Free Masons set annual meet at former US base

Manila Times

21 April 2007 | 2:40 AM

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga: Some 2,000 Filipino and 800 foreign delegates of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the Philippines will hold their annual communications (Ancom-2007) at the Clark Expo Millennium Hall on April 26 to 28.

Romeo Yu, Most Worshipful Grand Lodge master, will preside during the three-day Ancom that will feature the elections of a new set of officers for the Grand Lodge.

Attending the annual communications are the top three officers of every Blue Lodge in the Philippines and other lodges under the jurisdiction of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the Philippines , Japan , Guam , Saipan , Mexico , Korea and the United States .

Mayors Marino Morales and Carmelo Lazatin of Mabalacat and Angeles City , where Clark Freeport territorial jurisdictions are located, have extended their warm welcome to the holding of the annual freemasons communications at the former military facility of the US Air Force.

President and CEO Levy P. Laus of Clark Development Corp. welcomed the holding of the freemasons annual communications here, saying that their tour would include a briefing on the latest economic developments in the former military base.

--Mark Louie P. Roxas