The current FAQs regarding Fraternal Orders can be found at: https://sharedsystems.dhsoha.state.or.us/DHSForms/Served/le2390r.pdf
And additional resources and information can be found at:
https://govstatus.egov.com/or-covid-19?gclid=Cj0KCQiAzZL-BRDnARIsAPCJs73dkvh8vmbEC_0-NZu_h6C5_YDiGwrcXZYdh5_B2nWgZUAXEzCDAU0aAsl1EALw_wcB
More information will be available on December 3rd, 2020 from the State Governor’s office.
Valleys and Lodges Can Help Provide Meals for Victims and First Responders of the Santiam Canyon Fire
Since the onset of the catastrophic Oregon wildfires of 2020, Silverton Elks Lodge #2210 has been providing meals and other aid to members of the community, fire fighters, and first responders impacted by the Santiam Canyon Fire. The lodge’s funds are dwindling and help is needed. Portland Lodge No. 55 and the Portland Valley Scottish Rite Acacia Fund recently each donated $2,000 to the cause and asks that other Valleys and lodges with available funds follow suit.
For more information, please visit www.silvertonelks.com or email silverelks@wavecable.com.
RWB Adam Bayer
Portland Lodge No. 55
A.F. & A.M. of Oregon
Dear Brethren,
It is my honor and privilege to introduce to you my new Personal Representative for the Orient of Oregon, Illustrious Brother Dale Vanderpool, 33º, Inspector General Honorary. Br. Dale brings great leadership skills and insights from the workings of the Scottish Rite Valley of Eugene. He has been a valuable member of the Masonic Community and served on the Scottish Rite’s charity and Orient committees for many years. Please welcome him, and thank you, Brother Dale, for your service to the Craft.
Fraternally,
Gary Kuney, 33°
Grand Chamberlain &
S.G.I.G. in Oregon
Hello Brothers,
We will be holding our November Stated Meeting on Nov.09,2020 at 7:00pm
at the Medford Scottish Rite Center.
This has been a trying year for everyone, but we are going try and get
back on track and have a successful year.
Please try and come if you are able, as we will be discussing the
proposed budget.
If you can’t come you can request a copy of the proposed budget by
calling the Secretary and a copy will be sent to you.
We look forward to a great turnout and we will see you soon.
Ed Davis
General Secretary
Dear Brethren,
Due to the increasing concern for the health and safety of our Members and attendees the decision has been made to cancel the conferral of the 4th & 14th Degrees that was scheduled a few weeks from today on November 21st in Portland.
I am very sorry to be the bearer of this news, I know that many of our prospective candidates are anxiously awaiting the next opportunity to join the Scottish Rite and I along with all our ritualists are looking forward to a time we will be able to perform our beautiful degrees in one of our Fraternity’s oldest stately edifices designed for an entertaining and educational initiatory experience.
This was a difficult decision but the safety of our Members and candidates is our chief priority and not something we can take lightly.
I am hopeful that later this month we will be able to return to meeting in downtown. At this time it is still planned to hold our Elections and Installation of Officers on November 24th but that meeting may shift to an online Zoom meeting if safety concerns are still present. Please keep an eye out for updates on upcoming meetings.
Until then I hope we can remember the lessons of the 14th degree that “Perfect Elus are both bound and free: bound by their obligation and free from prejudice, intolerance and envy“, and the lesson of the Stoic Marcus Aurelius, “waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.“
Sincerely & Fraternally,
Bro. Nathan Neff, 32°, KCCH,
Personal Representative
Portland Valley, Orient of Oregon
Brethren,
The role of the workman has been called and, one Master Mason, Brother Scott Logan, 32°, has not answered to his name. He has laid down the working tools of life and with them has left that mortal part for which he no longer has use. His labors here below have taught him to divest his heart and conscience of the vices and superfluity of life, thereby fitting his mind as a living stone for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Strengthened in his labors here by faith in God, and confident of expectation of immortality, he has been granted admission to the Celestial Lodge above. His Brethren mourn the passing of a great man and Mason.
Brother Scott A. Logan was born on May 23rd, 1962 and passed to the Celestial Lodge in October of 2020 at 58 years of age. Brother Scott was a Blue Lodge member of Crater Lake Lodge No. 211 AF&AM of Oregon and a Scottish Rite Member of the Valley of Klamath Falls. He is the son of Illustrious Brother Lyle Logan, Past Grand Master of Oregon. The Membership of the Scottish Rite Orient of Oregon extend our condolences and regrets to the family and loved ones of Br. Scott and Ill. Br. Lyle.
The funerary and memorial arrangements are unknown at this time.
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