Heart Foundation Street Appeal

The Heart Foundation will be holding its annual Street Appeal on 13th February and have asked Freemasons NZ if any of our members would like to be involved with collecting funds on the day. Many Freemasons have assisted the Heart Foundation in this area in the past.

If you are interested and are willing to help collect for the Heart Foundation street appeal, please email the Grand Secretary as soon as possible:

laurencem@freemasons.co.nz

2009 Freemasons Big Science Adventures

A nationwide DVD competition for Year 9 to 13 students sponsored by Freemasons New Zealand in association with the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Students and Teachers WIN a fabulous all-expenses paid trip to Venice, Florence and Rome

2009 Competition Theme:
Astronomy and revolutions in our thinking

The theme of this year’s DVD competition honours Galileo Galilei and all the scientists before and since who have bravely put forward radical new ideas and theories, risking rejection, ridicule, imprisonment, or even death.

Form a team of three students, and a teacher to act as mentor and facilitator. Make a 5 minute video on one of there topics or choose your own.

Entries due 8 May 2009.

How did our view of ourselves and our world change as a result of:

* Nicolaus Copernicus’s scientific theory of a sun-centred solar system
* the invention and development of the telescope, from Galileo's 1609 telescope to the 1990 launch of the Hubble telescope
* the recent discovery of planets around other stars and the possibility of life elsewhere in the Universe
* the 1969 landing on the moon
* the discovery of the ozone hole in 1985
* the invention and launch of artificial satellites, from Sputnik in 1957 to today where thousands of satellites - including an International Space Station - orbit the earth

You may want to pick another astronomy related discovery which you think was important to understanding our place in the universe.

For more information:

http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/TeachersStudents/
Competitions/BIGScience/09competition.aspx

Special Request for Employment

My Brothers,

Greetings from the Corinthian Lodge #96 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.

I ask for your personal help and a favor in helping my daughter seek employment in Auckland. She is Canadian. Her visa is running out soon, in a week. If anyone can help with employment it would be a personal favor to me.

She is a University Grad in Biology but is willing to work at any job. Please call her at 09-535-6931 or 021-022-34761 cell. Thanking you in advance.

Brother Robert Lubinski