By Paul Rodriguez-Obrien—Senior Warden My Brothers: It’s that time of year again that we as a lodge have the opportunity to make a...

By Brian Ross—Junior Warden My bond with my Masonic brothers is strengthened by participating in our lodge events. In September, I had a...

Prologue to Lodge History I was asked to write a history of our lodge. To give a good accounting I needed to start at the beginning of...

By Don Schauer, Sr., H.A. Congratulations to the three members who attained 50 years in good standing in Masonry in 2019: · Stanley...

Hello! My name is Sophia A, I am Senior Princess of Bethel No. 1 Dublin. On August 28th we had our first meeting of the new term. Our...

Our lodge website records the location of our visitors and reports them to our Webmaster. Here are some cool locations which checked into...

By Robert Eckstein, PM—Master Brethren: Well, we ended August with a nicely attended Potluck and the 1st Annual Chili Cook Off! Please...

By Paul Rodriguez-Obrien—Senior Warden My Father, My Brother: You never spoke of Masonry, other than it was something that you and my...

By Brian Ross—Junior Warden The month of September has several events open to all brothers. On September 7 & 8 we have the Castro Valley...

By Bill Ferrell—Assistant Secretary Castro Valley No. 713 Castro Valley Lodge, U.D. was instituted May 19, 1951, with the legal maximum...

On July 17, Don went to see the doctor for an EKG and a chest x-ray. After the x-ray they held on to him for a few hours then released...

And the winner of our 1st Annual Chili Cook-Off is Bro. Phil Busch

By Robert Eckstein, PM—Master Brethren: Brethren: The Officers and I have been enjoying some time off. However, they have been working at...

By Paul Rodriguez-Obrien—Senior Warden On June 29th our ‘CC551 Sportsman Club’ went Salmon fishing. We had 8 Masons, along with friends...

By Brian Ross—Junior Warden Brethren: August promises to be a busy month at the lodge as the officers prepare to move up the line in...

By Don Schauer, Sr., H.A. HELP! When you move and do not let the secretary know of your new address, you trestleboard is returned to him...

By Bill Ferrell—Assistant Secretary Dimond Lodge No. 603 Dimond Lodge of Oakland, named after the district in which it is located,...

By Robert Eckstein, PM—Master Brethren: May found the Lodge busy and having fun. We joined the Castro Valley Masonic family (Eastern...

By Paul Rodriguez-Obrien—Senior Warden It has probably been a while and you may be a little rusty on your Masonic education, but are you...

By Brian Ross—Junior Warden I hope all of you gave your mother that special love she deserves on Mother’s Day. My mother ended up in the...