\nThere will be something for everyone and a wonderful opportunity to meet some of your fellow men and women of Blue Goose from around the United States and Canada.\u00a0 One of the real treasures of our honorable Order are the terrific people who make up our membership \u2026 those that are giving back to their local communities throughout the land of the free and the true north strong and free!<\/p>\n
I also send greetings from the Grand Nest Board of Officers and Directors.\u00a0 One recent news item is we recently approved and acquired some additional insurance coverage to protect our Ponds with Cyber Liability and Directors and Officers Liability policies. You have probably heard the phrase of \u2018Walk the Talk.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 We in the Blue Goose have as our mission that of giving back to our community in charity<\/em><\/strong> and to each other in fellowship<\/em><\/strong> and to ourselves in the development of our character.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 We have found that those Ponds that put these precepts into action and not simply in words are the most active and vibrant in the Order.\u00a0 Interestingly, we have also found that it a focus on our precepts that attracts the attention of the insurance industry.\u00a0 Recently, in one of our Ponds, an adjuster with Allstate Insurance Company noticed the charity work that the Pond was doing and contacted us through the international website to say that she wanted to be involved.\u00a0 It works if we truly \u2018walk the talk!\u2019<\/p>\n I hope that you are all having a great year in Blue Goose.\u00a0 Please know that together we are stronger in our purpose of giving back; to our community in charity, to each other in fellowship and to ourselves in the development of our character and integrity.<\/p>\n Please feel welcome to use the logo and byline below of \u201cCharacter, Charity and Fellowship since 1906\u2019<\/em><\/strong> on your official Blue Goose communication.\u00a0 And, remember, you can locate additional information regarding the Blue Goose on the international website at www.bluegoose.org<\/a>. \u00a0Soon the registration link will be live on the website for the Grand Nest Convention coming up this summer in St. Louis.<\/p>\n Kindest regards,<\/p>\n Randy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Randall Wilson <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Character, Charity and Fellowship since 1906<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hope that all of you had a wonderful holiday season and I wish you all the very best in health, happiness and prosperity in 2016! It\u2019s finally here, the year that the Grand Nest is again coming to St. Louis for its international convention of delegates.\u00a0 There are so many fun events planned by… Read More »Greetings from the MLGG……<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlso, the Central Region of Ponds is having its Mid-Year Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\u00a0 The meetings are being hosted by the Wisconsin Home Nest and are planned for the weekend of the 4th<\/sup> through 6th<\/sup> of March.\u00a0 The planning committee is meeting early this month to finalize the specifics, but in conversation with the Most Loyal Gander in Wisconsin, Andy Kahrs, he assures me that they a fun weekend of activities planned.\u00a0 Please mark your calendars as this is sure to be a weekend of fun and comradery!<\/p>\n
\nMost Loyal Grand Gander
\nHonorable Order of the Blue Goose International<\/p>\n![\"Transp](\"https:\/\/bluegoosestl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Transp-logo.png\"){kind=logo}
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