At 8:00 AM Saturday Julia and I headed for Cincinnati and the inspection of North Bend Mark Master Lodge No. 1. This Mark Lodge meets in Cleves and is around 4 hours away from Medina. This inspection was in conjunction with the 4th District's GHP reception. The District booked us a room at the Crown Plaza in Blue Ash and I was picked by the District President Eddie Wilson and taken to the Cleves temple. While we were at the inspection his wife Gretchen took Julia on a tour of fabric stores. Cleves is about 30 minutes from the hotel in Blue Ash.
We got the to Lodge about noon for a lunch of chicken salad or ham salad sandwiches and all the normal accompanying goodies. The ladies doing the lunch did a very nice job.
The Lodge room, once again, is on the second floor of the building. It is not a real large room but is nice. The was one problem with the room!! Whoever set the temperature was trying to bake bread. MEC Terry Myers was there and he got the heat turned down and the fans turned on immediately.
Since this is a Mark Lodge, naturally the inspection degree was in the Mark Master. As would be expected of a Mark Lodge, the degree was done in a fine manner.
There was a Companion in attendance that was to receive his 60 year pin but somehow the Secretary did not have either the pin or the card. He was present and given grand honors without the pin and card.
The degree ended at about 2:45 PM and Eddie and I were off to the Crown Plaza so we could get ready for the Grand High Priest's reception.
"til a couple hours from now.
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