Valley News

The latest "goings on" in the Valley of Norwich.

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General Valley News

Connecticut Council of Deliberation, June 11, 2010

The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Council of Deliberation will be held on Friday, June 11, 2010 at Bayview Lodge in Niantic. Watch the websites for more information.

Valley of Norwich Semi-Annual Meeting

The Valley of Norwich Semi-Annual Meeting will be held Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at the Preston Masonic Center, 15 Route 165, Preston, CT. At this meeting the craft will be informed of what has been happening to date and what the projections are for upcoming year. Committee Chairmen will deliver their reports, describe what they do, and take comments from the craft. This is your opportunity to take part in the Valley's activities.

Connecticut's Newest 33rd Degree Masons

An article has been posted, with photo, about our 2009 Class of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General.

Dean and Mossberg To Receive 33°

The Valley of Norwich congratulates Brothers Winston Dean and Carl J. Mossberg, MSA, who have been nominated for election to receive the 33°, Sovereign Grand Inspector General, Honorary Member of the Supreme Council, in Philadelphia, PA in August, 2010. Congratulations Brothers Dean and Mossberg.

William L. Breed Receives MSA

On Friday, June 19, 2009, at the Council of Deliberation Annual Meeting, Valley of Norwich member William L. Breed was awarded the Arthur M. Brown 33° Meritorious Service Award. A photo is available on Council of Deliberation's events page.

The Meritorious Service Awarded is awarded by the Council of Deliberation to those brothers who have performed great service to the Valley. Each Valley's recipient is determined by a vote of the presiding officers of the bodies of the Valley.

Supreme Council Dues Reduction Program

Wouldn't it be great if something you did on a regular basis helped you reduce the amount of your Scottish Rite dues? Well, now it can!

The Supreme Council has begun a program to allow individual Scottish Rite masons to reduce their dues by shopping through OneCause. With OneCause, you register on their site, associate with your cause (in our case the "Scottish Rite Freemasonry, NMJ" cause), and purchases made through participating online merchants, begun via the OneCause website, will apply a percentage of the transaction amount to your dues. The maximum percentage is 20%, although the average percent is between 2% and 6%.

To sign up, you need an email address, and must specify your cause. A link on the Supreme Council Membership Services web page will take you right to the appropriate OneCause page, or you may follow this link directly.

Once on the OneCause page, if you click "Shop to Support This Cause" in the left hand navigation area, you'll be taken to a page to register. If you select the "Help" link in the upper left, you can read a list of Frequently Asked Question. There are other helpful links on the front page, including a short flash video to explain to you how the program works.

If you shop regularly online with merchants like Amazon, Staples and many others, a percentage of your purchase is applied to your dues. The only requirement is that you start the shopping experience from the OneCause page, by clicking on that merchant's link.