DEEP SEA FISHING TRIP
overnight – off the coast of mexico
Odd Fellows & Rebekahs Pride Parade March
IOOF Marching in downtown San Francisco 1.5 miles.
Annual Scholarship Essay Contest
College-bound seniors compete by submitting an essay that is at least 300 words; prize is $1,000.
Trunk Or Treat
Trick-or-Treat around a ring of themed car trunks; the fronts point in to light up the flash mob.
Encampment and Odd Fellow Golf Outing
Golf and Dinner at 5pm… Laurel Hill Golf Course 9450 Old Stage Rd, Central Point, OR 97502
Public Relations Training
PR Training for Your Lodge Let’s be brutally honest for a moment. We must recognize that no amount of public relations (PR) is going to do nearly as much good as following our command: “Visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan.” Of course, we’re not doing these things as […]
Ending Gender Bias in Odd Fellows
If you’ve ever read anything about the state of gender identity politics, especially in Canada where there are laws that protect people from incorrect gender pronoun use under threat of a lawsuit, you probably know it’s a very big deal for some and may result in lawsuits against incorrect use here in the US of […]
The Importance of PII to Your Lodge
In creating a website for an Odd Fellows lodge, one of the members had a request to not allow their picture to be shown on the website at all. While it may seem that this member’s request was a bit strange, it should absolutely be taken seriously by all lodge members. Privacy still matters and […]
The Transformative Power of Friendship
This is one of the most amazing stories about friendship I have read in as long as I can remember. It’s not enough that these two men in the picture, Jesse Owens and Luz Long, both Olympic athletes who competed in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, should have not have become friends at all. […]