FVNews Daily  
No. 152. Thursday, December 9, 2020

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What’s On (34 listings)
UPDATED DAILY.

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Thursday, December 10

• 6.30pm. Union Lodge. Christmas Break-Up. At Bairnsdale Club. Contact: Joe Lawrence.• 7pm.Revival Lodge. Talk: Colin Peterson, Degrees of Freemasonry. LINK Meeting ID: 301 981 5844

• 7.30pm.Antient York Lodge. Talk: ‘Where To From Here?’ Closed Meeting.
• 7.30pm.Cohuna Lodge. Guest Speaker TBA. LINK Meeting ID: 891 5902 9647. Passcode: 857504
• 7.30pm. Gardenvale Chapter. Talk: Craig Spendlove, ‘Rebellion In The Wilderness’. LINK Meeting ID: 895 5957 2846. Passcode: 091524
• 7.30pm.Lodge of Australia Felix. Discussion: Summary of the year. Attire: Christmas themed. LINK Meeting ID: 892 902 3214. Passcode:felix10dec

Friday, December 11
• 7pm. Phillip Island Lodge. Christmas Dinner for Members, Partners and Friends. At Citrus and Vine Restaurant. Replaces Lodge Meeting. Contact: Colin, 0402 483 404.

• 7.30pm. Bairnsdale Daylight Lodge. Talk: Paul Brennand, ‘English Freemasonry during WWI and WWII’. LINK
Saturday, December 12
• 12 Noon.  Sale of Myrtleford Masonic Centre to Scouts Victoria. Media Event.
• 4.30pm-8pm.  Sunbury Lodge. Celebrating end of 2020. At Lions Park, Sunbury. Neil Addison, 0409 504 684.
Sunday, December 13
• TBA. Lodge Garibaldi. Lodge Picnic.Queens Park, Moonee Ponds.
• 11am. Gippsland Lakes. Installation Meeting, and Banquet and Widows function. Abbreviated Installation of Graeme Nightingale. At Lake Tyers Angling Club, Lake Tyers Beach Rd.
• 12 Noon. Argyle Lodge and Friends. Christmas Barbecue. At Boolarra Railway Park. BYO everything. Peter Lonie, 0423 269 415.
• 12.30pm. Central District and Blue Lounge Social Club. Christmas Barbecue. BYO food, drinks, chair. On the banks of the Yarra. No cost. RSVP with Name / Lodge / Mobile to secretary@central111.org via Trybooking.
• 6.30pm.  Mildura Lodge. Christmas Dinner. At Mildura Golf Resort. (Preceded by 1pm-5pm barbecue at Nowingi Place).
• 7pm.  Walhalla Lodge. Talk: Russell Griffiths on his tour of duty in Northern Ireland with the British Army. LINK Meeting ID: 998 3505 1792. Passcode: 647865
Monday, December 14
• 6.30pm.  Wimmera Lodge. Christmas Dinner. Face-to-face at Horsham Sports and Community Club.

• 7pm.  Yarraville Lodge. 7.30pm. Christmas night in the South. Talk: Members of the Lodge; “My Christmas overseas”, some carols.  All welcome to South. Attire: summer dress. Contact: Secretary, iansterritt@yahoo.com.au

• 7.30pm.  City of Abbotsford Chapter. Talk: Glenn Hollibone, ‘A deeper look at the Degree of Excellent Master Mason or Passing the Veils’. LINK Meeting ID: 996 9898 5630
Tuesday, December 15
• 7.30pm.  Hamilton Grange Lodge. Talk: Scott Loxley, Major Fundraising Walk. LINK Meeting ID: 889 1992 2824

• 7.30pm. Middle Park Lodge. Festive Social Night (Zoom). BYO Everything. LINK Meeting ID: 826 5537 9380. Password: 458962
Wednesday, December 16
• 7.30pm. Freemasons Victoria Quarterly Communication or Business Meeting. LINK TBA
Thursday, December 17
• 7pm. Prospect Hill Mark Lodge. Talk: Peter White, ‘Walking the Kokoda Track – A Personal Experience’. Dress: Lodge Officers: collar and tie, Visitors: smart casual. LINK Meeting ID: 857 0379 5106. Passcode: 951227
Friday, December 18
• 7pm. Bairnsdale Daylight Lodge. Christmas Luncheon. At Nicholson Hotel. Jim Jolly, 0427 458 833.

• 7.30pm. Seavic Lodge. Talk: Barry Minster , Grand Lodge Almoner, ‘A Life in the Media, Football, and a Grand Almoner’s reflections on the COVID-19 lockdown’. LINK Meeting ID: 838 8337 7083. Passcode: 169616

Saturday, December 19
• 1pm.Sunshine Wisdom Lodge. End of Year Late Lunch Celebration. Lunch served at 2pm. At Green Gully Soccer Club. Adults, $49; Children, Free. Booking: www.trybooking.com

• 6pm.Lowan Lodge. Christmas Party. At Rhys and Lem’s house/garden. RSVP 0410 232 996. 

Sunday, December 20

• All Day. Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge. Sausage Sizzle. At Bunnings Mernda
• 11am. Lodge Walhalla. Working Bee.

Monday, December 21

• 7.30pm. Good Companions Lodge. Partners in the South Christmas Dinner Meeting. At Mulgrave Country Club. (No Lodge Meeting)

Saturday, December 26
• All Day. Union Lodge of North Gippsland. Bunnings Bairnsdale Sausage Sizzle.

Sunday, December 27
• 7.30pm. Masonic Festival of St John. Speakers: Neil Morse, John Molnar, Richard Elkington, Ari Indra. LINK Meeting ID: 858 0585 9809. Passcode: 466048

Sunday, January 3
• 8am-5pm. Ivanhoe Grammarians Lodge. Sausage Sizzle. At Bunnings Mernda
Monday, January 18
• 7.30pm. United Wimmera Mark and Royal Ark Mariner Lodges Combined Meeting (Zoom). Talk: Len Lacey, new year theme. RSVP by EMAIL by Fri., Dec. 18 to Len Baker.

Videos

• The Art of Masonic Education. (12:12) WATCH
• Emblems of Innocence and Honour. (09:53) WATCH
• 100 Years of Enduring Values – DeMolay. (07:57) WATCH

Business Meeting next week

• Garry Runge, Grand Secretary, has distributed a booklet for the Business Meeting that replaces the Quarterly Communication at 7.30pm on Wednesday (Dec. 16). A link is to be provided on the night to the pre-recorded meeting. The booklet includes contributions from Richard Elkington (Grand Master), Myles King (President of the Board of General Purposes), Craig Head (Grand Treasurer), Freemasons Foundation Victoria, Royal Freemasons, Peter Julier and Peter Gurr. LINK

Communications Success

• Daniel Jade, CentralDistrict Co-Ordinator, contributes the lead article to the Central District News, which includes a spotlight on Old Scotch Collegians Lodge, an article on American Freemason Presidents, and District 111 news.

Recovery Team meets

• Anthony Bucca, Deputy Grand Master, served in his role of Chair of the Freemasons Future Recovery Team, yesterday (Wed.) with a meeting of more than 20 representatives. Their Manual will be presented tonight (Thu.) to the Board of General Purposes.

Freemasonry At Work

• Emmanuel Marabeliotakis, Western District, reports that more than $1500 of items have already been donated towards the Christmas needs of deserving families. More than $2000 in cash has also been donated. The Greek Orthodox Community Church in St Albans have formally thanked Freemasons for help with their Christmas Food Drive. “Not only have we managed to raise more support than the church ever expected, but we have taken a big step towards a positive relationship with the Greek Orthodox Church and community,” says Manny.

Record Month For FVNews Daily

• AWStats shows that our website, FVNews.com.au, enjoyed its busiest-ever month in November with a record number of unique visitors, visits and use of bandwidth. FVNews is produced by the Communications and Marketing Volunteer Action Team. It is primarily an opt-in newsletter sent by email to subscribers. An exact replica of the newsletter is published at the website which includes all back copies. A synopsis of each issue is included on a number of Facebook pages. A number of overseas readers access the website using a redirect from www.FreemasonsAustralia.com 

World News

• Royalcentral.co.uk features a report on The Royal Family’s links to Freemasonry. LINK

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Sincere thanks

• Amongst those who assisted with contributions to this edition of FVNews Daily have been: Craig Spendlove, Adriano Lucchesi.
 

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Famous Freemasons
•  Simpson, Russell McCaskill (1880-1959) – Russell Simpson was a prolific American character actor who enjoyed a 45-year long career spanning 1914 to 1959. He first appeared in fellow Freemason Cecil B. DeMille’s silent film The Virginian in 1914 but Simpson is probably most known for his role as ‘Pa Joad’ in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). His last film was The Horse Soldiers (1959) starring John Wayne and William Holden. An active Freemason, “Beloved by all who knew him” is inscribed on Russell Simpson’s Masonically engraved gravestone.
– Timothy Horton

Masonic Knowledge
•  “Good manners imply observance of the formal requirements governing man’s behavior in polite society and a sense of what is appropriate for a person of good breeding with high morals and good taste.” LINK

Masonic Wisdom
• “When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.” – Ecclesiastes, attributed to King Solomon

The Last Word
• “I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.” – Atticus

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