Renfrew Lodge in Renfrew
Last Saturday, after first meeting WBro Frank Grant in the morning at his residence - a member of the Craft who is 102 years old, and who served in the Merchant Marines in WW2, and who received his 60 Year Service Pin - we travelled into the Ottawa Valley to visit Renfrew Lodge No 122. On this occasion the lodge was honouring three of its members with their Long Service Awards and 50 Year pins: RWBro Jack Ledger, WBro Donald Brydges and Bro Harold Daber were each properly presented and congratulated by the lodge and then greeted personally by the Grand Master, as well as the Grand Junior Warden, Grand Registrar and me. The lodge opened and then closed upon greeting their visitors, and then admitted guests, including many family members and friends, who were not only quite happy to sit inside a lodge room, but also to offer such very appropriate and generous remarks. At the Festive Board, afterwards, I was able to provide the response to the traditional Toast to The Visitors. It wa...