symphony members’ volunteer efforts on previous lodge projects.
Hopkins, MN, Lodge members prepared 200 care packages contain- ing toiletries, snacks, and winter clothes and gave them to local chari- ties to give to needy teenagers.
Virginia, MN, Lodge held its annual Halloween Party and treated more than 300 local children to games, treats, and a meal.
Montague, MA, Lodge donated $1,000 to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts. Pictured are (from left) Est. Lead. Knight Stephen Dacyczyn, PER Donald Traceski, PER Joseph St. Peter, Food Bank Director of Development and Marketing Megan Pete, and ER Stanley Ambo.
ries, snacks, and other items to US troops serving overseas.
Allen Park, MI, Lodge held its third annual Scarecrow Decorating Contest and Fall Festival fund-raiser, which featured games, a petting farm, face painting, contests, and food, and raised more than $2,000 to support lodge youth athletic programs.
Otsego, MI, Lodge held a Kiddies Christmas Party and treated 40 needy children to a magic show, crafts, lunch, and a visit with Santa, who gave each child a bag of goodies and a gift for his or her mother and father.
Port Huron, MI, Lodge held a Pump- kin Patch Party for 80 special educa- tion students from the Woodland Developmental Center.
Sault Ste. Marie, MI, Lodge donated more than $700 to the Hospice of the EUP and more than $800 to the Billy Dowd Memorial Playground Project.
Sturgis, MI, Lodge held a Polar Bear Plunge fund-raiser and raised more than $720 for the state major project, which provides financial assistance to children with special needs. In other news, the lodge, with the help of scouts from Boy Scout Troop No. 402, held a Flag-Retirement Ceremony and respectfully disposed of 43 worn and damaged US flags.
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Warren-Sterling Heights, MI, Lodge held a dance for 70 local people with disabilities.
In other news, lodge members visited four area nursing homes and sang Christmas carols to about 200 residents.
Brainerd, MN, Lodge donated $3,000 to the Brainerd High School sym- phonic band to thank them for
Bates County, MO, Lodge members distributed dictionaries to more than 210 third-grade students in six elementary schools.
Cass County, MO, Lodge, with the help of members of the Harrisonville Robotics Team, held a Christmas Dance for more than 250 clients and caregivers from the Casco Area Workshop, which provides employ- ment to people with special needs, and treated partygoers to dinner, musical entertainment, and a visit with Santa. Lodge members, accompanied by Santa, also volunteered to entertain 300 national guardsmen and their families at the 1139th Missouri National Guard Christmas Party. In other news, the lodge held a
Franklin, MA, and Weymouth, MA, Lodge members, with the help of Young Marines from the Blackstone Detachment, donated more than $16,000 in goods and cash to CarePacks, which sends care packages to US troops serving overseas. Franklin Lodge members donated more than $640 and a pickup truckload of snacks, toiletries, coffee, and other items, while Weymouth Lodge hosted a media event on Veterans Day for CarePacks, during which donations of food and cash were accepted at the lodge. Pictured are troops stationed in Iraq with their donated golf clubs and balls and a banner signed by Weymouth Lodge members.
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