Planning is afoot to help the kids and parents with seminars pertaining to strokes in children, theme park visits and swimming vests. The theme park visit speaks for itself. DORIC go mob-handed with the SCHAKI families and support the parents by taking the strain away from them for a few hours by entertaining the kids. …
DORIC continues to support the SCHAKI as the Masters chosen charity. This time we have donated rucksacks. These rucksacks have been ergonomically designed with disabilities in mind so the youngsters can open/close it easier, tighten up the straps easier……you get the drift. They can also double up as normal carry bags. Anything that that can …
February saw the annual installation of DORIC LODGE 886’s new Worshipful Master WBro Tim Stanton and his office bearers. With bacon and sausage butties to tantalise the tastebuds before close Tyle at 11:00, close to 50 brethren signed the tyle. A prompt start at 11:00 saw WBro Steve Shirley start things off as the installing …
Thursday 9th October saw SCHAKI e.V invited to IKEA Osnabrück to receive a donation. Also, the families in attendance were gifted the various practical items as described in the previous blog entry. Each of the children in attendance received a cuddly toy and of course, as much sugar as their parents would allow them before …
DORIC lodge once again rallied around and donated to SCHAKI. This time it was a bit different. Not in the monetary sense but something that the kids can use straight away. Above is a “one-handed shoelace” something that I might have used in a different life while being paid to be fit. But taking a …
Saturday 7th September 2019 SCHAKI our chosen charity held its annual Family Congress in the Youth Hostel in Rödinghausen, near Bunde. The event as the name suggests is for all SCHAKI family members across GERMANY and it ran from Friday 6th Sept till Sunday 8th Sept. There was a packed program for all attendees with …
Doric Lodge and its families, held their annual Summer BBQ (Sommerfest), on Saturday 6th July 2019, this year held at “Die Deutsche Scholle” in Wüste in Osnabrück. It is a wonderful location and is especially suited to such events, where we plan to hold all future social events. Again though we took great pleasure in …
Sunday the 30th June saw DORIC members host our SCHAKI frinds at the Waldbühne Melle. With the temperature hovering around the 30 degrees mark relief was found on the correct side of the theatre were shade was present. Warm winds gave some restbite from the heat but order of the day was cool bags and …
As my mother Lodge is in Scotland and celebrated their 300th year of continuous existence in 2014. I am often asked who is the oldest lodge in Scotland? The Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel), No.1 possess the oldest minutes, in the world, of a Lodge which remains in existence. It is the proud owner of written, …
On the 19th January 2019, WBro Keith “Shorty” Green PM passed to the Grand Lodge above. Shorty was the Master of Doric in 2011 and 2012. At the time of his passing he was Master of St Patrick’s No 295 IC. During Niederrheins Installation Bro John Green (Shortys Brother) handed back Keiths regalia to Glyn …
01.06.2019 – Installation Meeting Lodge Niederrhein No 892. Extra!! Read More »