Eureka Elks Lodge No. 652 is pleased to invite you, your family and guests to a celebration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sunday, September 16th at 2:00pm at Humboldt Masonic Hall, 517 G Street, Eureka. The Elks Lodge, with the following organizations will be presenting a history and tribute to the Birth of the American Flag from the early revolutionary flags to todays 50 stars and 13 strips. Humboldt Masonic Lodge No. 79, Eureka Emblem Club No. 298, Eureka Commandery No 35 Knights Templar, Scouts of America Troop No. 54, Jobs Daughters Bethel No. 86, Rainbow for Girls Assembly No. 216 and Mad River Honor Guard.
Redwood Roamers – August 2018
On July 3rd, 2018, eleven rigs headed north on the open road to rendezvous at the Klamath River RV Park with the sole purpose of Doing Nothing Well: pull up a chair, read a good book, take a nap and look at the mighty Klamath was the mantra of the trip. Some were distracted by the jet boat tour, Trees of Mystery, the Drive Thru Tree, Paul’s Smoked Salmon and the Pey Mey fueling station, while others thought about breakfast at the Log Cabin Diner and dinner at the Steelhead Lodge.
Three rigs went to McCloud over the weekend of July 13-16. We camped at Dancer’s RV Park on cement pads and had lush green grass around us. We went to Dunsmuir Saturday starting at the city park Botanical Garden, the Railroad Park, Castle Crags and had lunch in Dunsmuir, then went back to the trailers where we could get into our air conditioning! It was 100 outside! Sunday we took a tour of Weed, having a great time with plenty to eat as usual! Next meeting is on August 1st at 4:30 in the lodge.
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.
4th of July Fireworks — Volunteers Needed!
Plan to buy your fireworks at the Lodge this year. Please let your friends know to buy their fireworks at the Elks Lodge!
All proceeds from the fireworks booth go to support our Children’s Charity account. We use this account to fund
child related activities and donation requests throughout the year. This is by far the biggest fundraiser of the year for this cause. Let’s buy lots of fireworks and help a lot of kids!
We need volunteers during shifts: 12-4 or 4-8 June 28-July 5. This is a fun way to get started as a volunteer. We offer job training. Two people are required per shift so sign up with a friend. Please call the lodge to see what shifts are available.
Special Events – June 2018
In addition to what is posted on the club calendar, we have the following upcoming events this June:
- June 3 – Help out with spring cleaning 8AM – 3PM
- Sunday, June 17 – Honor your father at the Elks Lodge 8AM – 11 PM Fathers are free! 6-12 $8; all others are $12
- Thursday, June 21
- 4th of July booth assembly at 3PM
- Emblem Cooking Class $40
- June 29 – July 5 Booth volunteers needed (contact Terry Long)
Upcoming Emblem Cooking Class
The Eureka Emblem Club #298 is presenting an evening of Italian cookery with Arcata’s PastaLuego restaurant owner, Coco Maki. The class will take place on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. at The Lodge. The price is $40 prepaid. Reservations are mandatory.
Maki’s Emblem class, which is a night of Italian cooking, will include how to design an authentic Italian antipasti platter and putting together charcuterie trays. She will highlight recipes for browned butter and sage with gnocchi, truffle cream and peas with Gigli pasta, and a marinara with Bucatini. There will be tastings of all the recipes.
The evening will also include a recipe and samplings of PastaLuego’s fresh garlic cheese spread baked on bread. “We will be trying the spread on freshly baked no-knead bread,” stated Suzie Owsley of the Eureka Emblem Club. “Bread baked by our Emblem Cooking Class Team, made especially for this class to enjoy. This team is the reason that the Emblem Club cooking classes have been so successful. They are an extremely dedicated group of women and men who work the classes assisting the guest chefs with prepping ingredients, cooking, decorating the tables, and serving. We could not do it without them.”
The class will end with Maki showing participants how to literally whip up a tiramisu mousse, a coffee fla-
vored dessert thought to have hailed from the Veneto region of Italy in the 1960’s.
For more information on the class, please contact the elks webmaster 652elks at gmail.com or see June’s herd talk for additional contact information. More information is also available on Facebook at: Eureka Emblem Cooking Classes. Space is limited.
Cinco de Mayo
There will be a Cinco de Mayo event on the 5th. Margarita Pitchers are $20 starting at 5:30. Dinner to follow at 6:30 for $20.
Mother’s Day Event
Honor your Mother at the Elks Lodge Sunday, May 13th Mother’s Day Service honoring our Elks’ Mother of the Year in the Lodge Room at 9:00 a.m. Breakfast buffet featuring Eggs Benedict to follow FREE Benedict Breakfast and One FREE Mimosa for Moms
Redwood Roamers – May 2018
The Roamers held their monthly meeting on April 4th. Topics for discussion were new Roamer jackets. The jackets look very nice. Keep an eye out and you may see the Roamers wearing them to the Lodge. Also, the up coming outings for 2018.
- The first outing will be to Fort Bragg, May 3rd thru the 6th.
- The second outing will be to Lewiston Old Bridge RV Park, May 31st thru June 3rd.
- Third outing will be to Reedsport, Oregon. June 15th thru the 18th.
- McCloud RV Park , in mid July.
- Gold Beach, Oregon in August.
- Florence, Oregon in August.
- Apple Hill in September.
- Benbow RV Park in November.
We are all excited to get going.
Doug McIssac—Wagon Master