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Norfolk Lodge hosted its second annual family day at McCoy Stadium.  This year there were 43 Masons and their families who attended the game from four of the lodges in the 5th District.  The brothers met at the Stadium at 12:00 an all you can eat cookout right on the 1st base line under thetent.  At 1:30 the game started and everyone had a great time watching the Paw Soxs beat the Bisons is a great extra innings game.  After the game people were allowed onto the field to run the bases.

It was a great day of friendship and fraternalism for all involved, and Norfolk Lodge would like to thank everyone who made it such a great day.  Norfolk Lodge hopes to continue this great program next year.

The Norfolk Lodge officers would like to congratulate two brothers for completing major milestones. First of all congratulations to Wor. Brother Chris Blood who completed the Boston Marathon on April 17th. He ran for this year for Dana Farber. This held a great deal of significance as he ran in the memory of his uncle, John H. Bergstrom who lost his battle to cancer last November.

Second, our Junior Warden Jared LaLiberte finished his second 5k of the season with a personal best of 34 minutes in the Boston Athletic Association 5k. Congratulations to both brothers.

At the December Communication of Norfolk Lodge the Lodge hosted its annual ladies and widows night. After a quick business meeting the Lodge received the Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, along with a distinguished suite of visitors. The Grand Master then presented R.W. Scott D. Inglis with the Distinguished Service Medal, also referred to as the Joseph Warren Medal.

The Joseph Warren medal is a given to a brother who has served his community, church, and lodge. R.W. Inglis was proposed by Wor. Centola during his term. After the ceremony the Grand Master closed the Lodge in Ample Form and the members, along with their families and guests adjourned to the dinning room for a great meal and fellowship.

Norfolk Lodge A.F&A.M would like to extend its sincere thanks and appreciation to those in Needham who contributed to our third annual Toys for Tots drive to benefit the U.S. Marine Reserve Toys for Tots Program. A special Thank You to our community partners including the Charles River YMCA, Brothers Pizza, Needham Bank for their help in hosting collection boxes in their locations and to Colonial Sales, LLC for their generous donation.

Thanks to the generosity and support of the Needham Community, over 520 toys for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program were collected. We look forward to continuing to grow this initiative over the coming years.

On December 27, 2016 at the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in Boston, R.W. Scott Inglis was installed as District Deputy Grand Master for the Fifth Masonic District during the annual installation of Grand Lodge Officers.  He will succeed R.W. Goldstein who faithfully served the district as District Deputy for the past two years.  Before leaving office he wrote a farewell letter to the Brothers of the District which can be found here.

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Norfolk Lodge would like to congratulate the R.W. Inglis on his appointment and look forwardto his term in office.  In early January, the new District Deputy will announce his district leadership team, and will publish the District schedule of Fraternal Visits and other events.

For the third year in a row volunteers from Norfolk Lodge helped the Community Council and Rotary Club put on their annual Thanksgiving Dinner.Volunteers from the Lodge helped both with the set up the night before hand and serving the meal on the day of Thanksgiving.

This event is the perfect example of the type of work that Masons do for their community on a daily basis. Thank you to all of the Brothers who came out to help, and we hope that there will be even more brothers who come out next year.

On Saturday October 15th Norfolk Lodge, once again opened their doors to the public in the in the annual Statewide Open House. Norfolk Lodge hosted a pancake breakfast with the proceeds going to help Parent Talk a community-based organization helping families with young children connect, learn, play, and grow together.

After which Norfolk Lodge hosted a reptile show for people as they were coming out of the Parent Talk sale at Christ Church. The children in attendance really enjoyed the show and a great deal of fun was had by all. Overall it was one of the best open houses in recent year and was a well attended event, and it helped to show the community the type of work that we do as Masons.

Thank you for all of the people who attended, and those that helped out this event.  Norfolk Lodge hopes we will be able to 

For the fifth straight year Norfolk Lodge hosted its annual family picnic. This year there was worries that the weather might not be in our favor, for the first time ever but when the time came for the picnic the clouds and rain broke and the sun came out was great day to spend out in the sun with each other.  

Around thirty people including brothers and their families attended this year. There was plenty of good food and a bouncy course,which both adults and children enjoyed immensely. It was a great time for the brothers and their families to spend together during the time when we normally would not get to see each other.

Thank you very to Wor. Michael Centola and Bro. Mark Pearrow for all of their hard work on the preparation. And a big thank you to our grill master R.W. Donald LaLiberte for grilling up the burgers and dogs.

This year Norfolk Lodge continued their support of the amazing work that the Walker School does for children.  Ethan Gilson, the Master of Norfolk Lodge, visited Walker’s Needham campus and presented the donation to Carolyn M. Wood, Walker’s Vice President of Advancement. Norfolk Lodge’s contribution will assist Walker in delivering highly-specialized academic and therapeutic services to children and families facing social, emotional, learning, and mental health challenges.

“We are grateful for the longtime support of the Norfolk Lodge,” said Carolyn M. Wood, Vice President of Advancement at Walker. “Community partnerships like this continue to be essential to the growth and future success of the children and youth served by Walker’s therapeutic and

academic programs on our Needham campus.”

The Needham-based Norfolk Lodge AF & M has developed their community partnership with Walker over the last five years. This year, the Norfolk Lodge expands their support through sponsorship of Walker’s 2016 Change Shoes, Change Lives 5K Run and 1-Mile Walk event.

This year in addition to having our annual pancake breakfast Norfolk Lodge also revived the old Lodge tradition of marching in the Needham Town Fourth of July Parade  This is part of Norfolk Lodge's ongoing effort to become more active and involved in the community.  This year several brothers from Norfolk Lodge walk in the parade, and had a great time walking the route and greeting the residents of Needham as they walked.  We hope that next year even more of the brothers will walk in the parade, and that this will once again become a great lodge tradition.