crisis you do t wat to be aloe. We will start the eveig with a dier at 6:30 p.m., followed by the program at The dier will be provided by the Scottish Rite Valley of Rochester at o cost to those attedig, but you eed to make reservatios. Please make The Valley of Corig Cordially Ivites Brothers, Spouses ad Frieds of Rochester ad Corig Valleys ad Paited Post ad Bath Savoa Lodges Telescopig Thru Space Show Moday, March 17th at Corig Commuity College Plaetarium 1 Academic Drive, Corig Buildig Code E, Specer Hill Campus Cost $5.00 per perso Reservatios eeded by Moday, March 7th; Limited Seatig A approximately oe-hour show has may shots from the Hubble Telescope. There are also several telescopes available, icludig a scaleddow model of the 200-ich disk at Mt. Palomar, CA. If the weather cooperates, we will be able to use them to look ito the heaves. Light Sacks provided at 7 p.m. ~ Program begis at For Reservatios, call either: Frak Hamm (607) ; fhamm16@yahoo.com or Do Miller (607) ; dmiller99@sty.rr.com Attetio - all Scottish Rite Travelers Souther Masoic Jurisdictio Reuio Travel with the Valleys of Rochester, Buffalo, Syracuse, Corig ad Jamestow to visit the Valley of Nashville, TN Leavig Thursday, April 10th Returig Suday, April th Take i the sights ad souds of the Coutry Music Capital of the World Price per perso: $599 Sigle ~ $499 Double ~ $479 Triple/Quad Trip icludes: Roudtrip Deluxe Motor Coach ~ Three Nights Accommodatios Three Breakfasts ~ Three Diers ~ Eveig Shows Daily Sightseeig ~ All Taxes, Gratuities ad Luggage Hadlig A mailig with more iformatio ad a Registratio Form has bee set to all Scottish Rite Masos, which you ca retur with a $100 Deposit to secure your seat/s. Spouses are defiitely welcome. Cotact Gordo Hubbell, 32 DSA, Chairma (585) reservatios with our Valley so we kow how may will atted. The bar opes at 5:30 p.m., if we have a barteder, but the driks wo t be o the house. It s ice to socialize. Sophocles said, Heave ever helps the ma who will ot act. Take the step ow to see how you ca grow as a perso while havig a lot of fu. The meetig o March 20th will be ejoyable ad ispiratioal ad is coveietly located at the Shrie Ceter i Webster. Please atted.

$et E Charles M. Roberts, 225-6533 cholyoe@rochester.rr.com 17 Church Street, Pittsford 14534 By E\ Joh Zabel Special thaks to all who participated i the Royal Arch Festival i Palmyra o Jauary 25th.$ These thaks iclude Joh Zabel who, as District Deputy Grad High Priest, coordiated the evet. I welcome Compaio Charles Price, Jr., ad Compaio Lace J. Daul to Hiram Chapter.

These thaks iclude Joh Zabel who, as District Deputy Grad High Priest, coordiated the evet. I welcome Compaio Charles Price, Jr., ad Compaio Lace J. Daul to Hiram Chapter.

18 18 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com March 2014 York Rite NEWS Hiram Chapter No. 62 2d & 4th Thursdays E Keeth Rick Howe, High Priest H) ; C) krhowe@frotieret.et E Charles M. Roberts, cholyoe@rochester.rr.com 17 Church Street, Pittsford By E\ Joh Zabel Special thaks to all who participated i the Royal Arch Festival i Palmyra o Jauary 25th. These thaks iclude Joh Zabel who, as District Deputy Grad High Priest, coordiated the evet. I welcome Compaio Charles Price, Jr., ad Compaio Lace J. Daul to Hiram Chapter. I will be attedig Grad Chapter i Albay o March 6th thru 8th where I will be aoited as High Priest. I will the, officially, be High Priest of Hiram Chapter No. 62. I reflectig o this evet, I thought I might briefly discuss the first Grad High Priest of the Grad Chapter of Royal Arch Masos for the State of New York. DeWitt Clito ( ) was acclaimed as oe of the greatest Statesme that New York State has ever produced. We all kow, from our New York State History, that DeWitt Clito was a tireless servat of the State. He was a graduate of Columbia Uiversity where he studied Law. He was to his ucle, George Clito. He served as Mayor of New York City, State Seator, Uited States Seator ad Goveror of New York. He was a early propoet of public educatio ad a drivig force for abolishig slavery i New York State. He spearheaded the costructio of the Erie Caal, which became the gateway to the America West ad, coicidetally, was istrumetal i makig Rochester America s first Boom Tow. What may may ot kow is that DeWitt Clito was oe of the most promiet Freemasos of his day. He was of Hollad Lodge No. 16 i 1793; the first Grad High Priest of Royal Arch Masos i the State of New York i 1798; the first Grad High Priest of the Uited States Geeral Grad Chapter i He was Grad Commader of the Grad Commadery Kights Templar of the State of New York i 1814, ad Grad of the Grad Ecampmet Kights Templar of the Uited States i If this was t eough, he served as Grad of Masos for the State of New York from 1806 to I m excited about servig the Chapter ad, hopefully, will see great umbers comig to our meetigs o the 2d ad 4th Thursdays of the moth. I expect to be spedig a lot of time o Ritual this year. We will be workig o the four Degrees ad discussig their meaig ad how they relate to Symbolic Masory. O April 9th, We will be visitig Waye Lodge to perform the Peculiar Stoe. I look forward to meetig with our Brothers from the Waye District. I ecourage all s to cosider usig the Cocordat Bodies - both York Rite ad Scottish Rite - for programs i your respective Lodges. We are here to serve. Cyree-Moroe Commadery No. 12 Chartered 1993 Commader SK Charles O. Hacock chacock@ rochester.rr.com Recorder SK Charles M. Roberts cholyoe@rochester.rr.com 3rd Moday 17 Church Street, Pittsford I recetly ecoutered a Brother whom I had ot see i a very log time. As we talked ad recapped our persoal status, it became obvious he had a lot of egative experiece i his life. He was divorced, estraged from his family, lost his busiess ad NPD d from his Blue Lodge ad expelled from his church. His life is a wreck ad he has o clue as to what to do. Someoe had told him he had little credibility because he cosistetly failed to meet ay of his commitmets i life. I asked him to clarify. He the lauched a tirade wherei he stated that most people did ot appreciate that oaths, promises ad obligatios were oly words adopted by society as a formality ad ot really bidig or worthy of serious commitmet. As a example, he cited the pealties of the obligatios take i the Masoic Degrees. He said he could ot take them seriously because they were ot practical today. Similarly the vows ad promises of the church ad society are basically eyewash ad without substace. I reviewed with him each of his self-proclaimed problem areas. I each circumstace, whether itimate or ot, he expressed his disdai for the superficial expectatios of people ad society. He firmly believes he is right ad the world is wrog. Sice he chose to use a Frateral referece for the start of his explaatio, I decided to use the Craft as the basis of my rebuttal. I asked him if he kew the resposibilities of a member of the Craft. Other tha paymet of Dues, he could ot state ay membership resposibilities that he uderstood or had agreed to accept ad fulfill. I suspect he is ot aloe. Today, there are may who do ot thik i those terms. They look ad accept oly the beefits that they uderstad ad wat of membership. Followig our discussio I have reflected upo this experiece ad woder if perhaps part of our declie i membership umbers may be attributed to a geeral perceptio o the part of some of our members that parallels that of the old former Brother above. Could it be that the basic Teets of our getle Craft are ot uderstood or practiced by our members. Without goig ito detail cocerig the resposibilities assumed i the Degree obligatios, I d like to commet o some of the thigs that are assumed but ot ecessarily stated as coditios of membership. Be vocal about the kids of thigs you expect from your Lodge, Chapter or Commadery. Participate i as may programs ad evets as possible. Atted meetigs if they are borig, let the Presidig Officer kow ad suggest positive chages. If there are thigs you do ot uderstad, ask for a explaatio. Be uderstadig but firm that you expect better cosistecy. You are part of the Frateral family. Do t be eager to air dirty laudry. Do ot allow emotio to dictate your actios. Do t become part of the problem. Support ormal icreases i Aual Fees or Dues. It is a fact of life i all other busiesses. The Masoic Body is o differet. A Lodge i ad of itself is ot a philathropic orgaizatio. It must stretch its reveues ad resources to cover its operatioal costs, like all other etities. Uderstad there will be other experieces that you may truly ejoy at other clubs or facilities ad wish to icorporate ito your Lodge, but those activities or veues may ot work for your Lodge. Agai, be proactive, but uderstad your Club s philosophy ad/or limitatios. Abide by your ow expectatios, but kow that i order to provide for your eeds, the Officers eed the appropriate tools. Make membership repleishmet a way of life. No orgaizatio ca survive without some from of marketig ad sales. I the private Fraterity, it is the oly traditioal (ad i some cases) legal meas of matriculatio. Through your participatio, you are assistig the Lodge ad yourself i holdig costs to a reasoable level per membership. Be active i doatig your time to assistig the Officers i fuctios ad activities. Uderstad the ature of your ivolvemet as a voluteer ad try ot to become over-ivolved. Lear, also, whe to say No. Allow your Officers to maage the facilities ad operatios govered by the memberships goals. Support ope ad hoest commuicatios from the Trustees ad Officers regardig issues affectig the geeral membership. Okay, okay, so the article was t really about the privileges so much as the resposibilities. But I ll guaratee you this, if you just do some of these thigs, if you just try to uderstad some of the issues ad if you will simply participate i the membership repleishmet process, your Lodge, ideed your membership, will become a much more valuable asset to you ad to your family. Membership does have its privileges. We just eed to remember that to maitai those privileges, we as members, have resposibilities as well. A Fraterity ca oly be as strog or efficiet as the members who carry out daily operatios ad work together to solve problems. But a idividual member s list of duties ad resposibilities exteds far beyod the basic job descriptio. Some duties apply to all jobs, while others are specific to certai types of positios. May of a Officer s duties are listed at his Istallatio. Officers geerally reveal the full job descriptio durig a iterview or traiig process. As a Officer, you re resposible for uderstadig your job descriptio as well as kowig whom to ask for help or explaatio. This may mea becomig familiar with Costitutio ad By-Laws Policies or completig o-the-job traiig to lear first-had how your job fits ito the Fraterity as a whole. The Masoic Fraterity eforces a Code of Coduct that limits which topics you ca discuss while i Lodge, or how you iteract with colleagues. Every member has a resposibility to make others feel comfortable i the Lodge as well as a duty to be respectful ad accept istructios from Officers ad seior members. Plety of compoets withi the Craft are out of a ma s cotrol, makig it imperative that he maage the items that are i his cotrol. Puctuality is amog the cotrollable factors ad stayig a few miutes after the formal meetig is over is appreciated. Members should also dress appropriately for the meetig ad show up with a positive attitude for the work ahead. Showig respect to Officers, fellow members ad visitors ca set the toe for a positive Lodge experiece. Commitmet Your appearace exhibits commitmet to the Craft. Keep hair eat ad ails well maicured. I additio to excellig at the task at had, this behavior ca lead to advacemet ad promotio withi a body. I a day whe commitmet is a rare commodity, it should come as o surprise that Craft membership is such a low priority to so may members. Sadly, it is ot ucommo for members to move from Lodge to Lodge, ever committig themselves to the disciplie of the Lodge experiece ad ever committig themselves to the Lodge i geeral. Membership Matters Livig out a commitmet to a local Blue Lodge ivolves may resposibilities exemplifyig a Masoic lifestyle i the commuity, exercisig oe s spiritual gifts i diliget service, cotributig fiacially to the work of the charity, givig ad receivig admoishmet with meekess ad i love, ad faithfully participatig i Masoic affairs. Much is expected, but much is at stake. For oly whe every member is faithful to this kid of commitmet, is the Craft able to live up to the callig as a Fraterity that cares for its members. To put it simply, membership matters. Ispectio April 21st is the date of our Aual Ispectio. Our Ispectig Officer, SK Davis, Grad Warder, has bee very accommodatig i schedulig this evet. To be adequately prepared for this key meetig, I ask all Sir Kights to atted both the March ad April meetigs so we ca support our Officers i the demostratio of their Tactical skills. Commaders Receptio Sir Kights, set aside November 15th o your caledar. That is the date for the Grad Commader s Receptio this year. It will be held at the Holiday I Airport, Rochester. We expect that SK Charles M. Roberts, VEDGC, will be istalled as Grad Commader at Grad Commadery i September. Doric Coucil No. 19 Cryptic Masos (Chartered 1861) 3rd Wedesday Illustrious R\Ill\ Garry Hutchurso ghutchurso@yahoo.com Joh A. Dudley, Recorder jdudley1@rochester.rr.com 17 Church Street, Pittsford I hope everyoe is copig with this cold Witer ad stayig warm. Our Sowbirds must have it right this year. Florida seems the right place to be. We have some good ews as we have a Petitio out ad we could be doig Degrees this year. Sad News We also have some bad ews as R\I\ Doug Poole passed away o Jauary 30th. He was District Deputy i 1998 from Doric Coucil. He was ill for a very log time. I was preset at his Memorial Service i York ad it was very well atteded. Well, I hope to see you i Coucil soo. Do t forget we have dier at 6 p.m. at the Pub before the meetig. God Bless. Semco Costructio Servig the etire area Sice 1984 Call Joh Lemke (585) jlemke55@gmail.com Widows Doors Sidig Decks SuSetter Retractable Awigs Authorized Susetter Awig Dealer

March 2014 Website: www.moroemasoic.com N Email: masoictimes@gmail.com 19 Uderstadig the Root Cause of Disease Cotiued from Page 1 rectio of Dr.

They first extract DNA from lymphocytes i blood ad use sophisticated equipmet to map select gees, i some cases the etire geome.

A sigle error i codig ca cause trasformatio of the protei that could have deadly cosequeces. Although DNA was discovered i the 1950s, scietists could ot easily sequece the DNA util the late 1970s.

19 March 2014 Website: N masoictimes@gmail.com 19 Uderstadig the Root Cause of Disease Cotiued from Page 1 rectio of Dr. Charles Atzelevitch, are usig state-of-the-art geetic sequecig techiques to aalyze the DNA of patiets with iherited cardiac arrhythmia sydromes ad their family members. They first extract DNA from lymphocytes i blood ad use sophisticated equipmet to map select gees, i some cases the etire geome. The geetic code is the blueprit for life ad is made up of over 20,000 gees, which ecode for over 100,000 differet proteis that make up the machie that we call the huma body. A sigle error i codig ca cause trasformatio of the protei that could have deadly cosequeces. Although DNA was discovered i the 1950s, scietists could ot easily sequece the DNA util the late 1970s. Sice the the techology has advaced at a icredible rate. As the techology cotiues to advace, geetic screeig for disease will become progressively more ecoomically feasible. 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Third Aual Sprig Thig Fudraiser All about our Military Saturday, May 17th, 2-8 p.m. Webster Fireme s Field Preseted by Widows Sos ~ Ispiratio Lodge No. 109 Waye Lodge No. 416 ~ Caadaigua Lodge No. 294 Tickets: $20 pre-sale; $25 at door; Kids 12 ad uder free BBQ Dier, 3-6 p.m.; $1 Hot Dogs Family fu; Kids Activities; may Vedors; Door Prizes; 50/50 Raffle; Chiese ad Silet Auctios More iformatio: Ady Ady: areyceramic@yahoo.com I Memoriam Burt, Richard E. Richard Burt, 86, wet to the waitig arms of his wife o Jauary 4th. He is survived by 5 childre, 12 gradchildre ad 1 great-gradchild. Dick was a US Army Vetera of World War II ad US Coast Guard Vetera of the Korea War. The Brothers of Nuda Statio Lodge will keep him i their hearts. Figar, Roger E. O February 1st, Roger Figar, 85, wet Home to his Lord. Roger was a member of ERAC Lodge. May he fid peace with the Great Architect of the Uiverse. Fredeburg, William N. O Jauary 30th, William Fredeburg, 83, wet to the Celestial Lodge leavig his wife, Dot; 4 childre ad 10 gradchildre to remember his very active life. Bill was a US Army Vetera ad voluteerism came secod oly to his family. He was a member of Uity Lodge, Scottish Rite, Damascus Shrie ad Lalla Rookh Grotto. His cotributios to commuity, Masoic activities ad humaity will always be remembered. May he fid peace with the Lord. Gillotte, Joseph A. Joseph Gillotte, 82, passed away Jauary 1st; his 3 childre ad 5 gradchildre will remember his life of accomplishmets. He was a US Air Force Vetera of the Korea War ad a member of Ark Lodge, Scottish Rite ad Damascus Shrie. May His love see you getly through these difficult days. Love, Robert L. We have received word that Robert Love, 88, passed away November, 20. He is survived by 4 childre, 10 gradchildre ad 10 great-gradchildre. He was a member of Scottish Rite. May the joy of the Lord be your stregth. Miller, Jack W. O February 5th, Jack Miller, 89, was embraced by those who walked before him i faith, leavig 5 childre, 7 gradchildre ad 3 great-gradchildre to share his memory. Jack was a 53-year member of Oatka Lodge. Memories are like threads of gold, they ever tarish or grow old. Widows to be Remembered Barr, Jeae R., 78, widow of Uity Lodge member Richard Barr, wet home to the Lord o Jauary th. Poole, Douglas S. O Jauary 31st, Douglas Poole, 55, departed from a lively life of accomplishmets. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, ad exteded family. Doug was a active member of Olive Brach Lodge. God seds His childre here with special tasks to do; ad calls them home whe their work is through. Reeves, Burto H. Burto Reeves, 93, etered Eteral Rest o Jauary 23rd, leavig his wife of 57 years, Shirley; 2 childre ad 4 gradchildre to survive him. Burto was a US Navy Vetera of World War II ad 62-year member of Waka-Hubbard Lodge. A memory is a keepsake of time that lives forever i the heart. Rogers, Arthur A. O Jauary 18th, Arthur Rogers, 93, departed his Earthly family ad will be remembered by his wife, Lois; 3 childre 6 gradchildre, 8 great-gradchildre ad exteded family. Arthur was a World War II Vetera of the US Maries ad member of Uity Lodge. Lovig prayers are with you ow ad i the days to come. Thomas, Herma F. Herma Thomas passed away Jauary 14th at the age of 93. Tommy was a 70-year member of ERAC Lodge ad a US Military Vetera. Two childre, 6 gradchildre ad 12 great-gradchildre survive him. Walls, Roald J., Jr. Roald Walls, 71, laid dow his Workig Tools o Jauary 23rd. He is survived by 3 childre ad 3 gradchildre. He was a US Navy Vetera ad member of ERAC Lodge. Wishig you a garde of lovely memories. Watso, Joseph W. Word has bee received of the passig of Joseph Watso, 90, o November 30, 20. He is survived by 2 childre, 1 gradchild ad 2 great-gradchildre. He was a member of Eagle Lodge ad Damascus Shrie. There are special people i our lives who ever leave, eve after they re goe. Hieber, Martha, 68, widow of Glewood Hieber, (ERAC Lodge) wet home to the Lord o Jauary 29th. Loeville, Dorothy M., 87, widow of Peter Loeville (Drumli Square Lodge), passed away o December 27, N. Washigto Street, East Rochester (585) Over 100 YEARS OF SERVICE Remember the Masoic Brotherhood Fud Campaig

Adults have relationship problems as often as and sometimes more often than

Adults have relationship problems as often as and sometimes more often than Lesso 9 83 Lot ad Abram Divide the Lad Geesis 13 s have relatioship problems as ofte as ad sometimes more ofte tha childre. Ayoe may have trouble relatig to a child, a spouse, a paret, a coworker, a eighbor,