Evangeline Chapter No. 31 of the Order of the Eastern Star in Grand Forks met for the installation of Officers for 2013-2014 on Saturday at Harmony Masonic Lodge No. 37.
Greenwood residents Francine and Richard Stringer were installed as Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron respectively.
Other officers installed for the coming year were:
- Assoc. Matron Sister Sharon Hamer PM
- Assoc. Patron Brother Bill Hamer PP
- Secretary Sister Yvonne Hopkins PM
- Treasurer Sister Debbie Gourlie
- Conductress Sister Cecile Reed PM
- Associate Cond. Sister Rena Davis PGM
- Chaplain Sister Nora Williams
- Marshall Sister Ina Good PM
- Organist Sister Helen Durham
- Adah Sister Rosena Warner PM
- Ruth Sister Dorothy Carlson PM
- Esther Sister Gladys Floyd PM
- Martha Sister Lois Docksteader PM
- Electa Sister Adel Larson
- Warder Brother Gordon Reed PP
- Sentinel Sister Marjrie Bannert PM
- Mentor Sister Sharon Hamer PM
- Prompter Sister Gladys Floyd PM
Evangeline Chapter No. 31 meets on the second Wednesday of each month, except July, August and statutory holidays at the Masonic Hall in Grand Forks.
Evangeline No. 31, was instituted in 1922. Members travel from Greenwood, Midway, Montrose, Nelson and Rock Creek for a monthly meeting.
Their charity work involves making cancer dressings, given free to cancer patients.
They collect cancelled stamps to help fund their charitable endeavors. Eastern Star also provides bursaries under a number of programs such as theology students and for doctors who go abroad to learn new treatments, procedures, techniques, and prostheses, and return to share their new knowledge to the cancer clinics here.
More information about the Order of the Eastern Star is available at bcgrandchapter.com.