The North Carolina Mason

January/February 2019 The North Carolina Mason Page 11 TravelinG the tar heel state GREENSBORO – Clemmons #755 Past Master Bruce Ayres, right, presents a check to WhiteStone Financial Di- rector Phil Hughes to support the work of MESH LLC in supporting brothers and sisters in need at WhiteStone: A Masonic and Eastern Star Community. The check contained proceeds of the lodge's annual charity golf tournament, which has in its 16-year history raised $160,000. No power? No problem RALEIGH – Hiram #40 was not about to let some old power outage cancel its annual meeting in De- cember. Word of the outage reached Master Rob Eisenhardt and several other brethren early in the afternoon. Legend has it that Hiram has never missed a stated communication, so there was nothing to do but make do. Brothers pooled resources and got creative. A generator and shop lights were deployed, several battery powered lamps were obtained, and Hiram's 219th Annual Meeting was held in a small dining area on the main floor of the Masonic Temple. Elections were held as scheduled and the Brethren enjoyed the "ultimate" in throwback meetings! KANNAPOLIS – Cannon Memorial #626 recently adopted two Kannapolis streets in need of main- tenance, including one in front of Royal Oaks and GW Carver elementary schools. It was important to the brothers that they chose streets that needed some work and that were heavily traveled, so they could continue to promote the great name of Masonry. How many Brothers does it take to clean a street? Usu- ally, only two or three people show up to clean the streets. Cannon Memorial showed up with 14. Other lodges in the 28th District plan to adopt streets in their towns as well. The crew that gathered to help, from left,: Andrew VanEtten, Jerry Tucker, Josh Mueller, Taylor VanEtten, Thomas VanEtten, George Maxwell, Robert Cook, George Cook, Brian Dixon, Brandon Dixon, Timothy Flowers, Joe Troutman, and Jason Re- sendes (behind the camera). HERTFORD – Broth- ers of Perquimans #106 joined other civic groups in November for Wheels of Times Past, an 18-mile tractor ride through Per- quimans County. The ride raised $2,520 for two local charities. The trac- tors were led by a police escort, and drew quite a crowd along their route. Among the tractor travel- ers was, from left, Brother Donald Lamb, Past Mas- ter Damon Winslow, Da- mon's son, James, Past Master Chris Garrett, and Master C.W. Overton.

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