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From the East Brethren, Finally – cooler weather prevails! We can breathe easy into autumn, but we have hit the busy season for our grand fraternity. There is a lot on our plate for the rest of the year. Please avail yourself for upcoming degree work, fall school of instruction, Scottish Rite, Oasis Shriners, Honors…

From the East Brethren, I hope you have had a nice summer. This month we are back to Tuesday evening practice to prep for autumn degree work. Yes, we have a few petitions to be read at our September stated communication. It will also be review time prior to the Grand Lodge Annual Communication later…

From the East Brethren, Wow, who left the oven on? Can you believe the heat this summer – this is North Carolina, not Bad Water Basin (Death Valley). Okay, I know it averages 27 degrees more than the Carolinas, but after a point it sort of feels the same. We look forward to a cool…

From the East Brethren, Summertime and the livin’ is … well, HOT! I hope each of you has time to take a breather this summer before we all head back to (from my perspective) heavy school and work traffic in another month or two. Meantime, our flurry of degree work the first half of this…

From the East Brethren, Our busy Spring time is about to ratchet up the heat toward summer and we congratulate Brothers Eric Flanigan, Winston Sheppard and Dan Wendelborn, three new Master Masons who were raised Saturday morning May 21st. There was a lot of hard work on their, and WB Bob Braswell’s parts in preparing…

From the East Brethren, CONGRATULATIONS to our newest Master Masons; Brother Matthew Richter and Brother Robby Saye were raised to the Sublime Degree on April 2nd. A huge Thank You as well to all those who joined us for breakfast and their degree! Feel the heat? Summertime is in the offing and while many of…

From the East Brethren, This year seems to be on a fast-scoot with new petitions, candidates stretching their grey cells working in the quarries toward their next degrees, and of course a beautiful Spring underway (sneeze-cough-cough). Spring school of instruction was great – watching how all the lodges in our district perform the same work.…

From the East Brethren, A dusting of snow, some ice and now we are leaning toward Spring and with it, a busy season. Plan on joining us for our Entered Apprentice degree March first, when three men will begin their Masonic journey, then a month later our first Saturday morning Master Mason Degree will be…

From the East Brethren, February is out of the box with two of our brothers receiving their Fellow Craft degree on the 2nd. This means a Saturday morning Master Mason Degree will be soon, and it looks like we may be on path for three more young men to be initiated in the very near…

From the East Happy New Years My Brothers! What in the world happened to winter during the Christmas / New Year holiday period? My goodness it was too easy to have ‘warm wishes’ for the holidays. Winter snows are in the offing for the mountains and we get back to business as the temperatures fall…

From the East Brothers, Why is it, that despite the care taken when putting away Christmas decorations, there is always one of that thousand-light strand that decides suddenly to retire? Oh, well it gives you something to do while watching football. Speaking of these things, the lights, wreaths and hunted trees strapped atop cars and…

From the East Brothers, The leaves have blazed in beautiful color and have been spiraling from the trees while tempera-tures cool into November. Congratulations are in order for our new 32nd degree Scottish Rite Masons and to new Nobles of Oasis Shriners! Those who became Shriners on Halloween were part of the largest class in…