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 (edit: please see bottom of page for webmaster email)
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.

November 2009 will bring many activities to keep us busy. We have our Nov. 2nd stated meeting and officer election; another wonderful breakfast is planned for the 7th; Officer Installation on the 9th; our annual sub sales and of course making them; the "Big Game"; and bell ringing for the Salvation Army. We'll all be ready for Thanksgiving, and we'll be thankful for a much deserved rest!

Please volunteer for bell ringing!

Did you know?: Especially concerning our newer members and visitors, we do have a supply of Masonic jewelry, stickers and emblems on hand. You are welcome to browse before or after any meeting.

A few pictures have been added of the Grove City "Arts in the Alley" parade. Thanks to all who made it a good turnout! The weather was beautiful and we enjoyed a great time together.

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You may (or may not if you are new to the site) notice a new "event calendar" is in the works.

I`ve decided to embed a Google calendar rather than use an outdated Drupal module as before. Not only will this *not* be outdated any time soon, it will allow more features like pre-set holidays, simplified printing, and repeating events such as stated meetings are much easier for me to administer in that I don't have to manually enter every single meeting as I did before.

The big drawback to this method is there may a slight number of users that have browsers set to block an "iframe", which is something required to embed the calendar to the webpage here (same goes with the embedded Google Map). I really hope this doesn't affect too many people or it's back to the drawing board! Please let me know if you cannot view the calendar for any reason!

I hope you find the calendar useful as I get more information added over time. I`ll be returning the "Upcoming events" block back to the sidebar as soon as I research how to do it with the new Google calendar :) Upcoming events block is back in action!