Brethern,

Thank you for supporting our Lodge’s participation in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life®. This year’s Relay For Life® was an exciting and inspirational event that I was proud to be a part of. Your support helps the American Cancer Society continue to save lives and celebrate more birthdays! Next year, I hope to continue our support by participating again in the Delran Relay For Life®.

One of the areas I want to focus on next year will be our charitable works. I am greatly interested in finding out what additional charities you would like to see our Lodge support. Some ideas that have been thrown around are the New Jersey Food Bank, seasonal assistance for our Lodge member’s yards in the area, and the Masonic Child Identification Program.

We are also looking to bring back the movies to the Lodge. How cool would it be to invite the public to bring their kids to spend an afternoon with us or to host a dinner and a movie night? The investment to do this would be minimal, along with only a minor change to our Lodge’s interior. This will be another great way to reach out to our community as well as raise funds.

The Audubon-Parkside Square Club is coming next year. We would love to hear what type of events and fundraising ideas you would be interested in helping with. Some of the most successful fundraising ideas are Basket Raffles, Tupperware, Holiday Flower Sale, Entertainment Coupon Books, Hoagie Sale, Candy Sale, and of course the Car Wash. We could look at going to a Ball Game, travel to an out of state Lodge, or having a monthly Fellowship Night.

I would love to hear your ideas and if you are interested in getting more involved, let us know. We could use the help and would love to see you.

Fraternally,

Steven Ludwigsen, SW

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.” - Pauline R. Kezer

Audubon-Parkside Lodge’s Relay For Life® web page: HERE

Audubon-Parkside Lodge’s Facebook page: HERE

My Brothers,

Last month we celebrated the 90th anniversary of our Lodge. We met in the same halls of the Logan Memorial Presbyterian Church in Audubon, where 90 years ago about 100 masons met for the first time.

In 1920 Audubon Lodge # 218 was constituted and later that same year Parkside Lodge # 217 was started. In the year 1980 both Lodges were consolidated to form the present Audubon-Parkside Lodge # 218.

We had a wonderful meal prepared by our Brother Wayne Wildrick. There were many brothers present and also many visitors, and none went away dissatisfied.

After the dinner we moved to our present Lodge location for our regular meeting. Few days after that I went back to our website and re-visited the slide show of when our Lodge was built. Many brothers had spent innumerable days accomplishing that great result and spent lots of time, blood and tears for something that we can all be proud of it today. That was really an historic evening and great fun was had by all.

Then we went to the George Washington Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia and that was also be a great event and I will talk more about that next month. So, Brethren, if you haven’t come out to the Lodge recently, please do so, even if just to spend some time with your brothers, recalling your masonic lifelong occurrences.

Fraternally yours,
Alex La Croce, JW