Please advise your Lodge about these two events. I am certain that our Incoming Grand Master’s Reception will be excellent and a fraternal highlight of the year!
The Hamilton District #24 Degree Rallies are always well worth attending!
john
I have been asked to circulate these Official Reception Announcements.
john
This should be the last email you see from me today.
With Lodge Elections having taken place, I am attaching the Annual Lodge Information Form. Please complete this form and send it to the Grand Lodge Office as soon as you can so we can keep the information for your Lodge up to date and keep you in the information loop. So far I have received 3 of the Annual Information Forms. I need these forms so our Journal of Proceedings, our Website, and our listings can be correct and up to date.
Districts, and Lodges with an incoming DDGM, I have attached the 123 form for Districts. We need this information for our Journal of Proceedings, our Website, and to keep the Districts in our information loop. I have, so far, received 5 of these completed forms. Please complete and return these forms as soon as possible as I am about to generate commissions and materials for the incoming DDGMs.
Thank You Brothers and Sisters!
john
john
With the Annual Session quickly approaching I have attached our Pre Session Mailing. You will find part two of two attached to this email.
john
With the Annual Session quickly approaching I have attached our Pre Session Mailing. You will find part one of two attached to this email. Part two will come shortly in a second email.
There are a couple of quick items to mention:
The Joint Installation of the Officers of the Grand Lodge and Rebekah Assembly will be on the Tuesday of the Annual Session at 4:00 pm in the Sessional Rooms. Please consider attending the Joint Installation prior to the Banquet.
There is no DDGM/DDP Luncheon this year. The Seminar for the District Deputy Presidents of the Rebekah Assembly will be in the Grand Lodge Room on Monday morning and the
Seminar for incoming DDGMs will be in the Grand Lodge Room on Monday afternoon. Please see the Sessional Schedule in this package for the timing of all events we have so far!
The Pre Session Mailing will come in 2 parts due to the file sizes.
Have a great day!
john
We are scheduled to have our Annual Sessions, Odd Fellows and Rebekahs, at the Quality Inn From Sunday May 4 to Wednesday May 7.
The Quality Inn is now the Rodeway Inn.
Our Contract and Sessional Dates still stand. You will still call the same phone number ( 519-273-1150 ) to make your reservation.
Everything is still the same for the bookings and dates.
There have been some small changes to the Sessional Schedule which I will also bring to your attention.
There will be no DDGM/DDP Luncheon this year.
There will be a Joint, Open Installation, of the incoming Grand Lodge and Rebekah Assembly Officers on Tuesday May 6, at 4:00 pm, in the Sessional Rooms. The Sessional Banquet will follow, at the appointed time, in the Hotel Ballroom.
Please consider attending the Joint Installation, and the Banquet.
Yours in Friendship, Love, and Truth,
Brother John R. Nichols,
Grand Secretary.
It appears that yet another fraudulent email is going out to folks from a gmail account.
Please note, we will never contact you to ask you to do this sort of thing. The Official Business of the Grand Lodge, by email, will always be from one of our “ioof.net” email addresses.
If you ever receive a suspicious email from anyone, check the email address that the message is coming from. In this case the email address is “Robert G.Schwalm tsurer254@gmail.com <mailto:tsurer254@gmail.com> ”
This email is unknown to us. I have reported this email to gmail and they are trying to track down who sent it.
If the email looks suspicious, check it out with the person who susposedly sent the email. Do not click any links and do not reply to the email at all.
I am sorry this is happening yet again. There is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it. As long as there are dishonest people out there these things are bound to happen.
Yours in Friendship, Love, and Truth,
John R. Nichols,
Grand Secretary.
From: Robert G.Schwalm <tsurer254@gmail.com> Sent: February 25, 2025 8:05 AM To: accounts@ioof.net Subject: REQUEST
Good Morning,
I am trying to set up an E-Transfer in the amount of $1,950 for an expense, also i will have to visit the bank to set it up as we don’t E-transfers or pay bills online as we have a 2 signature account, I would like to know if you can initiate the E-transfer from your personal account? I will send you a reimbursement cheque in your name tomorrow evening let me know so i can send you the details.
Regards, Robert G.Schwalm
Sent from my mobile
I have been requested to send the Annual Appeals Letter out to you again. It appears that donations have been slower coming in this year.
Please read this letter to your Lodge and respond to the requests as you can!
john
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