A MESSAGE FROM YOUR EXALTED RULER BOBBI SAVAUSK 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 Thank you, Elks Ladies for electing me as your 2016-2017 president. Congratulations to the following ladies on their appointments: Jane Crocker, VP, Marge Cyr, Treasurer, and Hedy Lohr, our new Correspondence Secretary. We have a vacancy for Secretary. If you are interested in this position, please contact me. I will chair the Ways and Means. We will continue to meet the first Thursday of every month. As we enter 2016-2017, your suggestions for fundraisers, are always welcomed. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter celebration with your families Our next meeting will be on Thursday, April 7th at 11:30 am. Please come out and support the Elks Ladies. Members All, April is here, and so is the new Elk year….and a new Exalted Ruler. I’m proud that you have chosen me to lead the membership this year, and I will do my very best, not to disappoint you. I’m looking forward to a very successful year…to increase our membership, and to increase our financial situation. In order do that, we will have to pull on every resource we can, to think of ways to earn money for the lodge. Our summer months are our slow time, but the bills still come in; so in order for us to survive, to do our charitable work, which is what we are all about, and why I joined, we have to really get busy. Our Officer Training Seminar in Orlando was attended by Mary Ann Bucci, Secretary Elect, David Reichenberg, three year Trustee, Rick Phelps, PER, Treasurer Elect, and myself. We each learned a lot about our new positions…it was very informative For those that didn’t attend, there will be more opportunities. One of the things, I want to see happen to our lodge, is for it to go back to being the happy place it was when I first joined. We all need to put our happy faces on and hope it becomes contagious to those around us. Life is too short and every minute we spend being miserable, shortens it even more. It may sound like a clique, but our organization is built on brotherly love, loyalty, and fidelity… please think about it. Let’s pull together everyone ,and let’s see if we aren’t much better for it.. Fraternally, Bobbi Savasuk, Exalted Ruler Newsletter Editor: Mary Ann J. Bucci 2016-2017 Lodge Committee Chairpersons NEWSLETTER EDITOR Mary Ann J, Bucci AMERICANISM Larry Skates, DDGER COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES Bob Pomfret DRUG AWARENESS Aaron Buchanan ELKS TRAINING Rick Phelps, PER GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Becky Reichenberg HARRY-ANNA TRUST FUND Rick Phelps, PER HOOP SHOOT Marci Skates ORIENTATION Marci Skates INTERLODGE VISITATIONS Bobbi Savsuak, ER LADIES ORGANIZATIONS Shirleen Donald LODGE ACTIVITIES Mike Bohan HOUSE COMMITTEE Mike Bohan ENF CERTIFICATES Marci Skates ENF SCHOLARSHIPS Marci Skates PUBLICITY/PUBLIC RELATIONS Mary Ann J. Bucci MEMBERSHIP Mary Ann J. Bucci SPORTS Sparky Holmes VETERANS SERVICES Rick Phelps, PER YOUTH ACTIVITIES Sparky Holmes APRIL 2016
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A MESSAGE FROM YOUR
EXALTED RULER BOBBI SAVAUSK
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
Thank you, Elks Ladies for electing me as your 2016-2017 president. Congratulations to the following ladies on their appointments: Jane Crocker, VP, Marge Cyr, Treasurer, and Hedy Lohr, our new Correspondence Secretary. We have a vacancy for Secretary. If you are interested in this position, please contact me. I will chair the Ways and Means. We will continue to meet the first Thursday of every month. As we enter 2016-2017, your suggestions for fundraisers, are always welcomed. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter celebration with your families Our next meeting will be on Thursday, April 7th at 11:30 am. Please come out and support the Elks Ladies.
Members All,
April is here, and so is the new Elk year….and a new Exalted Ruler. I’m proud that you have chosen me to lead the membership this year, and I will do my very best, not to disappoint you. I’m looking forward to a very successful year…to increase our membership, and to increase our financial situation. In order do that, we will have to pull on every resource we can, to think of ways to earn money for the lodge. Our summer months are our slow time, but the bills still come in; so in order for us to survive, to do our charitable work, which is what we are all about, and why I joined, we have to really get busy. Our Officer Training Seminar in Orlando was attended by Mary Ann Bucci, Secretary Elect, David Reichenberg, three year Trustee, Rick Phelps, PER, Treasurer Elect, and myself. We each learned a lot about our new positions…it was very informative For those that didn’t attend, there will be more opportunities. One of the things, I want to see happen to our lodge, is for it to go back to being the happy place it was when I first joined. We all need to put our happy faces on and hope it becomes contagious to those around us. Life is too short and every minute we spend being miserable, shortens it even more. It may sound like a clique, but our organization is built on brotherly love, loyalty, and fidelity… please think about it. Let’s pull together everyone ,and let’s see if we aren’t much better for it..
I would like to take this opportunity to thank our outgoing Lodge Secretary, Lorraine Cevasco for her support in helping me become acquainted with the duties of this office. Loraine will continue as my office assistant. Please take note of the new Secretary hours and days I will be available. These hours will be posted on the office door. At our March 16th lodge meeting, we initiated and welcomed Ken Morris, Harry Dow, Cynthia Halcrow, Branden Smith, Joseph Landerville and Eiizabeth Landerville. We received an application for new membership from Shane Voss, proposed by John Buchanan and Bill Summa, proposed by Marci Skates. Balloting on these new applicants will be Wednesday, April 6th; orientation on Wednesday, April 13th and initiation on Wednesday, April 20th. We still have some members who have not paid their 2016-2017 dues; a list of names is posted in the lounge. If you know anyone on the list, please contact them and remind them they have not paid their current dues. If you haven’t been receiving our email blasts or the electronic Horn, several things could prevent you from getting them: your email address is incorrect, items are going to your spam or junk mail folders, or your inbox is full. If your email address has changed, please notify the office. Just a reminder, campership applications, to send a child to camp, this summer, are available in the office or you can go online at: http://floridaelks.org/enriching-the-lives-of-children; once there, click on “camper application.” This is all on the Florida State website. I look forward to working with our new Exalted Ruler, her staff and officers, and most of all, you, the members. May our lodge continue to prosper financially and in membership growth. Mary Ann J. Bucci Lodge Secretary
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LODGE PER ASSOCIATION MESSAGE
The PER's of the Lodge elected the following Past Exalted Rulers to
serve as Officers for 2016-2017: Larry Skates, President; Dot Durni,
Treasurer; John Sterio, Secretary. We will be serving our GREAT
PER breakfast on Sunday, April 3rd and May 1st, and then will be
taking a hiatus during the summer and will return on October 1st.
Remember, all profits are used to support YOUR lodge, so come to
breakfast, and help us to help the lodge. To all our members and
friends who return north for the summer, we hope you have a good
summer, and we will see you in the fall. Remember, our expenses
continue all year, so if you would like to send a donation to help us
out in the summer it would be appreciated. All donations and
attendance by our locals for our summer functions will help us to
Our special needs kids came to the lodge for a very special occasion—to help celebrate the 21st birthday of Heather, with her friends McGinnis, Lynn, Brittany Walker, Brittany Bolli, Amanda Hershberger. Kim Hershberger, Beth Outlaw,
Career Experience, Vocational Skills Training. FAPE Program. This is the group of young people from New Smyrna Beach High School that help in the dining room. Beth Outlaw,their teacher, is an Elk, and we have sort of adopted the group.
TUESDAY—BAR BINGO
Come for lunch … play fun
bingo. Games start at 1:00 pm
in the Social Quarters, with Rick
"Chicken Legs" Phelps, PER
calling. The cost is a minimum
of $11, certainly an inexpensive
afternoon of fun. For only $1 more you can buy a
"Hot Ball" ticket for the chance of BIG money!
Recently, Dottie Rowe and Shirley Wiefling split
the accumulated pot of $1,72! Nice haul for a
dollar, right? So, come, have lunch, have some
fun, and maybe, win some money.
Spring Easter Eggs for Harry-Anna.
Marci Skates, wife of Larry Skates,
DDGER, started a campaign to raise
funds to support the Florida Elks
Youth Camp and the Children's
Therapy Services; it turned out to be
highly successful. The many Elks
and friends who bought golden
eggs for $10 and smaller multi-colored eggs for $5 and even tiny
eggs for $1 were able to raise a grand total of $430. The children
who will go to camp. thank you, and the children who receive free
therapy. thank you….AND I THANK EVERYONE who participated. I
could not have done it without all of you!!!
19 Sammie Hartwell
19 Linda Holmes
19 Malvin Langley
19 William Lawrensen
19 David Tyree
21 James Davenport
22 Donna Kessler
23 John Blumenschein
23 James McGee
25 Ronald Garrison
25 Maryhelen Gruber
25 Rebecca Reichenberg
26 Erland Anderson
26 Samantha Ernst
26 Glinda Floyd
26 Richard Garvey
27 Willard Dillon
27 Richard Lott
27 Anthony Raimondo
27 Warren Weller
29 William King
29 Adolfo Salcedo
29 Edward Vaissiere
29 George Wilkinson
Youth Camp Basketball
Outing to Orlando to see a
Magic game. To honor
those who served in our
military in the Korean War,
Bob Pomfret and Russell
Smith, both Korean War
veterans and members of
the lodge, were chosen to
go to a Magic game in
Orlando. Bob and Russell
were a part of a group of twenty-five veterans; that were chosen to go.
While at the game, they got to sit in Pat Williams’ sky box with former
Magic player, Nick Anderson, who stopped by for a photo opportunity.
Needless to say, the men were thrilled. Also present, were Mike Phillips,
PSP, PGESQ and Jim Hurst, PSP. Bob has been a member of the lodge for
28 years; he enlisted in the US Air Force in 1951 with an honorable dis-
charge in 1955 as Staff Sargent; he also served at US Air Base k13 Suwon
Korea with the 319th Fighter Interceptor Squadron as an aircraft armament
technician.
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ELKS LADIES & LODGE OFFICERS
INSTALLATION DINNER
SATURDAY, APRIL 2ND
COCKTAILS 5:00-5:45 PM
DINNER
Roast Pork Medallions, salad with orange
dressing, mashed potatoes & gravy, vegetable
and cheesecake for dessert
$12 pp
FOLLOWED BY AWARDS CEREMONY
Caps of Love
As Elks, we thrive on helping others! Here is an opportunity to help special-needs children
receive medical equipment (like wheelchairs) by simply saving your water, milk jug and soda
bottle plastic caps and bringing them to the Edgewater/New Smyrna Beach lodge 1557.
Dave Reichenberg, one of our trustees, will gather them together and get them to the collection
site in Orlando, Florida. To read more about this charity, check out www.CapsOfLove.com.
UPCOMING EVENTS April 2 Installation Dinner & Awards Ceremony April 16 DD Clinic at the Lodge April 30 Hoedown / Line Dance May 7 Mother’s Day Tea May 7 Kentucky Derby Day
WATCH FOR EXCITING NEWS CONCERNING
UPCOMING SPECIAL SHOWS!!!
FRANKIE VALLIE-JOHN DENVER
AMERICAN IDIOL PERFORMER
ONGOING LODGE ACTIVITIES
Pool—Every Day Lodge Meetings—Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday House Committee & BOD Mtg—Every 1st & 3rd Monday Line Dance Classes—Every Monday Sunday / Tuesday Bar Bingo Bar Bingo (Pot Luck) - 4th (5th) Wednesday Darts—Every Tuesday & Thursday Line Dance Classes—Every Monday Lunches & All-U-Can Eat Soup / Salad -Tuesday-Friday Grand Buffet / Queen of Hearts—Every Friday Night Spaghetti Night—Every Tuesday Karaoke—Every Saturday with Phil & Linda From Chaps PER Breakfast—Every 1st Sunday
Note: PER Breakfast on hiatus after May—will start again in October
Monday Line Dance Classes over after April-will again start in Sept. _ ___________________________________________________________________________
Our banquet facility is available for those special occasions, birthdays, graduations, weddings, baby and bridal showers, weddings, anniversaries, league banquets, holiday parties. Please call the lodge at 386-663-3041 and ask for John; he will help you plan for your event.
110th Annual State Convention, May 26-29, 2016. One-night deposit is required for each room reservation. Rooms sleep a maximum of four; standard room rate for a double or single is $124.00 plus 12.5% tax, or $139.50 per night. Each additional adult will cost $15.00 plus 12.5% tax, or $16.88 per night. Reservations may also be phoned to (407) 939-4686. Our meeting name is: Florida Elks 2016. You must use this to obtain our group rate. An e-mail confirmation will be sent to you immediately if reservations are made online. Cutoff date for reservations is April 27, 2016 or when sold out.
Logon on to the Florida Elks State Convention website: http://floridaelks.org/2016-fsea-state-convention.
WELCOME OUR NEW MEMBERS
INITIATED WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016
Kim Morris, Harry Dow, Cynthia Halcow, Brandon
Smith, Joseph Landerville and Elizabeth Landerville
pictured with Exalted Ruler. Dot Durni, PER
SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH
HOEDOWN / LINE DANCE
5 PM - 7:30 PM
$8.00 PP
INCLUDES FLAT BREAD PIZZA
***** REMINDER *****
DD CLINIC, SATURDAY, APRIL 15TH AT 10:00 AM
LODGE IS HOSTING THE MEETING
LODGE SPONSORED
BABE RUTH
“T-BALL” TEAM
Editor / Publicity Officer: Mary Ann J. Bucci Contact Email: [email protected] Lodge Website Administrator: Scott Skowronski Contact Address: [email protected] Facebook Administrator: Jeremy D. Reichenberg Address: https://www.facebook.com/Elks1557/
