Congratulations to the following NC Elk Lodges on their 2016-2017 Freedom Grant recipients:
- Salisbury Elks Lodge 699 – West Central District
- Statesville Elks Lodge 1823 – West Central District
- Morganton Elks Lodge 1852 – West District
- Raleigh Elks Lodge 735 – East Central District
- Kinston Elks Lodge 740
- New Bern Elks Lodge 764
- Elizabeth City Elks Lodge 856
- Morehead City-Beaufort Elks Lodge 1710
You may well be proud of your respective lodge. This year there were a record number of Freedom Grant applications, with 484 Lodges submitting applications. It was a very competitive year.
Please pass on to your Lodges that didn’t receive Freedom Grants to consider using Gratitude or Beacon Grants to serve veterans and/or military members.
You can go to elks.org and then go to Elks National Veterans Service Commission for additional details and news.
Best regards,
Lee Littiken, State Chm
NCSEAI-ENVSC Committee
May 4, 2016
Goldsboro Elks Lodge #139 entertained 31 students and parents at the Lodge for Dinner and Awards during our Lodge Meeting.
Goldsboro Elks Lodge #139 presented checks and certificates to students for the Elks Essay Contest (grades 5 – 8), Most Valuable Students (Grade 12),and Nursing Scholarships. Pictured front row left to right: Essay winners Colby Thompson (First Place in East District), Kezia Knox( Essay Winner), Rachel Muscher (MVS) Ellison Best (Essay Winner),Will Fickling (First Place in East District and Second Place in State Essay Winner), Bailey Jones (Essay Winner),Alex Wingate(Scholarship/Essay Chairman) . Back Row: Joe Lawrence(Exalted Ruler) Jackson Carter(MVS) Carlie Ann Powell(Nursing Scholarship), Jacob Seate( $1,000 MVS Scholarship, Tanner Brock(Essay Winner). Total awards were $1850.00
Absent when pictures was taken: Fiona Pedrick (MVS)
Calabash Elks Lodge Treats Residents of Boys & Girls Home
For National Youth Week
In honor of National Youth Week, nine young men from the Waccamaw Boys & Girls Home of North Carolina were treated to a day of fun courtesy of the Calabash Elks Lodge. Arriving in Calabash they were taken to Tropical Adventure Miniature Golf where they had fun playing 18 challenging holes. Following an hour at Tropical Adventure they took a short trip down the road to the Back Porch Ice Cream Shoppe where they got to choose the ice cream treat of their choice.
Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina, Inc. is dedicated to providing a comprehensive array of residential and community-based services to meet the needs of vulnerable children by addressing their physical, emotional, social, educational and spiritual development.
My theme for the coming year is borrowed from Michael Smith, a Past Grand ER. It is “Be Proud, Be Loud and Be Visible“. Every Lodge does a lot of things for their community that we should be Proud of, such as Americanism contests, Drug Awareness programs including red ribbon week, scholarships, the Hoop Shoot, service to our veterans, sponsoring Camp Carefree and donations to various community projects. All of these are things to be Proud of, but how much of this is known to the people of your community? We need to be Loud and let the community be aware of what we do. If you have an award ceremony, take pictures of the presentations and try to get them published in the local paper, perhaps in the club section if they have such a section. This is how you can become more Visible. If you have a designated public relations person, every Lodge should have such a person, have this person try to get your events posted in the local paper or on your web site or Facebook page so the community can be made aware of what we are doing.
Fraternally,
Peter Breidenbach