The North Carolina Mason

March/April 2019 The North Carolina Mason Page 7 You already know that North Carolina Masons support WhiteS- tone: A Masonic and Eastern Star Community. But this just in: their kids do, too. Kylie Joyce, a senior at Grimsley High School and a Girl Scout Ambassador, chose WhiteStone as the site for her work to earn the Girl Scout Gold award. e Gold award is open to high school girls only and is among the most presti- gious the Girl Scouts gives. Family ties prompted Kylie, the daughter of Brother Joe Joyce of Walnut Cove #629, to choose WhiteStone. Her grandparents had both lived there for about 10 years until they passed away. Her grandfather died in 2012 and her grandmother passed in 2018. It was her grand- mother's struggle with Alzheimer's Disease that inspired her to take on the room in WhiteStone's Care and Wellness Center where those in treatment engage in memory and sensory exercises. Kylie explains her project: "To help, I planned to create mobile multisensory carts for resi- dents who were unable to get out of bed and use the Snoezelen room in the Care and Wellness Center. … e Snoezelen room is the multisensory therapy room in which residents who need stimulation, or a calm place may take advantage of different therapy items. "I then set out to create a more handicapped-accessible Snoezelen room for residents who are wheel- chair users, the way my grandma and grandpa both were. To achieve this, I moved all of the furniture around and moved therapy items mostly off of the ground so as to be safer for the patients to reach." With some help from family, volunteers and the WhiteStone staff, she completed the project, leaving behind detailed instructions on how to use each therapy item. She will keep tabs every month on the room and her work, she said. Gina Prevost, WhiteStone's Community life services director, and Girl Scout Kylie Joyce (right) share a moment as Ms. Joyce finishes a project designed to help Al- zheimer's patients. WhiteStone room focus of Girl Scout's Project What's that up ahead? e Mason Deadline! Tempus fugit, y'all. Tempus fugit is a Latin phrase usually translated into English as "time flies." Wikipedia tells us that the expression comes from line 284 of book three of Virgil's Geor- gics, where it appears as fugit inreparabile tempus: "it escapes, irretrievable time." e phrase is used in both its Latin and English forms as a proverb that "time's a-wasting." Tempus fugit, however, is typically employed as an admonition against sloth and procrastination. Speaking of which, the deadline for each NC Mason is etched in stone and totally dependent on getting stories in on "tempus." OK, that's terrible. But if you want your story to appear in the paper, here are the deadlines: ■ Jan. 5 (for Jan-Feb issue) ■ March 5 (for March-April) ■ May 5 (for May-June) ■ July 5 ( July-August) ■ Sept. 5 (September- October) ■ Nov. 5 (November- December) If you have an event that happens just after those dates, give me a call and we'll figure something out. We want your news – we'll help you get it in the paper. anks for reading the Mason and for sending in your news! Take a click down Memory Lane For our readers who love to read the Mason online, there's a way for you to spend a little more time reading up on news of the Craft. Old issues are stored along with the current issue on our web page. Here's how you find them. Link to the Grand Lodge page at grandlodge-nc.org. en scroll down to the blue NC Mason icon. Or just go straight to this page: http://www.epageflip. net/t/5206-the-north-carolina- mason. Click open the latest issue. Now, find the toolbar on top of that page and look for the open file folder. (See the screenshot above) e arrow and circle show you where to find the open file folder. Just click the folder and you now have instant access – searchable, by the way – to issues going all the way back to January 2009. Want to search for something specific? Look for the magnifying glass to the left of the file folder. Click that, type in your search term and enjoy!

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