Morristown, TN, Lodge donated a $500 ENF Gratitude Grant to ALPS Adult Day Services, an adult day care center, to help purchase a new computer. Pictured are (from left) Secy. A. Bern Collins, Est. Lead. Knight Leah Ailey, and ALPS Executive Director Karen Ward.
Titusville, PA, Lodge members, with the help of a $500 ENF Promise Grant, nearly $200 from the lodge PER Association, and a $100 donation from St. Titus Church, gave a new desktop computer to Jesse Barker, who was born blind and needed the computer to take a course in proofreading Braille texts. Pictured with Barker (seated) are (from left) ER Robert Beauchat, Pennsylvania State Elks Association Youth Activities Committee Chair- man Timothy McCandless, PER Association Chairman David Smeltz, and St. Titus pastor and lodge member Father D. G. Davis.
Blue Springs, MO, Lodge members initiated 18 new Antlers Program members and installed six of them as officers: President Kara Welsh, Vice President Allison Jordan, Secy. Savannah Wall, Trustee Trezell Ray, Trustee Conner Salva, and Chaplain Mallory Brown.
Dexter, MO, Lodge donated $200 and 2,000 pencils to Fredricktown Middle School, which recently rebuilt a school building that was destroyed by fire.
Florissant, MO, Lodge members volunteered to build a handicapped- accessible ramp at the house of lodge member Harold Russell. Materials for the ramp were provided in part by a donation by a lodge member and in part by the city of Florissant.
Greenview, MO, Lodge donated 12 boxes of school supplies worth about
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$250 to each of two schools, Climax Springs Elementary School and Macks Creek Elementary School. The lodge also donated a $400 educational rug to Missouri Ozarks Community Action Headstart, an early childhood education program for needy children.
Lebanon, NH, Lodge members attended a Court of Honor Ceremony for new Eagle Scout Parker Sorenson, of lodge-sponsored Boy Scout Troop No. 34, and gave him a certificate and a US flag. For his Eagle Scout Project, Sorenson oversaw the building of two bridges on trails near the Plainfield Elementary School.
Cedar Grove, NJ, Lodge held its annual Lobsterfest fund-raiser, featuring food, live musical entertain- ment, and games for the children in attendance. The event, which was held on September 11, was also marked by a solemn memorial service for the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. About 450 people attended the event, which raised $25,000 for lodge charities. In other news, lodge members attended the Township of Cedar Grove’s memorial service for the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Elmwood Park-Paterson, NJ, Lodge members visited Elks Camp Moore, the state major project and a camp for children with special needs. During
their visit, lodge members donated food for the annual barbecue and cooked for the counselors and camp- ers, including the six children the lodge had sponsored in 2010.
Piscataway, NJ, Lodge held its annual Memorial Service, which was attended by about 40 people, includ- ing members of three fire companies in Piscataway. The service was held to honor the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
West Milford, NJ, Lodge held a solemn Memorial Service to remem- ber the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Albuquerque, NM, Lodge, with the help of scouts from Cub Scout Pack No. 201, held its annual Jim McGrane Benefit Dinner and raised $10,000 for the Officer Street Survival Training Class. The class is a supplementary training class for New Mexico police officers that is provided by a founda- tion established by the family of Deputy James McGrane, who was killed in the line of duty while making a routine traffic stop.
Las Cruces, NM, Lodge, with the help of scouts from lodge-sponsored Boy Scout Troop No. 64, held its first Flag Retirement Ceremony and properly disposed of more than 100 worn and damaged flags, including 100 US flags and one POW/MIA flag.
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