Valley News
The latest "goings on" in the Valley of Hartford.
Links to Our Newsletters
Issues of our newsletter, View of the Valley, are available here in PDF format for download and viewing.
Upcoming Events
General Valley News Items
Lafayette Consistory Veterans Night
Lafayette Consistory is portraying the 23°, The Four Chaplains, on Monday, November 21, 2011, 7:30pm, to honor our veterans. All 32° Masons are invited, but most especially those who are veterans.
Dinner will be served at 6:15pm at the First Congregational Church of Stratford. Please make reservations by calling the Lafayette Consistory Office at (203) 375-0064 before noon on November 18, 2011. Here is a flier describing the event.
3rd Annual Road Race
Our 3rd Annual Road Race was held on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at the Valley. With oveor 130 runners the event as an astounding success. Thank you to all who helped.
Annual Rock Cats Game
Our Annual Rock Cats ball game and picnic was held on Saturday, July 9, 2011. We had an excellent turnout of 92 members, family and friends. Because of a rainout the evening before, we had the opportunity to see two games for the price of one. This event remains one of the pillar events of the Valley's Family Life Program.
Louis O. "Skip" House Receives Meritorious Service Award
Louis O. "Skip" House received the Arthur M. Brown 33° Meritorious Service Award at the recent Connecticut Council of Deliberation meeting in Wallingford.
Brother Skip has directed the 15th and 16th degrees for quite some time and has played the lead role in those degrees for the last twenty years (first in Maine, and now in Newington). Please congratulate him when you see him.
Spring Bus Trip a Success
The Spring Family Life Bus Tripe, to New York (Grand Lodge, Rockefeller Center and the USS Intrepid) was highly successful and enjoyed by all. Please watch the Family Life page for details on the fall trip, now in the planning stages.
Fall Bus Trip a Success
The Fall Family Life Bus Trip to Boston and the Scottish Rite Museum was a success. Thirty-two brothers, friends and family attended on a gorgeous fall day in New England. Please watch the Family Life page for details on the spring trip, now in the planning stages.
Jeffery A. Flynn, Kenneth A. Barrett Valley Nominees for 33°
It was announced at the Annual Meeting of the Supreme Council, AASR, NMJ in Philadelphia that the Valley of Hartford nominees to receive the 33° in 2011 are Brothers Jeffery A. Flynn and Kenneth A. Barrett. Please congratulate these brothers when you see them on this singular honor!
Supreme Council Dues Reduction Program
Wouldn't it be great if something you did on a regular basis helped you reduce the amount of your Scottish Rite dues? Well, now it can!
The Supreme Council has begun a program to allow individual Scottish Rite masons to reduce their dues by shopping through OneCause. With OneCause, you register on their site, associate with your cause (in our case the "Scottish Rite Freemasonry, NMJ" cause), and purchases made through participating online merchants, begun via the OneCause website, will apply a percentage of the transaction amount to your dues. The maximum percentage is 20%, although the average percent is between 2% and 6%.
To sign up, you need an email address, and must specify your cause. A link on the Supreme Council Membership Services web page will take you right to the appropriate OneCause page, or you may follow this link directly.
Once on the OneCause page, if you click "Shop to Support This Cause" in the left hand navigation area, you'll be taken to a page to register. If you select the "Help" link in the upper left, you can read a list of Frequently Asked Question. There are other helpful links on the front page, including a short flash video to explain to you how the program works.
If you shop regularly online with merchants like Amazon, Staples and many others, a percentage of your purchase is applied to your dues. The only requirement is that you start the shopping experience from the OneCause page, by clicking on that merchant's link.
Help Needed
We need help in robes, make-up, lighting, backstage and in the Scottish Rite Choir. If you are interested, please contact the Secretary, either by phone or by email.
View of the Valley
This has several benefits. The printed version is in black and white, however, the PDF version is in color. Also, viewing this on-line will probably save a few trees, and help the planet.