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Message for December December is always a month of anticipation, of good cheer, tinged with a bit of sadness at the imminent passing of another year. However, this December offers an added expectation in that we shall, in this District, be celebrating the launch of our Home for Senior Citizens, for assisted living, in Bangalore. The Home will be declared open by M.W. Bro. Fiennes, Lord Cornwallis, Past Pro Grand Master, accompanied by Lady Stephanie who is on her first visit to India, on the 6th of this month. In fact by the time this message is on our website, they would have landed in Hyderabad, which is their first port of call, from where they come to Chennai, and then go on to Bangalore. Our Brethren are aware of their program for the duration, till they return to the U.K. on the 9th morning. The Home has been eight years in the making, from the time the land was purchased and the foundation stone was laid by Lord Cornwallis, then converted from agricultural use by obtaining the necessary Government approvals, to the present, when a superstructure to accommodate upto a hundred Residents has arisen at the site. The location itself has gone up in real value terms from being in the ‘boondocks’ to being in the neighbourhood of the new International Airport being built, at Devanahalli to serve Bangalore and its environs. However, its real value to us as Freemasons is that it is a solid symbol of our commitment to Charity, and proof, if such were needed, that even a small group of people with the right motives can achieve such a laudable and substantial undertaking. Our thanks are due to all our Brethren who helped in converting this dream into reality, and hope that it will remain for long as visible evidence that the Brethren have discharge their duties faithfully to the fraternity and to the larger community to which they all belong. I look forward to seeing many of you at the Inauguration Ceremony of the Cornwallis Home, slated for the 6th of this month which I have no doubt will be a grand occasion, also befitting the presence of our most distinguished Brother, whose name this facility for assisted living so proudly bears. Charity certainly begins at this Home!
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