Herd Talk March 2021
Well it’s been a rough year for the lodge with Covid-19 restrictions, opening and closing, loss of
revenue, the freezer going out and most events having been cancelled. But we are hanging in
there and hope to open up again soon. We are planning a lot of meals and events in hopes of
opening again in March. Sunday, March 21st we will be having our Purple Pig dinner.
Remember this is a fundraiser so fill up your Purple Pig and bring it down to the lodge. This will
be my last event as Purple Pig chairman. Our new Leading Knight, Marta Martinez will be taking
over the duties of Purple Pig chairman. Also James Jones, our new Loyal Knight, will be taking
over as our E.N.F. chairman. I wish them both great success in their new positions. If you
would like to help them out with any of our fundraising activities, please reach out to them.
The officer core of the lodge has started practicing for Ritual Competition in Ukiah. It was
cancelled last year but is rumoured to be happening this year. We will try our best to represent
our lodge in competition.
We had a really good turn out for our elections. I want to thank everyone who came in person
or participated in online voting. This is your lodge and your votes really count towards the path
this lodge takes now and into the future. Mostly I want to give our Exalted Ruler, Kathy Payne,
a hand . . . make it a standing ovation. She stood strong as our leader. No fun was had this
year, no Ritual, no state or national conventions, no Weekend in the Redwoods, no dancing or
anything else. Yet Kathy stood tall and made the best of it. Even though we were closed she
was here. Painting, cleaning the bar/kitchen, rearranging the office and dealing with mountains
of paperwork. Her motto this year was “Get’er done and let’s have fun.” She didn’t get to have
fun . . . but she did get it done and in doing so our lodge is in a good place. Our lodge is doing
better than most lodges in the district and nationally.
Lastly I want to thank all the lodge members, volunteers, officers, and the committees for the
hard work of keeping this lodge together during a very unprecedented and challenging year. So
my motto for this month is “Kathy got it done, let her have some fun.”
Scott Reinsmith, Leading Knight