Gilroy Rainbow Girls #125

Scenes From an Installation

2011-01-30T18:08:00.001-08:00

Gilroy Assembly had its Installation yesterday afternoon. Savannah is our new Worthy Advisor. Her theme was "Rainbow Makes My Heart Sing," and her colors were teal and green.

Newly installed Gilroy officers. Left to right, front to back: Confidential Observer, Drill Leader, Worthy Advisor, Recorder, Hope, Charity, and Chaplain.

Gilroy Assembly with our wonderful Installing officers from our sister assembly, Santa Cruz. Thank you, dear sisters from Santa Cruz, for being there for us whenever we need you.

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Farewell Meeting

2011-01-19T22:00:00.000-08:00

Our last meeting was not only Heather's farewell meeting, but also Mrs. G's as Mother Advisor. Thank you for all you do for Rainbow, and especially for Gilroy Assembly, Mrs. G!

I caught these girls conspiring around the piano after the meeting. Hmm, wonder what that's about.

7th Meeting & Elections

2011-01-05T22:00:00.000-08:00

I was looking at all our girls gathered together after the meeting and thinking, isn't it great to see our little assembly growing at last!

You girls make my heart sing!

Initiation

2010-12-18T22:00:00.000-08:00

We initiated two new members, bringing our total up to four for this year!

Thank you, San Jose Assembly No. 5, for all your help growing our assembly, including hosting this Initiation. :)

Christmas in the Park

2010-12-11T22:00:00.000-08:00

Christmas in the Park has become an annual tradition for us. We had pizza together first.

It was really crowded, but we did manage to find a large enough place to take a picture together...

...and have a light sabre duel!

Magnolia Chapter Christmas Party

2010-12-09T22:00:00.000-08:00

Gilroy Rainbow was delighted to attend Magnolia Chapter's Christmas party. We got lots of pretty Christmas ornaments...

...and Magnolia Chapter received a new petition.

This Weekend

2010-11-08T15:07:00.001-08:00

I'm sorry I haven't been updating our blog like I should. Rather than try to catch up, I'm going to just pick up with what we did this weekend.

We all had a wonderful time at the Bassett's home this weekend. First, we spent some time together playing board games, and then we made sandwiches for our picnic later. We visited the beach at Carmel, but unfortunately, I was having such a good time, I forgot to take pictures!

We had our little picnic at Carmel Masonic Lodge. Afterwards, we visited the lodge room to see the beautiful carved wood panels.

Mr. Bassett explained their meaning to us.

It is a beautiful lodge room. I think they need a Rainbow assembly to go with it!

Then we visited the Carmel Mission, and we were lucky enough to catch a gorgeous wedding!

To the girls' delight, the limo driver rolled down the windows so they could peek inside.

Of course, what we really wanted to see was the beautiful bride. :)

At the end of the night, Mrs. Wolford taught us "The Twelve Days of Halloween," and then she played a trick on the girls that had them screaming (with delight).

In the morning, the girls helped serve breakfast for the Bassett's wonderful church, First United Methodist in Salinas, and then we attended the Sunday morning service together.

It was a very special weekend that we will all remember for a long, long time. Much thanks to the Bassetts for making it possible!

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Oops, I meant 7:00 a.m.

2009-06-29T16:12:00.001-07:00

On that last post, I wrote 5:00 a.m. Girls, you don't have to arrive sooner than 7:00 a.m. on July 4 for the parking fundraiser. Sorry!

4th of July Parking at Morgan Hill Lodge

2009-06-29T16:09:00.001-07:00

Girls, be sure to invite your friends to park at the Morgan Hill Masonic Lodge if they are going to see the 4th of July parade!

The MH Masons have been so kind as to let us use their parking lot every year for this fundraiser for many years. Donations from this event are used to support our organization and for Grand Service. Best of all, the parking is right on the parade route, so even if you come right before the parade, you will still get great parking. We always have plenty of room, since this is a fairly well kept secret, unfortunately!

Here's a link to a map for Morgan Hill Lodge:
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Girls who are working at this event are requested to arrive at 5:00 a.m. Bring a chair or two if you can and a blanket if you get cold early in the morning.

We will also be selling cold water, so let your friends know about that too. See you there!

xxoo Mrs. Williams

Heather's Blood Drive!

2009-06-29T11:16:00.001-07:00

Masonic Temple Association & the American Red Cross are having a blood drive at Gilroy Masonic Center. Please help! Heather is our Rainbow Girl in charge of recruiting volunteers for cookie serving, etc., and to pass out info at a booth for Rainbow, but email me if can help or have questions at mrswilliams@gilroyrainbow.org.

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Photo identification is required.

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Questions about eligibility? See http://ping.fm/uhYpj or contact the American Red Cross at 1-800-GIVE-LIFE.

Please drop Heather a line to let her know you signed up! Her email address is Heatherpony95020_06@msn.com.

We also need girls to work in the Rainbow informational booth and to serve cookies and juice to donors. Thank you for your participation!

Notes from the last meeting

2009-06-27T19:13:00.001-07:00

Hi, girls! I am working on our website today. It will probably be offline tonight and reappear in the morning. I am trying to get our website coordinated so that posts are seen across Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, as well as our own site (which will be served through Tumblr). It's important to keep our own site going as well as the social networks, since our adults are not likely to be signing up for a MySpace or Facebook anytime soon. One of my favorite things about our organization is that we have all ages pitching in, but that makes things more complicated when it comes to technology.

I will be working in some YouTube and Flickr functionality as well, but to a more limited extent, so "stay tuned" for that.

Anyway, I did take some notes at our last meeting which I think might be helpful to you ladies. If you saw me tapping away on my phone, I wasn't text messaging during the meeting; I was taking notes.

July 4 parking: Charity is our chairperson for this. We will be meeting in front of MH Masonic Lodge at 7:00 a.m. to make signs and get set up for the parade. This event is usually over at about noon.

Charity is also involved with a blood drive at Keith Lodge on July 8. Are you girls interest in doing an informational booth for Rainbow on that day? Check with Charity if you need a flyer. I will see about getting one scanned so you may invite your friends over the Internet as well.

The Area Picnic (aka "Founder's Day") is on July 12 at Coyote Point in San Mateo, the Ecalyptus 3 area. Gilroy is providing drinks and cups for this event. We will be leaving Gilroy Masonic Lodge at 9:30 a.m. on that day.

We desperately need people over 16 to help in Gourmet Alley at the Garlic Festival. Remember, this is how we raise money to pay for Grand Service and Grand Assembly. If we don't get some more help, we will have to give less to Grand Service and each of us will have to pay more to go to GA. Please ask your friends and family to help out for this very important fundraiser!

Our next meeting is July 14. Be there or be square! :)

xxoo Mrs. Williams

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2009-06-27T18:37:00.001-07:00

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2009-06-27T18:28:00.001-07:00

Hi, girls! After much consultation with our WAA -- which is not hard to do, considering she's just across the dinner table from me -- I have decided to make an effort to improve Gilroy Rainbow's presence on the Internet. After all, Oprah is on Twitter now, my judge is on Facebook, and even my mom is out there. Time for us to get with it!

I've been stalking the Girl Scouts for some time now (and to my delight, they know it), and they are a shining example of how we can use the web to get the word out about our organization.

I will post more updates about this in the future, after more consultation with our girls and with the board, but be prepared to find us on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Tumblr, Flickr, and YouTube, and even better, be prepared to tell your friends.

2009-06-27T18:11:00.001-07:00

I'm going to be doing some tests this afternoon for Gilroy Rainbow. Hopefully you won't get too many messages like this! Have a great day!

Gilroy Rainbow in the Dispatch

2008-12-12T09:09:00.001-08:00

Check out the great article which appeared in the Dispatch today!

Thanks so much to Kat Teraji for the great write-up. We love the article!!!

Teddy Bears for Superior Court

2008-11-15T17:31:00.000-08:00

The Girls presented Judge Eugene Hyman with teddy bears for kids who come to Superior Court.

Senior Ball

2008-10-19T18:03:00.000-07:00

We had fun at the "Senior Ball" at the
Masonic Home in Union City.

Yard Sale

2008-10-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

Yard Sale

We raised about $100 through this activity, exactly enough to pay for our new tent. Best of all, it was a lot of fun to be together. Thank you Country Kitchen for letting us use your parking lot and for the terrific lunch!

Santa Cruz Initiation

2008-08-21T17:13:00.000-07:00

Initiation for Santa Cruz Assembly

Central Camp

2008-08-17T17:04:00.000-07:00

Central Camp was great fun, as usual! We played board games, shucked corn, raised money for charity with the Grand Officer auction, and, of course, helped in the kitchen.

Playing Games

Kitchen Helpers

Official Visit of the Grand Worthy Advisor

2008-08-11T11:28:00.000-07:00

We are so proud of our Gilroy and Santa Cruz girls. They worked very hard to make our O.V. a success!

Here's a little bit of our Renaissance dance we did at the beginning of the OV. Our bagpiper is one of our friends from Demolay.

More pictures -- not necessarily better ones -- are here.

UPDATE: Better pictures are here!

Garlic Festival 2008

2008-08-01T09:09:00.000-07:00

Garlic Festival 2008 Pictures

Our Pepsi booth.

Some friendly Pepsi vendors.

Looking out on the Garlic Festival toward the Pepsi booth.

Taking a break from working in Gourmet Alley.

Backstage at Gourmet Alley.

Thank you, volunteers, for making our Garlic Festival fundraiser a success!

Texas Lodge Serving

2008-07-19T16:14:00.000-07:00

We love our friends at Texas Lodge!

Celeste's mom made this beautiful cake.

Mandy was serving up cake.

Mrs. Gewin was very busy too!

Area Picnic

2008-07-13T17:28:00.000-07:00

The Area Picnic was at San Martin Country Park. Attending were all five assemblies from our district: San Francisco, Redwood City, San Jose, Santa Cruz, and, of course, Gilroy.

More pictures -- including limbo dancing and train ride -- from the area picnic are linked to below.

Area Picnic 2008 at Ludwig San Martin Country Park

4th of July Parking

2008-07-08T13:22:00.000-07:00

We made $234 for Grand Service with this project. Good job, girls!

Thanks also to the Masons in Morgan Hill for letting us use their parking lot!