The Trestleboard is an official publication of Twin Peaks Lodge No. 32, which is a legally constituted Masonic Lodge operating under charter granted by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah. The Trestleboard is published for the sole and exclusive use of the members of Twin Peaks Lodge No. 32, and any other use is expressly forbidden.  The editor of The Trestleboard is Glen Van Steeter.  Submissions of educational articles or other announcements may be sent to the editor at [email protected], and if selected for publication, will be given full attribution. All submissions are subject to the approval of the Worshipful Master of Twin Peaks Lodge No. 32 and the editor of the Trestleboard.

The Lodge Secretary endeavors to keep our roster as accurate as possible. If you are moving, changing your mailing address, phone number or email address, please update your information in GrandView or notify the Secretary so that your information can be kept current.

Twin Peaks Lodge Secretary

February Calendar

• February 3rd @ 7:30 pm: Lodge Stated Meeting. Location: South Valley Masonic Center at 7390 Creek Road, Sandy, Utah. Anticipate opening on the 1st Degree. Please arrive by 7:15 pm in order to register and also to be properly clothed. All members of the Lodge are welcome. There will be refreshments served prior to the meeting. Doors should open at about 6:30 pm.
• February 10th @ 7:00 pm: Degree Practice. Anticipate practicing on the Master Mason degree. All Lodge officers and Degree Team members are expected to attend. Please notify the Worshipful Master in advance if you cannot attend and the reason you cannot attend. Thank you.
• February 17th @ 7:00 pm: Degree Practrice. Anticipate practicing on the Master Mason degree. All Lodge officers and Degree Team members are expected to attend. Please notify the Worshipful Master in advance if you cannot attend and the reason you cannot attend. Thank you.
• February 19th @ 7:00 pm: Virtual Esoteric Education Meeting via Zoom. The connection information is on the Lodge Calendar. Worshipful Brother Robert Hartman will be the presenter for this evening. Please join us!
• February 24th @ 7:00 pm: LODGE MEETUP @ Chubby’s Riverton (1300 W and 12600 S, Riverton, UT). Come join us for pleasant social conversation over burgers and sandwhiches.

Sickness and Distress

• The entire Van Steeter clan (Glen, Laura and Christopher) have recently come down with COVID. They are recovering but please keep them in your thoughts and prayers that they will have a complete and quick recovery.

Please keep these brethren and their families in your thoughts, and add them to your daily devotions to the Grand Architect.

If you happen to hear about a brother who is in distress, please contact either the Worshipful Master or the Lodge Secretary ASAP so that the Lodge can put itself in a position to assist.

WE DID IT! 18 VOLUNTEERS AT THE JANUARY 6TH FOOD BANK PROJECT!
Here are the dates and times for the Food Bank Volunteer project in 2025.
Remember, we are registered for 15 people each volunteer shift, we did not
meet that goal in 2024, but we have started out gang-busters in 2025. It’s
always a good time, and you get to work with other volunteer groups-the
Carpenter’s Union, the Alta High Honor Society, a diversity group from the
University of Utah (sorry, I didn’t get the name). If you would like to volunteer,
and I know you would, let Worshipful Brother Bob Hartman know at his email address which is [email protected].

Spouses, family members over the age of 10 and friends are welcome and invited to help out!

DATES for the UFB 2025 Service Projects

• Saturday, March 15th, 2025 from 8 am to 10 am..
• Saturday, May 15th, 2025 from 8 am to 10 am.
• Saturday, July 12th, 2025 from 8 am to 10 am
• Saturday, September 27th, 2025 from 8 am to 10 am.
• Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 from 8 am to 10 am.

Location: 3150 South 900 West, South Salt Lake, Utah.

You should be prepared to do light to medium work. We never know for sure what we will be doing, but it usually involves some lifting, separating or categorizing of food products, boxing into packing boxes, and palletizing said packing boxes. You should wear comfortable clothing appropriate for work, with closed toe shoes (like sneakers). You should also bring something to drink.

2025 Ladies Appreciation Night – March 24, 2025

Brethren,

Take your Lady out to a great night of food and fellowship, and thank her for all her support for your work in Masonry!

Twin Peaks Lodge’s Lady’s Appreciation Night is March 24, 2025 @ Rodizo Grill in Trolley Square (the same site as last year.) The time is 6:30-8:30 PM, dress is business casual. The cost is $39.00 per person, bar not included. We need your reservation by March 19th! Please TEXT Bro. Mike Hartman at his phone number, which you can get out of Grandview; or email W:. B:. Bob Hartman at [email protected].

We spend 48 Monday nights each year doing Masonry, let’s spend this Monday
showing our Lady’s some appreciation for their support!

UPCOMING DEGREE – March 10th, 2025

Candidate: Brother Joseph Sanchez
Degree: Master Mason
Practice Date/Time: February 17th @ 7 pm (South Valley Masonic Center)
Degree Date/Time: March 10th @ 7 pm (Salt Lake Masonic Temple – Moorish Room)
Attire: Black tuxedo or dark suit for Officers and Degree Team

Please notify the Master or Senior Warden if you cannot attend either the practices or the degree itself. Thank you!

Degree Team Assignments

OPENING AND CLOSING

Position	Name	Position	Name
WM	Frank Keller	JD	Chris Van Steeter
SW	Michael Hartman	SS	Kaleb Valdez
JW	Robert Hartman PM	JS	Austin Stoker
Treas.	Frank Baker PGM	Chap.	Jaysen Roundy
Sec.	Ephraim Sng PM	Marshal
SD	Glen Van Steeter PM	Tyler	Ric Wailes PM

1st SECTION

Position	Name	Position	Name
WM	Frank Keller	SS	Kaleb Valdez
SW	Michael Hartman	JS	Austin Stoker / Carlos da Silva
JW	Robert Hartman PM	Chap.	Jaysen Roundy
SD	Glen Van Steeter PM	Marshal
JD	Chris Van Steeter	Tyler	Ric Wailes PM

2nd SECTION

Position	Name	Position	Name
SKoI	Frank Keller	1FC	Lyle Miller PM
HKoT	Michael Hartman	2FC	Delwin Price
SD	Glen Van Steeter PM	3FC	Bob Hartman PM
JD	Chris Van Steeter	SFWF	Glen Van Steeter PM
Gr. Marshal	Stephen Horman PM	SS	Kaleb Valdez
Gr. Secretary	Ephraim Sng PM	JS	Austin Stoker / Carlos da Silva
1R	Ric Wailes PM	Chap	Jaysen Roundy
2R	Jay Roundy PM	Tyler	Ric Wailes PM
3R	Frank Baker PGM	Asst. Tyler	Carlos da Silva

3rd SECTION

Same as per opening / closing

LECTURES

Degree Lecture: Glen Van Steeter PM
Bible Presentation: Stephen Horman PM
Charge: Chris Van Steeter
Ballot Box Lecture: Ephraim Sng PM
Prompter for the Evening: Lyle Miller PM

How to Gain Entrance into Our Lodge

We meet on the second floor of the business complex. Here are instructions on how to get into the building when there is nobody in the lobby to admit you. The main entrance is on the south side of the building.

On Practice Nights

Between 6 and 7 PM, you can call or text W:.B:. Ric Wailes. After 7 pm, use the call switch hanging on tthe door. Press the “ON” button and a member of the Lodge will come down and admit you.

On Stated Meeting Mights

Between 6 and 7:30 pm, you can call of text W:.B:. Ric Wailes. After 7:30 pm, use the call switch hanging on the door. Press the “ON” button and a member of the Lodge will come down and admit you.

Masonic Birthdays

These brethren were raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason in the month of February

• Worshipful Brother George Auer, who was raised on February 16th, 1978, with 47years of service.
• Worshipful Brother Stephen Horman, who was raised on February 17th, 2014, with 11 years of service.
• Brother Albert Shahinian, who was raised on February 24th, 1979, with 46 years of service.

“We Don’t Control Everything. Only the Important Stuff.”

I’m looking right now at a window decal for a vehicle, it shows a Square and Compass, and the writing says: “We don’t control everything. Only the important stuff.” As Masons, most of us have heard the totally incorrect phrases that “The Masons are out to take over the Government,” or “The Masons are trying to control the world.” The reality is, we have a difficult time figuring out what meat to serve at the fish fry. (Thank you, W.B. Roundy!)

The window decal is 100% correct, however; we don’t control everything. The important stuff? Let me share some thoughts on that part of the statement. There is a force more powerful than any government, more powerful than the nuclear weapons we all fear. This force can divert water, settle a continent, feed the hungry and bind up the wounds of the afflicted. It can put a man on the moon, and create weapons that could destroy all mankind.

It is the human mind. You have one, I have one, the fellow in the car next to you at the red light has one. Masonry delights in accepting as one of it’s goals the education of man, and thereby the improvement of man’s condition on this planet. Masonry acknowledges the value of a public school education and the reward of college or post-graduate work; and while it emphasizes education as a whole, it focuses upon the “seven liberal arts and sciences” (liberal in this sense is not a political term); this focus is deliberately elucidated in the Fellowcraft Degree.

It is by design that Masonry focuses upon education, for it is only by a virtuous education that a man can learn to control himself, to keep his passions and prejudices within due bounds, and allow himself to see the same level of goodness in his fellow man that he sees in himself. It is by education that we
learn to co-operate, to work as a team, to see the greater good as being more important than individual adornment.

Education, in fine, is the control of the mind-your control of your mind, I the control of mine. The decal is correct:
“We don’t control everything. Only the important stuff.”

Fraternally submitted by Bob Hartman, PM

Announcing the 365 Club (Fundraiser)

My Brothers, I have been a member of this august Fraternity, and Twin Peaks Lodge #32 in particular, for 38 years. I have listened, as you have, to various Brother’s discourse on the subject, idea and principle of having our own Lodge building, or at the very least, a building suitable for one or more Lodges to call
home. A building with enough room to properly display our degree work; to hold a Grand visitation , or even enough room to hold our annual installation of Officers. We have made a few rather half-hearted attempts over the past 3 decades at fund raising to make this dream come true; and we do have the
Building fund (investment account) that was left to our care by our predecessors.

And here we sit. Changing course from several decades of precedent, Worshipful Master Lyle Glenn Miller, in planning for this year, created a building/fundraising committee charged with (a) starting some fundraising activities to make this decades-old dream a reality, (b) determining the interest of other Masonic bodies in perhaps joining us in this endeavor, and (c) starting the process of determining what such a building would look like.

In the February business meeting, Worshipful Master Lyle Glenn Miller and the lodge approved the creation of a 365 Building Fundraiser. The concept is simple: a member of this Lodge pledges to donate $1.00 per day, or $365.00 per year, to the building fund. The Secretary and the Treasurer will receive and deposit the monies collected, as per normal Lodge business. The monies will be transferred to the investment account when an aggregate of $1000.00 is received from the members. Proper records will be kept, and donors will have their names inscribed on a plaque when their donations equal $365.00. As we are not a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, these donations are not tax deductible. All Donations are voluntary.

You can find the page on this website for making your donation by clicking on this hotlink.

I did some math. If this fund had been started when I became a Mason 38 years ago, and 50% of our brothers had made donations of $365.00 per year since then, we would have collected just over $625,000 by today. That figure does not include any interest or investment return on the donations. What about it, Brothers? Is Twin Peaks Lodge-your Lodge- worth $1.00 a day to you?

It matters not whate’er your lot
Or what your task may be,
One duty there remains for you,
One duty stands for me.
Be you a doctor skilled and wise
Or do your work for wage,
A laborer upon the street
An artist on the stage;
One glory still awaits for you,
One honor that is fair,
To have men say as you pass by:
“That fellow’s on the square.”

Ah, here’s a phrase that stands for much,
‘Tis good old English too;
It means that men have confidence
In everything you do.
It means that what you have you’ve earned,
And that you’ve done your best,
And when you go to sleep at night
Untroubled you may rest.
It means that conscience is your guide,
And honor is your care;
There is no greater phrase than this:
“That fellow’s on the square.”

And when I die I would not wish
A lengthy epitaph;
I do not want a headstone large,
Carved with fulsome chaff.
Pick out no single deed of mine,
If such a deed there be,
To ‘grave upon my monument,
For those that come to see.
Just this one phrase of all I choose,
To show my life was fair:
“Here sleepth now a fellow who
Was always on the square.”

I found this poem, uncredited, in the book “Short Talks on Masonry,” written
by Worshipful Brother Joseph Fort Newton in 1928 for the Masonic Service
Association of the United States.

Fraternally submitted by W:.B:. Robert Hartman, PM