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1 November 2012 Volume 12, Number 11 TRESTLEBOARD BREAKFAST November 3rd 9am to 11am Eggs, Toast, Grits, Potatoes, Pancakes, Biscuits & Gravy, OJ, Coffee. All for a modest donation of $ ! Come join us for an exciting start to State Communications: 2nd and 4th Thursdays Called communications: 1st and 3rd Thursdays NITRAM LODGE NO 188 F&AMNITRAM LODGE NO 188 F&AMNITRAM LODGE NO 188 F&AMNITRAM LODGE NO 188 F&AM MAKING GOOD MEN BETTER SINCE 1925 MAKING GOOD MEN BETTER SINCE 1925 MAKING GOOD MEN BETTER SINCE 1925 MAKING GOOD MEN BETTER SINCE 1925 E-Mail: Facebook: Nitram Lodge No.

2 188 F. & Petition(s): Entered Apprentice: Craig W. England, Thomas W. Nevitt, Edmund Jennings, & Alan Stephens Fellow Craft: W. Kevin Mento/Ed Jennings The Masonic Pipe Line Page 2 My Brothers It s About Time. Time is by far the most precious of commodities which we are endowed with. How we use it is up to us. We can al-ways make more money; we can always rebuild a structure. It is the one thing the poorest man has in common with the richest. Once we spend it, it is gone forever. None of us knows when ours will come to an end, but it is also a relative thing. Ask any parent; the golden years of our child s youth flies by and be-fore you know it they are borrow-ing the car.

3 Ask any Junior War-den, and the time seems to go by at a snail s pace. Ask any Worshipful Master and they will tell you it took a long time getting there and before you know it, it s done. We are ap-proaching the end of another presi-dential term, so I urge you please spend the time to get out and vote. We are also approaching another Lodge election as well, again please join us and vote. This year has seen it s good and bad. We hope to learn for the fu-ture and try to leave each station in a better way than how we found it. We endeavor to renew our Craft and our Lodge each year and I see a bright future for Nitram as it has grown in many ways this year.

4 Partially, in number, but more im-portantly in quality. Quality en-dures. Let us focus in the coming year to improve our quality of work, quality of life and quality of the time we invest in one another. For you country music fans; We come in kickin giddy-up, and go out hollerin Whoa - Garth Brooks. From the West Scott Pankonie, On the Level Trestle Board Upon the Square Brothers, Greetings! Your lodge had an in-credible October. We started off with the "Family Fall Fling". It was a huge success. Many of the area kids came to enjoy Nitram's hospi-tality. Hot dogs, chips, sodas, cup-cakes and a bounce house were all on hand.

5 It was a resounding suc-cess. Credit truly goes to Bro. Bench and his committee. They did a wonderful job! Preparations are currently under-way for the Holiday Feast. Tickets this year will be $ Turkey and all the trimmings will be on hand. Please join us on December 15th. It will be a wonderful event. Secondly, we will again sell holi-day wreaths and garland. Before purchasing them anywhere else, support your lodge and buy them from us. Pick up will be late No-vember / early December. More details on that later. Finally, we initiated two new Brothers this month. One of them came directly from our St.

6 Peters-burg Chapter Order of DeMolay. Bro. SW Pankonie was in the East and did a wonderful job. Congratu-lations to our new Brothers and all who helped to make the degree a success. DeMolay is truly the fu-ture of our Fraternity. I am so proud of them. St. Petersburg Chapter is full of bright young men that are ready for the world. If you 11/2012 11/2012 06/2012 11/2012 Brethren, This month s article is going to be short and to the point. DUES, DUES, DUES. I would like to thank many of our Brothers who have already sent in their 2013 dues. It is great-ly appreciated. We still have 11 Brothers who have not paid their 2012 dues.

7 I will be sending out one more notice to those Brothers in the near future. If you are one of 11 and are having difficulties, please let us know. Your lodge will work with you. Also, your Lodge has a Brother to Brother program. If you would like to help with this program, please get with me and I will explain it to you further. All contributions to this program are strictly confidential. Fraternally, Secretary s Scribe Page 3 Volume 12, Number 10 05/2012 By the Plumb Brothers, First off, I want to thank all of the Brothers who helped out with our Breakfast this month, and especially those who made the Family Fall Fling a success.

8 We served up about 50 hot dogs, and had lots of kids run-ning around between the bounce house and the other games. November will be busy again. The Monthly Breakfast will be on Saturday, November 3 from 9 to 11 AM. We will be having French toast this month in addi-tion to the usual full menu. Come on out and enjoy a great breakfast and even better fel-lowship! We have a Fellow Craft degree scheduled for November 15. Dinner will be served at 6:15 PM. The flier and tickets are ready for our 3rd Annual Holiday Din-ner. This year s event will be held on Saturday, December 15 from 6 to 9 PM, with a social hour from 6 to 7 PM with cider and hors d oeuvres, and dinner served at 7.

9 Once again, we will be having roast turkey, baked ham and all the usual holiday fixings. We will be honoring our Widows as well. The sug-gested donation will be $15. Please RSVP to me at or 727-542-3805, or see any of the Lodge Officers for tickets. You won t want to miss it! 2012 Lodge Officers Worshipful Master W:. Matthew Winters 727-452-8846 Senior Warden Scott Pankonie 727-488-4640 Junior Warden William Sundquist 727-542-3805 Treasurer R:.W:.David A. Henderson, PM, PDDGM Secretary R:.W:.Richard G. Hoover, PM, PDDGM 727-409-6665 Chaplain Gary Coddington Senior Deacon Brian Moffat Junior Deacon Clifford Batchelder Senior Steward Greg Williamson Junior Steward Michael Lucente Tyler Leo Smith Organist Bryan Shuler Marshall W.

10 Ney Delgado-Arias, PM Historian W:. Arthur Wasserman, PM David Back 10/14 Bruce Bayes 10/11 Lionel Blakeney 10/12 Richard Cameron 10/07 Gary Cate 10/03 Gary Coddington 10/24 Walter Gilmore 10/07 Anthony Griffon 10/17 Richard Hall 10/17 Danny Hammons 10/31 Fletcher Herring Jr 10/21 Gary Jones 10/04 William Marshall 10/25 Gary Meredith 10/10 Lawrence Mitchell 10/27 Charles Morris 10/21 James Ollsen 10/27 John Perry 10/24 November 2012 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 7:30pm: Masonic Education 2 3 9:00am Lodge Breakfast 4 5 7:30pm OES 6 7:30pm LOS 7 7.