Thank You Beaver Brook Lodge #36 of Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Being a 48 year member of the IOOF helped with # 22.
Every Best O' North East (BONE) treasure weekend and now week was a problem, which had to be solved. #22 was a bit more difficult without cooks for our banquets,. Jeannie had a injury and Dennis would be out of country until late Saturday night. Thank goodness for my lodge brother Mike Athanasopoulos who found Carmen Lower to cook the “all you can eat” Roast pork Friday night banquet and volunteered to do the prime rib banquet for $15.00 each. Everything & everyone was perfect. Other important volunteer helpers were the kichen help, great meal and service, huntmaster Brian Thomas & our security agent Howard Johnson and my right hand man Dominic Geraci. Thank you Joe Audette, Logan Thomas, Steve Baldwin, Brandon Stewart, Chris Redmond, CT Todd, George Brooks, Henry , Chris, Jason, Bill & Barbara Barker & their clan, Nutmeg Treasure Hunters & MA GPAA.
A big THANK You to Grand View Farm and Kenneth Geraghty for lrtting us have our best ever natural hunts. Ihank you to Mel & Barbara Sanders $300 donation and Lynn Merritt for selling most raffle tickets..
At banquets Nigel, Dominic, Julio, Dennis & Howard raised over $900 for expenses with silver dollar raffles. Sat night $420 was most ever taken in on a silver dollar raffle..
BONE use to donate a $500.a year to St Jude Hospital and now its donates at least 3 times as much. We also donate to the Wounded Warriors and the Dublin Christian Academy..
Carmen Lower never cooked for more then 40 people and we were 50+ The volunteer kitchen staff enjoyed working with Carmen and Mike Athanapolus who cooked and served the Hall of fame Prime Rib banquet were excellent.
Without our usual cooking staff and fill in cooks all was excellent Thank you to to Joe Audette of Greenfield, MA who delivered the food to banquet and did all that was necessary to make the meals happen> he also worked the kitchen both nights and washed the pots and pans.
