A&W Dinner Fundraiser
This is a bit late but I almost forgot to mention. The lodge teamed up with the Grand Ledge A&W in April to hold a fundraiser for the Lansing Food Bank. We did the advertising and A&W did the cooking. All it took was people to come in and order a spaghetti dinner and they […]
Yankee Doodle Days 2014
Another year is in the books for Grand Ledge Yankee Doodle Days and for us at the Masonic Lodge in Grand Ledge. For the past few years we have been asked to provide the food at the beer tent here in town. So as usual we set up our booth in the back of the […]
Masonic Lodge and Star Work Together
Well we finally did it. The lodge and star had our first pasty dinner together. As the lodge we needed more worker and the star was looking for a fundraiser. I can only say from my point of view from being in the kitchen, it ran so much smoother this time. I think this is […]
Installation 2014
December 11th 2013 the Grand Ledge Lodge 179 held our installation for 2014. We had a very successful year in the lodge this past year and we are looking to keep up the steam as we go into 2014. We have a great line up this year of officers. A big thanks to my […]
Thanksgiving Community Dinner
For the past five years the lodge has been the location for the community Thanksgiving Day meal. This year they served around 700 meals at no cost to anyone that wanted or needed a meal. People could just show up and have a place to have a nice meal. We have everyone from college kids […]
Masonic Christmas Party
December 1st we held our Christmas party at the lodge. Friends, family, neighbors and all our brothers and sisters in the lodge were invited. This year we had a very nice turn out. Overall we had more than 70 people there. Before Santa came down Mrs. Claus read a story to the children and then […]
New Brothers
On Wednesday we had the the privilege to bring in three new Brothers to the lodge. Todd came in last month but he showed up and we put him to work at the Junior Deacon for the night. A big thanks to him, we couldn’t have did it without him. Seth and Kevin were the […]
Past Masters / Honors Night
This past Wednesday night we took time to honor our Past Masters of the lodge and to award all of the legacy awards for those that have been in the lodge for more than 25 years. We had about 34 people there at the dinner and even a couple of visitors. It was great to […]
Lodge Spruced Up
Paint that was damaged due to water problems. The lodge held a day to spruce up the lodge and two of the areas that we decided to concentrated on was the hallways and bathrooms. Recent rain problems and draining issues had allowed water to seep through the walls and flake the paint in several areas. […]
Hunters Night at the Lodge
Wednesday we had our regular meeting and the theme was hunters night due to the upcoming deer season. Most of the brothers dressed up in their hunting garb. We had a makeshift campfire, fully decked out with burning sterno cans. We do what we can. Worthy Brother Craig Mason from Grand Lodge was invited to […]