Rose Valley News. Our Chapter is still on track! June 6 th. Individual Highlights: Friendship Night June 20 th. In July. Aug 1 st for Advance.

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1 Rose Valley News Individual Highlights: Oodles of Noodles Page 2 Benefit dinner Friendship Night Farewell to Worthy Patron Love of the Land Page 3 Reception June-August, 2011 Planting for our Friends Advance Night Apple Pies Page 4 Relay for Life Country Fair Rainbow and Youth Page 5 Our Chapter is still on track! June 6 th Newsletter deadline: Aug 1st Friendship Night June 20 th. In July Night Aug 1 st for Advance Our NEW member Jackie Perlmutter jumps right in helping with our planting a dinner

2 Page 2 of 5 Worthy Patron Derailed! Carol Weser & Jain Fairfax Hello All, Monday night, April 4th was our annual flower planting for our members we don't get to see much, shut-in's, and others who need a pick-meup. This year we went "green" and recycled some of our Eastern Star cups. Sandy Caster's friend, Linda Ponce, who is an artist, painted "Special Friends," added a cute stick figure, flowers and designs on them. Marigolds were among 4 other types of flowers that were planted in these cute cups. Gravel was placed on the bottom before the potting, and on top for decorative purposes. We did approximately 36 plants. It was a wonderful evening, thanks to all who planted, delivered, and kept conversation and encouragement going. As I always say, "There's nothing like, food, fun & fellowship that makes an evening great. Submitted by, Michele Doss Associate Conductress Soon after the officers were installed our Worthy Patron found out that State Farm Insurance, headquartered in Rohnert Park where his wife our member Ramona has worked for 35 years was closing. After many many hours, and days of soul searching the decision was made that they would move with the Company to Bakersfield. Our Worthy Patron Jay s last meeting was May 16th. They do hope to come back up from time to time. In the meantime our Associate Patron will step up to the plate. When he can t due to his work schedule, we have several Past Patrons willing put on that conductor hat for the night. We will miss Jay and Ramona and wish them well in their new home. They won t be idle long because their names and phone numbers are already out in the Bakersfield area! Daughters, Stacey, Jackie and Ashlee will remain behind. They are our members and we will be keeping an eye out for them. Jay Mendenhall, Worthy Patron And Linda Hanstad, Worthy Matron Oodles of Noodles Benefit Dinner June 6, :00 PM Friendship Night June 20th Yo Ho Yo Ho, A Pirates Life for Me! Santa Rosa Masonic Center Benefit Grand Chapter Scholarship Fund Only $10.00 RSVP Terri Ewing tewing@marincf.org or Allyson Hanstad allypon@aol.com All Mates report for duty at the Masonic Center at 7:30 PM Wear your best breeches, skirts, hats and eye patches. No Formals and tuxes or you be walkin the plank!

3 Page 3 of 5 Love of the Land! This is our major FUNdraiser of the summer. All hands needed at Sara Lee Vineyards. July 13 th. We will need help with several shifts Setup during the day, serving the buffet line and cleanup. Michele Doss and Amber Balshaw will chair this event. Give them a holler if you can help or say YES when they call! A special day for Anne Johnson It was a beautiful sunny afternoon as our Chapter set aside April 30 th to honor our Grand Representative Anne Johnson. We had a down home chicken dinner with all the trimmings. The house was at full capacity. For our entertainment Kim and Marcia McFarland played wonderful music with some Nebraska classics. Gene Johnson even jumped in and played. Many Many thanks to all who helped with the event. A special thank you to Oscar who went above and beyond. We were honored by a visit from Past Grand Matron Barbara Scott and her husband. It was nice to see Jim and Margie Yates as well. Aint Misbehavin Allyson Hanstad, Rose Valley Chapter Advance Night August 1, :30 pm Advancing Worthy Matron Dan Newell, Advancing Worthy Patron Marcia McFarland, Advancing Associate Matron Michele Doss, Advancing Conductress

4 Page 4 of 5 Slow Dance Witten by a NY Teen with Cancer Have you ever watched kids On a merry-g-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping the ground? Ever followed a flight? Or gazed at the sun into The fading night? You better slow down. Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done Do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Running through your head? Ever told your child, And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch, Let god friendship die Cause you never had time When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, Thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower Hear the Music Before the song is over. Oh Yeah, Apple Pies coming!! Get the word out! We will be making apple pies Sunday August 7 th. This is a change to our calendar. We plan on making over 200 pies again this year. Order forms will be available at our Friendship Night meeting June 20 th. NOWHERE can you get a pie like this for only $ Made fresh and delivered same day or next. Freezer ready and one hour away from the best thing on earth. Warm apple pie! Save the Date Saturday, September 10th starting at 10:00 am thru 10:00 am Sunday the 11 th We will again be participating in Relay for Life. This year in addition to raising money through sponsors for walking on the track, we will be selling adjustable water bottles for the warm days and hot chocolate for the cool nights. We need members to collect sponsors to donate for YOUR time on the track. You can start this NOW. Country Fair: Monday August 15 6:00 BBQ We will have a great evening with our youth groups. Invite your kids and grandkids as well We will be having BBQ hot dogs, hamburgers and all the trimmings. Make your own ice cream sundaes. We will be playing games, bobbing for apples, and have a booth for produce you want to give away. Face Painting, crafts, and just a lot of fun! Free Admission! See Marcia McFarland for packet to start your donations. We hope to have someone on the track for every hour of the 24 hour time. In addition you may purchase a luminary bag in memory of or in honor of someone you know has had or survived cancer. The Rainbow Girls have been decorating these bags for several years. If you can walk, help sell water bottles or hot chocolate contact Marcia or marciastar33@yahoo.com We will also be collecting school supplies to be donated to a local elementary school from our chapter. If you can help with a booth, have a portable BBQ or help with food please contact Debbie Von Bima or dancinqueen09@pon.net

5 Page 5 of 5 Greetings from Rainbow! Terri Ewing, Mother Advisor Goodness, how time flies! Seems I was just doing an update at the beginning of Christmas joke: the term, and now here we are already at the end. What do you call a person Rainbow has been busy, to say the least. February who is afraid started of Santa us Claus? off with an awesome reception for our Grand Officer Vanessa Creaser (also an OES Sister), Claustrophobic! We would love to hear from our DeMolay and Jobs Daughters as well. Installations Ooh ooh We need to divide up June 4 th 7:30 PM At Seventh St. & Rainbow June 4 th 7:00 pm At Scottish Rite on Acacia Blue Ic bringing us a new member, and we had a jewelry making & cupcake decorating (and eating!) membership party, which was lots of fun. In March we had our area Ritual competition, where several of our girls competed and did very well. The girls also went to the Ceramics studio for a mystery trip, where they really showed their creative and artistic talents in the variety of items they made. n as Grand Assembly. What an exciting time we had! Vanessa was beautiful on the floor, as were our Grand Choir girls, Observer Helper, and Grand Marshal. We had girls perform in Ritual, Arts & Crafts, Poetry and Sew & Show. Our current Worthy Advisor, Emma Doolittle, was named to the Service Court for 2011! We also won the exciting enough, we were honored with appointments of TWO new Grand Officers! Sister Ashlee Mendenhall was given the office of Grand Recorder and Representative to Maryland & West Virginia, and Sister Janet Newell was appointed Grand Circulation Manager (for the State Rainbow newspaper) and Representative to Oregon & Brazil. Wow!! May brings us a beach clean up, participation in the Rose Parade, and traveling to Scottish Rite Masonic Center. Janet Newell will be going in as Worthy Advisor, and we would love to have lots of visitors for the special evening! See you there! Our Rainbow Girls aka Eastern Star members as well! Dawn and Vanessa Creaser Janet Newell and Ashlee Mendenhall Santa Rosa Assembly With Amber Balshaw Chaperoning!