Valley News

The latest "goings on" in the Valley of Bridgeport.

Connecticut Council of Deliberation, June 11, 2010

The 2010 Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Council of Deliberation will be held on Friday, June 11, 2010 at Bayview Lodge in Niantic. Watch the websites for more information.

Connecticut's Newest 33rd Degree Masons

An article has been posted, with photo, about our 2009 Class of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General.

McNulty To Receive 33°

The Valley of Bridgeport congratulates Brother Whitney P. McNulty, MSA, who has been nominated for election to receive the 33°, Sovereign Grand Inspector General, Honorary Member of the Supreme Council, in Philadelphia, PA in August 2010. Brother McNulty currently serves as the Commander-in-Chief of Lafayetter Consistory.

Donald H. King Receives MSA

On Friday, June 19, 2009, at the Council of Deliberation Annual Meeting, Valley of Bridgeport member Donald H. King was awarded the Arthur M. Brown 33° Meritorious Service Award. A photo is available on Council of Deliberation's events page.

The Meritorious Service Awarded is awarded by the Council of Deliberation to those brothers who have performed great service to the Valley. Each Valley's recipient is determined by a vote of the presiding officers of the bodies of the Valley.

Supreme Council Dues Reduction Program

Wouldn't it be great if something you did on a regular basis helped you reduce the amount of your Scottish Rite dues? Well, now it can!

The Supreme Council has begun a program to allow individual Scottish Rite masons to reduce their dues by shopping through OneCause. With OneCause, you register on their site, associate with your cause (in our case the "Scottish Rite Freemasonry, NMJ" cause), and purchases made through participating online merchants, begun via the OneCause website, will apply a percentage of the transaction amount to your dues. The maximum percentage is 20%, although the average percent is between 2% and 6%.

To sign up, you need an email address, and must specify your cause. A link on the Supreme Council Membership Services web page will take you right to the appropriate OneCause page, or you may follow this link directly.

Once on the OneCause page, if you click "Shop to Support This Cause" in the left hand navigation area, you'll be taken to a page to register. If you select the "Help" link in the upper left, you can read a list of Frequently Asked Question. There are other helpful links on the front page, including a short flash video to explain to you how the program works.