Roxboro Elks Distribute Over 2,400 Drug Awareness Comic Books to Students

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By: Derrick Sims

The Roxboro Elks Lodge #2005 partnered with the Person County School System to reach out to students as part of its Fourth Fall Drug Awareness Campaign. All fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grade students in the Person County School System received a copy of the Elks “What Heroes Do” comic book featuring characters that are everyday kids that are put in a position where they have to use the tools taught to them by their parents and teachers. The campaign encompassed reaching out to nine elementary and middle schools to a total of 2,434 students. The Roxboro Elks understand how critical it is for young people to lead a drug free life style and this project encourages a dialogue between parents, teachers and children by addressing a serious topic in a fun, familiar format.

The Roxboro Elks Lodge #2005 would like to thank the Person County Superintendent for agreeing to allow the school system to partner with the Drug Awareness Campaign along with Bob Miller, the NC Drug Awareness Chairman, for his assistance with this project. The Elks would also like to thank the many principals and teachers that embraced this program and look forward to continuing future partnerships in an effort to make our community a better place.

Roxboro Lodge Distributes Comic Books

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“ROXBORO ELKS DISTRUBUTE OVER 2,400 DRUG AWARENESS COMIC BOOKS TO STUDENTS”

By: Derrick Sims

The Roxboro Elks Lodge #2005 partnered with the Person County School System to reach out to students as part of its Fourth Fall Drug Awareness Campaign. All fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grade students in the Person County School System received a copy of the Elks “What Heroes Do” comic book featuring characters that are everyday kids that are put in a position where they have to use the tools taught to them by their parents and teachers. The campaign encompassed reaching out to nine elementary and middle schools to a total of 2,434 students. The Roxboro Elks understand how critical it is for young people to lead a drug free life style and this project encourages a dialogue between parents, teachers and children by addressing a serious topic in a fun, familiar format.

The Roxboro Elks Lodge #2005 would like to thank the Person County Superintendent for agreeing to allow the school system to partner with the Drug Awareness Campaign along with Bob Miller, the NC Drug Awareness Chairman, for his assistance with this project. The Elks would also like to thank the many principals and teachers that embraced this program and look forward to continuing future partnerships in an effort to make our community a better place.

Keywords: “Elks” – “Education” – “Drug Awareness”

Word Count: 248

Point of Contact: Derrick Sims, Roxboro Elks #2005, Exalted Ruler

ROXBORO ELKS ASSISTS TEACHERS WITH SCHOOL SUPPLIES

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By: Derrick Sims

The Roxboro Elks Lodge Past Exalted Rulers Association recently completed a service project that assisted teachers in need of school supplies. The Roxboro PER Association raised money through a year-long fundraiser that started in August of 2018. The Lodge was able to assist nearly 75 teachers from every school in Person County with a $50.00 Visa gift card to go towards school supplies. A special thank you goes to Kendall Phelps with Country Club Convenience for providing tickets for the fundraiser. Also, a special recognition is in order for Frank Pollock (Past Exalted Ruler, 1986-1987) for creating this initiative along with all the Elk members that contributed to make this possible. The Roxboro Elks look forward to continue this project for next year.

Keywords: “Elks” – “Care” – “Youth Services”

Word Count: 159

Point of Contact: Derrick Sims, ER, Roxboro Elks #2005,

Financial Report System Has Gone Live

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Updated – 08/22/2019 (New Link attachments)

The Financial Reporting System has gone live as of 08/03/19. Instructions and guidance can be found at elks.org under audit committee section. The first step is to do the needed mapping of your lodges general ledger account numbers to the Grand Lodge uniform chart of account numbers. Going forward from there will be the submission of the budget data and then submission of the monthly activity.

At the August DDGER Clinics there will be seminars on haw to do each of the steps and questions will be answered. One item which is of vital importance is that the lodge personnel who is going to responsible for submission of the data must have had their name, phone number and email address submitted to me through the DDGER. The data submission will be done by email and the vendor will verify the submission as coming from a registered email address.

I am attaching some written instructions on how to produce the data submission using QuickBooks. Those using other financial systems will probably need to talk with my self about producing the needed data files.

All questions maybe directed to me. Use preferably email because we both have a written record of the question and answer. (Email address and office phone can be found in the member’s only section.)

Jack Frost

Grand Lodge Convention – Baltimore, MD 2020

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The 2020 Grand Lodge Convention will be held in Baltimore, MD from July 5-8, 2020. If you are going to attend you must notify State Secretary Mike Curran  (see email in member’s only section) by Saturday August 10th. You must also let him know if you will arrive on or before the 4th of July 2020.

Thanks,
Michael Curran

Elks Virtual National Soccer Shoot Competition

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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Elks Soccer Shoot program; the Grand Lodge Activities Committee is pleased to announce the Elks Virtual National Soccer Shoot Competition; A national soccer shoot contest that will be based on a competitor’s winning scores at the State and Regional levels to determine a national champion.

Starting this year, the program will run from April 1st to March 31st of each year, and the Committee will announce the national champions for each age and gender group in April 2020. The program will be phased in over the next three years as follows:

  • Phase 1 (2019-2020) State Contest Scores Only
  • Phase 2 (2020-2021) State or Regional Scores (highest level of State Participation)
  • Phase 3 (2021-2022) Regional Scores Only

The Grand Lodge Activities Committee fully understands that many states do not currently participate at the regional level, so the use of regional scores will be phased in over the next three years. This will give the state associations an opportunity to participate, while forming a region with bordering states or to join an existing region.

By 2022 and beyond, regional scores only will be used. Any state that is not part of a region by that point will be placed into what will be referred to as the “Virtual Region.” This will allow State Associations and Territories to participate in the competition, and the highest scores will represent the Virtual Region. In other words, everyone will still have an opportunity to participate.

So, what will be different for this year’s State Contest (2019-2020)?

  • Each State Soccer Shoot Director is requested to submit a State Contest Report following the completion of their State Soccer shoot. This form is available for download from the Activities Committee page of Elks.org.
  • For Territorial Lodges; the Lodge representing that territory (e.g. Puerto Rico, Guam, Panama, and Philippines) will represent their territory in the contest, and the Lodge’s local director would complete and submit the State Contest Form.
  • For Hawaii; with Lodges on different islands; a virtual state score will need to be determined. Each island is encouraged to hold a soccer shoot; the scores for each island should be submitted on the State Contest Report; indicating the island name and the contest director for that island. The highest scores from all Hawaiian Islands will represent that state in the national contest.
  • State Contest winners will be requested to complete three 5-Shot tiebreakers for score (regardless if they are needed for the state contest). These will be used to break any ties from scores submitted by other states. If tiebreakers are needed at the state level to break a tie, the actual tiebreaker scores should be used, but only the first three need to be submitted on the State Contest Report. If a state omits this information from their form, the tiebreaker score for the competitor will be counted as a zero.

State Associations that would like to form a region with bordering states, join an existing region, or move to another region are requested to complete and submit the Soccer Shoot Region Change Form which can also be found on the Activities Committee page of Elks.org. This form will allow the committee to keep track of which states belong to a region, and which states would default to the virtual region.

Winners will be awarded with a special certificate and national champion’s lapel pin which they can wear with pride. These awards will be sent to the State Association (or Lodge) sponsoring the winner for presentation locally.

The Grand Lodge Activities Committee is excited to bring this program back to the national stage fulfilling our Grand Exalted Ruler Robert L. Duitsman’s theme of: “Honoring the Past—Embracing the Future.” If you should have any questions regarding this program, please feel free to contact me.

Fraternally,

Wayne D. Cotterly
Soccer Shoot Coordinator
Grand Lodge Activities Committee-Area 1

Statesville Elks – Band-aids for Kids

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Statesville Elks Lodge #1823 character band aids for kids donate to Brennan’s Children’s Hospital.
This is the second year that Statesville Elks has helped Brennan’s Children’s Hospital. The kids just light up to pick their favorite band aids. This year we also had kids from Elk’s members to help deliver them to the hospital!  Elks Care Elks Share!

King: Elks Lodge’s projects provide community support

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Article from http://www.dailyadvance.com/Albemarle-Neighbor/2019/07/27/King-Elks-Lodge-s-projects-provide-community-support.html

David King

David King

By Anna Goodwin McCarthy
Correspondent

Saturday, July 27, 2019

Whether he is blowing his official’s whistle on high school football fields under the Friday night lights or taking a leadership role in the Elizabeth City Elks Lodge, David King gives a lot back to the community he calls home.

When he’s not volunteering, King is busy in his job as professor of counseling and psychology at Mid-Atlantic Christian University.

Originally from Virginia Beach, King moved to Elizabeth City in 1986 after accepting a civilian position at the U.S. Coast Guard Base. King worked in various positions, including as director of family services in the federal civil service, mostly with the Coast Guard, before retiring in 2013 after a 32-year career.

King earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the College of William & Mary, a master’s degree in counseling from Regent University and his doctorate in psychology from Capella University.

King recently completed a year as the district deputy grand exalted ruler of the Elks, representing the 11 lodges in the East District of North Carolina. King said one of his responsibilities was coordinating the lodges’ efforts to help aid eastern North Carolina communities in need in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. He also currently serves as secretary of Elizabeth City Elks Lodge #856, where he’s been a member for 17 years.

King said he first became involved in the Elks Lodge almost two decades ago after learning about the organization from his barber, Pig Foster, who was a member.

King said the Elks Lodge has supported the community through various projects. It’s provided technology and furniture for the Benjamin House; sponsored local parks and recreation children’s baseball teams; and assisted literacy efforts by the Albemarle Alliance for Children and Families. The civic group also awards college scholarships to high school students, which are available through the organization at https://www.elks.org/.

One of King’s hobbies is geocaching, an outdoor activity that involves participants hiding containers called geocaches at specific locations marked by coordinates and other participants finding them by using global positioning system receivers or other navigational devices.

During the fall, King also serves as a referee for high school football.

“I’ve always enjoyed officiating,” he said.

King and his wife, Judy, are both members of the Elks Lodge. The couple live in South Mills with their basset hound, Josephine. When he’s not working or volunteering, King enjoys spending time with his wife and their children and grandchildren.

For more information about becoming a member of the Elizabeth City Elks Lodge #856, email: members@elizabethcityelks.org.