Brothers, thank you for your trust in the new officers and me for the New Year.  We will now start having dinners before our stated communication dinners should start at 6:30 pm and lodge will open at 7:30 pm. I encourage all brothers to participate in lodge activates.  We need the support of the fraternity to bring this lodge back together. There are plenty of opportunities for any of the brothers to assist and help with lodge functions. The New Year is upon us there is a lot of work that needs to be done in and outside the lodge. We will need to have fund raisers for some of the maintenance costs. We still need to raise money for the columns the bases of the columns are falling apart and they’re an important part of the structure. I have lots of plans for lodge and hope their part of your plans. Freemasonry is a charitable, benevolent, educational and religious society. Its principles are proclaimed as widely as men will hear. Its only secrets are in methods of recognition and of symbolic instruction. It is charitable in that it is not organized for profit and none of its income inures to the benefit of any individual, but all is devoted to the promotion of the welfare and happiness of mankind. It is benevolent in that it teaches and exemplifies altruism as a duty. It is educational in that it teaches by prescribed ceremonials a system of morality and brotherhood based upon the sacred law. Through the improvement and strengthening of the character of individual man, freemasonry seeks to improve the community. Thus it impresses upon its members the principles of personal righteousness and personal responsibility, enlightens them as to those things which make for human welfare, and inspires them with that feeling of charity, or goodwill, towards all mankind which will move them to translate principle and conviction into action. To that end, it teaches and stands for the worship of god; truth and justice; fraternity and philanthropy; and enlightenment and orderly liberty, civil, religious and intellectual. It charges each of its members to be true and loyal to the government of the country to which he owes allegiance, and to be obedient to the law of any state in which he may be.  My brothers, please do not let apathy bring down this lodge that has been in existence since 1791. Come to meetings, make your voice heard and get involved

Sincerely & Fraternally

Edward Andrews

Worshipful Master