Craft News
- Written by: Peter Robinson
On Friday the 10th of December 1971, WBro Ian Tailby PAGDC, PPJGW was initiated into St Crispin Lodge No. 5627 in Kettering, thus marking the start of a distinguished Masonic career spanning 50-years and counting!
Having waited some considerable to join England's Centre Lodge No. 2555 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, Bro Simon Cozzolino proved his worth by presenting the First Degree Working Tools at the first meeting following his initiation in September 2021.
- Written by: Gerry Crawford
So said a family being helped this Christmas by the Northampton Hope Centre, which is at the forefront of tackling poverty and exclusion in Northamptonshire.
In relating the anecdote, John Rice, the charity's warehouse manager, said:
...and without support from Freemasons, we at the Hope Centre would not have been able to make that family’s Christmas.
