Chicken George Bake Off

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The Raleigh Elks Lodge #735 hosted its annual NC Barbecue Chicken George bake-off in September. The event was started by one of our esteemed PER’s several years ago.

The Lodge has continued this event each year to honor the memory of George Orwell . This year’s event was a huge success with over 350 meals sold locally in the area. The Raleigh Elks lodge donated $1400.00 to several Veteran charities in the area.

  • USO $600.00
  • Durham VA Hospital $400.00
  • Veterans Day Luncheon $300.00
  • ENF $160.00.

This year’s event was organized by Larry Cox and Michele Delaire with help from a team of several Elks who were key contributors in making this event a success.

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Field of Dreams Event

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The Raleigh Elks Lodge #735 participated in this year’s Field of Dreams held locally here in North Carolina. The monies provided by the Elks Promise Grant were used to purchase T-shirts and serve lunch to the participants of this year’s event. The Field of Dreams event is a program where special needs students are “ partnered” with a member of their local High School Baseball or Softball teams for a fun day of baseball.

The Raleigh Elks served refreshments for this event to the teams and visitors.

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Veterans News of Fall Festival at Durham Veterans Hospital

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On October 29th, members of Raleigh Lodge 735 visited  the Veterans Hospital in Durham N.C. for the Fall Festival.

Raleigh Elk members  Angie Edwards, Alice Morse and Jennifer Stormer participated with 30 patients and played a game called “ corn hole”  donated by the Raleigh Elks to the hospital several years ago.  A fun time was had by all the patients.

Each patient also received a bag of goodies that included socks, bananas, deodorant, crackers, fruit snacks and note pads with a pen.  A Raleigh Elks Lodge 735 hat was also given to all the participants.   A Chicken Bake-Off Fund raiser was held by Raleigh Elks Lodge 735 and a total of $333.00 was raised to help with this event.

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Raleigh Elks Lodge 735 Annual Golf Event

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At this year’s annual golf outing which the Raleigh Elks Lodge 735 has held for the past 20 years $3800.00 was raised for notable charities the lodge has supported in this area for years.

Donations were made to the following charities:

  • ENF-$1500.00,
  • Transitions Lifecare – formerly Hospice of Wake County)- $1000.00
  • NC State Veterans Home (Fayetteville) $400.00
  • NC State Veterans Home-Durham- $300.00
  • USO of NC- $300.00
  • Helping Hand Mission of Raleigh $300.00

Elliot Smith- Committee Chairman and 11 committee members work hard each year to organize and stage this event. This year there were a total of 120 Elks lodge 735 members participating in this event.

Fraternally,
Bob Williams
Raleigh Elks 735

Raleigh Elks Lodge 735 – Elks Care Elks Share

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On the first Saturday of each month a group of dedicated Raleigh Elks Lodge 735 members give IMG_0089their time and resources to helping the Raleigh Rescue Mission.

Each month the lodge creates the menu for the dinner meal, buys and prepares the food and necessities and serves a fantastic meal to the homeless & needy including children at the mission.

This group of Elks is comprised of several different members each month, giving all an opportunity to serve the mission. On the average 80-100 homeless are served dinner meals each month by these dedicated Elks.

This month’s meals were served by our own Lodge Secretary Patricia Mckinley, her husband Bill, Ruth Claerhout and Justin Schaeffer and other crew members.

The monies for this event come from a Grand Lodge Grant– over the past 4 years our lodge has been approved by the Grand Lodge to receive $2.000 via the Beacon Grant.

Another good example of Elks living up to the tradition  of ” Elks Share Elks Care. ”

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RITUAL JUDGES TRAINING NOVEMBER 7, 2015

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The great State of North Carolina has not had any certified Ritual judges for several years now.  However that may change soon!  On November 7, 2015 there will be a Ritual judges training session held in Sumter South Carolina.  Our area 3 Chairman Mr. Doug Jones will be presenting a clinic at the Sumter SC Lodge #855.  The clinic will begin at 9:00 AM and run until 4:00 PM.  I have attached a copy of the training schedule.  For more information please contact John Lawrence at jpadlawrence@yahoo.com or if you are planning on attending our State Conference in New Bern see me there.  I will be coordinating this with Mr. Jones so please let me know if you are planning to attend.  Thanks again and hope to see you in New Bern!

See previous post for more details about the SC Ritual Clinic.