Cadiz No. 171 Inspection

Tuesday, 3.8, RECs Young and Nockengost accompanied me the the inspection of Cadiz No. 171.   REC Young and I had visited Cadiz Chapter about two years so we knew where the lodge was located, or so we thought.   Before we left home I remember hearing something about Cadiz being in a new building that had formally been a Seventh Day Adventist church.    This was not the building that Bill and I visited.   I call the DDGHP and found that the address in the current Red Roster is not correct.   Sure enough they were in another church.  Now that we had the correct address, off we went and found the lodge with no problem

Finding the lodge proved not to be the problem of the evening!   After arriving at the lodge I inquired if the room had ever been dedicated and was informed, No.   Since I had not approved a dispensation the lodge was about to hold its inspection in a non-dedicated room without a dispensation.   The secretary was told to get a dispensation form filled out because we were going to have an inspection in that room.   One was filled out and I approved the form for that night only.    A second form had to be completed to allow for future meetings until such time as the room is dedicated.  This dispensation is going through proper procedures. Never a dull moment.

A little bit about the Lodge room.  One would have to call the building small.  It does not have a kitchen or dinning room.

The first picture allows you get get an idea of the width of the lodge room and the second one the length of the room.

In the second picture you see a lady setting at the end of the room.   A table is set up in that area and refreshments are served there.

The room is really quite nice but its size may cause some limitations in what the bodies meeting there can do.

Now the inspection begins.  This was a stated meeting so the Royal Arch was opened in short form.   It was done in a fine manner.

The inspection degree was the Most Excellent Master Degree and portrayed on two new Most Excellent Masters.  Due to some illness and other problems there were some positions filled that evening and which made for a rough start of the degree.   However once the degree got moving, things went fairly well.

There are now two more Most Excellent Masters in Ohio.

After the degree work assorted pizza was served for refreshments.

Bill, George and I headed home after a trip on dry roads, good ritual work and wonderful fellowship.

'till the next time.