Ottawa, KS, Lodge adopted three needy families through Franklin County Hope House, a food pantry. Lodge members provided each family with a complete Christmas dinner and a wrapped present for each member of the family. The lodge also donated $120 and nearly 120 items of nonperishable food to Hope House. Pictured are (from left) lodge member Carol Cole, ER Tommy Sink, Hope House Director Mary Lois Yates, and volunteer Dick Martin.
110 players competed in the tourna- ment, which raised nearly $5,500 to purchase winter coats for needy children and adults.
In other news, the lodge donated $500 to a local Holiday Gifts for Our Soldiers campaign to help mail the donated gifts.
Attleboro, MA, Lodge held its annual Eagle Scout Dinner for scouts, parents, and officials from the Anna- won Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Lodge members provided the 130 attendees with dinner and awarded certificates to 13 scouts who had achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in the previous year.
In other news, the lodge donated $250 each to the St. Joseph’s Food Cellar, the Hebron Food Pantry, and the Area Council of Churches Food ’N Friends soup kitchen.
Auburn/Webster, MA, Lodge members delivered Christmas boxes to 88 needy families. Each box contained enough food for a full Christmas dinner.
Greenfield, MA, Lodge members delivered Christmas boxes to 50 needy families. Each box contained enough food for a full Christmas dinner. In other news, the lodge held a Christmas Party for 125 children with
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Houlton, ME, Lodge held its 30th annual Senior Citizens Christmas Dinner and hosted a dinner at the lodge for 375 senior citizens. Lodge members also delivered meals to 280 senior citizens who were unable to make the trip to the lodge. The dinner at the lodge also featured a live musical performance. Pictured are (from left) Christmas Dinner Committee Chairman Sean Conlogue, guests Violet and Cedric Glidden, and volunteer Mary Lowe.
special needs and their families. Partygoers enjoyed lunch, entertain- ment by costumed characters, and a visit with Santa.
Maynard, MA, Lodge members celebrated the lodge’s 100th anniver- sary with a Dinner and Dance fund-
raiser, which 275 people attended. The event raised $1,600 for the state major project, the Massachusetts Elks Scholarship Fund.
Montague, MA, Lodge members distributed dictionaries to nearly 370 third-grade students at 12 schools.
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East District, MA, lodges’ PER Associations donated 600 stuffed toy bears to emergency services departments in cities where district lodges are located. The toy bears are to be given to children who are in emergency situations to help comfort and calm them. Pictured with Beverly Fire Department EMS Coordinator Brad Saunders is Beverly/Salem ER Susan Bresnahan.
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