INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS AND L-555 BUSINESS MANAGERS, past and present, celebrate the lodge’s 60th anniversary. Left to right, IST Bill Creeden; IR Norm Ross (BM-ST, Feb. 1996-Nov. 2006); Dallas Rogers, (BM-ST, Nov. 2006-Nov. 2011); current BM-ST Emile Gareau; Ken Pasaluko, (BM-ST, Oct. 1967-July 1972); Dan Semenyk, (BM-ST, Oct. 1966-March 1967); and IVP-Canada Joe Maloney.
LOCAL LODGE 555, the “Triple Nickel,” celebrated its 60th anniversary in Regina, Saskatchewan, January 10 with a dinner and dance. Some 400 members and guests attended the event, including four former business managers.
The lodge was chartered in 1954 to meet rapidly growing work opportunities across two Canadian provinces — Saskatchewan and Manitoba — as well as the western part of Ontario. Industries such as mining, steel production, oil refining, energy generation, and pulp and paper processing helped keep lodge members busy through its early years and continue to offer employment today.
Local 555 members and travel card members from across Canada recently completed work on the world’s first utility-scale power generation plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology, at the SaskPower Boundary Dam coal-fired power plant in southeast Saskatchewan. Construction of the original facility began in 1955, one year after the lodge was chartered.
