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24 August 2022
GRAND MASTER’S NEWSLETTER
THIS ISSUE OF THE GRAND MASTER’S NEWSLETTER IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY MASONICARE – PROUDLY HELPING OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
We’re ‘Kicking Goals’
Brethren: Welcome to my August 2022 Newsletter
F
irstly let me thank you for all that you are doing to assist the Flood victims.
Our Grand Master’s Disaster Relief Appeal is going well, and we will soon begin to distribute funds to DGR status charities that are out there working hard in the Lismore area. We will continue the Grand Master’s Disaster Relief Appeal until 1 December 2022, in order to provide similar assistance to those in the Sydney/Hunter Valley and surrounding areas. We are now ready to start distributing funds throughout the Northern Rivers area and those funds will be dispersed in wide-ranging ways, from hot meal centres, mental health providers, to possibly even providing kitchens for the 3-room pods that are being built to house
those who are stranded and homeless because of the floods. We will also set ourselves up to be ready and prepared for future disasters by funding a unique NSW Masonicare Disaster Relief mobile workstation in the form of a specially set up trailer that will be employed immediately whenever disaster strikes. The trailer will provide food, drink and other necessities direct to the front line. It will be staffed by masons, and it WILL make an ongoing, worthwhile difference. I congratulate the brethren who are working on this project. I commend their efforts and I am truly humbled by the generosity and kindness that is continually shown during these trying times. Thank you.
From a masonic perspective, the past few weeks have been particularly hectic, but I feel that we (the entire NSW masonic community) are really ‘kicking goals’. The Grand Ceremonial Team and I have attended some quality functions recently with a Raising at Lodge Jose Rizal, Installations at Lodges Oorana, Novacastria, Paxton, Namoi and Newcastle City, a wonderful ‘The Cedars Lodge’ charity function at Parliament House and a huge Centenary event out at Geurie for Lodge Alan Stuart. There were some very kind donations presented along the way and I sincerely thank all involved. We are also heading out to Broken Hill in September and would love to see you there.
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