Thank you my brothers for your confidence by electing me to occupy the “Oriental Chair”, It’s been seventeen years since I last sat in the East. Hopefully, with your help “2010”, will be a fruit-ful year.   

We are on a roll with the renovations and we have away to go, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. My brothers soon we will have an opportunity to showour pride for our “Lodge”. We should all pull together and have a large attendance for the 150th rededication ceremony on May 15th, at 1 p.m.

This year I plan to have “Past Masters” dinner, the purpose of which will be to take photos of them for our lodge walls. Date and time will be announced in a future trestleboard. Our blood drives will continue and we will be observing “St. Johns Sunday Service”. Also we will be decorating masonic graves at local cemeteries.

I am honored.

Sincerely and fraternally,

WB Ken Hartwick, WM