Gwen Carroll will be Installed Exalted Ruler of Eureka Elks Lodge on Saturday, March 30th. Gwen is a member of the pioneer families of Mars Kjer from Arcata bottom and the Pohler family from Ferndale. She was raised in Arcata and attended St. Bernard High School. She is a graduate of College of the Redwoods Nursing program and is a registry nurse, traveling to hospitals in Northern California. Installation will be at 6:00pm with social and dinner to follow. For reservations phone 707-442-6652.
Elks Donate to Eureka High Junior
Eureka Elks Lodge donated $500.00 to Melina McKenna. She is junior at Eureka High. The donation is going to help her attend the National Student Leadership Conference at Georgetown University. The conference is for 9 days and will have emphasis on law and advocacy. She will also tour the many monuments in Washington D.C. Pictured with Melina is Elks Exalted Ruler, Dennis Hunter.
RCMF Donation
Eureka Elks Lodge No. 652 donated $2,500.00 to the Redwood Coast Music Festival (RCMF). The festival will be May 9-12. Four days of music and dance with 85 stages, over 30 bands and 100 plus sets. Advance tickets available at web site rcmfest.com. Pictured from left to right: RCMF Board Member, Matt Niesen; RCMF Vice President, Yvonne Cooney; Elks Exalted Ruler, Dennis Hunter; RCMF President, Carol Lotentzen and Elks Board of Trustee Member Kevin Christie.
Redwood Roamers – March 2019
The Redwood Roamer met on February 6th. We welcomed new members Dave/Marie Eberhardt, Charles/Donna Pace and David/Jayme Turner. The major portion of our meeting was deciding where to roam. We planned an outing for each month. First will be the Winter Retreat at our own Elks RV Park March 22nd-24th. There will be Swap Meet, Saturday 23rd at 1:00 pm inside the dining hall. April we will travel to Angels Camp in the Gold Country. May 3-4 we will host the Redding RV Club here. On May 16-20th we travel to Fort Bragg. Shortly after we return, we head for Lewiston on May 30th. June brings Reedsport/Winchester Bay on June 13th-17th. July is open and August we head to Florence and Gold Beach. Labor Day weekend will be spent at Klamath RV Park. October is open and November we travel to Benbow RV Park to enjoy a Thanksgiving celebration together.
The next meeting will be March 6th at 4:30 pm at the Lodge. Any Elk members interested in joining the Roamers are welcomed to attend the meeting. Also be sure to join us at the next Jenga Challenge on March 27 at 7:30 pm in the bar area of the lodge.
Dale A Stockly, Wagon Master
Redwood Roamers – December 2018
The Roamers held a meeting on November 7th. A report was given on the outing to Benbow RV Park on November 1st – 4th . Thursday evening we had a potluck dinner, afterwards we sat around two campfire rings. Friday started with a great brunch from 9-11 am. Some Roamers went shopping in Garberville, some played washers and cribbage, others took a ride to Shelter Cove. Friday evening the Roamers who live in the Garberville area put on a great Thanksgiving dinner. It included a smoked turkey, homegrown ham and all the fixings. There were 55 Roamers and guests for dinner. After dinner we had three fire rings going. Saturday started with brunch again put on by our trailblazers, Darrell, Teresa and Denise Gillette. Everyone was on their own until 3:30, when we went to the drive thru tree in Leggett. We had a group photo in front on the Chandelier Tree. After Leggett we attended the Piercy Volunteer Firemen’s fund raising BBQ. They put on a very good steak and chicken BBQ. This is their major fund easier for the year. Saturday evening we had four camp fire rings going. Bob Holt was the winner of the washers game and Bud Slagle barely came out on top in the cribbage tournament. Everyone had a great time and more than enough to eat.
Other business: the Roamer decorated a X-mas tree on November 12th and elected our new Wagonmaster Dale Stockly. The next meeting is December 5th at 4:30. Any lodge member who is interested may attend.
Annual Coast Guard Appreciation Dinner
The annual U. S. Coast Guard Appreciation Dinner featured barbecued steak dinners for more than 120 U. S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay personnel and their guests, an annual thank you to the members of the Coast Guard who keep North Coast seafarers safe. In addition to steaks barbecued on the giant grills of the Elks Lodge for the guests in attendance, more than one dozen steak dinners were cooked, boxed and delivered to on-duty personnel who were unable to attend the event. The dinner, a yearly collaboration among the three Eureka Rotary Clubs—Eureka, Southwest Eureka, Old Town—and Elks Lodge #652, celebrates the Coast Guard’s August birthday and the deep ties between the Coast Guard and the City of Eureka. In 2000, Eureka became the second city in the country to be designated as an Official Coast Guard City by the U.S. Congress—it is one of only 20 cities in the country to receive that designation.
Captain Gregory T. Fuller, Sector Commander, United States Coast Guard, Sector Humboldt Bay presented commemorative plaques to the evening’s hosts, saying that “this steak dinner is the best event of the year for the women and men of the Coast Guard.” (Amended from swrotary.org)
Fireworks Sales Help Youth Activities
Now that the Fourth of July has come and gone, I would like to thank everyone who helped with this year’s fireworks
event. From helping put up and take down the booth to those who worked in the booth selling the fireworks. It’s volunteers like you that help make the event happen. Again, thanks to all who helped and to all who purchase fireworks this year to support youth activities at the lodge.
Terry Long, Fireworks Chairman
Donations for this year’s Veteran’s North Coast Stand Down Needed!
There’s a box in the lobby closet for dona/ons for this year’s Veteran’s North Coast Stand Down to be held October 5th, 6th and 7th. We especially need sleeping bags, any rain gear, and winter coats or jackets.
Elks Raise Funds to Help Youngsters with Disabilities
Eureka – More than $3,000,000 has been contributed this year by members of Elks Lodges throughout California and Hawaii to be used in treating children with disabilities.
Dennis Hunter, Exalted Ruler of Eureka Elks Lodge #652, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, contributed $20,237 which was raised by members of the Lodge.
“We are pleased and proud that members of our local Eureka Elks Lodge were so generous with their dollars and time in this important undertaking,” Hunter said.
Since 1950, the 84,000 members from throughout California and Hawaii have turned over more than $117,000,000 to the California-Hawaii Elks Major Project, Inc., which administers the non-profit charitable corporation.
All of the funds are devoted solely to providing vision screening and therapy treatment to children with a broad range of disabilities. Without the Elks supported donations, many of these children would not receive such treatment.
The year-long fund raising campaign is capped by an impressive ceremony at the annual Elks Convention when representatives of lodges from throughout California and Hawaii present their donations to Major Project and Elks Association leaders. Eureka’s donations kicked the grand total over the $3,000,000 mark!
The raising of funds to aid children with disabilities is just one of the many philanthropic and patriotic projects which mark the Elks’ contribution to our community.