Our next meeting will be 11am at Ted’s House on July 6th. We will have a small BBQ followed by a short ride up north.
I am currently on flood duty downstate with the Army National Guard, so if you have any questions contact Nick.
I should be back by the next meeting.
Ted
President
Check it out:
Night on the Town “Chicago Style” - West Suburban Shrine Club/Medinah Shriners/AAONMS/Addison For only US$45.00 per person, you and your lady can enjoy a three-hour sightseeing party cruise on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan with the West Suburban Shrine Club. Dinner features a hot buffet, with two drinks included in the price. Please get your ticket orders in quickly; we must sell two hundred tickets in order to secure the booking, and we can have a maximum of four hundred tickets. The deadline is 1 June. For more information, email WSSC President, Noble Dan Smith, or ring him at 815-693-9362. Make your cheques payable to West Suburban Shrine Club and post them in the mails to Dan Smith at 9341 Witham Ln, Woodridge IL 60517-7643.
· Medinah Motor Corps Flag Day Run.
Meet 8am at:
Granny’s Restaurant
190 N Swift Rd, Addison, IL
(once you get off at Army Trail Rd, make a left on Swift instead of a right and it’s close on your right hand side. Shrine is a left at Swift and close on your right).
After breakfast proceed to Shrine. Bikes out 10am – 11:30am. In by 4pm.
$15 per rider, $25 two up.
More info here:
http://medinah.org/08pdfs/flag_day_run_6-8-2008_f-b.pdf
Saturday, June 14th, 12pm at Bro. Gary’s house. Every year Gary throws a party for the community. This is a kid friendly event, govern yourselves accordingly.
“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion.
Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,
for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision.
When your time comes to die,
be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death,
so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time
to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”
Damn… having spent some time living in Colorado I always wondered if anyone ever did this…..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052700714.html
“This brings us to a further question. Is it sufficient, to become a Freemason, only to be considered “a free and moral man”? Can one join Freemasonry only because he “believes” in it? I am convinced it is not enough and it is necessary that this man has in himself an intuition, an ambition to knowledge, a peculiar spiritual behaviour, a strong will of the intellect, a sensibility and a predisposition of the soul and love for knowledge.”
“In the vacuum of the traditional values the only representative of the Tradition remains the Promethean figure of the Freemason, a man who tries to defend his space and his time, master of his own existence. According to the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, in his “The Revolt of the Masses”, each civilization lies in a condition of fundamental insecurity and needs a persevering commitment in order not to decay in barbarism; such effort can be necessarily supported by men willing to live according to duties and imperatives.
These men have represented the aristocracy of each society and this is the role to which the “Freemason” is called.”
- The Most Worshipful Bro. Fabio Venzi, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Italy
Read more here.
Jim Z and a bunch of Grand Chapter Bros. are going on the Illinois Freedom Run, Memorial Day Run this Monday. More info about the run can be found here (doc).
It should be a good time.
I and a couple other Bros. will be going on the Chicago HOG Memorial Day run up north. (see post below)
S&F,
Ted
WSB
This Monday, May 26th (Memorial Day). Leaves Village Cafe in Niles at 11am.
Village Cafe & Pub
6873 N. Milwaukee Ave. Niles, IL 60714 847-647-8147