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3 May 2022
GRAND MASTER’S NEWSLETTER
THIS ISSUE OF THE GRAND MASTER’S NEWSLETTER BOUGHT TO YOU BY MASONICARE – PROUDLY HELPING OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
Humility, Kindness and Generosity Lismore Masonic Centre update
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s I am sure you are aware our own Lismore Masonic Centre and the brethren of Northern Rivers No 77 were directly and substantially impacted by the floods. While they do have some insurance, there is a long road ahead before we see them back to normal meetings.
The GMs video introduction
Welcome to the May 2022 edition of the Grand Master’s Newsletter.
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rethren: The theme during my term as Grand Master is Humility, Kindness and Generosity. Over the past few weeks and during the devastating floods, brethren and their families have shown that these wonderful traits are still alive and well within the masonic community. Our Grand Masters’ Disaster Relief Appeal is going well, and we look forward to helping those local frontline community assistance groups that have, over the past few weeks, directly helped others. I encourage your lodge to hold a fundraiser or donate some funds from your charity account so that we can make a real and positive impact throughout these devastated communities. All donations over $2 are tax deductible and no amount is too big or small.
DONATE HERE While I do, of course, thank you all for the very kind donations and the assistance we are now receiving, I do want to mention the heroism shown by VW Bro Bob Guthrie from Lodge Eltham, RW Bro Col Lee of Lodge Ballina and others who risked it all in their small boats, helping people find dry land and shelter during the worst parts of the floods. On behalf of us all, I thank Col, Bob and all the others that willingly set their own safety aside in order to help save others. We hope to secure an interview with Bob in a future Grand Masters Newsletter, if YOU have a story of a mason in your area who went that extra mile during the floods, please let me know.
RW Bros John Jacobson and John Andrews from our Board of Management, Wor Bro Joe Corrigan from Masonicare and VW Bro Perry Wells have all visited the Lismore Masonic Centre and met with the brethren of Northern Rivers No 77. Where possible, we will provide assistance with labour and regalia, and we have had some wonderful assistance offered up by lodges that have donated various types of lodge furnishings to the Lismore Masonic Centre. We really hope that this assistance will help see Northern Rivers 77 back in action sometime during the next few months. Brethren, this will be a painstaking process that will be project managed by VW Bro Perry Wells and his team. There is much to coordinate and a mammoth task ahead, but we do hope to see the repairs done in a timely fashion. I will update you on their progress in future newsletters.
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