Due to YOUR fine support of the first sixteen Pancake and Sausage Breakfast fund raisers, the Masonic Center Improvement Committee is planning another breakfast 
to be held on Saturday, March 24, 2007.
Our pancake and sausage breakfast is a yearly special project unique to other fraternal organizations. Many cities hold monthly breakfasts, but do not offer Bob 
Evans sausage, nor do they make as much profit as we do in one. Our success lies in the excellent organization of the event and the generous contributions we receive. We usually make as much or more profit on the contributions we receive than the sale of tickets. We also serve about 500 customers in 41⁄2 hours, filling and emptying our dining room more than seven times.
Profits of the last sixteen years' breakfasts plus your GENEROUS DONATIONS allowed us to buy 60 metal folding chairs; to buy 16 banquet tables for the dining room; to stretch the loose carpeting in the preparation & lodge rooms; to purchase paint and supplies, allowing Bud
Helge's committee to renovate the entry ways, hallways and dining room; to install additional electrical outlets in the dining room; to purchase carpet for the downstairs lounge; to clean the carpet on the steps and upstairs twice; to replace the kitchen flooring with linoleum, donated by Herman and Irene Schoenberger; to repair the fire escape, by Mike Ralph; to replace the fire escape door located on the north end of the second floor; to replace and seal the bricks at the north end of the building at a cost of $2,400; to help pay for the replacement of water and gas lines which were damaged; to scrape, repaint and repair the roof by Mike
Ralph, Joel 
Kin and Joe Klingel; to paint the lodge room at a cost of $3,500; to purchase a water fountain; to upgrade our computer twice; to pay for a $650 repair on our boiler; to upgrade our lighting in our office and on our stage in the lodge room; to replace both alley doors
at a cost of $2,000; to remodel and repair the bathrooms
; to provide more than $4,000 to replace the boiler
; to provide funds to allow the DeMolay 
Chapter to paint and upgrade our basement; to install the large 
exhaust fan in the attic which helps with the humidity concern in our attic; and to replace the flooring in our entryway and bathrooms.
The committee has decided that the profits from this year's breakfast will go to the replacement of carpeting on our stairs and in the lodge
room. Our present "new" royal blue carpet will be 33 years old this summer and although it looks pretty good, the padding is disintegrating and a powdery substance appears on your shoes after walking on it. Wrinkles are also forming and stretching is no longer practical. Estimates have been obtained and the old can be removed and replaced with new
for less than $10,000. The members of the Eastern Star have already raised in excess of $2,000 by working twice at Cedar
Point and by receiving some donations toward the project. We hope to complete the project with pancake and sausage funds.
Please keep this special carpet project in mind if you are considering a donation this year.
The breakfast will be held Saturday, March 24, 2007, from 6:30 to 11 a.m. in the Masonic Center, 118 W. Johnson St., Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The menu will include: pancakes
(all you can eat); Bob Evans sausage; coffee; milk; and juice (orange and tomato). All this for a donation of only $5.00. Everyone must have a ticket; and tickets may be purchased at the door.
To help the food committee plan and prepare enough food, we encourage buying your tickets in advance. Tickets can be purchased from officers of the Lodge, Chapter, Council, Eastern Star, DeMolay or Rainbow organizations. You may also purchase tickets or make a donation by filling out the convenient coupon on the flier enclosed.
The breakfast is open to all members, their families and guests. Due to the restrictions placed on our building, WE NEED YOUR HELP in promoting this event to BOTH members as well as NON-MEMBERS. We hope to also use this event as a tool to invite prospective candidates to our organizations. So why not consider bringing someone or buying extra tickets and giving them to someone who you think would like to join one or more of our organizations?
We look forward to serving you breakfast on Saturday, March 24, 2007.
UPPER SANDUSKY MASONIC CENTER IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
THIS & THAT:
• The inspection 
of Warpole Lodge will be held on Saturday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Entered Apprentice Degree. Please note we are having a CHICKEN 
BARBECUE with all the trimmings at 6:30 p.m. by reservation. Only $6, Make your reservations soon!
• The Worthy Grand Matron will be visiting our Eastern Star Chapter on Thursday, March 1. At 7:30 p.m. for our annual inspection. Darla 
Hudson from our chapter is the Deputy Grand Matron of District 10. A catered dinner by reservation is being planned, contact Brenda Zeigler for your reservations.
• The annual Super Excellent Master Degree review of Upper Sandusky Council is on Tuesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. Dinner at 6:30 p.m. by guaranteed reservation.
• The annual inspection of McCutchen Chapter will be held on Saturday, Feb. 10 at 4:30 p.m. Dinner by reservation at St. Paul Lutheran Church at 6 p.m.
• The Council election is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8 and its installation on Tuesday, June 12.
• The McCutchen Chapter R.A.M. election is Tuesday, May 22 and its installation is Tuesday, June 26.
• The 4th of July MM raising, breakfast
and golf tournament will be held starting at 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 4, 2007.
TO MAKE A DONATION OR ORDER BREAKFAST TICKETS...
Fill out and mail to: Masonic Center, 118 W. Johnson St., Upper Sandusky OH 43351-1343; or Ron Pool, 1075 Halbedel Drive, Upper Sandusky OH 43351-9699; or call 294-2012 or 294-2751.
_____ Yes, I need___________ tickets at $5 each. Check enclosed
_____ No, I cannot attend, but here is a donation of $____________
_____ No, I cannot attend, but keep me informed of future events