Good afternoon, I am Tate Summers the WM for HST #649 for masonic year 2025. As some of you already know, last year due to unforeseen circumstances construction to the lodge was required and it caused the layout to be flipped.

This construction gave us an opportunity to update the lodge. Unfortunately the old stages for the JW, SW and WM were not salvageable. As we have worked long and hard to update and fix our we now need a new stage which would be more sturdy and permanent fixture to the lodge.

We contacted Benevento Lodge who themselves had a wooden stage installed and also installed one in Naples lodge in Galleria Umberto (examples below). They gave us a quote of approx. 6,000 euro. It is professionally done, backed by our Italian Brothers, and will last virtually forever. We are asking for support to make the dream come true.

This will come with incentives to generous brothers who wish to donate.

$50 donation you will receive a certificate of appreciation and lapel pin

$150 you will receive the cert, pin and a small metal plaque with your name on it on the stage

$250 you will receive a cert, gold plaque with name and our new lodge coin.

Donations can be sent to our Navy Federal and this GoFundMe. Thank you Brethren for helping turn HST from bricks to Marble.