St. John’s Lodge No. 9, F. & A. M. Trestleboard meets: 7910 Greenwood Ave. N. JULY 2021 Lodge phone: (206) 623-0261 Jim Russell, editor [email protected] Web: www.seattlemasons.org/ Serving Seattle since 1860 FROM THE EAST CALENDAR S. Ashley Brinkley, Master • July 14 (7pm): Fellowship Returning to in-person communications is our next, and Zoom teleconference hopefully last phase of the Covid Pandemic we’ve been living • July 15 (7pm): Officers for the past year and a half. I am forever grateful to have made meeting it through this with all my Mason Brothers. We learned that • July 21 (6:15pm): St. John’s 9 Zoom is a great tool to use in a pinch. We may still even use (dinner) Stated Grand Master’s Zoom to gather for officer meetings or for education. However, visit; dinner and meeting to be held Zoom can never replace the fellowship I feel from seeing each at the Seattle Scottish Rite of you IN PERSON. (Shoreline) I was fortunate to have been able to attend Grand Lodge in • July 28(7pm): Fellowship S. Ashley Brinkley person; this was the first time being together with a small group Zoom teleconference Master of you in what seems like forever. It was wonderful. Being • July 31 (10am): Past Masters able to attend meetings in person, to not only see some of my brothers but feel Brunch Jimmy’s/Broadway the fellowship and emotion, I didn’t realize how much I deeply missed it. I am • August 7 (10am): Open Air sure many of you might feel the same. MM Degree, Masonic Park I went to my first in-person Lodge meeting not too long after Grand Lodge. • August 11 (6pm): Board of Everyone who was there was just as happy as I was. Soon, many of our Lodges Trustees will open for in-person meetings and gatherings and I hope you feel the same as I • August 14 (6pm): family night did when you first go back. Everett AquaSox baseball Now, it is time to move forward. We must brush up on our ritual work – I don’t know about you, but I will admit, I’m a bit rusty. We must begin having • August 18 (6:15pm) 7:30pm: Degree’s, vote on “New Membership” candidates and get back to “normal” Lodge St. John’s 9 (dinner) Stated business. We must use this past year as a learning experience; to know that we can (casual dress) at Seattle Scottish use new tools to help make our organization better and stronger than ever before. Rite We have a lot of activities coming up. We must take advantage of each of • August 20-22: Family Camp- them. Let’s enjoy each other and the fellowship we share! out at Masonic Park • August 28 (5pm social hour): St. John’s Family Camp-out in August 161st Anniversary Celebration St. John’s has reserved a covered facility at the Masonic Park near Granite Ivar’s Salmon House Falls the weekend of August 20-21-22 this summer. Members of the Lodge will • September 15 (6:15pm) be furnished with a catered meal on Saturday afternoon. Those who want to 7:30pm: St. John’s 9 (dinner) bring RVs need to make their reservations through Worshipful Master VWBro. Stated (casual dress) back to Ashley Brinkley. Do not delay – RV spaces are limited; tents not so much. Greenwood Masonic Temple That weekend the Grand Lodge is scheduled to …to spread the cement of brotherly perform a “twilight” Fellowcraft degree in the open love and affection – air Lodge room at the park. This will be similar and that cement which an addition to the traditional open-air Master Mason unites us into one degree the first Saturday of August. sacred band or society The Masonic Family Park, with 245 acres of of friends and splendid Hemlock, Fir, and Cedar trees, has many brothers, among private RV campsites with shelters and cooking pits along the creek. There are whom no contention also RV dumps, a bathhouse with hot showers, and 2 playgrounds for the kids. should ever exist, but that noble 1 For those who enjoy the comfort of your own bed, make it a daytime outing, contention, or rather emulation, of who enjoy the company and an easy drive back home that evening. best can work and best agree…. Page July 21 stated communication Communications return; grand master visits in July Following sixteen months of “virtual” communications, St. John’s Lodge brothers will finally get to meeet “on the level” and face-to-face at our July 21 stated communiction. Dinner will be served at 6:15pm by our familiar and favorite chef Jed Lutge. VWBro. Ashley Brinkley will be sitting in the East for the first time at St. John’s as he and his officers brush off the rust to open Lodge to greet our new Grand Master, MWBro. Cameron M. Bailey. What else is new? We’ll be meeting in temporary quarters at the Seattle Valley Scottish Rite in Shoreline (1207 N. 152nd St., Shoreline, WA 98133). Members are requested to dress in coat and tie – officers in tuxedos with red bow tie. Why are we meeting at The Scottish Rite Temple? Our regular meeting site is at the Greenwood Masonic Temple. However, the The Greenwood Temple Board has elected to not re- open the building until the first of September. Unless that changes, we’ll be meeting at the Scottish Rite next month (August 18), as well. This month we’ll be casting ballots on three petitioners and receive a petition for plural MW Cameron M. Bailey membership from a brother who has been joining our weekly Zoom meetings each Wednesday. to visit St. John's in July Those who have ordered tickets for the Everett AquaSox game in August can pick them up from Tyler WBro. Terry Grove. Sign up for our anniversary celebration dinner. Get details and conform your reservations for our family camp-out at the Masonic Park. St. John’s will again offer dinner to all comers including guests and visitors at this Take Me Out to the Ballgame month’s stated communication July 21. St. John’s Masons and families will once again head to Please make your dinner reservations with the Everett AquaSox baseball game August 14th, 2021 the secretary at 206 623-0261 by Friday, July 16, prior to ”Pre- admission” opens at the meeting. If you need a ride, the secretary will be 6pm into the Pepsi Food Pavilion, happy to find one for you. Do you know of a brother who BBQ with hot dogs, hamburgers, has not attended Lodge in a while? Call him and ask if fruit salad, baked beans, soft drinks you can pick him up and bring him to Lodge. and your reserved seat. Free parking on site. Here’s a look at our future Seattle Mariners From the East, Master’s Message …………..………..…. page 1 vs. the Vancouver Canadians (Toronto Blue Jays farm club). St. John’s Calendar ………………………………….….……...….…... 1 Our thirty (30) Game seats will be in the upper rows on St. John’s Family Camp-out …………………….………………….… 1 the 3rd base side of the diamond (between home plate and Communications return; Grand Master to Visit ……..……. 2 the pitcher’s mound). Take Me Out to the Ballgame …………………….………………… 2 Section “I”. Rows 9-10-11-12-13. First pitch will be 161st Anniversary Celebration …………………………………….. 2 thrown at 7:05pm - fireworks following the game (around Wardens’ Messages ……………………….………….…………..……. 3 9:30 or 10pm). Master Masons Raised in July ……………………………..……….. 3 Get your $10 ticket ($25 value!) from WBro. Terry On Balloting for Membership …………………….………………… 3 Grove (425) 610-4561 or [email protected]. Brockway, Creighton honored ……………………..……………… 3 Grandview man arrested …………………..…..………….………… 3 Past Masters Brunch Resumes ………………………….……….... 4 It’s coming!! Zoom Fellowship Continues Wednesdays ……….…...….….. 4 St. John’s “Master’s wages” – What are they? …………….………………. 4 Are You Receiving our eTrestleboard? …………………………. 4 161st Anniversary Celebration Family Treasure Finds Way Home …………..……………………. 4 Ivar’s Salmon House July Birthday Celebrants……………..………………..……….……… 4 Potlatch Room From the Desk of the Grand Master ………….…..………..….. 5 Open-Air Lodge Needs New Benches .……...….…....…..…… 6 Social hour – 5pm Dinner 6pm Thoughts from an Entered Apprentice ………………………... 6 Saturday, August 28 Independence Day! ………………………………………..……………. 7 Make your reservations, today William A. ‘Bill’ Collison Urn (photo) ………………….………… 7 Masonic Lodge Honors Law Enforcement ……………………. 8 Specify entrée choice: top sirloin, halibut, pasta 2 Masonic Temple Sold for $1 …..…………………………….……… 8 206 623-0261 The Letter “G” …………………………………..….……………………… 8 Page Senior Warden Message Junior Warden Message WBro. Blair Neumann WBro. John Murray Louderback Brethren, as we are about to resume our sacred Having our country just celebrating Independence retreats of friendship and virtue, forget not the duties Day, I felt it appropriate to re-examine America’s which you have heard so frequently inculcated, and so founding principles. forcefully recommended, in this Lodge. Be diligent, Our founding fathers – which were mostly prudent, temperate, discreet, yes, but remind yourself also Freemasons – established these principles as directives for of your duties in Lodge, as it's been some time since we've Congress to establish law. had an opportunity to truly practice our Craft as it should The Declaration of Independence States: We hold these be practiced. truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that Meet upon the Level, act by the Plumb, and part they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. upon the Square. These are not mere platitudes: our The Preamble to the United States Constitution states: Wages are earned through our Labor with these Working We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more Tools and others, while the perfection of our Ashlars is perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, proven through the application of these three in particular.