The North Carolina Mason

Page 10 The North Carolina Mason July/August 2016 see next page If your lodge has a newsletter for its members, make sure The North Carolina Mason is on your mailing list. Lodge newsletters are a major source of news from Masons around the state. If you don't have one, think about starting one. Newsletters are a good way to keep your members active, happy, and informed. By Ric Carter traveling the tarheel State newS From our lodgeS 10 10 "Masons Can" Food Drive Feed the Needy Each Mason should bring ten dollars or ten cans of food for admission to Annual Communication in September. Washington Little Washington's three Masonic lodges; Hiram 11 (PHA), Orr 104, and Washington 675; held a Red Cross blood drive on June 8. Washington 675 hosted it at their lodge building. Washington 675 held a raffle this spring to give away a shotgun and a rifle. ey sent a check for more than $2,100 to the North Carolina Ma- sonic Foundation from which both our Homes benefit. Aberdeen Roman Eagle 550 held their golf tournament June 11 at Hyland Hills Golf Course. Entry fee was $65 per player and hole sponsorships were $100. Besides cash prizes for first through third places, there were prizes for longest drive and closest to the pin. Supper was included. Proceeds went to the Masonic Home for Children in Oxford. — Roman Eagle Lodge Roman Eagle Lodge's Awards and Past Masters' Night was held May 5. — Gene Maples Wendell Wendell 565 was selling plates of barbecued chicken leg quarters on June 11. Combat Warriors, Inc. was to ben- efit from the fundraiser. — Lloyd Lancaster Mount Airy Renfro 691 honored some of their members on April 16 with service awards. Tyco Woods got his Diamond Jubilee for his 60 years of membership. Veteran's Emblems went to John Bode and Bobby Watson for their 50 years in the lodge. —Garner Jarrell Jr. Granite 322 hosted Past Grand Master Tom Gregory May 17. His pro- gram was entitled "What's your job?" — Homer Dearmin Southport John Richards was an outstanding lodge secretary and ambassador for Pythagoras Lodge for many years. e much loved Mason, plagued by poor health for much of his career, passed away back in May. e lodge showed their affection and appreciation by picking up the tab for his funeral and a grave marker with Masonic and Coast Guard emblems. Pythagoras Lodge is replacing their lodge aprons which had become worn. Hmmm, how many lodges need to take a look at their aprons? Pythagoras 249's Annual Golf Tour- nament is coming up September 24. eir Fish Fry was held on June 7. — Newsletter Havelock Cherry Point 688 held a poker run June 11. e morning bike run start- ed at Cherry Point Lodge and ran to Winterville Harley Davidson and back. Each play sheet cost $20. Cash prizes went to best and worst hands. e ben- efit was held for WhiteStone's Masonic and Eastern Star Foundation. — Jim McDougal Biscoe Biscoe 437 held their annual raffle earlier this year. ey termed it a success making $3,500 for the Masonic Home for Children. ey are talking about having another fundraiser in the fall. — Carl Brown Hickory e Plez Teague Memorial Pan- cake Breakfast brought in more than $2,500 this year. Hickory 343's charity fundraiser is named for a now-deceased member of the lodge who was a won- derful advocate for our Homes. Lee Spach organized it this year. Hickory Lodge also teamed up with a local church to volunteer to help feed the hungry. ey have signed up to as- sist once every quarter this year with a local community effort. e lodge's held a blood drive June 3. — Hickory Lodge Candler Hominy 491 recently named Enka High School's Vivi Santana the recipi- ent of their 2016 Ed Bailey Mathemat- ic Scholarship Award. Fifty members and guests showed up for Hominy's Mothers Day Dinner on May 7. ey unveiled their newly renovated restrooms. Two April fundraisers at Hominy Lodge brought in more than $3,000 for the Masonic Homes and Foundation. One was a rifle raffle, and the other was a pancake breakfast. — Richard D. Pinkerton Asheville Nichols-West Asheville 650 was having a raffle for a Ruger rifle. Tickets were five dollars, and the drawing was to be held July 18. Proceeds were sent to Masonic Charities. — Jack Barnett

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