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Masonic Youth Participate in Lodge Installation of Officers

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Press release

The Gun Barrel City Assembly #369 Masonic Youth Rainbow Girls participated in the installation of officers for the Cedar Creek Lake Masonic Lodge #1431 in Gun Barrel City on Saturday, July 11. Kayla Rife presented the incoming Worshipful Master, John Irvin, with his Bible. Tara Trimmins, presented Mr. Irvin with a framed miniature lambskin apron. And Carrie Currey (Grand Keeper of the Door, GCC Degree Team, Grand Assembly of Texas, IORG), was honored to perform the Gavel Ceremony in presenting the new Worshipful Master with his hand-carved gavel. Continue reading “Masonic Youth Participate in Lodge Installation of Officers”

Ham Radio Demonstration A Success

Shoppers at Brookshire’s were greeted by three tents and these signs by the Cedar Creek Amateur Radio Club.
Shoppers at Brookshire’s were greeted by three tents and these signs by the Cedar Creek Amateur Radio Club.

Press release

The last weekend of June, each year, thousands of Amateur “ham” Radio operators leave their comfort zone and literally head to the field to test their skills and equipment.

The Cedar Creek Amateur Radio Club was invited by the Mabank Brookshire’s store to set up the event next to their store, and the club happily did. Hundreds of shoppers were exposed to the operation and dozens of folks visited the hams and took literature. Continue reading “Ham Radio Demonstration A Success”

Rootseekers Hear About US Flag

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Rootseekers were pleased to have as their speaker at our June 15 meeting Ruth Shelton who came all the way from Crowley to speak to us about the “Star Spangled Banner Flag.” Most of us know that our United States Flag, which many of us proudly display using our residential flagpoles, has a stripe for each of the thirteen colonies but did you know that the state of Vermont became our 14th state on March 4, 1791 and Kentucky became the 15th state on June 1, 1792. So two more stripes were added to the flag. In 1813 Major George Armistead commissioned Mary Pickersgill to make a 15 stripe flag for Baltimore’s Fort McHenry that would be so large (30×42) that the British would have no difficulty seeing it from a great distance. The main flag was made of woolen bunting material and weighed 50 pounds. It took 11 men to raise it onto a 90 foot flagpole. This flag could not be used in rainy weather because the wool would shrink so a smaller one (17×25) was made to fly in bad weather made of cotton. This flag became an official US flag on May 1, 1795. Continue reading “Rootseekers Hear About US Flag”

24-Hour Ham Radio Demonstration Set for Mabank

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There’s something special at Brookshire’s next weekend, from 1 p.m. to 1 p.m. June 27 and 28, and we’re not talking about a sale on navel oranges in produce.

We ARE talking about a 24-hour continuous demonstration of Amateur “ham” Radio in the lot adjacent to the Brookshire’s store in Mabank.

The last weekend of June each year is Amateur Radio Field Day weekend, and tens of thousands of ham radio operators worldwide take to the field and operate for 24 hours without using a local power source. Continue reading “24-Hour Ham Radio Demonstration Set for Mabank”