To My Sisters & Brothers of OSDIA,
First, I would like to apologize because I did not have my monthly article in the Il Leone last month. Covid finally found me in December. I was lucky that I did not catch it in the beginning of the month, because I wanted to help move the Grand Lodge to Sacramento. Speaking of that, we were able to locate a temporary office space plus a large storage building in the Sacramento area, so now we are just looking for a great place to permanently base our Grand Lodge.
On January 19th, I went to the Roseville
Since we are now putting footprints on the moon, the sky is not our limit.
Last month (January) we took a time out from our meetings. …Reminder: Our meetings are now on the first Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM at Luna’s, on Pollasky Ave. in Clovis.
United Lodges of the Central
“Beating A Dead Horse”
“Preaching to the Choir” has the same meaning as “Beating A Dead Horse” without the religious connotation. In essence one is advocating something to people who already share one’s convictions. The opposite is “Preaching to the pews” which is what Roma Lodge delegates feel like they have been doing at recent Grand Lodge conventions.
Since 2019 Roma Lodge has submitted bylaw changes at the Grand Lodge convention to reduce the number of delegates to one or
Once again, the members of the Hanford Lodge were treated to a very delicious polenta and stew dinner prepared by the members of the Leoni and Nardini families. Debbie Nardini, Mycaela
Henceforth Eureka Lodge meetings begin at 6PM.
New members Joan and Ron Dawson and Lyn Williams were initiated during the October meeting. Welcome new members!
Sadly our long time member Nelida Mills passed away on October 10th. Born in Italia, moved to Ferndale at the age of six months, she lived in Arcata for 64 years with her husband Ben. She joined our Lodge in 2006. Nel had a very positive personality, always raised the spirits of those
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