st. john's lodge no 2 - The Trestleboard

Earl J Reed – 10/24/1962
Donald M Ray – 10/16/1963
Herold D Wilbur – 10/23/1963
Wallace L Cannon – 10/25/1967
Thomas H Cochran – 10/28/1970
Kenneth R Worley – 10/27/1971
John W Cochran – 10/8/1975
Herman E Williams – 10/13/1976
Eugene A Emmell – 10/17/1979
Thomas B Herron – 10/17/1979
Paul J Perna – 10/15/1980
Philip H Davis – 10/17/1986
Michael E Emmell – 10/20/1999
Frank E Hartsell, PM – 10/18/2006
William T Coleman – 10/1/2008
David M Reed – 10/26/2011
Paul G Shavack – 10/24/2012
Steven R Wray – 10/22/2014

There once was a farmer who grew award winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon.

One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked.

"Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."

He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves.

So it is with our lives. Those who choose