Text Box: An August Note: Text Box: Scioto Lodge #6 F. & A. M., for the second consecutive year, served as a co-sponsor for the Junior Fair Night at the Ross County Fair. For those who may be unfamiliar with Jr. Fair Night, the event is held the Tuesday of the fair in the Grandstands. It is a fun night for members of the Junior Fair Organizations: 4-H, FFA, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, FCCLA, Grange and Farm Bureau Youth. The event features such events as the outhouse race, apple pie baking contest, lip sync and calf scramble contest. This years fair event had 300 young people from all over the county participating in the events and more than 3000 people in attendance. Each of the 300 participants received a T-Shirt with the event logo on the front and Scioto Lodge #6 logo on the back. Worshipful Master Ralph W. Cyrus had the difficult task of serving as one of the judges in the apple pie baking contest. All during the evenings event the thousands in attendance and those watching on taped replays on the local cable stations were hearing the name of Scioto Lodge #6 Free & Accepted Masons of Chillicothe, Ohio. Even though the lodge is dark in August, the light of Freemasonry was beaming brightly the night of August 7th at the Ross County Fair in a very positive and fun way. Text Box: Page # Text Box: Volume 6, Issue 11 Text Box: The Outhouse Races at the Ross County Junior Fair Night Event August 7, 2007 Text Box: Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die. This is so priceless, and so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today. A lady died this past January, and Citibank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and then added late fee and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, now is somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to Citibank: Family Member: "I am calling to tell you that she died in January." Citibank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply." Family Member: "Maybe, you should turn it over to collections." Citibank: "Since it is two months past due, it already has been." Family Member: So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?" Citibank: "Either report her account to the frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!" Family Member: "Do you think God will be mad at her?" Citibank: "Excuse me?" Family Member: "Did you just get what I was telling you - the part about her being dead?" Citibank: "Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor." Supervisor gets on the phone: Family Member: "I'm calling to tell you, she died in January." Citibank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply." Family Member: "You mean you want to collect from her estate?" Citibank: (Stammer) "Are you her lawyer?" Family Member: "No, I'm her great nephew." (Lawyer info given) Citibank: "Could you fax us a certificate of death?" Family Member: "Sure." (fax number is given) After they get the fax: Citibank: "Our system just isn't setup for death. I don't know what more I can do to help." Family Member: "Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. I don't think she will care." Citibank: "Well, the late fees and charges do still apply." Family Member: "Would you like her new billing address?" Citibank: "That might help." Family Member: "Odessa Memorial Cemetery, Highway 129, Plot Number 69." Citibank: "Sir, that's a cemetery!" Family Member: "What do you do with dead people on your planet?"