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During the afternoon the stiff breeze often presented a challenge to the competitors which added humour amongst the players with golf balls constantly spinning out of control. At the end of the competition the player’s ranks were swelled when the Ormskirk and Bootle Group Chairman Frank Umbers and others joined them for a well-earned drink at the 19th hole.
Members of Vale Lodge No 5256 held a very successful evening at the Longlands Hotel, Tewitfield, near Carnforth to celebrate and honour ‘The Ladies’. The WM of the lodge Bill Byrne and the principal guest, his wife Ela, were delighted to welcome fellow Masons, family and friends to their special evening, which was orchestrated with precision and humour by the lodge director of ceremonies Norman Mitchell.
An unusually wet summer morning greeted the players and spectators for the West Lancashire Masonic Charity Bowling Tournament finals at The Tetley’s Club in Warrington, but the weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the 52 entrants who had travelled from around the Province to eagerly take part.
Daniel James Wilson (Jim) achieved a momentous milestone and celebrated his Masonic diamond jubilee at Kerneforde Hall, Carnforth, in a ceremony led by Assistant Provincial Grand Master David Grainger and hosted by Carnforth Lodge No 4951. David was accompanied and supported on this occasion by Lancaster and District Group Chairman Jim Wilson (no relation!) and fellow grand officer Chris Butterfield
A combination of glorious weather and the organisational skills of the Lancaster and District Masonic Group golf representative Arthur Laycock helped to ensure a wonderful day when golfers from the Lancaster and District Group took part in the local round of the West Lancashire Provincial Golfing Tournament at Bentham Golf Club.
There was no “End of Term Feeling” at Baines Lodge No 7844 at their last meeting of the Masonic year. It was business as usual when Tom McMurdo was initiated into the lodge by David Thomas, who had been newly promoted to Grand Officer
“I’ve got a great ambition,” wrote the Scottish Philosopher Thomas Carlyle, “to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” Such might also be said for the dauntless South Fylde cyclists who set off from Hope Street, Liverpool, aiming to reach the Masonic Hall at Barrow-in-Furness in just two days. Several vicissitudes later they had proved that it could be done.
Pilling Lodge No 7879 held a ‘Giving Evening’ at Wyrebank, Garstang, when a number of charities and local good causes received donations as part of…
In recognition of the excellent care given to people living with dementia, The Tithebarn care home in Crosby has been awarded with a level one Butterfly Service status ‘Kitemark’ award. This was presented in the Maud Sullivan House Dementia Wing of the home by David Innes, CEO of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution, and his wife Anne Marie.
