Saratoga-Wilton, NY, Lodge members honored Derrick Legall as their Citizen of the Year in a ceremony at the Saratoga City Center and presented him with a plaque in honor of his work with the Saratoga National Little League and many other youth organizations. Pictured are (from left) Est. Lead. Knight Thomas Klotz, Citizen of the Year Legall, and ER Kenneth Tubbs.
donated $1,850 to local youth-oriented charities. Among the donations were $500 to the YWCA Summer Food Program, which provides food to needy children during the months when they do not receive school lunches; $500 to the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio to support appearances by Michael Hingson, who, with the help of his Seeing Eye dog, Joelle, escaped from World Trade Center Tower One on September 11; and $400 to the Van Wert Youth Baseball Association to sponsor a Pony League youth baseball team. In other news, lodge members presented $1,000 Ohio Elks Associa- tion Educational Fund Grants to Van Wert High School students Caleb Weible and Ericca Lehman. In more news, lodge members attended a Court of Honor Ceremony for new Eagle Scout Robert Laing, of Boy Scout Troop No. 31, and presented him with a certificate and a US flag. For his Eagle Scout Project, Laing installed a flagpole at Rotary Park in Van Wert.
In further news, the lodge invited two winners of their Americanism Essay Contest, sixth graders Grace Lare and Colin McHugh, to read their essays during a patriotic ceremony at the lodge.
Watervliet, NY, Lodge members honored Watervliet Elementary School sixth grader Mikayla Humphrey in a ceremony at her school and presented her with a certificate and a gift card for finishing first in the New York South Central District Americanism Essay Contest. Pictured with Mikayla are Assistant Principal Todd Giagni and ER Patricia Moran.
breakfast and lunch, and gave each participant a goody bag that included a baseball glove donated by the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball team.
Elyria, OH, Lodge donated $200 to Elyria High School to support the school’s drama department.
Gallipolis, OH, Lodge members presented Ohio Elks Association grants worth a total of $7,500 to the Meigs County and Gallia County boards of the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities. The funds will be used to purchase tablet
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computers to provide sensory training to students with special needs.
Lorain, OH, Lodge donated $10,000 to the Children’s Development Center in Amherst, which provides multiple services to children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities.
Port Clinton, OH, Lodge held a Breakfast fund-raiser and raised nearly $2,100 to help the Port Clinton Police Department purchase and train a new police dog.
Van Wert, OH, Lodge, with the help of a $1,000 ENF Gratitude Grant,
Tulsa, OK, Lodge held a Run for the Roses Derby Day fund-raiser, which featured food, a viewing of the race on television, and a contest for the best and most creative hats. The event raised $450 for lodge youth programs. In other news, the lodge donated a number of items remaining from a Garage Sale fund-raiser to various local charities. Two boxes of clothing went to Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Tulsa, while 25 boxes of miscellaneous items were given to the Bixby Community Outreach Center to be given to needy families. Three containers of items were given to the Assistance League of Tulsa, which operates a resale store and helps needy children purchase new clothing or school uniforms, and several items of work-appropriate clothing were donated to the Women in Recovery Program, which provides an alterna- tive to prison for women recovering from drug addictions.
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