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 NOTES FROM YOUR SECRETARY
Best wishes to all for
the month of February. I hope every one survived the wild weather of the
last two months with minimal damage.
I am not much of a
writer, but will try to get a few thoughts down for your
consideration. As I am new, both to
this Valley as well as this area, I will try to learn the ropes as fast as
possible so as not to step on too many toes. It is my intention to make an
on-going effort to convince the Brothers of this Valley to come back to
their Bodies and check out the changes. I intend to try to instill a bit of
fun in our gatherings, and the first thing along that line is to try to
persuade everyone to bring your Lady to our dinner meetings! We need them
to lighten us up a bit. The first opportunity for you to do this, will be
our February 7th dinner, I have asked our caterer to fix
something special for Valentines Day as our way of saying thank you to our
Ladies for their support over the years. Bring your Sweethart out to a nice
dinner and she will be the valleys guest.
I want to encourage each
and every Brother to think and suggest entertaining things for the group to
do, as well as any interesting speakers we might get for our dinners. I
have several ideas, but I am not doing this alone. You all know the area
and our membership better than I, so I am counting on every one of you.
In closing, please
remember those obligations we all took as we progressed through the degrees
of Masonry. We are all Brothers, and while we may not always agree on an
issue, we must remember to treat each other with respect and good will.
Come out and lets have
FUN for a change.
Paul
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Greetings
from South Dakota
By Don Higgerson
“Somewhere in the photo is Don’s
House”, Editor
Well we are finally getting used to the life style
here in South Dakota.
We have found that in order to be a part of the community it is necessary
to slow down, learn that at noon you have dinner and in the evening you
have supper, get along without traffic and stop lights, drive on gravel
roads, drive over 50 miles to do any major shopping, going out to
"supper" is at a "supper club" and I understand that
winter will be here sooner or later.
I joined Concord Lodge #13 in Watertown South Dakota
and the Northeast Shrine Club. It is only about a 55 mile drive to the
meetings and that hasn't been to bad so far this year. It looks as thought
that is going to change in the next few days.
The weather has been very nice so far. It is cold
at times (10 to 20 degrees) but this weekend it is suppose to get really
cold and snow. Probably -10 degrees
or there about at night and around 0 -7 degrees daytime. The closest
Scottish Rite is in Aberdeen South Dakota, about 100 miles or so away but I have
been told the valley in Sioux
Falls is a better valley to get involved with.
About 130 mile drive, one way. I don't thing I will be attending there on a
regular basis especially in the winter.
I will be spending the week of January 15th to 19th
in Austin Texas attending a school to learn the latest techniques of golf
club manufacturing. I am starting a business repairing and building custom
golf clubs. The sport of choice here in the summer is golf and there isn't
anyplace to even buy a golf club including the golf course.
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