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June 2010, Stated Communication and Steak Supper

Mt. Moriah Lodge, #56 met at 6:30PM for our Annual Grilled Steak Meal on the 16th of June for our last Stated Communication of the summer. We will be cloaked in darkness (closed) until our next Stated Communication in October. This by no means means that we will not be very active, only that we will not be holding our monthly meetings.

June is the month each year which we award the three annual Rayfield A. Payne Masonic Book Award and this year, our first annual Roger & Mary MacDonald Family Scholarship.

Ms. Savannah Smith is awarded one of our three Rayfield A. Payne Masonic Book Awards by Wor. Elihu Upham as her mom Eva proudly stands at her side.

Ms. Shannon Irish is well supported by her mom Amy, dad Charlie and boyfriend Zach as she is awarded one of our three Rayfield A. Payne Masonic Book Awards by Wor. Elihu Upham.

Ms. Mariah Stiles was also awarded a Rayfield A. Payne Masonic Book Award but was unable to attend the ceremony for the evening.

Mr. Daniel Stackhouse is congratulated for being awarded the first Annual Roger & Mary MacDonald Family Scholarship by Wor. Elihu Upham and Roger & Mary MacDonald's son our Bro. MacDonald.

Wor. Elihu Upham has had the pleasure of extending an invitation to his father, Bro. Nathan Acker, a place at his side in the East as he has led the Craft this year. Most Masons know that it is a very good thing and special honour to be able to call a father or son, your "Brother" as well.

Books For Bikes, 2010

For a few years, Mt. Moriah has sponsored a "Books for Bikes" competition at the Denmark Elementary School. For each book the kids read, they get a ticket which is put into a drawing for their class for one boys or one girls bike. Bro. Steve Robinson coordinates the lodge purchase and assembly of these bikes and makes sure that there are brothers there at the end of the spring semester to award them to the kids whose names are drawn at random for each class. It is a really fun way to encourage all of the kids to read more and they are very excited about getting a new bike and helmet!

This year, Bro. Steve Robinson, Wor. Ernie Perrault, Wor. Terry Blake and Wor. David Eaton were at the Tuesday morning award event on the 15th of June.

The Lodge thanks Wor. David Eaton's wife Wendy for attended the awarding of the bikes this year with her camera so that we could share these photos of the event with you.

16th District Officer's Assoc. Table Lodge

Mt. Moriah hosted a Table Lodge of Instruction for the 16th Masonic District Officers Association. Our own Wor. Terry Blake was the honoured guest as the District's 2009 Mason of the Year.

As is usual with a Table Lodge, a great time was had by all.

A short photo essay of the evening may be viewed by clicking on this image:

Here is also a 3.5 minute video of our Wor. Brother Terry addressing the assembled Craft...

(double click this video to open it full resolution at YouTube.)

May 2010, Stated Communication

Mt. Moriah held its Stated Communication for May, 2010 on the 19th of the month. As is our custom, we had a wonderful potluck meal at 6:30PM and then retired to the Lodge room at 7:15PM where we presented our Student(s) of the Month their awards and then at 7:30PM, we held a short business meeting.

Wor. Elihu Upham presented Hannah Frye with a $10 Gift Certificate to Bridgton Books and a Certificate as our April 2010 Student of the Month while her mom proudly observes.


Wor. Upham then presented Aeneas Robinson as our May 2010 Student of the Month. Aeneas was accompanied by his mother, father and little sister.

During the business meeting, Wor. Upham also presented Wor. David Eaton with his Past Master's Apron in gratitude of serving as Worshipful Master for the previous two years.

We also had the pleasure of welcoming our new District Deputy Grand Master, RW Charles E. Micklon to the lodge for the first time as the DDGM. Charlie is almost always at our meetings anyhow, but it was nice to see him in purple and we look forward to a great time with him representing the MW Grand Master in our District.

Benefit Breakfast for Denmark Public Library

Mt. Moriah has determined this year to hold Benefit Breakfasts for the sake of other local Civic organisations in our towns of Denmark and Brownfield. The Lodge will supply the food, location and manpower to put on these breakfasts and the local Civic organisations are responsible only for advertising the events. All of the proceeds are then donated to the organisation.

The first such benefit breakfast was held on the 3rd of May this year to benefit the Denmark Public Library. Our Bro. Fred Robinson was on hand with a camera and made these photographs to share with you...

April 2010, Stated Communication

Mt. Moriah held its April Stated Communication on the 21st of the month. We had a wonderful potluck meal at 6:30PM and then retired to the Lodge room at 7:30PM where we held a short business meeting.

Wor. Elihu Upham presented Jeremiah Schrader as our March 2010 Student of the Month while his mom and dad stood by proudly.


Jeremiah's father is the Principal of the school and took a moment to thank the Lodge for all the great support of the Student of the Month, the CHIPs program and sponsoring the Books for Bikes contest for the last couple of years.


Our Brother Bruce Scrimger exemplified his third degree ritual work in open lodge with the assistance of Wor. Senior Warden Gene Lord and he did admirably. He was then congratulated by Wor. Elihu Upham.