Our guest speaker, Ken Grein, who is President of the Washoe County School District (WCSD) Board of Trustees will be talking with us about how our school system is doing. Trustee Ken Grein’s passion for children and education is unmistakable. He spent 32 years in the WCSD before retiring in 2008. During this time, he was a teacher, elementary school principal, assistant superintendent of elementary education, assistant superintendent of K-12 and superintendent of operations. One of Trustee Grein's strong beliefs is that the students are our first priority. He encourages community, parent and student input and participation. Please give Ken Grein a warm welcome for taking time out of his busy schedule to meet with us.

The Scholarship committee has been hard at work selecting our newest scholarship recipient, who is Kyle R. Purdy of North Valleys High School. Kyle is hoping to attend school locally, and is interested in pursuing a career as a semiologist, vexillolgist or an historian. Kyle’s family will be joining us for dinner with introductions to be made in Lodge. The formal scholarship presentation will be made at North Valleys High School scholarship night on May 30th at 6:00 pm.

Some of you may already have heard that brother David White, our Senior Warden, is leaving for Florida immediately, due to his wife’s job change and also to be closer to their daughter who resides there. We will miss David with his quirky English way of doing things and wish him and his family all the best. As a result of this and with the blessing of the current line officers, I will be appointing them to the next position in line starting in June. This will leave the Junior Deacon position vacant to be filled by committee until a more permanent solution presents itself. Bob Yturiaga has graciously accepted the duties of Senior Warden for the month of May whilst we are in transition. I have no doubt that these brothers will rise up to this new challenge and perform as exceptionally as they had in their previous positions.

Our GMOV will be on May 16th. Dinner will be served at 6:30 pm and will be catered at a cost of $15 per person. This GMOV is an open meeting whereby friends and family, especially the wives are encouraged to attend and receive this important message from Hans J. Scheurer, Grand Master of Masons of Nevada. Please RSVP Leif Andersson, (775) 345-9989 or leifa@sbcglobal.net, of the number of guests you plan on having for dinner.

We have a third degree on May 8th and we have been requested to do a Rainbow Crowning ceremony on Saturday May 12th at 2:00 pm at Washoe Lodge #35. I will need your support to fill the necessary positions for the crowning team. The Rainbow Girls have given us a tremendous amount of support to us this year, let’s return favor. Lodge will open on the Fellow Craft degree.