On Monday, April 21, 2025 the Cupertino Odd Fellows Lodge #70 celebrated the 126th anniversary with our annual Roll Call Dinner. About 50 members and their family/guests attended. Jim Kabage, our Noble Grand, welcomed everyone to our dinner. Next, our chaplain Todd White gave a blessing before dinner. Dinner consisted of thick juicy BBQ ribs, …
On April 15, after months of planning, weeks of promoting, days of decorating, hours of rehearsing, and frantic minutes setting up final details before people walked in, a party hosted by the District 107 Odd Fellows, and celebrating 175 years of Odd Fellowship in California, brought delight to about 80 guests from around the district …
What it is, where it is, who it is, and why you should care! Grand Lodge Sessions is a meeting for all of the representatives of the lodges of our jurisdiction to set the direction of Odd Fellowship, by selecting leaders, updating code, and considering resolutions for the coming year. This year, Grand Lodge Sessions …
On April 12th, Sycamore Lodge #129 hosted brothers and sisters of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows from all over the greater SF Bay Area. The occasion was to hear former California Grand Master Peter V. Sellars give a presentation on the, history, traditions, and organizational structure of the IOOF. Thank you to the members …
The first of 3 second degrees to be conferred in 2025 within our district was held at Saratoga 428 lodge on April 22. And it was quite something to behold. The degree team included members of Bay View 109, Cupertino 70, True Fellowship 52, Saratoga 428, and Mountain View 244, for a true district-wide team. …
On Friday, March 21, 2025, Mountain View Lodge #244 had its first open board game night. Our group was small, but we had fun! We played a couple rounds of Sequoia, a dice game in which players compete to build the tallest trees by rolling six-sided dice pairs. We learned a card game named Plums, …
On Wednesday March 12th, everyone, including Saint Patrick’s ghost, left well fed from True Fellowship’s annual observance of St. Patrick’s Day. Whether it was the corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, onions or carrots that filled you up, or Sis. Debbie Shuler’s amazing green whipped marshmallow dessert: it was a time for feasting and merrymaking for all …
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On March 13th, 6 new members of Barnes 77 traded in their black collars and became the patriarchs to learn the sublime and enduring mysteries of the Golden Rule Degree. Using a modified script provided by Chief Patriarch Debra LaVergne, the Golden Rule Degree reminds us of the virtue of tolerance in our day to …
A dream come true often looks like an experiment, where we try something we have never done before in hopes that we get better results than what had been happening before. In the case of Cupertino Lodge no. 70’s Kanikapila and True Fellowship Lodge no.52’s Burger Fry: four times this year we were scheduled to …
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In March, the window theme for our Odd Fellows Lodge on Castro Street was Women’s History Month and the fight of universal suffrage in the United States. The Suffragettes Today, women over the age of 18 take it for granted that they can vote. The right for Universal Suffrage was no walk in the park …