Mark Vaona
State President
Here we are coming up on February and I am still recovering from all the Holiday events. We are deep into the planning for this year’s convention. By the time you read this, our Convention Coordinators, Lynn Lawrence-Murphy and Lorri Rossi; First Vice President Mark Rossi; Host Lodge President Dan Marinelli; and myself will have met to choose the menus for June. I look forward to seeing all the delegates at convention and hopefully those who have kids or grandkids will bring them. Our Youth Chairperson Brian Watson is hard at work putting together a program for them which we should have ready to announce at the beginning of April.
(OSDIA Grand Lodge of California 89th Annual Grand Convention, showing 2 photos, Location Hints—do you recognize the city from these photos? See page 9 for dates and location of this year’s convention!)
Grand Council is coming up and will be held in Torrance, CA on March 21. The meeting will open at 9:00 a.m. at the Centinela Valley Lodge Hall. If you are in the area and would like to attend the Grand Council, see page 2.