Brooksville, FL, Lodge, with the help of a $1,000 ENF Promise Grant, held a Christmas Party for nearly 100 needy children and treated the attendees to a meal and a visit with Santa, who gave each child a gift. Pictured with young partygoer Savannah Giddens is Santa (Est. Lead. Knight Anthony Arboritanza). In other news, the lodge held its annual Christmas Party for clients of the Key Training Center, which provides job training and placement for adults with developmental disabilities, and treated more than 160 partygoers to dancing and a visit with Santa, who gave each partygoer a gift.
Fractured Follies vaudeville-style fund-raiser and raised $550 for Susan B. Komen for the Cure, which sup- ports breast cancer research. The lodge also held three weekly fund- raisers and raised $100 each for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which fulfills the wishes of terminally and chronically ill children; Metropolitan Ministries, which provides meals to needy families; and the lodge’s project providing Christmas gifts to families in need. The lodge also donated $600 worth of food that was collected by scouts from lodge-sponsored Cub Scout Pack No. 417 to a local food pantry to help provide Thanksgiving meals to needy people. In more news, lodge members parti- cipated in the West Central District’s annual Toy Run, which raised funds to purchase toys and collected donated toys to be distributed to shelters for victims of domestic violence.
Melbourne, FL, Lodge donated 100 handmade caps for babies to Holmes Regional Medical Center.
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Holiday Isles, FL, Lodge members honored the winners of their Americanism Poster Contest in a ceremony at the lodge, which about 50 people attended. Winners included first-place winner Alise Naseimonto, second-place winner Kevin Castle, third-place winner Taylor DeCola, and honorable mentions Annie Eaton and Darius Williams. The first-place winner received a free week at the Florida Elks Youth Camp, and the top three winners each received a trophy, a gift card, a certificate, and a US flag pin, while the two honorable mentions each received a plaque. The lodge also treated all those in attendance to dessert and beverages. Pictured with third-place winner Taylor DeCola is lodge member Carolyn Burke-Bauer.
Merritt Island, FL, Lodge members presented a $2,000 scholarship to each of three students, Paul Curran, Eric Brown, and Shelby Lightle.
Orange Park, FL, Lodge members presented certificates to seven cadets from the Ridgeview High School Navy JROTC to thank them for performing color guard duties at a ceremony at the lodge.
Ormond Beach, FL, Lodge held its annual Charity Golf Tournament, in which 140 golfers took part. The tournament raised $6,500, which was donated to the Florida Elks Youth Camp ($5,000), a state major project, to help pay for a new cabin at the camp, to the Halifax Humane Society ($750), and to three needy area families ($750).
In other news, lodge members honored the winners of their Ameri- canism Essay Contest, and gave each of them a plaque and a $50 savings bond. The winners were Alexis Thomas of Ormond Elementary
School, who won the fifth- and sixth- grade division, and Nikia Edwards of Hinson Middle School, who won the seventh- and eighth-grade division. Lodge members also gave each of the second- and third-place winners in each division a plaque.
Palm Coast, FL, Lodge and Palm Coast sheriff’s deputies held a fund- raiser and raised $7,000 to help pay for medical care for the child of a sheriff’s deputy. The lodge also held another fund-raiser and raised $350 to support victims of domestic violence. In other news, the lodge made a number of donations, including $190 to Special Olympics Florida; $150 to the Flagler County Education Founda- tion; $150 to ARC Flagler County, which advocates for people with disabilities; $50 to Teens-In-Flight, which provides aviation training to teenagers who have had a parent or sibling killed or seriously injured in action while serving in the military; $75 to the Florida State Elks Associa- tion Army of Hope Program, which
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