It’s time for the return of Vancouver Lodge 90 folks to give us update on how their Winter Warming Center partnership with the City has evolved into a weekly Sunday morning breakfast serving over 15 people each week. Eric and Billy get their guests, PGM Walter Wells, PG Chris Thomson and Annie Lefebvre, to recap how the Winter Warming Center began and through what seemed like sufficient funding grew into the need fulfilling service they now provide.

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Happy New Year Listeners! It is also new terms for the officers of the three lodges in Victoria, so Eric, Billy and Tara discuss short interviews held with each incoming Noble Grands for 2026. You’ll hear from Bastion Lodge #4 NG Leigh Campbell, Victoria Lodge #1 NG Dawn Kirkham and Columbia Lodge #2 NG Paul Johnson. All three share their history with Odd Fellows, why they were enthusiastic to become Noble Grand and what they envision for their year in the Big Red Chair.

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Intro – Drew Eriksen

We found a guest! Billy has been up the island to the City of Nanaimo to attend meetings at Black Diamond Lodge #5, and he has fallen in love with the story of and the ways Odd Fellows is done differently at BD#5. So, to get the info directly from their NG, Brad Stewart, NG and Grand Warden joined Tara, Eric and Billy to explain it all. Listeners will see that lodges can do Odd Fellows their own way, but at the core it is all FLT. Reminder to also check out MGR past episodes with interviews of Peninsula Lodge #128 in Portland, OR and Chequeuk Lodge #56 in Valparaiso, IN and Mountain View Lodge #244 in California to hear more.

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Intro – Anthony Shackell