{"id":1814,"date":"2025-02-22T13:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T18:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2025-02-22T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T18:33:30","slug":"february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/?p=1814","title":{"rendered":"February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\">Greetings, Brother!<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Please find attached your February Lodge Notice and reservation form for the upcoming 2025 banquet. You may have already received this in your mailbox today, as we do mail two lodge notices to all members, even if you normally receive them via email.\u00a0 The two notices you will always receive by mail are the February notice, because it also includes the reservation form for the annual banquet; and the October notice, because it contains the annual dues notice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">For our February Stated Meeting, on Feb. 20, WM Trude invited Linda M. Jackson, Director of the Philanthropic and Widows Support for the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, to deliver a presentation in the Red Room for members, ladies and Widows of Brethren, about the Widows\u2019 Guild and Masonic Blue Slipper Pin.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">There will be a dinner before the Stated Meeting at 5:45 p.m. in the lower level, and you are encouraged to bring your lady or the Widow of a Brother. If you are planning to attend, please contact the Secretary at\u00a0<u><a id=\"OWA436eab2e-d671-3f29-d30c-efb54ce74194\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"Send an email to secy0464@pagrandlodge.org\" href=\"mailto:secy0464@pagrandlodge.org\">secy0464@pagrandlodge.org<\/a><\/u>\u00a0or at 717-317-2696 no later than Sunday, February 16 to make a reservation. The donations for dinner, which will include crab stuffed chicken breast, is $20.00.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Also, as part of the Stated Meeting, we will be discussing a $5 increase in dues for 2026, which is a result of increase in what our Lodge pays to Grand Lodge for each member.\u00a0 In late 2024, Grand Lodge increased our assessment for each member from $50 to $52.\u00a0 As our by-laws presently state the exact dues amount, we did not have the flexibility to increase our dues to cover this increased expense to Grand Lodge. If there are any questions, please let me know.\u00a0 In February, we will read the proposal, and then it will lay over until our March Stated Meeting, at which time a vote will take place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Lastly, please plan to attend our banquet on Tuesday, March 25.\u00a0 Reservations can be made for $25, and must be submitted no later than March 14.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Sincerely and Fraternally,<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Gerald D Feaser Jr, PM<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Secretary<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"\/?pdfemb-serveurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.robertburns464.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsecurepdfs%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-Meeting-Notice.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"both\" data-download=\"on\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-download-nonce=\"c2be338594\" data-toolbar=\"top\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">2025-02 Meeting Notice<br\/><\/a> <a href=\"\/?pdfemb-serveurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.robertburns464.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsecurepdfs%2F2025%2F02%2Fbanquet-reservation-25-Letter.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"both\" data-download=\"on\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-download-nonce=\"8d6a99e2d7\" data-toolbar=\"top\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">banquet reservation 25 Letter<br\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, Brother! Please find attached your February Lodge Notice and reservation form for the upcoming 2025 banquet. You may have already received this in your mailbox today, as we do mail two lodge notices to all members, even if you normally receive them via email.\u00a0 The two notices you will always receive by mail are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3,1,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertburns464.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}