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"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."

"We at the Marysville Elks Lodge, along with the help of 168 volunteers, the companies and individuals that donated were able to serve 660 meals to the needy and homebound of the Yuba-Sutter area. This number includes 180-plus meals delivered by the Marysville Kiwanis Club. Space does not permit us to list all the volunteers, so once again thank you so very much."

"Members of McAlester Elks Lodge 533 and other Elks from across Oklahoma have once again donated money for Christmas gifts to be taken to all veterans who live at the Talihina Veterans Center. "

"BERGEN -- An annual tradition of giving continues at Byron-Bergen Elementary School, thanks to the generosity of members of the Brockport Elks Lodge 2110. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks has donated a number of dictionaries to the third-graders in Byron Bergen through The Dictionary Project."

"n Thursday January 14, 2010 the Thousand Oaks Elks Lodge #2477 donated to all the 3rd graders at the El Descanso Elementary School, in Camarillo, a dictionary for their very own."

"The Long Beach Elks has had an unbelievable year of community charity, but none matched the free community Christmas dinner. Partnering with PACE, the Elks Christmas Dinner served about 300 people and raised $697 in donations for PACE. "

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.

The summer golf calendar is filled with a myriad of benefit tournaments, but only a handful encompass such a worthy cause as the Arizona Elks Association Social Welfare Clothe-a-Child event. All the proceeds are used to purchase clothing for needy and disadvantaged children. "This is a statewide program, some of our clubs do it (donate clothes) at Christmas and some before the first day of school," said tournament chairman Becky Waer. "We do it through the schools, so it is kind of a confidential thing."

Local Elks Lodge Gets Applause! The State Library (USL) gave the Dixie Elks Lodge # 1749 in St. George a round of applause for their dedicated volunteer efforts for the blind. The Lodge was honored with a service award celebrating their 10 year partnership with USL. The Lodge has provided space in their building for volunteers to repair damaged cassette players. Thousands of cassette players have been repaired saving the State Library the cost of replacing the machines. "The State Library couldn't do what we do without volunteers," says State Librarian Donna Jones Morris. "Last year volunteers donated 1,245 hours repairing cassette players for the blind. It's estimated that the value of each hour of service is nearly $19 which totals more than $23,000 yearly."

Grass skirts, flowered shirts and exotic cocktails gave the flavor of the South Seas at the recent inaugural Rotary Luau Fundraiser held by the Santa Clarita Valley Rotary Club. Co-sponsored by the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, Santa Clarita, Lodge No. 2379, the event helped benefit the club's biannual donations to 15 nonprofit organizations in the SCV.

This brother Elk must have one heck of a house to host 160 people!

The Watertown Elks are distributing free dictionary reference books to all of the public school third-grade classes in Watertown, Jefferson, Johnson Creek and Lake Mills. The local Dictionary Project is being funded through a donation from the Watertown Elks Lodge. The idea for The Dictionary Project began in 1992 when Annie Plummer of Savannah, Ga., gave 50 dictionaries to children who attended a school close to her home. Each year she continued to give this gift, raising money to help give more and more books so that in her lifetime she raised enough money to buy 17,000 dictionaries for children in Savannah.

"Folks got together at the Elks Lodge in Bangor Thursday evening for the 8th annual March of Dimes Signature Chefs Auction. Several area restaurants donated food for the event. There was also a live and silent auction."

that's alot of scholarships; Good PR too

Quite a chunk of change and for an organization that has a very loose structure. Certainly not bound by the stringent rules the Elks have to endure

The Marion Elks Lodge 32 presented a check for $750 for the purchase of 150 smoke detectors, which are in turn given to every child who attends Safety City.

Have you ever entered a business establishment, observed a purple pig on the counter and wondered what the significance was?

Kent Island MD is doing very well, Aver $100k a year!

All fifth graders!! I wonder though do these kids actually use them? My grandkids have laptops now.