THE 2014 DISTRICT CONVENTION

With the Very Worshipful District Deputy Grand Master Jerome Malaca presiding, subordinate Lodges of Masonic District RIII-D trooped to the Talavera Lodge No. 273 Masonic Temple for the Annual District Convention to hear from the District and elect their preference to be the next District Deputy Grand Master.

All 18 subordinate Lodges also submitted their reports during which two of them --- Bro. Emil Matias of the Mario S. Gracia Memorial Lodge No. 306 and Bro. Shubert Ciencia in behalf of the brethren of Model Lodge No. 373 --- were asked to make a powerpoint-assisted presentation of their respective interim reports.

And for the second time of this year, District Treasurer Rey Samonte reported that there are no past due accounts from all the 18 subordinate Lodges to which the delegates responded with a loud applause that was more of a testament to the District Deputy Grand Master's extraordinary leadership than the report being a rare phenomenon.

The votes were cast afterwards and followed by the low whispers outside the Temple Hall on who has the inside track of becoming the District's Top Gun next year...