june 2020

Anna Peterson, WGM The Rhythm of Life Bob Harper, WGP

Hello Everyone, In the 14th Century, a group of thieves Celebrating June seems to be mysteriously managed to enter the home Flag Day of those dead from the plague and rob busting out all over When the American them without becoming ill. A few and I’m not referring Revolution broke centuries later, during a plague 1721 in to June, our out in 1775, the neighbor down the Marseilles, France, four thieves were colonists weren't street, who seems to have put on a few released from prison to bury the dead. fighting under a single flag. Most of the pounds during this time of stay indoors They were surprised to remain heathy. regiments participating in the war for and not doing anything. Oh well, that’s In both cases the thieves had concocted independence fought under their own another story. an herbal formula that gave them flags. In June 1775, the Second It’s so nice to see things beginning to protection. The same formula was used Continental Congress met in open up. As you may know the Grand successfully during a cholera epidemic Philadelphia to create the Continental Army - a unified colonial fighting force - Master of Colorado has allowed lodge in Bulgaria in 1848. Not only was the with the hopes of a more organized buildings to reopen for meetings as long formula taken orally, but cloths were battle against its colonial oppressors. as they conform to all of the rules and soaked in it and applied over the mouth and nose to filter out bacteria. All of the This led to the creation of the first regulations of the various communities in "American" flag, the Continental Colors. which they are located. If you’re herbs in the formula have been used by millions of people for thousands of years For some this flag which was planning on holding a meeting, check composed of 13 red and white Lavender is an antibacterial and with your county government agencies alternating stripes and a Union Jack in antifungal. Before WWII, it was used as and your municipal health department to the corner, was too similar to the British make sure you can comply with the an antiseptic dressing for wounds and to flag. George Washington soon realized various governing regulations as well as get rid of parasites. It was burned in sick that flying a flag that was even remotely the restrictions covered in the Most rooms during the Bubonic Plague to close to the British flag was not a good Worthy Grand Matron’s guidelines. prevent the spread of the disease. idea nor a morale or confidence builder Please remember the safety of our is antibacterial, antifungal for the revolutionary effort. He then members must always come first. and antioxidant. Its antiseptic aroma turned his efforts toward creating a new As we slowly begin to emerge from could help prevent the spread of symbol of freedom for the soon to be new nation. this pandemic, I’d like to share an article infection. It was carried in pouches to On June 14, 1777, the Second that I saw in the Colorado Gardner, ward off the plague. Continental Congress, during a break written by Brigitte Mars. She is an Peppermint is one of the most ancient of all medicinal herbs. Its from deliberations passed a resolution herbalist and teacher and a recognized stating that" the flag of the United States expert in natural medicine. The article is antimicrobial, antiparasitic, antiviral, diaphoretic and vasodilating. It causes be 13 stripes, alternate red and white" called: “ of the Four Thieves, A and that "the union be 13 stars, white in perspiration, which helps eliminate Back-Up Plan for Pandemics”. Continued page 2 (ANNA) a blue field." Continued page 2 (BOB) Page 2 (continued from Page 1 – ANNA) Grind the herbs, place in a glass jar and Recently, Sister Myrna Salberg, cover with vinegar. Cover tightly placing received an appointment as Grand toxins through the skin. Its essential oil wax paper between the mixture and the Representative to New Mexico. She is used to topically treat bug bites, itchy top of the jar lid. Put in a sunny spot for joins other Colorado #2 Grand skin, chicken pox and measles. 10 days, strain through a coffee filter and Representatives: George Benson, Sage is antifungal, an inflammatory, bottle in a sterilized bottle. Stores Wyuoming; Bob Roeder, Illinois; Marilyn antioxidant and antiseptic. It has long indefinitely in the refrigerator. Wadsworth, Vermont; and Barbara Harrington, Australia. been burned for purification. The name If you decide to make some, be The exemplified one initiation, but the is derived from the Latin salvere “to be in judicious when using it. I thought I’d try good health” second was postponed because of bad it out on Ed first just to be cautious. He weather and no quorum. Wormwood is antibiotic, seems to be ok except for that annoying antiparasitic, antipyretic (fever reducing) The first meeting in March was twitch he’s developed. Oh well, that celebrated with corned beef and and antiseptic. Because mice dislike the could just be the three day old tuna salad cabbage, along with Irish songs and plant, authors mixed a bit of wormwood he had for dinner the other night. Have decorations. This was the last meeting juice into their ink so their manuscripts fun. before the shutdown due to the spread wouldn’t get eaten. Large doses are of coronavirus. Since then everything toxic. God bless you and keep you safe. has happened behind the scenes and is considered antibiotic, Anna Peterson, WGM the Chapter hopes to be open again in antifungal and antiparasitic. Garlic helps June. protect from many types of infectious (continued from Page 1 – BOB) - Robert Trezise, Reporter diseases including staph, strep and In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson salmonella bacteria. Once used as marked the anniversary of that decree by protection from the Bubonic Plague. Dr. officially establishing June 14 as Flag Albert Schweitzer used it to treat Sunshine #53 Grand Junction Day. As you celebrate Flag Day be sure cholera, typhoid and typhus infections. It What a strange few months we are to proudly fly your flag. experiencing. If nothing else we're can be used for circulatory problems; it learning a whole new vocabulary--- helps to prevent blood platelet Happy Father's Day to all the Dads June pandemic, shelter in place, stay home, aggregation (clots). 20, 2020!!! safer at home, social distancing, antigen Clove is effective against strep, staph tests, antibody tests--- to name a and pneumococci bacteria. It’s Star Love, Bob Harper, WGP antiseptic and antiparasitic. few. Unfortunately, most of us fall into Cinnamon is antibacterial and the group that is most at risk. So, I, and antifungal; it was added to food to News From probably most of you, have spent a lot of prevent spoiling. During the Bubonic Our Chapter time alone, saved a lot of money on gasoline and eaten some pretty weird Plague sponges were soaked in Reporters cinnamon and cloves and place in sick meals, depending on what we had in our rooms. pantry or freezer. Recipe for Four Thieves Vinegar: Colorado #2 Leadville It's such a scary time especially for 1 T Lavender Sister Marilyn Wadsworth and Brother those who can't work and are wondering 1 T Rosemary George McCollum were installed in how to pay the rent and feed their September as WM & WP of the “Faith 1 T Peppermint families. Most of us remember when we Can Move Mountains” theme for their 1 T Sage were young how vulnerable we were, year in the East. Members worked hard 2 t Wormwood and can to some extent, feel their pain on the main fundraiser, the sale of and worry. Personally, I never wanted to 1 t Garlic Christmas wreaths and garlands. Their home school my five children and always 1 t cloves efforts raised a profit of $3000 for the appreciated teachers and public 1 t cinnamon Chapter Scholarship and other 2-1/2 cups of . charitable activities. school. Social skills are as important as book learning. My granddaughter in the Page 3 our lives returning to normal, whatever Dawn #125 Aurora that may be, in due time. WM Susan Franzen’s Aim this year is Denver area has a nine-year old austistic Our last Chapter meeting was March “To fulfill my responsibilities to God for son and a set of very lively five-year old 12, just prior to the Grand Master of the faithful performance of my duties”. In twins. The nine-year old is doing pretty Masons edict #3, cancelling all activities so doing, at our Oct. 1 meeting, she and in Colorado Masonic Centers through WP Don Shearer honored teachers “In well, the twins not so much, and my the Spirit of Learning” by having all who granddaughter is floundering, but May 31. Hopefully, there’s a plan being formulated so we can SOON have have served as a teacher give a short hanging in there. presentation about their career, meetings again. Our Chapter is closed as is everyone including humorous moments and HAPPY NEWS: Congratulations to honors they received. Then the else. Since I wrote last, our dear Sis. Idella Cummings, GSE, who member, Sister Millie Young, passed honorees received a small gift of thanks. became a fifty-year member of the WP Don’s Aim this year is “To away. Our organist, Mildred Revere, Order, May 4. A celebration to honor this promote the Order as an expression of has been in the hospital with blood clots, milestone was postponed when her our cheerful companionship and social but is recuperating at home. Brother retirement residence was quarantined. enjoyment—friends and fun!” So at our Keith White is now living in Assisted Congratulations are also due three Oct. 15 meeting, “In the Spirit of Spooky Living. We were planning to collect members who became twenty-five-year Fun”, not only was the chapter decorated donations for our Rainbow Assembly to members this spring. Darlene Meltz with Halloween décor, the Bible was attend Supreme Assembly. That has all (3/9), Ken Haas (3/9), Tom Robyn closed and we went trick-or-treating around the chapter room, receiving changed, although, our Secretary has (4/28). Our Chapter has been fortunate that candy from the WM and WP. money for that purpose. The Dawn Chapter Social Club only one member, that we are aware of, Several of our members have been enjoyed meeting together for an “always contracted Covid 19. Thankfully, she masking masks. Some for family and nice” dinner at Mimi’s on Oct. 22. We has recovered! friends, and some have made MANY meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month, Sis. Mary Wilkes is recovering from and donated them to area hospitals and except for September, November, pneumonia. hospice. Some have been very creative December, July, and August at 6:00 at SADNESS: Bro. Charles Greer died various restaurants. It’s a great time for and used pipe cleaners so the masks fit Dec. 10, 2019; Sis. Karen Priebe died us to visit and relax and not have a up around the nose area! Mar. 26, 2020. meeting! Carol and Curtis Cloud are receiving OTHER NEWS: D’Ann & Chuck Then, at our Nov. 5 meeting, Susan their 50-year pins, and Barbara and Downing recently moved to Ft. Collins to and Don honored the Veterans “In the Vernon Dillard are receiving their 60- be near family. We will certainly miss Spirit of Freedom”. Appropriate music year ones! Congratulations. their presence. used throughout the ages was playing in the background, while WP Don gave a Hope you are all doing well. Maybe On May 14 we hosted our first Zoom presentation about each of the wars the “Chapter Gathering” (can’t call it a sometime in June, we can resume US has been involved in since its meeting and at least, have elections and meeting) with twelve participants. Our beginning. They then presented those make plans for next year, Stay safe. members, Mary & Warren Byrum, who present who have served in the Military - Fern Chase, Reporter live in Woodbridge, VA joined in. What with a beautiful framed plaque. fun it was to catch up on everyone’s Have you noticed that each meeting latest news. Herbie C., you were looking pertains to our WM’s and WP’s Theme Manzanita #85 Littleton good with hair! If your Chapter has not this year, “In the Spirit of Faith and Greetings Sisters & Brothers! Our hosted a gathering of this type, we Prayer”? So,” In the Spirit of Gratitude” thoughts and prayers are with you all encourage you to do so. It is a great we celebrated Thanksgiving with the Eastern Star members at the Home on during this difficult and trying time. We way to share some time together and Nov. 19. are all tired of being house bound and have a few laughs. Thanks to PGM CherylAnn for Our fundraising efforts included not attending OES meetings and social participating in a Craft Fair on December resuscitating the 4U2 Review. The new events. We are one BIG FAMILY and it 7, a Christmas Cookie Exchange at our monthly publication schedule will is only natural to miss the interactions we December 3 meeting, when we also have always taken for granted but we certainly keep the reporters hopping! enjoyed being entertained by the HIKE must remain positive and look forward to That’s all folks ‘til next month. Choir, and a bus to Blackhawk on - Larry Wullbrandt, PGP, Reporter January 25. - Kay Finnerty, Reporter Page 4 cannot attend Chapter we decided to We prepared and served our annual take Chapter to them! The small media German Dinner on February 8th to almost Waunita # 37 Gunnison room made for a cozy meeting but we 150 folks. It is always a lot of work but Waunita Chapter started out the new had a delightful time. Our installed provides good income for the Chapter. year with lots of cold and snow. We Chaplain could not be with us that Put February 6, 2021 on your calendar planned a Valentine’s dinner with the evening so Brother Lee Casto, PP and PLAN to join us next year. Masons, Star and Rainbow. Following (“Treasured Memories” Grand Chaplain Due to the COVID19 virus, we were not the delicious hot chili and hot soups, we 2012-1023) stepped in and did the work. able to hold our Friendship Night or our had the Rainbow Installation of Officers No ritual, no prompting, just like the pro Official Visit. This has not stopped us for the newly elected Worthy Advisor, he is! (He is one of the members living from staying in touch by phone and e- Karma, and her officers. They are in the retirement facility.) We had lovely mail. It is amazing how you can lose a planning a fun and busy term. It was a refreshments served just outside the whole day on the phone but enjoy it ever wonderful evening, and was enjoyed by Media Room in the “Coke” room and the so much! all. facility furnished coffee and cookies Several members have new great Then, we were planning our along with our own refreshments served grandchildren. Others have had Friendship Night on April 23rd, and we by our member that evening. Several surgeries and set-backs, but we are were going to have our annual ladies stopped by to ask what was going surviving. We would appreciate your Scholarship Dinner with the Masons to on. One of those was Billy Jean Walker, prayers for brother Scott Krebs’ mother. honor the students that would be Life Member of Bethlehem #56, Monte She is nearing the end of her journey on receiving scholarships from both the Vista. She promised to come back to the earth and the family would appreciate Masons and Eastern Star. And we were meeting but we suspect she fell asleep! your extra prayer. going to be giving 2 bicycles to top Never the less, it was a wonderful As you are planning, mark July 18th readers in the 2nd & 3rd grades, but none meeting and we will do it again. TV trays on your calendar to attend the School of of this happened this year. served as pedestals and the altar, with a Instruction to be held at Silver Star. We It’s really hard to be away from all of white table cloth. It was well worth the look forward to sharing our own brother our members, and all of you!!! We totally $3 dispensation and transporting the Keith Hoey, AGP with sister Cheryl understand all of the restrictions. And emblems and charter. Williams, AGM for the next year. Watch we guess everything will be on hold for a For our Christmas Meeting, we made for forthcoming information on this while longer. We are trying to reach out, large cookie trays to share with our shut- exciting event! Of course, this all and assist any of our members who need in members. Cards were signed and depends on the virus restrictions. help in this trying time! And phone calls mailed to out-of-town members and the Thinking of you all, believing in you are well received. remaining cookies (and fudge!) were and caring for you! We know Who is in We hope everyone stays safe and shared by our members. It was a great charge! healthy! Keep the Star Love and celebration following our mock initiation Star Love, Prayers going for all. which we performed for our District - Suzanne Teague, Reporter Respectfully submitted, Lecturer, Shelley Hoey. Claressa Brigham, Michell Ferguson & Then, we turned around and Silver Star #40 Montrose Kathy Ashwood, PM performed our second initiation during January – current 2020 our first meeting in January along with 50-year Pin Presented to the other inspections required. We may Faithful OES Member Silver Star #40 Montrose have two additional initiations as we September - December 2019 have prospects in the wings. We hope Our “Rainbow of Friends” year is almost so, but will wait and see. over and it has really flown by. WM At that meeting we also sent cards to Cindy Wardlaw, PGM and WP Len each Law Enforcement Agency in the Wardlaw have kept us on our toes. area to let them know we had sent a One of the most exciting things we donation to Shield 616 in their name for did is to move our Charter for the first Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. In meeting in December to Brookdale the past, we have provided cookie trays Retirement Center where several of our to each Agency but decided to help them members now reside. Because they with their New Year’s Resolutions! Page 5 togethers and we are all getting From the Editor: acquainted. Silver Star No. 40, Order of the Eastern Sister Robin McCauley, has been in I would like to thank all the Reporters Star in Montrose is not meeting during and out of the hospital and re-hab. She who sent in articles this month. the COVID-19 shut-down but that did not is currently in Good Samaritan Hopefully, as we become accustomed prevent Worthy Matron Cindy Wardlaw, Hospital being treated with antibiotics to a monthly publication, more Chapter for pneumonia and an infection in her PGM, and Worthy Patron, Len Wardlaw articles will be submitted. back. Prayers for her recovery will be from safely assembling seven members Here are a couple of guidelines appreciated. when submitting your articles: to surprise Carlene Dougan and present Our Golden Chain has been broken 1. Please type in the subject line her with her 50 year pin. Carlene was with the passing of Sister Margarith of your email: 4U2 Review - Chapter initiated into Garnet Chapter No. 39 in Cullen who came to us with the name & #. Send it as a separate email. Delta on May 4, 1970 and served as affiliation of Columbine Chapter Do not reply to the email of the monthly Worthy Matron in 1981-82. #11. Chapter sympathy was extended publication. Some of the articles were She has also held all offices in the to her family. buried in the string of emails. My email Chapter except for Secretary, Treasurer The members of Excelsior wish is: [email protected] and Organist. She was Grand Escort in Good Health to our Sisters and Brothers 2. At this time, I am not accepting 2008-2009 for her friend, Lucille Elgin throughout the State. business solicitations. I believe that I and travelled the State with her. do not want this Review to become a Presently, she is serving as Warder in Star Love, format in which to a solicit our - Carol Danford, Reporter Silver Star Chapter. Garnet Chapter members. We experience enough of that on our phones, mail and television affiliated with the members of Silver Star ads. Since the Review is now on line, in 2016 and many of the Delta members we do not have any expenses. continue to be active, supporting the 3. You may submit your article as Montrose Chapter. grand Chapter the body of your email or a Word or PDF Carlene was also Past Nobel Grand document attachment. I had all three ession of Elberta Rebekah Lodge in Delta S types submitted this time and they all where she has been a member for over worked for me. The one picture I 50 years. She has also served as a Pink If you are receiving received was in a PDF format. Lady at Delta County Memorial Hospital this 4 U 2 Review, then 4. You need to proof your article for 15 years. you have seen all the before submission, as I will not proof - Suzanne Teague, Reporter emails from our WGM, and edit your article, unless I see Sister Anna, our Grand Secretary, something horrible. Hahaha Sister Valerie and our MWGM, Sister Again, thank you all. If you have any Marianne regarding the postponement Excelsior #66 Lafayette suggestions that you would like me to of the 2020 Colorado Grand Chapter consider, please email them to me. Excelsior 66 is enduring the stay-at- Session, guidelines for when and if your home order as well as our Members can Remember, the next deadline is Chapter does hold their meetings, June 20th. be! reminders of the rules and regulations Our Secretary, Pam Jones, has set Take care, God Bless and modifications provided to help our CherylAnn up Zoom meetings each Tuesday at Chapters understand what we can and 7:00 P.M. It has been very well cannot do to keep our members safe. attended. We even have had some Stay strong, lean on God and visitors to our Zoom Meetings. If you'd remember to practice Fidelity, like to visit us at one of them, please Constancy, Loyalty, Faith and most of contact Pam at: all Love. These tenants will lead our ([email protected]) Order and its members into the light and she will send you the meeting ID once again. and Password. Our Chapter has three candidates to be initiated at Grand Chapter if we can meet to get their paperwork in order. They have joined our Zoom get To all the Fathers AND their sons. Have a great day.