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The annual White Lake Area Fourth of July fun starts off with the community parade at 10 a.m. The parade will again begin near Whitehall City Hall and will follow a route across the White River Bridge into downtown Montague. Parade participants are asked to meet downtown in Whitehall at 9 a.m. behind city hall. White Lake will be having its fireworks display at dusk, which should last for approximately 20 minutes at the northeast end of the lake. The fireworks will be visible from both the cities of Whitehall and Montague. Sponsored by the White Lake Area Elks, this year's patriotic spectacle will run a $6,500 tab. Donations to help fund the event will be especially appreciated due to increasingly tight budgets.

VERO BEACH - The Vero Beach Elk's Lodge # 1774 is proud to announce that Monsignor Irvine Nugent of St. Helen's Parish has graciously accepted their invitation to be this year's Grand Marshall for the St. Patrick's Day Parade being sponsored by the Vero Beach Elks Lodge.

sponsoring parades is quite an effort. Glad they have the time and effort to pull something like this off.

Here's 24 minutes of the Santa Maria parade. This is a testament to the major impact one man (a great Elk) can make.

This is the flagship fundraiser for all Elkdom. And this was just the Elks rodeo queen and parade.

"OCEAN SPRINGS, MS (WLOX) - Mardi Gras is almost here. Saturday the Ocean Springs Elks Parade kicked off the carnival season. One family said, "Happy Mardi Gras!""

"This is Scottish weather," said Bill Nicol, pipe major for the Illinois Elks Pipe and Drums, who marched with the Decatur Elks Lodge 401 in the Decatur St. Patrick's Day parade, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Council 577."

In 1909, the annual convention of the fraternal organization known as The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks included, among other diversions: a visit to an ostrich farm, "free to all Elks and their ladies"; a yacht regatta; parades; a "daylight" fireworks display; 1,000 cars at members' disposal; and 10,000 pounds of "beef, pork, and mutton," barbecued in "ten mammoth barbecue pits."

Second place is not bad for this elks lodge. I'm sure it makes their members proud as well.

major cool....I don't know of another lodge that pulls off something this big. congrats!!

Interesting story on how the Santa Maria Elks rodeo began

Looks like fun and started by an Elk and nurtured by the Lodge for 40 years!!