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Just as I predicted, these boys got the gift of a lifetime. .. our 100 yr old crown jewel 'the elks Home' for a song. Borrowed the money to pay the 4.5 million selling price (appraised value $15mm) and two years later get advanced $10mm more!!. I guarantee they won't be putting all that money in the Home but mostly in their back pockets. This article points out some crucial misinformation from GL. "We could never break even as the most residents we could have is 120", well these former consultants to the Elks Home knew better. They are at 185!!. Break even was well below that!! Tragic, sad and totally unnecessary.

IDK if this is the best pr piece as it seems to imply that the lodge is fading away and becoming a bit desparate

Well good luck. But with an average age of 70, odds are slim they will make it. Tragic. Actually, most of California lodges average age is in the 70's. Only some are under 60.

Grass Valley lodge also has a fantastic web site that is a treasure trove of historic info. If you get the opprotunity to visit, don't hesitate, stop in and check it out this historic lodge.

Nice partnership with relatively young people having fun

wow .. what a neat old building

had to have been a hell of a hurricane to completely destroy this building

cow patty bingo?

I've been there before. It's a nice lodge but it is wise for them to rent out there kitchen/restaurant. Could be a win/win

some hard core elks would say this is against the rules. I think it's a great idea myself.

geesh.. why would anyone keep that much cash around?

This lodge apparently rents it's facilities to businesses who use it for commercial purposes. We have a few in our lodge who think that you can't do that. I aim to show that you can

I think these joint efforts are the way to go

Don't see this happen often. So good news here although there are not many younger members. Also sharing with American Legion which is? I'd like to see how that cost sharing works out. FYI, if anyone reading this frequents the Elks message board, I have been banned from there for 60 days. Elks gestapo I suppose but something about my postings on Austin? Go figure. Regardless, this good news should be reported on the message board at elks.org

Hate to see that but quite a small lodge it appears. An area view from google maps shows an isolated building in a small town. No pool or other amenities.

this makes for good PR but the problem is that we lost another 10,000 and are down to 779,000 or something like that. Only 1933 lodges with 6 forced to close in the last 3 weeks.

good news that something is being preserved from McCook. The bad news is that it lost it's charter. This was one hell of a lodge in it's day. The fact is that the GL is mostly responsible for the demise of this lodge and the dramatic loss of membership. nebraska is down 77% from 1985. and that was as of 2014. Down to 7,000 from 32,000. HUGE drop that can only be attributed to leadership (or lack of).