Mountain View Lodge #244 is very fortunate to be located on the main street of downtown Mountain View, Castro Street, where we put together different windows displays each month. Our August display honors the National Honey Bee Day which occurs on the third weekend in August. This display is a nod to our siblings, the …
Mountain View Lodge #244 is very fortunate to be located on the main street of downtown Mountain View, Castro Street, where we put together different windows displays each month. Our July display is this month dedicated to the Statue of Liberty. Creating the window was slightly challenging this month, – we had to use a …
At the 14th Annual Saratoga Classic & Cool Car Show, the Saratoga Odd Fellows Lodge #428 tipped their top hats to a ride that had jaws dropping and memories roaring down the boulevard. This year’s Most Awed Car roared home to a local Saratogan whose family roots run deep in the soil of Odd Fellowship. …
In 2024, District 107 raised money to send one young person from within our district on the IOOF Youth Pilgrimage, as selected by an essay contest. The winner was a young man named Bao Nguyen of San Jose, who has now completed his trip, and wanted to share a photo essay of what he experienced. …
On the morning of Friday, July 4th , the following call and response could be heard all through San Jose’s Shasta/Hanchett and Rose Garden neighborhoods: “What is the first link? Friendship! What is the second link? Love! What is the third link? Truth! Who are we? Odd Fellows!” Members of True Fellowship 52, including Scott …
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For the past couple of months, Mountain View 244 has been hosting a new club, led by local resident Julia Peterson. Her group is actually a book club, except that lately they’ve also taken to doing crafts together. They’re friendly and social and open to anyone, so when they asked the Mountain View Odd Fellows …
Castro Street Window Display, June 2025 Mountain View Lodge #244 is very fortunate to be located on Castro Street in downtown Mountain View (the main street) where we put up different windows displays each month. Our June display is dedicated to LGBTQ Pride Month, that commemorates the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer …
Mountain View Lodge #244 823 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 Mountain View Lodge #244 is very fortunate to be located on Castro Street in downtown Mountain View. We are on the corner between Castro Street and Villa Street and can put on window displays in our Castro Street windows. The month of May is …
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Did you know wee have a member who is still fulfilling on one of the original missions of Odd Fellowship, burying the dead? On Memorial Day, a number of Odd Fellows headed to Livermore to get a cemetery tour at Memory Gardens Cemetery, where Jon Hart of Livermore Lodge provides these services at a much …
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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 …