Cornerstone Ceremony for Ta’m Resilience Campus

The Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) recently hosted the Grand Lodge of California, Free & Accepted Masons and Six Rivers Lodge 106 on June 6^th for a cornerstone ceremony at the Ta’m Resilience Campus, BLR’s newest training and emergency preparedness facility. This event provided an opportunity for the community to witness one of the Grand Lodge of California’s public cornerstone ceremonies, a longstanding Masonic tradition symbolizing community investment, service, and partnership. In the modern day, construction techniques no longer require a cornerstone for structural alignment, however, the ceremonial practice continues as a symbolic dedication. Today, cornerstone ceremonies serve to commemorate a building’s purpose, honor contributors, and create a lasting historical record for future generations. BLR would like to thank the Grand Lodge of California, Free & Accepted Masons and Six Rivers Lodge 106, and masons who traveled from across the state in order to hold this symbolic ceremony, and looks forward to the positive opportunities this partnership will provide the community in the near future.

The development of the Ta’m Resilience Campus presents a transformative opportunity for economic development and resilience-building within the Tribe and across the region. Central to the Ta’m’s mission is the promotion of economic development and job creation through targeted initiatives and strategic investments in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation, workforce development, industry clusters and value chains, and public-private partnerships. The Ta’m aims to build resilience capacity throughout the region, distributing expertise and know-how down to the individual, household, business, and community levels. By decentralizing expertise and elevating traditional knowledge and indigenous science – ways of knowing and living that have worked here for millennia – the Ta’m will work to create new ways of living and thriving best suited to the region. The Ta’m model is designed to be replicable to other regions across the nation, offering a blueprint for building a more resilient and adaptive economy capable of thriving in the face of future challenges.