Wow! SC has added a lodge in Fort Mill a few weeks ago and now one in Pendleton. In recent years, there have been Conway & Little river. Perhaps one more. All this made more possible by the change in the numbers needed (from 100 to 50) to request dispensation to form a lodge! I wonder who had the timerity to propose such a resolution?? Why Salisbury Elks 699!

PENDLETON - A new Pendleton Elks Lodge will be instituted this weekend. About 75 members will be part of the ceremony set to start at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Greenville Elks Lodge, said Jim Vogel, a spokesman for the Pendleton Lodge. Ceremonies on Saturday include institution of the new lodge, initiation of new members and installation of officers, Vogel said. The Greenville lodge is at 7700 Pelham Road.

Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge No. 2815 hosted lunch for 28 veterans from the blind and the geriatrics centers of the Tucson VA Hospital earlier this month. Veterans Service Committee Chairman Billy Tyre organized the April 4 event with help from Lodge House Committee members, who prepared Mexican food at the veterans' request.

Exalted Ruler's family roots with the Elks Charlotte Burrous The Daily Record He cannot remember the first time he walked into the Cañon City Elks Lodge. But he remembers sitting on the orange seat outside the main door of the clubroom with a Coke, waiting for his father, Palmer Hartless, to conduct his business.

The Black Elks sure do seem to struggle

A Thomasville, Georgia hot spot has to come up with a new menu for its bar. The Thomasville City Council voted unanimously Monday night to suspend the Ebenezer Elks Lodge's alcohol license for one year.

Wow! Santa Maria Ca elks do it again!

Santa Maria Elks BMX Hosted Event *** Santa Maria, CA -- 04/14/2009 http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5656/04062009c.jpg Photo - Chris Polan of Goleta, right, gives his son, Trevor, 4, center, words of encouragement as he starts a race in the 5-and-under NBL qualifiers at the Unocal Event Center. The All American city now has its own world class bicycle racing track. The Santa Maria Elks BMX Racing Team hosted the first major event at its new Elks Unocal Events Center BMX track on Saturday.

this isn't good

EEOC Sues Illinois Elks Lodge For Sexual Harassment The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") is suing a southwestern Illinois Elks Lodge, alleging three board members sexually harassed three female bartenders. In its lawsuit (Case No. 3:09-cv-00200), filed in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois, the EEOC claims that Vicki Vickers, Elizabeth Stemm, and Jackie Davidson (formerly Jackie Atteberry at the time of her employment by defendant) were subjected to unlawful sexual harassment while working at Elks Lodge No. 954 by three members of the Elks' board of trustees on numerous occasions in 2005 and 2006.

Bobbie Galbraith has been an active member of the Petaluma Elks Lodge No. 901 for eight years, but never imagined that she'd be nominated as the club's first woman to serve as exalted ruler (president). Terry Hankins Bobbie Galbraith is the Petaluma Elks Club's first woman to serve as exalted ruler (president). "They kept asking me over the years when I was going to be exalted ruler and I'd say I was just busy circling the chairs right now," said Galbraith, who has served in a number of different offices within the club. "I've gone through the chairs now and have paid my dues. It's such an honor to be named exalted ruler. Everyone has been so supportive of me."

New Egypt Elks to host Touch-A-Truck The New Egypt Elks and the New Egypt United Methodist Church are sponsoring "Touch a Truck" from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 25 at the New Egypt Elks, Lakewood Road (Route 528), Plumsted. Various modes of transportation will be on display to touch, climb and take pictures alongside. The festivities will include music and activities. Food will be available for purchase. Details: 609-758-8563 or 609-752-0272.

PASADENA - For the past century, men have been running things at Pasadena's Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. That all changed Tuesday night with the installation of Exalted Ruler Virginia Quintero, the first woman in Lodge #672 to reach the top job. "I finally made it there," Quintero said before the ceremony and presentation of her jewels of office - "and the gavel, of course." "I'm very excited, very happy ... and my family's all excited," the 63-year-old nurse said of her elevation to Exalted Ruler. "I don't think they'll treat me differently - but I hope they might," she joked.

WOONSOCKET - The city and Woonsocket Lodge of Elks will host their annual children's fishing derby on Saturday, April 11, the first day of fishing season. The event takes place at Cass Park pond, where the state Department of Environmental Management has stocked trout.

An area resident, with the help of the local Elks lodge and American Heart Association, recently presented life-saving equipment to Wethersfield and Rocky Hill schools. The gift was part of a drive led by Portland resident Kevin Sweeney on behalf of the Larry Pontbriant Jr. Athletic Safety Fund. The fund is named after the son of a close friend of Sweeney's. The younger Pontrbriant of Norwich, died running cross country at age 15.

Nice fraternal group effort. Should be more of those type activities

COOS BAY, ORE - As area Christians celebrated Easter over the weekend, communities up and down the South Coast came together to take part in the Easter Egg Hunts that have become tradition. One of the host sites was at Mingus Park in Coos Bay.

Move over, bulls: Dorothy Alt becomes Elks Lodge's first female leader Dorothy Alt was sworn in Saturday as exalted ruler of the Baraboo Elks Lodge, the first female to earn the honor. Here, she holds an old sign banning ladies from "lodge nights." The club began accepting female members in 1996. BEN BROMLEY / NEWS REPUBLIC Dorothy Alt was sworn in Saturday as exalted ruler of the Baraboo Elks Lodge, the first female to earn the honor. Here, she holds an old sign banning ladies from "lodge nights." The club began accepting female members in 1996. By Ben Bromley / News Republic You might think a title like "exalted ruler" would come with a golden scepter or a foppish hat, but Dorothy Alt has neither. What she has instead is a historic title: She's the first woman to lead the Baraboo Elks Lodge.