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The Simi Valley Elks and the Emblem Club joined together and sponsored Parks & Recreation Alternative Bowlers. This event is held yearly. This year there were 94 bowlers. The bowlers all had a wonderful time and everyone was a winner.

There is no doubt this lodge was improperly closed and the sponsor and DD exceeded their authority. If a Lodge officer did something like this he'd be expelled. Shouldn't the same happen to others..regardless of their stature in the organization? Hopefully, this lodge will weather the grievous injury inflicted upon it. Renters will not cancel, others will move to support the lodge and members will step up to help. Let's hope so anyway.

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.

BRAINTREE - It took eight and a half minutes at noontime Saturday for more than 450 motor cycle riders to pull out of the old Fore River shipyard to start the second annual Joanna Mullin Motorcycle Run. The 67-mile ride was sponsored by Braintree Moose #413 and Weymouth Elks #2232. The ride across the South Shore ended at the Weymouth Elks on Washington Street.

Moose and Elks joint effort!!! It took eight and a half minutes at noontime Saturday for more than 450 motor cycle riders to pull out of the old Fore River shipyard to start the second annual Joanna Mullin Motorcycle Run. The 67-mile ride was sponsored by Braintree Moose #413 and Weymouth Elks #2232. The ride across the South Shore ended at the Weymouth Elks on Washington Street.

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.

MT. VERNON - Youth from all four Jefferson County high schools were able to find out more about careers by shadowing business people in the community on Thursday during Youth and Business Day, sponsored by the Elks. This year, the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce worked with the Elks to promote the program to area youth.

Sparta elks sponsor a polar plunge too

So this is not sponsored by a local lodge?

Interesting. There are all kinds of regulations on the use of the term "Elks" for organizations outside of a lodge or state association. Since this has been going on presumably for decades, maybe it's a coalition of lodges in the New Orleans area?

That will be a fun outing for kids!

wow! 26 years sponsoring this track meet! Impressive!

Looks like fun! Why doesn't the Elks magazine cover activities like this!!

"Battle Creek Elks Lodge #131 participated in the Toys for Tots program for the fourth consecutive year. Toys for Tots is a program sponsored by the Marines. Local Marines were honored during a holiday lasagna dinner and collected the toys donated by its members. These toys are then distributed to local children. Despite the local economy, the Elks still exceeded their goal."

"Some local children started celebrating the new year one night early, thanks to a program sponsored by Wheeling Elks Lodge 28. The Elks' weekly "Just for Kids" program wrapped up 2009 with a New Year's dinner at the Soup Kitchen of Greater Wheeling on Eoff Street. Through that program, the Elks provide free dinner and entertainment each Wednesday to children throughout the area."

"RAHWAY-The Rahway Elks Lodge #1075 is sponsoring a murder mystery dinner theater event on Saturday, March 6. This event will take place at the Lodge Hall, which is located at 122 West Milton Avenue in Rahway. The plot has been set: "Murder in Paradise" transforms those in attendance into cruise ship passengers, anchored off the little island of "Nogo Pogo". But all is not well in paradise, as the island music is interrupted by murder! It will be up to the clever passengers to help solve the murder and make it back to the ship."

"The charter for Batavia Elks Lodge 950 will not be renewed and no challenge has been made to a national decision to shut the lodge down and put it up for sale, the Elks state sponsor said."

"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."

n 2008, for example, folks at the Plymouth Elks Lodge 1780 raised over $4,500 to buy Christmas gifts for veterans in the Detroit, Ann Arbor and Battle Creek Veterans Administration hospitals, and at three homeless shelters; donated more than 230 bags of clothing to the Michigan Veterans Foundation; sponsored regular game days and ice cream socials for hospitalized and homeless veterans; hosted steak lunches for veterans who are bused to the Elks lodge from around the region; and donated deer hides used to make gloves given to veterans who use wheelchairs.

PITTSBURG - If there is a weakness in Andrew Ortolani's golf game, it's chipping. "I probably also need to work on my grip on my driver," he said. As a young man just a month away from being 11 years old, Ortolani takes the game of golf pretty seriously - at least during the six-week golf lessons at Four Oaks Golf Course, sponsored by the Pittsburg Elks Lodge. "I like competing for those slushies," he said, adding that blue raspberry is his favorite flavor.

The Maine Elks Association (MEA) recently honored several youths from across the State of Maine as part of their 80th Annual State Convention held at the Augusta Elks Lodge. The youths were recognized as state winners of contests sponsored by the association. The awards were presented at a special banquet, attended by over 200 members, guests, and families of the recipients.

FAIRMONT - Elks lodges in each state of the union sponsor what they call a "major project." For more than 60 years in the state of West Virginia, this project has been to host two camps for individuals with disabilities - one in the northern part of the state and one in the southern part. "The goal of the camp is to give these individuals the chance to have as close of a normal camping experience as possible," said Taffy Hower, director of the northern camp, held this week at Camp Muffly in Morgantown. The 48 participants are involved with typical camp activities such as swimming and basketball as well as different crafts. One craft, however, has a special purpose. Throughout the week, those involved with the camp work to create a quilt. Later on in the year, the quilt is raffled off by the Elks lodges to raise money for the following year's camp.