Hey I am Matt Taylor from M.L. McClelland Lodge #357 in Hobart, IN. Our master this past year, Robert Puckett, our chaplain, Scott McCuen, and I attended your annual Christmas party. The food was excellent and we had a great time. What a big lodge room you guys have, wow it was huge ! I loved the checkered mosaic pavement you guys had in the lobby. There were a lot of things about your lodge I was really impressed with. I just want to say how nice a website I think you guys have. You guys have done a really nice job with it. We just put up a brand new website ourselves at hobartmasons.com. I would love to add your lodge to our links page if it was all right with your lodge.

     

From the Master Brother Patrick Antos and Brethren of Palatine Masonic Lodge Number 314: Congratulations to Brother Michael S. Bonnardel on his installation as Worshipful Master of Grove Lodge # 824 and to his line of Officers. May you have a blessed Masonic year! Fraternally, Brother R. Scott Krieble Chaplain and Past Master Palatine Lodge No. 314

     

Greetings Brother's, I greet you in Friendship, Humanity, and Brotherly Love! I have enjoyed reading about your events, and viewing the photos you have posted on this site. You have a wonderfully put together site. I hail from St. Mark Lodge 629 in Columbia, SC where I am the Worshipful Master. If ever you are in this state, please feel free to visit. We meet on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30, except in December. In closing I will say, you should all feel a elevation of soul in the work you are doing, and keep up the good work!

     

You have an informative and impressive web site. I am SW of Andalusia Lodge No. 516 (WM-elect as of last night). Our lodge is in a rural community, and many of our members are farmers or retired farmers. About 15% of our membership is active, athough we have recently acquired three new members demiting from other lodges. We have participated in the CHIP program at one of the four elementary schools in our area. Too, we hold an annual soup lunch for raise money to help with medical expenses for someone in the community, and for the past two years have been able to generate enough interest and publicity to get supplemental money from the GL's Coins for Children program. We sponsor our local high school team for the Masonic Academic Bowl, and this year plan to provide polo shirts for the team with the school emblem and team name plus a notation that the team is sponsored by Andalusia Lodge No. 516. We have also participated in local parades and other community activities in an attempt to keep the Masonic name and our Lodge number before the public. Our local history goes back to 1866, membership in our Lodge is a family tradition for some of us, with our fathers and grandfathers serving as officers in the Lodge. Bro. Norman Dunlap, SW Andalusia Lodge No. 516 Andalusia, IL

     

Nice rework of the Grove Lodge web site. It has been a long time since I have seen real change here. No matter how good a site is it needs to grow and change just as life must do the same. Lee Porebski, P.M. P.M. of Grove Lodge AF&AM P.M. of Burlingame Lodge F&AM - Burlingame, California First designer and web master of the Grove Lodge Web site Present Web Master of www.burlingamemasoniclodge.org and www.burlingamescottishrite.org