Micah Fischer, and Konnor Moden, of Boy Scout Troop No. 49, and presented each of them with a certificate and a US flag. For his Eagle Scout Project, Diffendaffer renovated a room at Sacred Heart School so that it could be used as both an activity room and a library. Fischer’s Eagle Scout Project consisted of building a greenhouse for the Sacred Heart School. Moden, for his Eagle Scout Project, landscaped and built steps for Pilgrim Cove Family Camp.
Preston, ID, Lodge members delivered Christmas food baskets to more than 760 needy families. Lodge members drove nearly 16,000 miles to complete the project, and the total value of the deliveries, including materials, volunteer hours, and mileage, was more than $150,000.
Greenfield, IN, Lodge made a dona- tion of $400 to the Kenneth Butler Memorial Soup Kitchen.
Highland, IN, Lodge members pre- sented a $10,000 ENF Impact Grant to the Highland and Griffith Police Departments’ Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) Program, which provides training courses in leadership and citizenship
Colorado Elks Association donated about $900 per calf to sponsor 11 calves in the 4-H Catch-A-Calf Contest, which took place at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. During the contest, 4-H participants, among whom are junior high school and high school students, compete to rope the calves. Any contestant who ropes a calf is given that calf to raise for a year, after which he or she presents the animal for judging at the following year’s National Western Stock Show. Prior to the stock show, the Arvada Lodge gave the 11 contestants from the previous year and their parents breakfast. Pictured with her steer is contestant Hunter Bellm with Evergreen Lodge PER David Dey (left) and Central City Lodge ER Bill Diamond. The Evergreen and Central City Lodges had cosponsored the calf in the 2011 contest.
In related news, the association sponsored four calves, at a cost of about $900 per calf, in the Future Farmers of America’s Heifer Wrangle, a similar contest to the Catch-A-Calf Contest. In other news, the association’s Veterans Service Committee hosted a presentation by US Marine Corps Maj Bill Brown on life in the Marines. The presentation was given during the association’s quarterly meeting. Association members honored Major Brown and three US Marine Corps sergeants who accompanied him.
for students. The program’s activities include a 13-session course for seventh graders during the school year and a two-week summer program.
Decorah, IA, Lodge hosted 50 military families who were waiting for the US Army Reserve 322nd Engineer Company to return from a one-year deployment to Afghanistan. While the families waited, the lodge served food and beverages, showed movies, and provided poster-making materials.
Golden, CO, Lodge held a dinner for eight ENF Most Valuable Student scholarship recipients who attend local universities. Pictured are (from left) scholars Brittany Earle, Nicholas Anderson, Samantha Engel, David Long, Benjamin Greiner, Danika Tibbetts, Jared Leventhal, and Gergana Kostadinova.
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Louisville, KY, Lodge held a Wooden Horse Race fund-raiser, in which contestants raced atop small, wheeled wooden horses, and raised more than $3,100 for the state major project, which supports two camps for children with cancer—Camp Quality Ken- tuckiana and Indian Summer Camp.
Skowhegan-Madison, ME, Lodge held its annual ENF Banquet fund-raiser
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