Eureka Elks Lodge No. 652 held its annual volunteer and award night dinner. The evening is to thank those members who help with the many activities and helps maintain the lodge. They help in the lounge, kitchen, waiting on tables and maintenance of the grounds and RV park. This year’s honors, pictured from left to right: Officer of the year, Shawn Doebel; Volunteer of the year, Silvia Vader; for her year as Exalted Ruler, Marta Martinez ; for over 25 years of service to the lodge, Donna Jordan and Elk of the year, David Eberhardt.
Annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner
Over 150 attended Eureka Elks Lodge No. 652 annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner, on Thursday November 17th. It is an evening to thank local officers and their families for their service to our community. Each honoree is selected by each department for their outstanding service. Pictured from left to right seated: CHP Officer, Jason Esselman; CHP Officer, Juan Lopez; County DA Office Analyst, Blong Vue; County Probation Officer, Nicole Johnson; EPD Training Officer, Ryan Swanson. Back row: Past Exalted Ruler, Sherie Bialous; Steve Looney accepted the award for Probation Officer, Andres Hopkinson; Chris Wilson accepted the award for Arcata PD Officer, Joseph Rodes; Ferndale PD Officer, Cesar Cervantes; Travis Mendes accepted the award for Deputy Sheriff, Kellen Brown and Lodge Exalted Ruler, Marta Martinez. Not pictured or named: Probation Officer, Rina Kondo; Calfire Chief, Rhett Imperiale; ABC Agent, Stanley Adam Harkness; Fortuna Detective, Ryan Richardson and County Drug Task Force Officer.
Association Vice President Visits
Patti Powell, Association Vice President, representing as a liaison of Bradford Smith, President of California and Hawaii Elks Association and Elk Lodges from San Francisco to the Oregon border and East to I-5, visited Eureka Elks Lodge No. 652. Pictured left: Eureka Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler, Marta Martinez and V.P. Patti Powell.
Saturday, June 11th Eureka Elks Lodge No. 652 held it annual “Flag Day Ceremony”. In July of 1908, the Elk’s Grand Lodge provided for the annual nationwide observance of “Flag Day “mandatory for each Lodge to observer this day. Flag Day official is June 14th nationwide but permission from the Elk’s Grand Lodge, lodge may hold it on a date that best can serve the members and community. The Elks Lodge invited the following organizations to participate in the celebration: Eureka Emblem Club No. 298: Boy Scout Troop No. 54: Eureka Commandry No.35: Knights Templar: International Order of the Rainbow for Girls and Mad River Military Honor Guard.
PER Update – March 2020
The Past Exulted Rulers Association of the Eureka Elks Lodge was informed that our sister lodge Crescent
City Elks was in need of our help. The wheels were put in motion to organize a benefit dinner and fundraiser to support the Crescent City Lodge. The Eureka Elks Lodge came together and a fabulous Surf and Turf dinner event was held at our lodge on February 8th. The dinner was cooked by our own Kevin Christie along with kitchen crew volunteers. Many items were donated by the community for our auction items with one individual going above and beyond by handcrafting a beautiful quilt. A big thank you to Rachelle Koher.
Crescent City Lodge was represented by the ER Kevin Woodward and his officers along with Everett Young
and Tim Borges. The event raised over $4000.00 to aid the Crescent City Lodge. The PER Association of
Eureka also donated $250.00. The Great Heart of Elkdom is why we all belong to this great fraternal
organization and I’m very proud of our lodge.
Alan Bobillot, Past Exulted Ruler
Emblem Fashion Show
See link below for upcoming fashion show this Saturday.
Emblem Fashion show flyer 2019-1
ENF Scholarship Program
THE 2019 MOST VALUABLE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS are available starting August 5, 2019. You must be a High School Senior and a U.S. Citizen. Your application will be judged on scholarship, leadership, and financial need. YOU MUST ACCESS THE APPLICATION ONLINE AT ENF.ELKS.ORG/MVS [1]. Deadline for completing the application online is November 5, 2019.
The Elks National Foundation Scholarship Program provides 2.44 million dollars in scholarships annually. Three boys and three girls’ applications will be selected from our lodge to compete at the District, State, and National levels. Five hundred four-year awards will be presented in the spring of 2020.
LEGACY AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS are for college-bound high school seniors who are the children or grandchildren of dues-paying Elks. Applicants complete against other children and grandchildren from the state of the sponsoring Elk Lodge. Applications are judged on the core values of the Elks National Foundation. APPLICATIONS MUST BE ACCESSED ONLINE AT ENF.ELKS.ORG/LEG [2]. Application must be submitted online by January 31, 2020, at 11:59 a.m. Central Time.
Dale A. Stockly
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Scholarship Chair for Lodge 652
Eureka Elks #652 Golf Tournament
A fundraiser for (E.N.F.) Elks National Foundation
The Elks National Foundation helps Elks build stronger communities through programs that support youth and the needs of today’s veterans. Sunday September 22, 2019 Check in! ~ 8am to 9am 9 Hole Tee Off ~ 9:30am Teams of 4
~ Best Ball Scramble $50 per person ~ $200 per team
Fees include: Green Fees, Cart, Bucket of Range Balls, & a Fabulous Lunch at BPO Lodge
There will also be a 50/50 Raffle ~ over $100 prize!
Many other Raffle prizes from local businesses, Drink Specials and Gift Baskets. Get a team together today and PLAY! Sign up at the Elks team or sponsor the team.)
* Reservations can be made at the Lodge, or call 442-6652
Ext. 3 (mention ENF Golf) & leave your phone number.
Trustees Corner – April 2019
We have had another fantastic year at OUR lodge. As it closes, please thank our Past Exalted Ruler Dennis Hunter for a great year and welcome our new Exalted Ruler, Gwen Carroll. Mark Householter is retiring as he has served his 5-year term as a Lodge Trustee and is moving to Arizona. Thank you Mark for your service to this Lodge and its members. Pierre Carbonneau, a familiar face at the lodge and in the community is your newly elected 5-year Trustee and a loyal Veteran.
Our 2019/2020 annual estimated positive budget draft is posted on the Lodge Bulletin Board for view. Please DO NOT REMOVE. Any inquiries or comments may be made at our first Lodge meeting on Wednesday, April 3rd. Approval and adoption will be made at our Lodge meeting on Wednesday, April 17th. Unexpended monies in the 2018/20129 budget, in the approximate amount of $80,000 will be moved into the Mortgage Loan Account and will be paid on our mortgage. The Lodge moved to surplus three items from the current lodge inventory:
1. A portable 220 V electric warming table. It needs work. Make an offer.
2. Portable Fax Machine. Make an offer.
3. American Brand Double stacked convection ovens. Natural Gas/120 V. Minimum Bid $600.00. Was
working when it was taken out of service in December 2018.
These item are surplused in an AS IS CONDITION and this Lodge and its members dissolve/release any Liability of these items in their future use. Please contact the board of Trustees if you have any interest. The Board is looking forward to another year serving its members.
Fraternally,
Kevin Christie, Chairman, Board of Trustees
Drug Awareness Essay Winner
The Eureka Elks drug awareness program had received essays for the 2018/19 contest and we are proud to announce our winner, Sierra Larson age 13 from Winship middle school. She is our $100 dollar winning entry. Thanks to all who made this year a success. We hope to have a great coming year with more activities for the kids regarding this wonderful program. Here’s the winning essay:
Life is made of many things—our feelings, our pain, our family and friends, our health and our pets! Drugs take that away in one way or another.
Drugs take away from family and friends. In certain situa-ons, drug users will lie to their family and friends to continue their use of drugs and make them untrustworthy. Family and friends would not want to hang out with someone who lies to them. Drugs that are illegal and parents who use them and are caught can have their kids taken away. Their kids get taken to foster homes and can get adopted to people who aren’t the best parents for them.
Drugs can take away our health or worst our life! Drugs have been scientifically proven to be bad for our health whether people argue or not. Drugs chemically change our brains and change how we act. I would like to accentuate how drugs can change our outward appearance. It can make us ugly and older and give us sores and breakouts on our faces. I have seen some pretty scary tweakers in Humboldt. Drugs can take our most valuable thing: our life. We could take drugs one -me and die. We could take it eleven times and die. Why take the chance?
People on drugs are only thinking of themselves when doing drugs and being selfish. Remember, family is always thinking of your best interests, so think of them and don’t do drugs. Drugs only take away pain temporarily. Do sports!