Chisholm Trail, TX, Lodge held its annual Soccer Shoot contest, in which nearly 30 children participated. The lodge provided beverages to all contestants, parents, and volunteers and awarded trophies to the top three boys and girls in each of four age categories. Pictured assisting five-year-old contestant Nathan Montreuil is volunteer Jesse Doñes.
In other news, the lodge held a Patriot Day Service to commemorate the people who lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks and to honor local emergency service and military personnel. More than 100 people attended the event and heard speeches from the heads of local police, fire, and emergency medical services departments, as well as from an officer from the US Army’s Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, which is based at Fort Hood.
Los Alamos, NM, Lodge held its sixth annual Charity Car Show. The show, which featured 24 entries and drew about 100 spectators, raised $2,800 for lodge charities and the state major project, the New Mexico Elks Associa- tion Cerebral Palsy Program, which supports treatment for people with cerebral palsy. Each entrant in the show received a goody bag containing a T-shirt, a plaque, a towel, and several car accessories.
Albion, NY, Lodge held a Golf Tourna- ment, a Duck Run, a Walk for Cere- bral Palsy, and a Bell Jar fund-raiser and collected nearly $3,000 for various causes, including the lodge scholarship fund ($800); the Elks National Foundation ($1,000); the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo ($500); the state major project, which supports Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State (nearly $480); and various local charities ($200).
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Virginia Elks Association donated 800 pairs of safety glasses to the New Horizons Career and Technical Education Center, which provides technical and vocational education to students at area high schools. Pictured with the glasses are (front, from left) firefighting students Jamareé Good, John Darnley, (middle, from left) Travis Hillesheim, and James Barke, with (back) Principal David Creamer.
Brooklyn Queensborough, NY, Lodge donated the use of its facilities to the Queens Community Board for a Town Hall Meeting, which more than 60 people attended.
Glens Falls, NY, Lodge held its monthly Buffet Breakfast fund-raiser, which more than 140 people attended, and raised more than $1,000 for the lodge’s Youth Activities Committee. In other news, the lodge held a Dinner fund-raiser, which more than 180 people attended, and raised nearly $1,500 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. In more news, the lodge held a Breakfast for participants in an Americade motorcycle rally, which approximately 100 people attended, and raised more than $800 for the Elks National Foundation.
Smithtown, NY, Lodge held its annual Lobster Bake fund-raiser and raised
$2,900 for the USO of Metropolitan New York to pay for 100 electronic music players to be sent to US troops stationed in Iraq.
Vestal, NY, Lodge members volun- teered at the Links at Hiawatha Landing golf course to assist the course’s golf pros in offering free lessons to children ages 4 to 11.
Webster-Fairport, NY, Lodge held its second annual Car Show, which featured 67 entries, and through entry fees and raffles raised $700 for the state major project, which supports the Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State.
Hendersonville, NC, Lodge members volunteered to have their heads shaved in return for $1,200 in dona- tions to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which supports research for a cure for childhood cancers.
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