The Portland Valley’s 29th° has been moved to Sept. 26th, 2023 to provide more time to get volunteers for the cast. If you are interested please contact Bro. Damon at dow@portlandsr.com
Portland Valley Tiki Luau Friday June 3oth and 6pm. $10 requested donation per attendee. All Masons welcome, as with all our events this is not open to the general public.
This summer we will be having an Orient of Oregon Leadership Workshop on Saturday, July 15th, 2023, at 10am, hosted at the Portland Valley Scottish Rite Temple. Attendance by all Valley Leadership is requested, most especially for each of the Valleys’ Body Heads, their Officers, VMAP Chairmen, Membership Chairmen, Directors of the Work, and also Personal Representatives, General Secretaries, and Treasurers. A Zoom registration option is being provided for those who are unable to attend in person, please register if you plan to attend either way.
The theme this year for the Workshop, Retooling the Rite, centers around the idea of equipping the Leadership of each Valley with ideas and best practices for how to adapt our operation and make the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Oregon more useful and suitable to what Masons want to be a part of and stay actively involved.
Topics thus far include:
If you have ideas for topics you would like covered or if you have a presentation related to Scottish Rite that fits the theme please contact the Orient General Secretary, Commander Nate Neff, 32°, KCCH, at secretary@portlandsr.com, or the Orient Deputy, Illustrious Rick Komraus, 33°, at deputy@orientsr.com.
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172nd Baker Valley Reunion, April 27-29, 2023
More information available in newly received announcement, attached.
Eugene Valley will be conferring and communicating the 4th through the 18th Degrees on April 15th, 2023 from 9:30am until 3:30pm. Check with the Eugene Valley for petitions and information about joining the Scottish Rite in Eugene Valley.
Email: eugenescottishrite@gmail.com
Schedule for Saturday April 15th, 2023:
• 9:30am Orientation
• 10:00am 4th Degree Conferral
• 11:00am Communication of the 5°-13°
• 11:45am Lunch
• 12:45pm 14th Degree Conferral
• 2:00pm Communication of the 15°-17°
• 2:30pm 18th Degree Conferral
At the Scottish Rite Meeting Hall
2777 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Eugene, Oregon
Hello Brethren,
I am saddened to be the messenger of this unfortunate news.
The Providence Park Stadium just scheduled a Thorns game for the Friday night we were to hold our Spring Reunion and they also added a Timbers vs Seattle Sounders game on that Saturday.
When the stadium increased to 25,218 seats in 2019, with no additional parking for their patrons, they completely outgrew the capabilities of the neighborhood to accommodate the attendance with the tiny number of parking spaces available around us. As a result with typical games for Thorns and Timbers all the parking in the area is completely gone four hours beforehand, but with Sounders games the neighborhood parking fills up much earlier and it is utter chaos and traffic jams are constant throughout the entire day. The ART was unable to broker any deals to get us additional parking so we would only have the 20 spaces in the parking lot they have been renting for us over the past four years at Rack Attack directly across the street from the stadium.
Due to consistent conflicts for scheduling on weekends in the coming months this forced us to make the difficult vote last night to cancel this Reunion at the Stated Meeting. Even if we had gotten our old small 60 space parking lot at the ART back by this time it would still be an insurmountable problem as I mentioned due to the increase of over 25,000 people in the neighborhood every time an event is held at the stadium.
The earliest available dates that there are no other conflicts for a Friday and Saturday with the Stadium, other Valleys, Appendant and Concordant Masonic Bodies, and our pre booked event rentals is in July. Without any air-conditioning in the theater it will be too warm to use the auditorium by then. We have tried single day and multiple week Reunions in the past, but they were very difficult for the casts and crew and that resulted in most of the participants saying they would not want to do it that way again.
Over all Brethren I am sorry we were not be able to find a suitable solution to reschedule this Reunion in the near future. I appreciate those cast and crew members who were willing to step up for roles in this one, we will just have to make the next one all the better because of it.
We will be holding a Reunion in the Fall of this year, the date of which has yet to be finalized. Our three candidates will be receiving notifications providing alternatives for curtesy conferrals should they want to begin to get their degrees sooner. The few of you who purchased meals in advance should have them refunded shortly.
Fraternally,
Br. Nathan Neff, 32°, K∴C∴C∴H∴
Orient General Secretary
Oregon Scottish Rite
Please come next Tuesday and help pay homage to our departed Brethren over the past year and join in the spirit of renewal for our Fraternal bonds. Please RSVP for meal(s) by clicking here. 45 meals are still available, get yours while they last. No vegetarian entrees have been requested by membership to date and the deadline has now past to order them.
This event is for all Scottish Rite members and their guests, the widows and families of our departed members, and all Masons and their accompanied guests.
Agenda:
• 5:30pm Doors open
• 6:00pm Dinner service begins
• 7:00pm Ceremony commences
As with all our events, this is not open to the general public.
Free parking provided by the ART for the Remembrance Ceremony is available behind the Morrison Plaza building from 5pm-10pm at 633 SW 14th Ave, Portland, OR 97205
