It has been determined that Grove City Lodge will participate in Ohio's 2010 "One Day Class", date to be determined. It is designed for those men whose schedule does not allow regular lodge attendance to receive the degrees, or have trouble with the memorization traditionally required to become a Mason.

Petitioning, investigation, and balloting remain the same, but the candidates will take all 3 degrees in one day, receiving all rights and benefits of a Master Mason.

For this class only, members of the Military, Police, and Fire/EMS will enjoy reduced fees from the normal $125 down to $75.

For further information speak to any Mason, or email the webmaster of this site using the link at the bottom of each page.

What a week! Some probably noticed this site was completely down during the last week. This occurred because the hosting service attempted a major upgrade to their servers, which took an inordinate amount of time. Normally it's a process which takes a few hours with little downtime. This incompetent service dropped the ball in a big way, so it ended up taking all week just to find out they lost 100% of my data during the transition. Luckily, I had backed up mostly everything to my hard drive about a month ago. Only a few of the last posts have been lost permanently, and some pictures didn't make it but I can upload those again later (done).

This affected my personal site as well, and more frustrating is that my personal email is still in limbo as of this writing. (personal email is fixed)

This weekend I`ve spent many hours researching new hosts and finally relocating the site to a new service. It's another free one, so I`m crossing my fingers that we don't experience yet another "get what you pay for" moment.

Select pictures of the 2010 Installation night have been added for your viewing pleasure :) Special thanks to Larry Powell for his photography work.

View 2010 Installation pictures.

Congratulations to E. Mikel Goldhardt for being installed as Worshipful Master on November 9, 2009. We have great expectations for Brother Goldhardt and look forward to the coming year under his leadership. Congratulations also to all other elected and appointed positions.

Just as importantly, thanks to all our visitors who chose to spend this special evening with us. Although Masons rightly have a known veil of secrecy surrounding our meetings (better regarded as privacy), we are still the first ones to welcome the company of our family and friends into our lodge whenever possible. We hope it was enjoyed by all.

I will get some pictures posted here soon.

For those who may have used the "webmaster@grovecity689.com" email address, I regret to say it has been deactivated. Website related communication should now be directed to

and you are encouraged to save this address for future use. Omitting the boring details, I felt the change to an independent email host (Gmail) would be best to avoid possible conflicts in the future. Better now than later, when even more people could have the old address saved. Hopefully this did not effect many people at this stage, and I apologize for any inconvenience.