A MESSAGE FROM YOUR EXALTED RULER BOBBI SAVASUK The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America THE ELKS HORN Edgewater - New Smyrna Beach Elks Lodge #1557 820 West Park Avenue, Edgewater, FL 32132 ELKS LADIES Shirleen Donald, President Our Thanksgiving Dinner/Dance was a success. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, December 1st. This is our Christmas party. Please join us and enjoy the food and gifts from Santa. The Elks Memorial Service for all departed members will be on Sunday, December 4th. Please try to attend and pay your respects. Happy Holidays, and may the Lord bless each one of you and keep you well. Remember, if you need a ride call a member or me at 386-428-3592. Members All, The time is flying by, already Thanksgiving is over; hope you all enjoyed the holiday and spent it with family and friends. We continue to welcome new members to our lodge. I am pleased with the efforts of many….let’s keep it up; we want this year to surpass last year, and help make our state the best it can be. As always, we are looking for more volunteers….I’m reaching out to our newer members and the rest of you...if you have any time to donate to your lodge, please call and let us know; there is a great satisfaction in helping others; as the old saying goes, “it’s better to give than receive.” Have a Merry and safe Christmas holiday. Fraternally yours, Bobbi Savasuk Exalted Ruler Newsletter Editor: Mary Ann J. Bucci 2016-2017 Lodge Committee Chairpersons NEWSLETTER EDITOR Mary Ann J, Bucci AMERICANISM Larry Skates, PDDGER COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Bob Pomfret DRUG AWARENESS Bobbi Savausk, ER ELKS TRAINING Rick Phelps, PER GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Becky Reichenberg HARRY-ANNA TRUST FUND Bobbi Savasuk, ER HOOP SHOOT Marci Skates ORIENTATION Marci Skates INVESTIGATION Mary Ann J. Bucci INTERLODGE VISITATIONS Bobbi Savsuak, ER MEMBERSHIP / LAPSATION Mary Ann J. Bucci LADIES ORGANIZATIONS Shirleen Donald LODGE ACTIVITIES Mike Bohan HOUSE COMMITTEE Mike Bohan ENF CERTIFICATES Marci Skates 2SCHOLARSHIPS Marci Skates PUBLICITY / PUBLIC RELATIONS Mary Ann J. Bucci SPORTS Sparky Holmes VETERANS SERVICES Rick Phelps, PER YOUTH ACTIVITIES Sparky Holmes STANDING RELIEF All Officers DECEMBER 2016
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A MESSAGE FROM YOUR
EXALTED RULER
BOBBI SAVASUK
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America
THE ELKS HORN Edgewater - New Smyrna Beach Elks Lodge #1557
820 West Park Avenue, Edgewater, FL 32132
ELKS LADIES Shirleen Donald, President
Our Thanksgiving Dinner/Dance was a success. Our next meeting will be on Thursday,
December 1st. This is our Christmas party. Please join us and enjoy the food and gifts
from Santa. The Elks Memorial Service for all departed members will be on Sunday,
December 4th. Please try to attend and pay your respects. Happy Holidays, and may the
Lord bless each one of you and keep you well. Remember, if you need a ride call a member or me at
386-428-3592.
Members All,
The time is flying by, already Thanksgiving is over;
hope you all enjoyed the holiday and spent it with
family and friends.
We continue to welcome new members to our lodge.
I am pleased with the efforts of many….let’s keep it
up; we want this year to surpass last year, and help
make our state the best it can be.
As always, we are looking for more volunteers….I’m
reaching out to our newer members and the rest of
you...if you have any time to donate to your lodge,
Office Hours: 11 am – 3 pm - M-T-W-TH The Investigating Committee has found the following candidates to be favorable. These proposed candidates will be balloted on Wednesday, December 7th. . Gary Kelley proposed by Marci Skates Gary Holland proposed by Wayne Besaw Orientation for the following candidates will be held on Tuesday, December 13th at 6:00 pm in the Lodge Office; all officers, committee chairpersons, and proposers, please be present. The candidates will be initiated on Wednesday, December 21st. Gary Kelley proposed by Marci Skates Gary Holland proposed by Wayne Besaw Denise Bell proposed by Steve Luchansky Bill Bell proposed by Steve Luchansky
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Membership Our membership is on the rise; we gained 21 new members. Let’s “BLAST ELKDOM INTO THE FUTURE”. Lapsation Is your dues current? As of this writing, we have 66 members who have not paid their dues for this year. Remember, your card entitles you to all the rights and
privileges of the lodge. Ask yourself why you became an Elk.
_____________________________________ To all our members, thank you for the opportunity to serve as your Lodge Secretary. With your support, I’m looking forward to serving you again in the coming year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR Mary Ann J. Bucci Lodge Secretary
CHAPLAIN’S CORNER
I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. I found this prayer in the Dear Abby column; I was very moved by it, I hope you like it.
Oh, Heavenly Father, We thank Thee for the food and remember the Hungry.
We thank Thee for health and remember the sick. We thank Thee for Friends and remember the friendless. We thank Thee for freedom and remember the enslaved.
May these remembrances stir us service that Thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.
Lodge of Sorrow We will have a Lodge of Sorrow this month for William Koske who passed away on Wednesday, November 23rd at Halifax Health Hospice SE Volusia Care Center. Hewas a longtime Elk who had been ill a long time. We will keep him and his family in our Hearts and prayers. I always ask that you let me know of any member of our Elk family is ill. [email protected]
Dear Members, It is with regret, Sophie and I will no longer be holding
dance classes on Monday afternoons
due to lack of interest.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
FROM YOUR
PER ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS/TRUSTEES
EXALTED RULER
LODGE OFFICERS
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
HOUSE COMMITTEE
KITCHEN STAFF
BARTENDERS
VOLUNTEERS
ELKS LADIES & THEIR MEMBERS
WELCOME OUR NEWEST MEMBERS INITIATED WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH 2016
Exalted Ruler Bobbi Savasuk
Eugene (Trey) Hicks, Robin Townsend and Zima Schimizzi
CHRISTMAS EVE
POT LUCK DINNER
DECEMBER 24TH - 5:00 PM - ’TIL ???
$20 GIFT SWAP
October was ENF Month. We collected $265 with our Pumpkins and Turkeys. I sent all the names and amounts to ENF last month. These are the donors who renewed their pledges.
Jim & Shirley Baker Wayne & Beth Besaw Dave & Lorraine Cevasco Shirleen Donald, Dorothea Durni, Janet Garlin Sparky Holmes
These are new Donors.
Mary Ann Bucci, Linda & John Loveland Edie & Walt Layton, Kim Norris,
We also received a large donation from someone who used to be a member of our lodge, Dean Yeager, PER. Our total donations will be updated by the end of the month. Thank you all for your donations. ENF supports scholarships, Veterans, the Hoop Shoot and many Grants such s as the Gratitude Grant that we received for Cudas Unhooked. You can always send in donations, you can also sign up at Elks.org for the Fidelity Club for as little as $5 a month on your credit card. Thanks again,
Marci.
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The Elks Ladies Dick Omahen Bob Pomfret Bobbi Savasuk, ER Larry & Marci Skates, PDDGER Bob & Linda Strain Dorothy Rowe Larry & Sandra Poucher Garland & Kathy Stanley Martha Vetterl Virginia Walton
HOOP SHOOT SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10th
We should all gather at the Babe James Center at 8:30 AM. Please sign up on the bulletin board. We need 15 volunteers at the gym: scorers, registrars, ball chasers, timers. Once I get your names, I will assign your choice. We have had good response from the schools so we are expecting a big group. We will begin with an introduction by Larry Skates. PDGER at 9:00. See you all there. Following the shoot, we will meet at the Lodge for lunch and presentation of trophies.
Thanks everyone in advance,
Marci
THANK YOU …...
Sue Best for all your hard work making our menus, posters tickets
and flyers. You can find Sue tending bar and helping in the
kitchen on Karaoke nights.
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Rick Phelps, PER for wearing many hats in the lodge. We can always find you doing
something on the grounds outside and filling in as Esquire in the
lodge room. Rick also serves up corn beef & hash at the
PER breakfasts.
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Marci Skates and Janet Garlin for putting in so many hours beautifying the grounds
Weekly schedule (recurring): Sundays – Lounge closed—Bingo at 1PM in Hal Mondays – closed. HC Mtg 6PM BOD Mtg 7PM on Mondays prior to Lodge Mtg Tuesdays – Bar Bingo starts at 2:00 PM. Early Bird Dinner 2:00 PM — 6:00 PM, Darts 7PM, with wine, beer and margarita specials 1st Tuesday of every month — Belong Luncheon Wednesdays - Early Bird Dinner 2:00 PM — 6:00 PM.
Lodge meeting on 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 7:30 with Happy Hour preceding and following the meeting. Card ladies
Last Wednesday of the month - Bar Bingo at 6-9PM. Thursday - Early Bird Dinner 2:00 PM — 6:00 PM,
Darts 7PM with wine, beer and margarita specials.
1st Thursday of every month - Elks Lady Meeting and DAR Luncheon
Fridays - Grand Buffet 5PM-7PM, watch calendar for scheduled entertainment. Wine specials with dinner.
Saturdays – Lounge opens at 5 PM, Karaoke at 7PM, Bar Food will be available 6:30– 8:30 PM
Don’t forget to schedule that “Special Event” in our beautiful dinning facility. Great place for wed ing parties, family reunions and birthday celebra ions. It is ‘Cheap’, ‘Close’, and ‘Convenient’. Oh, did I mention it doesn’t cost much?
Janet and I have been working hard on our "Projects". We are thankful for some wonderful donations of both time and
money. Thanks to Jon and Donnie, we have three beautiful hibiscus in front of the smoking corral. Not only did they purchase the plants, they planted them!!
Thanks so much, they look beautiful! In addition,
we have received donations of cement edgers and help in fixing hoses and faucets and rakes from Rick
Phelps and Larry Skates. Thanks, we will take all
the help we can get. Marci and Janet
3RD ANNUAL CASH BASH
COMING JANUARY 20, 2017
WATCH FOR TICKETS IN THE MAIL
ELEVEN CASH PRIZES
$100, $200, $300, $400, $500,
$750, $1,000 …
AND THE GRAND PRIZE— $2,000
ONLY 2,000 TICKETS
WILL BE PRINTED
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Events: Bi-Annual FUNRaiser For Local Organizations Luncheon & Program Every 2nd Tuesday Of Each Month Elks Lodge * 820 W. Park Ave.* Edgewater * 11:30-1:30
In regard to the Elks’ 11 O’ Clock Toast and its origin, we have to go back long before the BPOE came into existence. One of the main contributions of Charles Richardson – in stage name of Charles Algernon Sidney Vivian and founder of the American branch of the Jolly Corks – was to deliver into the hands of newborn Elks the rituals and traditions of a fraternal organization started in England around 1010 A.D., the Royal and Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes, to which he belonged prior to coming to New York.
The RAOB, Buffaloes as we shall henceforth refer to them, also practiced an 11 o’clock toast in remembrance of the Battle of Has-
tings in October 1066. Following his victory, William of Normandy imported a set of rules, both martial and civil in nature, to keep control of a seething Norman-Saxon population always on the edge of a revolution.
Among those rules was a curfew law requiring all watch fires, bonfires (basically all lights controlled by private citizens that could
serve as signals) to be extinguished at 11 each night. From 11 strategically placed watchtowers that also served as early re-alarm posts, the call would go out to douse or shutter all lights and bank all fires. This also served to discourage secret and treasonous meetings, as chimney sparks stood out against the black sky. A person away from his home and out on the darkened streets, when all doors were barred for the night, risked great peril from either evildoers or patrolling militia.
The hour of 11 quickly acquired a somber meaning, and in the centuries that followed, became the synonym throughout Europe for
someone on his deathbed or about to go into battle: i.e. “His family gathered about his bed at the 11 th hour.” or “The troops in the trenches hastily wrote notes to their families as the 11th hour approached when they must charge over the top”.
Thus, when the 15 Jolly Corks (of whom seven were not native-born Americans) voted February 16, 1868, to start a more formal
and official organization, they were already aware of an almost universally prevalent sentiment about the mystic and haunting aura connect-ed with the nightly hour of 11, and it took no great eloquence by Vivian to establish a ritual toast similar to that of the Buffaloes at the next-to-last hour each day.
The great variety of 11 O’ Clock Toasts, including the Jolly Corks Toast, makes it clear tht there was no fixed and official version
until 1906-10. Given our theatrical origins, it was almost mandatory that the pre 1900 Elks would be expected to compose a beautiful toast extemporaneously at will. Regardless of the form, however, the custom is as old as the Elks.
Submitted by: Larry Skates, PDDGER
President, Lodge PER Association
NEW YEARS EVE DINNER / DANCE
SATURDAY—DECEMBER 31ST
SURF ‘N TURF
MUSIC BY THE COASTALMEN
CHAMPAGNE TOAST
$30 PER PERSON - TICKETS AT THE BAR
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ANNUAL ANGEL TREE
Gift giving
Look for the ANGEL tree At the lodge
Pick an Angel for a boy or girl
Help make their Christmas a little
brighter this year
LAS VEGAS REVUE AT THE LODGE—NOVEMBER 20, 2016
Great turnout!
Members and their guests
came out for a night of
entertainment and fun.
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