April/May 2016 Volume 64 - Issue 4-5 4 PER Steak Fry 5 Horse Racing @ VA 7 Kentucky Derby Party 8 Mother’s Day Breakfast 10 Blues at the Elks 11 Lodge Meeting 13 Fish Fry 17 House/Trustee Meeting 18 Ice Cream Social @ VA 19-21 State Convention 21 Rock N Ride– Bands 25 Initiation Meeting 27 Fish Fry 31 Jazz at the Elks 2nd & 4th Friday, Fish Fry Lunches every Tues, Wed. & Thurs Plymouth-Ann Arbor Elks #325 effort and show a profit. I want to invite all our members and their families to our Instal- lation Ceremony on Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 2:00 PM. We will install the 2016-17 Of- ficers with a short ceremony, then have hors d’oeuvres and dancing until you all get tired or the food runs out. Wally Gib- son will play and I guarantee that he will play something for all to dance to. Let’s have some fun that after- noon. Blues and Jazz at the Elks continues to be a wonderful entertain- ment venue for your open Tuesday eve- nings. Please come to the Lodge and share these wonderful musi- cal evenings. When you see Lee Herberger or Sally Pinchock, thank them for their effort in bringing great bands to our building. The entertainers love 3 Installation of Officer’s 6 PER Steak Fry 7 Vets Steak Luncheon 8 Fish Fry 12 Blues at the Elks 13 Vets Chili Dog @ VA 13 Lodge Meeting 15 PA2 Pizza Bar-Rob Johnson 17 District Meeting-Albion 19 House/Trustee Meeting 21 PER Meeting 22 Fish Fry 26 Jazz at the Elks 27 Initiation Meeting Exalted Ruler’s Message McAllister, Lou Roose, Bruce Stark, Ken Hines, Lee Herberger, Charlie Dawson, Laurie Howard and Peter Neu- roth. They were led and coached by Pat Howard our Ritual Chairman. Besides the Team Championship, individual honors were won by Doug McAllister, Ken Hines, Lee Herberger, Charlie Dawson and Laurie Howard. Good luck in Sault Sainte Marie. We had a great turnout for Country Western Night and BBQ. The food was great, the crowd was big and the music was fun. We will do it again and maybe get a band that plays more “covers” of hit songs. Thanks to Ken Hines and his crew of “Boot Stompers” for making this happen. Fish Fry was well at- tended last week. All were pleased with the quality and quantity of food served. We have one remaining in March and will only continue them if enough people show up to justify the May 2016 @ Plymouth-Ann Arbor Elks Continued on pg. 4 Congratulations to our newly elected officers for 2016-2017! They are: Doug Hincker (Exalted Ruler), Doug McAllister (Leading Knight), Lee Herberger (Loyal Knight), Charlie Dawson (Lecturing Knight), Heather Matheson (Secretary) Laurie How- ard (Treasurer), Pat How- ard, Bruce Stark, Ken Hines, Jim Schommer (Trustees) and Peter Neu- roth (Inner Guard). There are open positions for 5 year Trustee and Tiler. Lou Roose will again be Lodge Esquire and Ken Hines will serve as Chair of the House Committee. There are a number of committees that have open positions and the need for chairpersons. If you would like to serve our Lodge this year, please let me know. A big congratulation is also due for our Lodge Ritual Team. They won the SE District ritual competition last month and will compete in State Competition at State Convention in May. Members are Doug April 2016 @ Plymouth-Ann Arbor Elks
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April/May
2016
Volume 64 - Issue 4-5
4 PER Steak Fry 5 Horse Racing @ VA 7 Kentucky Derby Party 8 Mother’s Day Breakfast 10 Blues at the Elks 11 Lodge Meeting 13 Fish Fry 17 House/Trustee Meeting 18 Ice Cream Social @ VA 19-21 State Convention 21 Rock N Ride– Bands 25 Initiation Meeting 27 Fish Fry 31 Jazz at the Elks 2nd & 4th Friday, Fish Fry
Lunches every Tues, Wed. &
Thurs
Plymouth-Ann Arbor Elks #325
effort and show a profit. I want to invite all our members and their families to our Instal-lation Ceremony on Sunday, April 3, 2016 at 2:00 PM. We will install the 2016-17 Of-ficers with a short ceremony, then have hors d’oeuvres and dancing until you all get tired or the food runs out. Wally Gib-son will play and I guarantee that he will play something for all to dance to. Let’s have some fun that after-noon. Blues and Jazz at the Elks continues to be a wonderful entertain-ment venue for your open Tuesday eve-nings. Please come to the Lodge and share these wonderful musi-cal evenings. When you see Lee Herberger or Sally Pinchock, thank them for their effort in bringing great bands to our building. The entertainers love
3 Installation of Officer’s 6 PER Steak Fry 7 Vets Steak Luncheon 8 Fish Fry 12 Blues at the Elks 13 Vets Chili Dog @ VA 13 Lodge Meeting 15 PA2 Pizza Bar-Rob Johnson 17 District Meeting-Albion 19 House/Trustee Meeting 21 PER Meeting 22 Fish Fry 26 Jazz at the Elks 27 Initiation Meeting
Exalted Ruler’s Message McAllister, Lou Roose, Bruce Stark, Ken Hines, Lee Herberger, Charlie Dawson, Laurie Howard and Peter Neu-roth. They were led and coached by Pat Howard our Ritual Chairman. Besides the Team Championship, individual honors were won by Doug McAllister, Ken Hines, Lee Herberger, Charlie Dawson and Laurie Howard. Good luck in Sault Sainte Marie. We had a great turnout for Country Western Night and BBQ. The food was great, the crowd was big and the music was fun. We will do it again and maybe get a band that plays more “covers” of hit songs. Thanks to Ken Hines and his crew of “Boot Stompers” for making this happen. Fish Fry was well at-tended last week. All were pleased with the quality and quantity of food served. We have one remaining in March and will only continue them if enough people show up to justify the
May 2016
@ Plymouth-Ann Arbor Elks
Continued on pg. 4
Congratulations to our newly elected officers for 2016-2017! They are: Doug Hincker (Exalted Ruler), Doug McAllister (Leading Knight), Lee Herberger (Loyal Knight), Charlie Dawson (Lecturing Knight), Heather Matheson (Secretary) Laurie How-ard (Treasurer), Pat How-ard, Bruce Stark, Ken Hines, Jim Schommer (Trustees) and Peter Neu-roth (Inner Guard). There are open positions for 5 year Trustee and Tiler. Lou Roose will again be Lodge Esquire and Ken Hines will serve as Chair of the House Committee. There are a number of committees that have open positions and the need for chairpersons. If you would like to serve our Lodge this year, please let me know. A big congratulation is also due for our Lodge Ritual Team. They won the SE District ritual competition last month and will compete in State Competition at State Convention in May. Members are Doug
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Active Senior Elks,
Welcome Spring!!! I cannot be-lieve the winter we have had. We are so thankful for the easy winter and are looking forward to a won-derful spring. We want to wel-come back all our snowbirds and look forward to seeing you all at our upcoming meetings. In April, we will install our officers for the upcoming year. The officers in-clude Jeanne Gryzwacz, Vice President, Nancy Comben, Treas-urer and Donna Parmenter, Secre-tary and Judy Dent, President. I want to personally thank these la-dies for stepping up and returning for another year. I also want to thank Dave Melton our chaplain, Connie Melton our sunshine lady, Bud Schwartz for handling the raf-fle each month and Ron Wester-field for collecting the money for our meals. Also a special thank you to Betty Westerfield, Donna Parmenter and Nedra Williams for all their work in providing enter-tainment for our meetings. We
had a very good year full of good times, lots of laughs and good memories. Our hostesses each month provided good food and beautiful decorations which kept us all in a festive mood. We are all so lucky to belong to such a special group of awesome people and I personally am blessed to call you all my friend. Our meetings are always open to any-one who would like to join us on the second Tuesday of each month. You won’t find a better bunch of people and we are al-ways excited to welcome new members. Upcoming for the Elks is the Mothers Day Brunch on May 8. Please continue to support events put on by the Elks as your participation is what will keep our doors open. I look for-ward to seeing you all at the Elks and wish you all a glorious spring.
Secretary's Notes Well dues notices have all gone out and dues are coming in. Sorry about the membership cards being a little late in getting back to you but I was on vacation for the month of Febru-ary. But all is back on track. If you have not received your dues notice please contact the Lodge. You might have to update your informa-tion. Dues are always due before April 1st. If your dues are not paid before this date you become delinquent. Please we do not want that to happen to anyone. The Lodge has been very busy with all the activities going on you should make sure that you come on in and enjoy not only the goings on but the members as well.
The Elks and their friends are indeed generous. Once again many of you have stepped forward to assist the special needs children by donating to the 365 Banks program. It is such an important undertaking and the families of those youngsters certainly do appreciate everyone’s support. Be sure to pick up a 365 Bank in the lobby at the Lodge and contribute to this most worthy cause. Invite your friends and neighbors to help as well. Please note that we cannot process damaged, Canadian or other foreign coins. Lee Herberger
Chairman, 365 Banks
Anonymous (8) Blues & Jazz (1) Roger Buelow (1) Corn Lady (1) Hines (2) Dick Honig (1) EK Holm (1) Kent (1) Kevin & Kathy Leggert (3) Ida McKinney (1) Dr. Edward Pugliesi (1) E. Rutenbar (1) Scharnhorst (1) Harold W. Schultz (1) Neale & Dolores Smith (2) Beverly Stanton (1) Joseph Traciak (1)
Fraternally Yours:
Doug Hincker
Exalted Ruler
If you haven’t paid your dues yet, I urge you to do so as soon as possible. We can’t pay our bills if you haven’t paid yours. Finally, I would like to thank all Elks members for allowing me to serve as Exalted Ruler. Your help and kindness has made the job fun. So much fun that I am going to do it again. Maybe I can do it right this time. See you all at the Lodge!
Janice Rudick’s
Kentucky Derby Party Saturday, May, 7th, 3pm
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Veteran Activities for
2015-2016
December 3 Horse Racing December 12 Wrap Christmas gifts December 31 CLC New Year’s Eve January 7 Horse Racing January 13 Ice Cream Social February 4 Horse Racing February 7 CLC Super Bowl February 10 Ice Cream Social March 3 Horse Racing March 16 Ice Cream Social April 7 Steak Luncheon
April 13 Chili Dog Luncheon
May 5 Horse Racing
May 18 Ice Cream Social June 2 Horse Racing June 15 Ice Cream Social July 7 Horse Racing July 13 Ice Cream Social August 4 Horse Racing August 25 Ice Cream Social *Gift Distribution leaves at 9:00 AM
Horse Racing leaves the Lodge at 9:30 AM
Ice Cream Social leaves the Lodge at 10:55, Starts at 12:30
Chili Dogs leaves the Lodge at 9:55, Starts at 11:30
Events subject to change.
Hospital address is: 2626 John R, Detroit, Mi. 48203
Stew: 734-455-4567 Cell: 734-718-2052
* Plymouth Lodge function
Stew: 734-455-4567 Cell: 734-718-2052
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ADOPT-A-VET Because of privacy laws, we will not be publishing names of Adopted Veterans. If you would like to con-tinue or start sending cards to these veterans you may do so by getting their names and addresses from me by email or letter. This would put you on the Lodge Adopt A Vet committee. Anyone may belong. Your suggested duties would be any of the following: Send them a card on their birthday Send them a card on holidays Send a letter, note or post card at any time. Give them gifts on holidays or birthdays Visits would be possible during our hospital activities
Stew Israel, Chairman, Adopt--A-Veteran, [email protected] or call 734-455-4567
Remember…... So long as there are veterans, The
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will
never forget them.
C.O.T.S.
We are collecting Good, Clean used clothing for The Coalition On Temporary Shelters. This is a program for homeless people in the Cass corridor area of De-troit. C.O.T.S. accepts clothing for men, women, and Children. These places do not have room to store items so please make sure the items fit the season (summer). Please mark your items COTS or women – a scotch taped note on the bag. Thank You – Stew Israel
HOMELESS VETERAN’S We are collecting good, clean, used clothing for the Homeless Veterans shelter in the Cass corridor area of Detroit. The Veterans shelter accepts clothing for men,
especially Blue Jeans, and tennis shoes. Please mark
your items VETS or men – a scotch taped note on the bag. These places do not have room to store items so please make sure the items fit the season (summer). They also need linens, sheets, towels, blankets, toilet-ries, and other comfort items (shampoo, soap, deodorant etc.). Other items they would like to receive: Com-puters, monitors, printers, musical instruments, arts and craft supplies, We are also supporting a Veteran Shelter that has 150 apartments as transitional housing. They need household items (pots pans, plates etc. They can also use sports equipment, luggage, sports bags, video games and equipment, and exercise equipment. All items may be left in the coatroom. Thank You - Stew Israel 455-4567
