So long as there are veterans, the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks will never forget them.
Ball to help support Four-Paws for Vets, an organization that trains service dogs to assist wounded veterans. The event, which featured a demonstration by Four-Paws for Vets, raised $1,500 for the organization.
Riverside, CA, Lodge members visited the Loma Linda VA medical facility and gave gift packages, each of which contained toiletries, sugarless candy, T-shirts, and coupon books, to 30 veterans being treated there. Pictured with veteran Carol Brodie is lodge member Barbara Ackel.
Gardena, CA, Lodge members visited the Long Beach VA medical facility, treated 30 veterans to a meal and bingo games, gave each veteran who won a bingo game a sweatshirt, and gave each veteran a gift bag.
Huntington Beach, CA, Lodge donated 26 boxes of food and toys to veterans and their children residing at the Villages at Cabrillo, a VA transitional facility for homeless veterans.
Mission Viejo-Saddleback Valley, CA, Lodge members visited the Long Beach VA medical facility, sang Christmas carols for 50 veterans in a common area, visited several more veterans in their rooms, and donated more than $2,000 worth of clothing, blankets, bingo prizes, gift bags, stuffed toy animals, and toiletries to the facility to be distributed to veterans. The lodge also donated nearly 100 cookies to the facility.
Aripeka, FL, Lodge members and members of the Hudson Stompers, a dance troupe based at the lodge, visited the Baldomero Lopez Veterans State Nursing Home and held a Christmas Party for about 125 veterans. Partygoers were treated to dessert and entertainment by the Stompers. Pictured with veteran Paul Loveall is Hudson Stompers member Shirley Taylor. In other news, the lodge, in cooperation with a local job placement firm, held a Veterans Job Fair, during which representatives of 20 companies interviewed more than 200 veterans and accepted their job applications.
T H E E L K S M A G A Z I N E
San Luis Obispo, CA, Lodge members visited the Fresno VA medical facility and the facility’s Geriatric Extended Care Unit (GECU). The lodge donated more than $11,000 worth of items, including books, lap blankets, coffee, clothing, toiletries, and phone cards, to the facility. Among the gifts was a sweat suit and a goody bag for each of 60 residents of the GECU. Lodge members also gave a goody bag to
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