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East Stroudsburg, PA, Lodge members treated more than 30 veterans and staff members from the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center to lunch and bingo at the lodge. Pictured in the foreground entering the lodge with the assistance of lodge member Ronald Dippre is veteran Walter Loss. Looking on is Loss’ wife, Frances (back, left), and Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center aide Chanda Sabolchick.


Cranberry, PA, Lodge adopted 25 veterans at the Butler VA medical facility and gave each of them a full set of clothes and other small gifts.


Latrobe, PA, Lodge held a Veterans Day Appreciation Dinner fund-raiser, which was attended by about 180 people, including 80 veterans, and raised $2,100 for the Wounded Warrior Project, which provides outdoor activities to recovering veterans of current conflicts.


Cumberland County, TN, Lodge members visited the Murfreesboro VA medical facility and the State Veter- ans Home, treated more than 250 veterans and staff members to refreshments, and gave each of the veterans one or more gifts. Lodge


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members gave each veteran who had had a limb amputated a lap robe and donated an industrial-size popcorn machine to the State Veterans Home.


Denton, TX, Lodge members treated 25 veterans from the Sam Rayburn Memorial VA Medical Center to a Christmas Party at the lodge. The party featured dinner, musical entertainment, bingo, and a visit from Santa, who gave each veteran a sack of gifts and a Christmas card made by an elementary school student. Lodge members also sent 15 more sacks of gifts back to the hospital to be given to veterans who were unable to attend the party.


Perryton, TX, Lodge hosted a Veterans Appreciation Dinner, treated 30


veterans to a meal, and gave the three oldest veterans and the youngest veteran in attendance each a framed copy of a patriotic poem.


Martinsburg, WV, Lodge members treated 39 veterans and four staff members from the Post Traumatic Stress Condition ward of the Martins- burg VA Medical Center to dinner at the lodge followed by a live stage performance at a local theater.


Wheeling, WV, Lodge members participated in Wreaths Across America, a program which laid a wreath on each of the graves of more than 100,000 veterans last year, by laying a wreath on each of the graves of about 100 veterans at West Allegh- eny Cemetery in Pennsylvania. ■


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