California Division IX Masonic Calendar of Events
Title: SW Hackett Lodge# 574 - Officer's Practice
Location: Scottish Rite Center - Heald Room
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Description: TBA
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2012-04-24
End Time: 21:00
Title: Bethal 40 Dessert Auction
Location: Scottish Rite Center - Morrison Room
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Description: Hosted by Bethal 40 who will auctioning dessert entrees. This event is open to all Masons and Non-Masons. If you wish to participate, please bring cash!!
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-04-18
End Time: 21:00
Title: SW Hackett Lodge# 574 - Masonic Education & Officer's Practice
Location: Scottish Rite Center - Heald Room
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Description: Officer's practice will begin at 7:00pm. Brother David Watson will be presenting some of the esoteric meaning of our Masonic ritual before practice starting at 6:00pm. This session is open to all Masons and individuals who are interested in Masonry. Please check website for details.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2012-04-12
End Time: 21:00
Title: Masonic Information Night / Dinner
Location: Scottish Rite Center
Description: 6:00pm - Dinner
Complimentary to Prospective Masons and Sponsors
7:15pm - Masonic Information Night
(619) 293-4888 for Reservations
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2012-04-11
End Time: 21:00
Title: SW Hackett Lodge# 574 - Masonic Education & Officer's Practice
Location: Scottish Rite Center - Heald Room
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Description: Officer's practice will begin at 7:00pm. Brother Devin Briese will be presenting some of the esoteric meaning of our Masonic ritual before practice starting at 6:00pm. This session is open to all Masons and individuals who are interested in Masonry. Please check website for details.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2012-04-10
End Time: 21:00
Title: SW Hackett Lodge# 574 - Stated Meeting & Dinner
Location: Scottish Rite Center - Heald Room
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Description: Dinner starts at 6:30pm. Please, call the lodge secretary for reservations at (619) 295-4420. After dinner, stated meeting will begin at 7:00pm in the Heald Room
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2012-04-03
End Time: 21:30
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| San Diego City Council Member Marti Emerald, left, joins San Diego Unified Board President Dr. John Lee Evans, Superintendent Bill Kowba, and John Heisner, Grand Orator, Masons of California. |
The Masons of California have donated $178,000 to support reading and scholarship programs around the county, including schools in the San Diego Unified School District.
Through the Raising A Reader Literacy Partnership, California Masons are bringing the award-winning Raising A Reader literacy program to kindergarten classrooms in the lowest-performing public schools throughout the state, turning the page for literacy and increasing life opportunities for thousands of children at risk for learning failure. Masons’ donations are enabling this acclaimed program to reach hundreds of California public school students for the first time.
The fraternity’s Investment in Success Scholarship Program, which launched last spring, provides college scholarships for deserving high school seniors who demonstrate an active pursuit of education in spite of significant obstacles. Students who receive these scholarships demonstrate exemplary character, drive, and scholastic potential, despite challenges in their homes or communities.
Board of Education President Dr. John Lee Evans and Superintendent Bill Kowba were joined by San Diego City Council Member Marti Emerald to accept the check from John Heisner, Grand Orator, Masons of California during a March 26 ceremony at Central Elementary School in City Heights.
The Masons of California have helped make public education a focal issue in California since their 1920 introduction of Public Schools Week, now celebrated statewide as Public Schools Month each April. The donation to support teachers and students in San Diego County schools is presented as part of the fraternity’s annual Public Schools Month kickoff celebration. Events will be held throughout California this March and April, with statewide donations amounting to more than $750,000.
Fourth, fifth and sixth grade students participated in the competition with cash prizes awarded to the first, second and third place finishers in each class. This year the the three winners were also given a trophy. Dennis Stahr, Master of SW Hackett, handed out checks for $75, $50 and $25 to the children below.
2012 Sequoia Spelling Bee Winners
Sequoia Elementary Principal Ryan presided over the event, Sequoia teachers presented words to be spelled, and a full house of family and friends cheered the children on.
2012 Sixth Grade Sequoia spelling bee contestants
2012 Fifth Grade Sequoia spelling bee contestants
2012 Fourth Grade Sequoia spelling bee contestants
2012 Trophies and Awards for Sequoia Elementary Spelling Bee Winners
SW Hackett Lodge No. 574 Master Dennis Stahr presented the awards to Sequoia Elementary Spelling Bee Winners
Dennis Stahr of SW Hackett Lodge with Sequoia Elementary Principal Ryan
Mar 17, 461:
On this day in 461 A.D., Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland, dies at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland.
Much of what is known about Patrick's legendary life comes from the Confessio, a book he wrote during his last years. Born in Great Britain, probably in Scotland, to a well-to-do Christian family of Roman citizenship, Patrick was captured and enslaved at age 16 by Irish marauders. For the next six years, he worked as a herder in Ireland, turning to a deepening religious faith for comfort. Following the counsel of a voice he heard in a dream one night, he escaped and found passage on a ship to Britain, where he was eventually reunited with his family.
According to the Confessio, in Britain Patrick had another dream, in which an individual named Victoricus gave him a letter, entitled "The Voice of the Irish." As he read it, Patrick seemed to hear the voices of Irishmen pleading him to return to their country and walk among them once more. After studying for the priesthood, Patrick was ordained a bishop. He arrived in Ireland in 433 and began preaching the Gospel, converting many thousands of Irish and building churches around the country. After 40 years of living in poverty, teaching, traveling and working tirelessly, Patrick died on March 17, 461 in Saul, where he had built his first church.
Since that time, countless legends have grown up around Patrick. Made the patron saint of Ireland, he is said to have baptized hundreds of people on a single day, and to have used a three-leaf clover--the famous shamrock--to describe the Holy Trinity. In art, he is often portrayed trampling on snakes, in accordance with the belief that he drove those reptiles out of Ireland. For thousands of years, the Irish have observed the day of Saint Patrick's death as a religious holiday, attending church in the morning and celebrating with food and drink in the afternoon. The first St. Patrick's Day parade, though, took place not in Ireland, but the United States, when Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City in 1762. As the years went on, the parades became a show of unity and strength for persecuted Irish-American immigrants, and then a popular celebration of Irish-American heritage. The party went global in 1995, when the Irish government began a large-scale campaign to market St. Patrick's Day as a way of driving tourism and showcasing Ireland's many charms to the rest of the world. Today, March 17 is a day of international celebration, as millions of people around the globe put on their best green clothing to drink beer, watch parades and toast the luck of the Irish.
-Courtesy of the History Channel
