Lakeside Lodge is part of District 7 of the Grand Lodge of Washington. Our location is in Bellevue between the shores of Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish.
We meet at the Bellevue Masonic Center on the Second Monday of each Month at 7:30 except for July and August when we are dark.
Please come and visit us when you are in the area. The address is 16229 Northup Way, Bellevue WA 98008.
65-Year Pin Award at Lakeside Lodge
By W:.B:. Darrel Womack
On September 14,2009, Lakeside Lodge No. 258 in Bellevue honored 17 Brothers with years of Masonry service pins. The Brothers received their pins after an outstanding BBQ dinner held at 6:00 PM.
Our Grand Mastwer, M:.W:.B:. Gale H. Kenney, escorted W:.B:. Alfred E. Wolfe, Jr. to the East to receive his 65-year pin.
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Bikes for Books is a program sanctioned by the Grand Lodge of Washington to promote child literacy by providing bicycles to elementary schools to be used as incentives to increase reading among their students. Each school is encouraged to establish its own methods and criteria for awarding the bikes to meet the particular needs of their students, so long as the bikes are given to students as a reward for reading.
The Bikes for Books program at Lakeside Lodge began in the fall of 2007 under WB Scott Anderson, who asked VWB Sprague Vigus to work with Lake Hills Elementary School to help get it started. Lakeside Lodge presented the first set of two bikes in January of 2008 with the then Grand Master MWB Charles McQuery, Deputy Grand Master Wayne Smith, and WB Scott Anderson in attendance, along with about a half dozen other Lakeside members.
Soon Lakeside Lodge was able to expand the program to include Phantom Lake and Sherwood Forest Elementary schools, presenting a total of eight bikes during the first program year. Now in its second year, Lakeside Lodge has subsequently added Ardmore Elementary, bringing the number of participating schools to four and allowing Lakeside to present sixteen bikes per year. Lakeside Lodge has been joined by Lakeside Chapter, OES, and the Bellevue Rainbow Assembly and Bellevue DeMolay Chapter in fundraising and presentation activities.