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WB John Danner - Youth Committee our Masonic Youth. We have amongst our Adult volunteers and
Advisors many nurses, medical staff, first responders and essential
Masonic Youth Report – a glimmer of hope business staffers that are risking their lives daily, doing their jobs for
After the Holidays, your three Masonic Youth Groups started the the common good, while most of us shelter in place or stay safe.
year off going full speed ahead with meetings, installations, fun and One person I’d like to recognize and pay tribute to is Mrs. Carolyn
fully engaged in their normal activities. Grant – Mother Advisor of Richmond Highlands Rainbow Assembly
As we know now, all of that and their carefully laid plans for spring and wife of our most recent PM of Shoreline #248, WB Beau Grant.
and the remainder of 2020 changed in just a few short weeks. Social She was on the cover of a Sunday edition of the Seattle Times
distancing, sheltering in place, working from home, lockdown and (March 29, 2020) – a photo and article covering her coming out of
distance learning have become the new normal. Many meetings, fun retirement at UW Medicine to serve the community by supervising
events, fundraisers, awards, service projects, District or Regional the testing unit for the COVID19 virus. Additionally, her story was
meetings, Grand Officer receptions, training sessions, conventions, covered by Time magazine, CNN and Fox. I’ve known Carolyn for
installations and more have been rescheduled or cancelled. There is years and seen firsthand her dedication to the girls and community. It
little to no Masonic Youth activity, for adults or our youth…...or so was a nice article and a good read – check out online with the links
you thought. below. Thank you!
If there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most kids adapt and https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/coming-out-of-
improvise pretty easily. That is very much the case here, as many of retirement-during-coronavirus-pandemic-a-nurse-finds-purpose-as-
our Rainbow Assemblies, DeMolay Chapters and Jobie Bethels are hospitals-prepare-for-more-patients/
staying attached and engaged with each other in these troubled https://q13fox.com/2020/04/07/local-nurses-come-out-of-retirement-to-
times. They already stay connected personally through their phones help-with-covid-19-outbreak/
– texting, social apps, FaceTime and Skype, but now they are https://time.com/5810120/retired-health-care-workers-coronavirus/
meeting in groups online through various app’s like Zoom – same as
many of our Lodges and Grand Lodge. https://www.facebook.com/Q13FOX/posts/carolyn-grant-is-63-years-old-
Shoreline DeMolay had a meeting and elections a few weeks ago. and-has-asthma-symptoms-but-when-this-retired-
Richmond Highlands Rainbow had a fun meeting and an online nurs/10160045859259199/
Movie Night. Many others are going about their regular business
through online meetings on their stated meeting nights and other WB John Danner – jbdanner@comcast.net
online functions. I heard the Everett Rainbow Girls were planning a MWGLWA Youth Committee Chairman
service function in their online meeting, writing cards to folks in a rest
home. Advisory boards/councils are meeting online as well. This a
great tool to meet, stay connected and may indeed be a valuable W John Vivian, Chairman, Membership
resource even when we are clear to meet again in person. When we
do get that green light, can you imagine how packed those kid’s Development Committee
meetings will be after weeks/months of being cooped up and at Brethren,
home? That will be a great time for you to drop in and see what they
are up to. Stay tuned and mark your calendars for when our halls This is the 3rd of 4 installments detailing the major
open again! takeaways from the series of surveys that the Membership
In these uncertain and difficult times, I’d like to share with you a Development Committee undertook in late 2018. In this
glimmer of hope and sunshine, not only to inspire but also to remind installment I will be delving into the survey sent to Master
us all of the kind of great people that dedicate their lives and serve Masons who were dropped from our rolls by Demitting.

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