22 Mar 2013 Fish Dinner Tonight

22 March 2013

Tonight we hosted our 6th of 7 Fish Dinners for Lent.
We served 96 people tonight.

The food was quite tasty and included baked or fried fish, french fries or mac-n-cheese, brownies or cake, coleslaw, ice cream and various drinks.

We asked for a donation of $9.00 for this great meal.  Many folks come to each dinner and sit around and have a good time talking with each other.

Those of us who have worked each of these dinners are somewhat glad that we only have one more dinner to go after tonight.  We are ready for a Friday night that we do not have to work at the Lodge.  Overall we have had a fun time and will likely do this again next year.  The group that works each dinner is pretty much the same from dinner to dinner.  We would like to have some other members come out and help us out but they seem to be unable or unwilling to so do.

We have one more Fish Dinner scheduled for Good Friday, 29 March 2013.  Come out and join us for a fun evening.  We have had a fun time working together for this event and we are even making some money to help the Lodge help others in need.

After Good Friday we will hold a Chicken BBQ on 20 April 2013 at the Lodge.  It will be cooked by Whiting Family Foods, LLC, which is owned and operated by a Brother Mason.

Later in the year we will have our annual Ox Roast on 03 August 2013.

Practice on 20 Mar 2013

Members of Wilmington Lodge will meet at the Lodge at 7:30 Pm for practice and education.

All members are welcome.

Update: Only 3 members present tonight at practice. FJA, SMG and DLW.

Wilmington Lodge at Business Expo

On 09 March 2013 Several members of Wilmington Lodge No. 804 set up a display table at the New Wilmington Area Business Expo that was held in the Westminster College Gymnasium in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.  We passed out information and answered questions.

We did have a lot of people fill out slips of paper in an attempt to win the two Fish Dinner tickets we were giving away.  Most people seemed only interested in what we were giving away and never bothered to even look at any other information.

Some folks who live in the town did not even know that a Masonic Lodge existed in town.  One person who knew nothing about us only lived a couple hundred yards from the Lodge.  Not everyone is observant! 

The Expo went from 10 AM until 3 PM.

Those of us who were there had a good time.  We will probably do it again next year.

A fem men actually asked about how to join so each of them were actually given a Petition for Initiation and Membership.