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Brother Mark Abernethy; Mason of the Year

Congratulations Brother…. This is a well deserved honor.  Thank you for the dedication you have to Hickory Lodge #343.  As you know, we Masons are taught that brotherly love extends beyond the grave and certainly the efforts you made this year to contact each member of our lodge and offer strength for many in their

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Take Time to Reflect

Awards Night  A few words from Lee Spach 17 November 2011 Often more times than not, in these busy days of constantmental stimulation, we fail to take time to reflect on where we have been andwhere we currently are, let alone where we may be heading.  For me this is a very tough thing to

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Jones W. Shuford DeMolay Chapter

After a long period of darkness and I am proud to announce that our lodge is once again sponsoring an active DeMolay Chapter.  On Friday September 24th during the Grand Lodge Annual Communication in Winston Salem the “Jones W. Shuford” Chapter of the DeMolay received it’s letters temporary. Now it is time to begin recruiting

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Lobby Renovations

Lodge and Past Master’s Night!

It’s hard for me to believe that fall is already here and I am in the autumn stages of my year as master of the lodge.  Once again I want to let everyone know how humbled and honored I am to sit in the east of this wonderful lodge.  Year to date we have made

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Family Day 2011

Thanks to the efforts of our Junior Warden, James Hope and LOTS of brethren, their wives and families we had the most awesome Family Day on Aug 13th that we have ever had since I have been a member of Hickory Lodge.  The Catawba County Science Center came out and brought some great activities and

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Greetings from the East

Brethren, It is hard to believe that I am already halfway done with my year as Master of the Lodge. As I sit and contemplate the current state of our lodge I am awe struck, as usual, by the accomplishments we have achieved. We have raised several new Master Masons and currently we have many

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New Layout

I have gotten around to redesigning the webpage in a way that I think better reflects us as a lodge. We are redoing out floors, just redid the kitchen and I think that our site should represent that. The new layout is very user-friendly, much more clean, and is very efficient. We have also added

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Official Visit from District Officers

It was our pleasure to host the District Deputy Grand Master (DDGM) and District Deputy Grand Lecturer (DDGL) of the 34th Masonic District of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina at our Stated Communication on Monday 16 May. The honored guests were received into the lodge by Worshipful Master (WM) Lee Spach and

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New Website!

Brethren, It is with great pleasure to announce that Bro. Wes King has taken on the responsibility of transforming our website into a more user friendly platform and one that engages the full technology of the internet and social media. This will greatly help us continue to communicate with each other, especially to younger men

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