Page 2 - Triangle Spring 2012 Issue 11

Somerset Ancient Mark Masons Promotion for our PGM!

The West of England Our intrepid European reporter has obtained photographic
Multiple Sclerosis evidence that our Provincial Grand Master had been discovered
Therapy Centre, in foreign climes proudly sporting his latest promotion. The
based in Nailsea, has prestigious apron shows a lone figure standing against a red
since 1985 provided background framed with a variable border representing the
care and support for chequered existence of our everyday life. The rank comes
people with MS from complete with gauntlets in grey and red.
across the Greater
Bristol area from the
moment of diagnosis.
There are some 1,700
people with MS in
the area and around
100 new diagnoses
each year. MS is the
most common cause
of disability in the UK
and usually strikes
people in the prime
of life. With only
limited care available
on the NHS for
this terrifying and unpredictable condition, the Centre provides a
range of affordable therapies such as physiotherapy, oxygen therapy,
acupuncture, reflexology, aromatherapy, counselling and exercise
classes; it also provides a social environment for its members, helping
to combat isolation. The Centre needs to raise in excess of £300,000
each year to keep the doors open for its existing members alone; it
receives no government or NHS funds, relying on voluntary donations The completed ceremony was
and events. In addition, work is underway on the construction of a new seen to move seamlessly
purpose-built Centre at Bradley Stoke. Once complete, the new Centre into the after meeting
will allow the Charity to offer support to up to 600 people with MS. where large plates filled
with locally produced
Pictured top: Geoff Nash (SAMM’s Team Secretary) presenting a cuisine, representing
cheque for £500 to Janet Epplestone - (pictured left), Trust Manager the abundance of the
for the Centre. sea, was washed down
Pictured below, a further cheque for £500 was presented by Geoff with copious amounts of
and Derek Wilton to John McCorquodale, Chairman of the locally obtained red wine. It
Portishead Lifeboat. was noticed that the occasion
The Lifeboat is separate from the RNLI and is, like all lifeboats, was marked with happiness and
dependant on voluntary contributions.
carefully controlled merriment.
Nice one John!

Did you hear about the
Lodge Secretary who
hurried from Minehead to
Taunton for the Langdale
Mark Lodge Installation,
only to find that he had
left his coat back on the
chair? Was this why a
certain brother behind
the bare became coatless,
whilst the Secretary
attended to his duties with
coat sleeves half way up
his arms?

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