Greetings,

JANUARY 2012

Welcome to Western Star Lodge #26.


We are a friendly group and this web site is, hopefully, designed to keep everyone informed about the activities going on around us. If you are researching Freemasonry in Minnesota, go to the Links page for some interesting resources.

There are pages set aside for us to list:
  • up-coming events,
  • pictures of past events,
  • links to other events,
  • random thoughts and ideas and
  • a way to contact us.
If you have any ideas for additional pages, feel free to email to the secretary. Send anything of interest to the brethren. Attach pictures, tell stories or jokes. Schedule picnics, dinners and parties. Sorry, we are not set up for interactive blogs. This means, of course, there will be a filter to keep topics on track.
If you would like to meet us and get to know what we are like, join us for coffee on Wednesday mornings from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. Informal, in the kitchen, like brothers, we just sit and talk.





A February message from Worshipful Master Bill Coppoc ...

My Brothers,

Well we are now installed for better or worse, hopefully for the better. I had two Brothers step up at the last minute to fill my last two positions; my hat is off to Bros. Jake and Brandon, and to all the line.

As I write this article, I think, "What I can do to make the lodge better?" If any of you have problems, like hearing in lodge, or getting a ride to lodge, please see me. I will try to do what I can. If you have an idea for anything, please let me know. Perhaps you were wondering, if by showing up and helping do something as simple as washing dishes or cleaning up or just sitting on the side lines, would that help? The answer is, "Yes it does". Remember we are a team and will work as a team.

Let us remember the pancake breakfast on February 12th. We will be raising money for the Food Shelf this time. I read in a book called "The Road to Success is Still Under Construction", that "Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough." I'm hoping we can raise a lot of dough, as we always seem to have opportunities to give to worthy causes.

Peace and harmony prevailing at all times. Thank you for giving me the chance to serve you this year.

Bill Coppoc, Worshipful Master



You may read the Trestle Board for February 2012
in MS-WORDTM format by clicking here.


You may read the Trestle Board for February 2012
in PDFTM format by clicking here.


Check out Past Master Jake's '09 Project on page 4 of the gallery.