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The Eaton fire destroyed the century-old Nature Friends lodge in Sierra Madre, but members held Oktoberfest over the ruins recently.

The 200-member club, founded by German immigrants in 1923, has raised $140,000 to rebuild the Bavarian-style lodge in stages.

Once a German expatriate club, Nature Friends has evolved many times over the years, hosting experimental theater, drum circles and ecology lectures.

The Eaton fire erased a century-old Sierra Madre lodge in January, but not the resolve of its members who held their signature Oktoberfest on Saturday. The rubble cleared and a stage built over the ruins, the 200-member Nature Friends club fired up its biergarten grill with shout

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