senting various military and service organizations to the Washington, DC, VA Medical Center for display outside the director’s office.
Adams, MA, Lodge members visited the Northampton VA Medical Center and treated 110 veterans and staff members to a barbecue meal.
Palo Alto, CA, Lodge donated 24 pairs of fingerless leather gloves for wheelchair users to patients at the Palo Alto VA medical facility’s Spinal Cord Injury Center. Pictured at the center are (from left) Veterans Service Committee Chairman Dominick Garofano, veterans Jim Lane, Sloane McMahn, and Ray Doherty, and facility Chief of Recreational Therapy Tom McCarthy. In related news, lodge members visited the Palo Alto VA medical facility’s Spinal Cord Injury Center and treated 29 veterans and family members to bingo games, with prizes, including canteen books, worth more than $235.
Sepulveda VA medical facility to dinner at the lodge.
Aripeka, FL, Lodge donated nearly $1,900 worth of blankets, toiletries, and pajamas to the Baldomero Lopez State Veterans Nursing Home for use by resident veterans. The lodge also donated $840 to the home to establish a $30 spending account for each of 28 adopted veterans.
Port St. Lucie, FL, Lodge held an Afternoon with the Vets and treated about 15 veterans and caregivers from the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center to lunch and bingo games. The lodge gave each veteran a lap robe and ten dollars in spending money and donated about 30 more lap robes to the center to be distributed to veterans being treated there.
South Miami/Coral Gables, FL, Lodge donated $2,250, which was raised at the lodge’s Americanism Day, to the Miami VA medical facility to help with the facility’s programs that assist homeless veterans.
Ellsworth, ME, Lodge donated $580 to the Maine Elks Association’s Veterans Service Committee.
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Portland, ME, Lodge donated a vanload of puzzles, games, music CDs, toiletries, and other items to the Togus VA Medical Center for the use of veterans being treated there.
Washington-Rockville, MD, Lodge donated hand-carved plaques repre-
Greenfield, MA, Lodge members visited the Northampton VA Medical Center and treated 45 veterans to lunch and an afternoon of playing board and card games. The lodge also donated two boxes of board and card games to the center.
Weymouth, MA, Lodge members visited the Brockton VA medical facility on two occasions and treated about 80 veterans and staff to a barbecue meal on each visit. In other news, lodge members visited Fisher House Boston, which provides housing to family members of patients at the West Roxbury VA medical facility, and treated about 50 veterans from the facility and about 12 family members staying at Fisher House to dinner. The lodge also donated two gas grills, worth about $200 each, to the facility.
Santa Ynez Valley, CA, Lodge held a Dinner fund-raiser, which about 1,000 people attended, including 200 participants in the Wounded Warriors Ride 2 Recovery Golden State Challenge bicycle ride. All told, the fund-raiser collected more than $50,000 for the Wounded Warriors Program, which helps wounded veterans of the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq adjust to civilian life. Pictured at the event are (from left) dinner organizer Jim Banakus, ER Dianne Wittenbrock, rider and veteran Carlos Hernandez, actress Cheryl Ladd, Ride 2 Recovery Executive Director John Wordin, and rider and veteran Duane Wagner.
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