Papillion Lodge #39 A.F.&A.M.

Now that the dues and suspensions are out of the way, I can concentrate on the project of getting the complete record of our inactive members consolidated between Right Angle #303 and Papillion #39, it is 2/3rds done and I'm looking forward to having it finished. As I recall, when I started, others were into the "c's" with scatterings through the other letters. I have now finished the "r's" but am finding misfilings and have to backtrack every so often.

When completed it will be a big help to anyone trying to track an individual or a family through the lodge records.

June will be our last meeting before going dark for the summer and we hope all will attempt to make the meeting. It will be a great time to see what Companion AJ will need for the Festival in September, and you will have all summer to learn your part.

Also the Chili and Soup supper will be coming up in October and the preplanning needs to be done at this meeting.

The May meeting did get Companion Ron Mahoney installed as Master of the 2nd Veil and we look forward to work-ing with him throughout this next year, he plans on being able to do his station in the degree.

The boys are riding high after their successful Mexican Dinner. It was a pleasure to see all those who came out to support them.

June is a fairly quiet month leading up to the super active month of July, if we have prospective members, this is the time to bring them in.

July will have both Conclave in North Platte and the Shrine Bowl in Lincoln, both of which the boys hope to go to. Again, the more boys the merrier and more advisors will give the four we have an occasional break.

Carl Highman, Chev/LOH. Advisory Board Chairman

Bethel #53 is winding down on one term and getting ready for another term. The girls have send in their ballots for the new Council -- who will take over in September.

We have served lunch to the Papillion Masons on April 25th. They were having degree work that day. A collec-tion was taken up for the girls. We thank the Masons for their generosity. We love to help where we can.

Amy Kenyon and Shirley DeVasure attended Bethel #18 initiation on April 16th. Amy was Sr. Princess.

We want to congratulate our two Seniors -- Molly Lamczyk and Kelsey Zimmerman.

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

We are just back from the Grand Chapter session in Lincoln, what a wonderful time and what a great turn-out from our Chapter! We had 20 members present to see our own Sister Jerrie installed as Associate Grand Ma-tron, I know she was touched by all the support she received. Now we get to spend a year preparing to have a Worthy Grand Matron from Papillion Chapter, I know you will all step up to help when we call upon you for assistance.

Brethren, I wanted to remind everyone I need articles by the 20th of the month, so I can publish the Trestleboard on time. Also The annual Papillion Masonic Picnic is approaching and I am interested to hear any ideas members have to continue making this a fun and exciting event. I also will be looking for volunteers to help with setting up, food preparation and cleaning up.

Brethren:

This month has gone by fast. On May 5th we finished our lodge proficiency. It was a good feeling to get that be-hind us. We still need some fine-tuning but will keep working on it.

On May 9th we had our annual Papillion Masonic Family rummage sale. Sales were down this year and so were our receipts. There has been some discussion that we may want to skip a year before we have another one. If you have any thoughts on this please let me know.

There will be a very short meeting, for the purpose of posting Bro. Paul Scott Land in the 3rd degree. The meeting will then close and the evening will continue with degree practice, I have not been told which degree but, we have a FC on the 16th, a MM on the 23rd and on the stated meeting of the 9th we will be voting on two candidates for the degrees, one for reinstatement and reading another application for reinstatement. The Sr Steward assures me there will be refreshments following the meeting of the 2nd. Please plan to attend one or more of these evenings.

Brethren:

We have a couple of yearly events coming up this month. On May 9th we will have our lodge rummage sale from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Please bring items to sell beginning May 4th. Call Noland at 731-4698 if you need help. We need help to set up for the sale on May 6th and the day of the rummage sale. Please let Noland or myself know if you can help.