Wadena, MN, Lodge held a Veterans Wild Game Feed fund-raiser, which featured wild game donated by lodge members and a silent auction, and raised more than $2,500, which was split between the St. Cloud VA Medical Center and the Fergus Falls Veterans Home.
Bates County, MO, Lodge, with the help of scouts from Boy Scout Troop No. 238 and Girl Scout Troop No. 5437, held a Veterans Dinner and treated 80 people, including 60 veterans, to dinner.
In other news, lodge members
visited 50 veterans residing in local nursing homes and gave each veteran a small gift.
Ohio River Valley, OH, Lodge members, accompanied by students from four Belmont County schools, visited local nursing homes and presented a care package containing toiletries, books, games, and socks to each of more than 50 veterans and veteran widows. Pictured at East Ohio Regional Hospital Long Term Care with US Army veteran John Paraska (seated) are (from left) St. Mary Central School students Austin Morris and Greg Wilson, Veterans Service Committee Chairman Tom Cusick, and St. Mary Central School students Ashlyn Callarik and Allyson Goclan.
mas gifts of clothing, soap, reading glasses, books, and tennis balls to be used as walker leg cushions.
Minneapolis, MN, Lodge, with the help of Antlers Program members and scouts from Boy Scout Troop No. 533 and Girl Scout Troop No. 13144, held its 23rd annual Veterans Dinner and treated 32 veterans from the Minne- apolis VA medical facility, as well as 16 family members and staff mem- bers, to dinner.
Forest Grove, OR, Lodge held a Veterans Day Dinner and Ceremony, which about 200 people attended, and paid tribute to the sac- rifices made by US servicemen and women through the years. Pictured speaking at the event is local American Legion post Com- mander Jim Clute, with volunteer musician Dorothy Peet and Veterans Day Dinner Com- mittee Chairman Ray Williams in the back- ground.
snacks, beverages, and bingo games featuring $125 in prizes. In other news, lodge members visited the St. Cloud VA Medical Center and gave the veterans Christ-
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Red Wing, MN, Lodge donated $1,000 to the City of Red Wing to support its Veterans Day Commemoration. Prior to the event, lodge members put up 150 US flags in the downtown Red Wing area, and on Veterans Day morning, the lodge hosted the Veter- ans Day Prayer Breakfast and treated nearly 250 veterans to breakfast. Following the breakfast, lodge mem- bers participated in the daylong salute to the nation’s veterans.
Virginia, MN, Lodge held its annual Veterans Appreciation Dinner and treated 37 veterans to a meal.
Cameron, MO, Lodge, with the help of students from Cameron Middle School, held its annual Veterans Day Dinner and treated 75 veterans to dinner and door prizes.
Christian County, MO, Lodge mem- bers treated 17 veterans and four staff members from the Missouri Veterans Home–Mount Vernon to a Thanksgiv- ing Dinner and musical entertainment at the lodge and gave each veteran a pair of hand-knitted gloves.
Greenview, MO, Lodge held a Veter- ans Dinner and treated about 90 local veterans to a meal at the lodge.
Jefferson City, MO, Lodge held a Veterans Day Dinner and treated 31 veterans to a meal at the lodge.
Kansas City, MO, Lodge members treated 23 veterans to dinner and a USO-style variety show at the lodge.
Libby, MT, Lodge held a Veterans Pot Luck Dinner, which 50 people, including 20 veterans, attended.
Grand Island, NE, Lodge members visited the Grand Island VA Commu- nity Living Center and treated 18 veterans to bingo games. The lodge also sponsored a visit by Re-Creation USA, who gave USO-style perfor- mances for 49 veterans at the Grand Island VA medical facility and for more than 120 veterans at the Grand Island Veterans Home.
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