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The officers and brothers of Amador #17 invite all Native Sons
and their guests to help celebrate the Spirit of ’49, March 11
through 13 in beautiful downtown Sutter Creek.

The weekend begins Friday with a private reception from 5-8 p.m. at the world famous Sutter Creek Provisions in the historic Soracco building (78 Main St), with specialty beers, appetizers and live music.

Saturday will include tours of the Old Sutter Creek Firehouse and Museum, the Monteverde Store and Museum and Miners Bend Park which is under construction with the help of a grant from the Native Sons Historical Preservation Foundation.

There will also be an initiation Saturday afternoon at Amador Parlor’s hall, followed by a dedication of the historic Allen Home in Sutter Creek. In the evening, there’ll be cocktails and a steak dinner at the parlor at 5:30. Dinner price is $25 per person.

For all the details and to download the flyer Go Here

 

Opening Day March 5, 2016
5-10 more volunteers to help with this flag ceremony

Every year Sonoma #111 of the Native Sons, helps carry the flags on opening day for the Sonoma Girls Softball League. And we are in need of 5-10 more volunteers to help with this flag ceremony.

We will need to be available by 8:30 am at Field of Dreams (Fazzio Field) and the ceremonies will begin promptly at 9:00 am, usually lasting 30 minutes or so.

Please contact Gino Simoni at [email protected] or Dean Zellers at  [email protected] and you can find more information about Sonoma Girls Softball here

Sonoma #111 once again put on a great dinner, serving over 330 steaks, 125 lbs of Jumbo Prawns, salad, salad, salad, hundreds of slices of cheese cake, and lots of wonderful Sonoma valley wine. Our annual surf and turf dinner has been a Sonoma Valley event looked forward to and sold out every year since we started in 2003.

If you joined us on Saturday, January 10 for Sonoma 111 13th annual Surf and Turf dinner than you enjoyed a perfectly cooked 16oz Rib Eye steak and Jumbo Shrimp dinner, 50/50 Raffle with tons of prizes, 50 foot table of Silent Auction items, and great music.

If you joined us than you also helped raise over $10,000.00 for our
High School Scholarship fund and other local school programs.

Go here to view more pictures

The Annual Grand President’s dinner presented by the San Francisco parlors and Past Presidents Assembly #1 honoring Grand President Dean Zellers will be held at the United Irish Cultural Center at 2700 45th Avenue (corner of 45th and Sloat) in San Francisco on Saturday, April 9th.

No-host cocktails are at 4 p.m., with dinner at 5. Dinner includes salad, choice of entrée (Roast Leg of Lamb or Grilled Salmon), bread, coffee and tea and dessert.

Price is $40 per person. Send checks, payable to “San Francisco Assembly #1,” to Robert Fletcher, 1284 Skyline Drive, Daly City, CA 94015. Reservations are required.
Reservation deadline is April 6.

This is a calendar that anyone would be happy to hang on their
wall and it still has all the opportunities as before to win prizes.

It’s time to really start pushing sales of our 2016 calendars. We have only 2,500 of them—that’s only about 35 per parlor or one calendar for every 3.2 members, so there’s no reason we shouldn’t sell them all.

This year’s calendar should be an easy sell.
Grand Parlor has done a wonderful job creating this years calendar in full color with beautiful pictures of historical buildings from around the state and a little bit of history about each one and the people who built them. Also, in the back you’ll find a page with valuable information about our beloved California and another page devoted to our Order.

See Drawing Rules and Prizes

Perfect time to sell
There’s always someone for whom you just don’t know what to buy. Why not Lucky Calendars! These calendars make great presents for your family members and thank-you gifts for your valued clients. Take them to your company Christmas party and work the crowd. Sell them out of your booth at your next par-lor event. There are plenty of opportunities out there.

Important part of Funding
The Lucky Calendar program is an important part of the funding for Grand Parlor (scholarships, 4th Grade essay awards, plaques, etc.); please help make this the best year ever.

We don’t want to breakeven
“To date I have received stubs and money for about 400 calendars—that’s a little less than half of the number we need to sell to break even” said Brother James King “but we don’t want to just breakeven . . .  we want to sell all of them.

Close the sale
Please Brothers, don’t just hand them out willy-nilly—close the sale! By that we mean you collect the stub and the money and put it in the mail yourself. It’s too easy for people to take the calendar with every good intention of sending in the money and then just not get around to it. I’ve done it myself.

Don’t know where to get yours?
There are caches of them all over the state. Contact your parlor secretary or nearest grand officer they should have plenty or e-mail me at [email protected]. You can also contact the Grand Parlor office and they will help you.

See Current Winners

The Grand Parlor of The Native Sons of the Golden West and the Discovery of Gold Committee, invites all brothers to join us in honoring James Marshall’s discovering gold at Sutter’s Mill, in Coloma and John Bidwell’s discovery of gold near the Middle Fork of the Feather river. This will be the 2nd Grand Parlor meeting of Grand President Dean Zellers term so expect a squirrel like focus on work, peppered with lots of good fun, good food and great company.

Discovery of Gold Weekend
January 22, 2016 – January 24, 2016

More Info and Registration Form

“What are they up to this time?” you ask, only adding to the crazy total amount of money donated to California hospitals that do Craniofacial Surgery for children. That’s right through the Cleft Pallet Fund our Native Sons have made another donation of $85,000.00 to the UCSF Craniofacial Center.

That brings the total amount donated in the last 62 years to a whopping Three million three hundred and two thousand, six hundred dollars
(that looks like this $3,302,600.00)

What is the Cleft Pallet Fund
Founded in 1953, this fund is a registered 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to helping children who are born with a cleft palate or other craniofacial birth defects. Today, the Native Sons Charitable Foundation annually contributes approximately $200,000 to hospitals that treat children with cleft palates and other forms of cranio-facial anomaly.

Why are the Native Sons doing this work;
Like many fraternal organizations whose origins are traced back to the 19th century or earlier, the Native Sons of the Golden West began as a mutual aid society. In the days before such programs or concepts as old-age pensions and workers’ compensation had come into prevalence, and when insurance often was expensive and difficult to obtain, people depended upon mutual aid societies literally to care for their orphans and widows. As time passed, the Native Sons cared for orphans more generally, whether they were the offspring of members or not, and for many decades provided adoption placement services. By the middle of the 20th century, foster care and other government-directed social welfare programs had assumed those functions; so the Native Sons sought out some new venture to provide charitable services to youngsters whose needs had been overlooked.

The UCSF Ceremony and Check Presentation

• On the morning of Nov 3rd, at the new San Francisco Medical Center at Mission Bay, Dr. Ophir Klein, the Medical Director of the Craniofacial Center, gave a tour of the new UCSF Craniofacial Center facilities and talked to the assembly about how it has become a world class facility in Craniofacial Anomalies (Cleft Palate).
• Grand President Dean also talked to the assemby on how important it was to partner with UCSF on acquiring still yet more grant donations to continue our 62 years of funding to USCF and other California facilities.
• Native Sons Grand President Dean Zellers, Grand Officers Paul Lapachet, Ron Brocco and parlor members Deborah De Martini, Gary Padgett, Garry Baker and Alex Yankee than capped of this historical event by presenting a check for $85,000 to Ophir Klein MD/PHD.