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The Craft At Work produced our second video for Facebook and our
Lodge website touting our next Planning meeting on
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January 15 at 7:00 PM where we will hear from our
Last night we held our first stated
meeting and what a stated meeting officers their plans for the New Year and solicit your
it was! We had four Past Grand input on how to make this a better Lodge. Mark your
Masters in attendance the current Master of Central calendar and come prepared to voice your opinion.
14, and a contingent of Central 14 brothers. Steve also promoted our breakfast. I’d like to see 40
They’ve set an objective to visit six Lodges in 2019 Brothers, wives, significant others and even non-
and we were the first! We could take a page from Masonic friends attend.
their book. We’re off to a great start but the real test is if we can
maintain our momentum through four quarters. To do
We elected a new candidate and heard from all our that we need your help. Get onboard the Aztlan train
visitors. as we like Eric Watson go back in time to Masonry

Although we were a little rough on ritual, we began the way it was.
our journey on re-establishing fellowship in a myri- Ted
ad of ways. We set forth a plan to tackle a long- 899-1003
standing Masonic concern; our dwindling member- master@aztlanlodge.org
ship. A widely held belief is that part of our dwin-
dling membership is caused when Brothers join and
then without a brotherly experience in our self-
professed claim of brotherhood and fellowship,
they become disillusioned and leave. Taking a page
from Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney who, I
covered in a Trestleboard article two years ago, we
began our series of “Get to know your brother”
which involved hearing from new brothers Dave
Lane and Eric Watson telling about themselves.
Brother Dave is third generation Arizonian who
used to wrestle and box at South Mountain High
School. Eric is an Ohio transplant who thought he
was going to be a pilot but instead built a hat mak-
ing shop in Cave Creek. In this day of thinking we
need a new mouse trap for business success, Eric
went back in time resurrected hat making equip-
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ment manufactured in the late 19 and 20 century WM Ted Gives the first Video Taped Christmas Message to the
and makes custom built hats! Lodge
We also heard from Brother Steve Bracety and
Zach Cagley talk about their plans for our first Ma-
sonic breakfast. Steve has secured Prescott Mayor
Greg Mengarelli as a guest speaker and Brother
Zach talked about our “Call a Brother Project”
where after breakfast we will follow his scrip and
call brothers to invite them to our next Stated Meet-
ing.
I’ve heard many compliments from a number of
Brothers about Brother Ken Davis’s first video fea-
turing me in front of the fireplace wearing a Christ-
mas stocking. Before our stated meeting Brother
Bracety and I with the help of Brother Ken Davis
Eric Watson Installed as Tyler at our January Stated Meeting
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