April 2010

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, BPOE, A Fraternal

Organization Founded February 16th, 1868. Salisbury Lodge 699

Chartered May 11, 1901 Volume 2—Issue 1

Upcoming Events

• New Officer Installation—Thursday, April 1, 2010 • Karaoke at the Lodge—Saturday, April 3, 2010 • River Park Clear-up—Saturday, April 10th, 9 a.m. • Raylen Vineyards Winery Tour and Tasting—Saturday, April 17th, 1 p.m. • Shaggers’ Dance at the Lodge—Saturday, April 17th, 8 p.m. • DD Clinic at Mt. Airy—Sunday, April 18th • Elks Lodge 699 Bowling Banquet—Saturday, April 24th • NC State Spring Convention—Wilmington, NC—April 30 to May 2nd, 2010 • Bass Tournament at High Rock Lake—Saturday, May 8, 2010 • Don Stout Memorial Golf Tournament—Saturday, May 22, 2010

CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME NEW MEMBERS TO SALISBURY ELKS LODGE!!!

Pictured from left to right, Bob Sce, outgoing ER, Debi Davis, Scott DeForrest, Ken Harmer, Brent Hartman, Erin Vinson, Kirk Laps, Bebe Brittain ., and Esquire, Steve Arey

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ER Message As we begin a new year in Elkdom I want to first of all thank our outgoing ER, Bob Sce, lodge officers and committees for their outstanding service to our Lodge. Bob has served three out of the last four years as ER of our Lodge. Secondly, I wish to express my appreciation to our membership for honoring me with the privilege to serve as your ER. I believe the Salisbury Elks Lodge is one of the best in the state. I have watched this lodge grow from 150 members to over 450. Some have chosen to be in-volved in our many charitable works, others have become lodge offices and some have even gone on to state and national positions. Too many times, however, we never see many of these folks again. This year I would like to see a stop in our lack of retention of members. This job falls upon each and everyone of us, not just the sponsors of those members. Mem-bership is the lifeblood of this or-ganization. If you missed the ER Ball, you missed a great party. Chad Sain was terrific as usual, and ku-dos to Mike and Becky Sifford for the fantastic meal. Congratulations to James Caldwell—Elk of the Year, Julie Caldwell, Officer of the Year, and

thoughts and prayers. God bless America and God bless Elkdom. Fraternally, Bill Brown , ER

especially to Becky Sifford, Out-standing Citizen of the Year, for all of her voluntary charitable works with cancer patients and Relay for Life, a most deserving award. Just a reminder that our next DD clinic will be on Sun-day, April 18th in Mount Airy. Attendance is required by the ER, Leading Knight, Secretary, and Chairman of the Trustees. A sign up sheet for those wishing to at-tend will be posted in the lounge. Remember to keep our service men and women in your

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We have had really good response to our offer to send our newsletter to you via e-mail. Please let me know if you would like to receive yours this way. Just send your e-mail address to me at gsce1@carolina.rr.com. You will enjoy the sharper graphics and color photos when receiving your newsletter in this manner, and you will be saving the lodge postage costs.

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Secretary’s Message

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to serve the Lodge again as Secretary. While a chal-lenging job particularly in these extraordinary times, I look forward to getting a little closer to the mem-bership. Back when I was Secre-tary, I knew every name on our list although I may never have met them personally. Now and after only two years absent from that position, there are so many who I haven't a clue who they are. Look-ing through this huge list of mem-bers we will have dropped by March 31, it's amazing how many of them are very new to our Order and rarely, if ever came back to the lodge after being initiated. That's very unfortunate and I surely wish there was better way for all of us to get to know each other more easily. I want to go ahead an apologize upfront for being late on getting out membership cards and any other membership related activity that needs to be done by April 1. March is the busiest month of the year for a Secretary and given the transition from one Secretary to another, it will be impossible to get everything done in as timely a manner as it should. In any event, thanks to so many who have paid there dues promptly already. That's v e r y e n c o u r a g i n g . However and once I get a little ahead of the game, I do plan on spending a good deal of time work-ing on membership recruitment. I don't know who the new member-ship chair will be but I look for-ward to helping us rebound from this horrendous year that we have had. To drop nearly 90 members for non-payment is just mindbog-gling and I can't help but think some of these losses could have been avoided. The Secretary position, whether one has the time or not,

plays a key role in keeping the member and the Lodge connected. I hope I'll be able to fulfill those i m p o r t a n t d e m a n d s . Finally, I continue to add data to www.elkshistory.org albeit at much slower rate then before. Please take a look at it as I feel confident that you will be amazed at our glorious past. While I'm not one to live in the past, I do believe that we can learn a few things that still would be applicable in today's world. I hope you will too! Mike Jones, Secretary

Congratulations to: Allison Holshouser

Elk of the Month for

March 2010

DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE RAYLEN WINERY TOUR AND TASTING

APRIL 17TH, 2010

We still have openings for the Raylen Vineyards wine tour and tasting on Saturday, April 17th at 1 p.m. Raylen Winery is located on Route 158 in Mocksville, NC. Rides are available. We will be meeting at the Lodge around 12:30 p.m. if you would like to join us. Cost is $6.00 per person and in-cludes the tour, tasting and a sou-venir wine glass. Call or come up to the lodge to sign up.

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April 2010

Lodge Officers—2010-2011

Exalted Ruler Bill Brown Leading Knight Julie Caldwell Loyal Knight Mark Tomei Lecturing Knight Mike Mauney Secretary Mike Jones Treasurer Bob Sce Tiler Allison Holshouser Esquire Julie Copley Inner Guard Archie Blythe Chaplain Jeff Carter

Trustees

Kevin Frey—5 year Brett Summers—4 year John Salonen—3 year Rob Stubbs—2 year Mike Davis—1 year

Committees

Americanism—Brad Walworth House & Entertainment—Jeff Carter Publicity—Gail Sce Membership—Linda Brown Youth Activities—Julie Caldwell Drug Awareness—Mike Jones River Park—Steve Vail Caretaker—Steve and Julie Copley and Allison Holshouser National Foundation—Kent Roberts Veterans Service—John Salonen Bingo—Billie Jean Proctor

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Sickness & Distress

• Nathan Harris’ father passed • Don Weinhold passed • Larry Cesario’s father passed • Brad Treece’s father passed

and his mother and grand-mother are hospitalized

• Alice Jenkins’ brother passed • Kevin Frey's Dad hospitalized • Patty Major’s brother passed • Kirk Laps’ grandfather

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SALISBURY ELKS #699 GOLF LEAGUE

This year’s league will start on April 14th at Corbin Hills Golf Course. Sign-up sheet and de-tails available at the Lodge.

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April 2010

RIVER PARK NEWS

Just a note to remind eve-ryone of the River Park work day April 10th, Start at 9 am. If you have one, bring a rake. Please come and join us.

Request for reservations for monthly/weekly sites have al-ready begun. Those interested need to contact (for the present) me at vail6211@bellsouth.net , 704-906-5382 cell or 704-637-6186 home. I will fill out the necessary forms and the requesting member MUST mail or get me a check per-sonally immediately. The form will be held as a reservation for a few days only and if the rental check is not received the request for the reservation will be can-celed.

The River Park Commit-tee for this season will meet on April 10th at the River Park work day. (I haven’t heard from Bill as to exactly who that is)

Beginning in April the River Park Committee will begin contacting all current yearly site leases to discuss the signing of new leases for the 2010 season. There will be some changes to the lease agreements this year, and these will be discussed individually, prior to the signing of each new lease. The River park Committee and the Lodge will do everything it can to make this work as smoothly as possible.

Steve Vail

CONGRATULATIONS TO AWARDS WINNERS

Julie Caldwell, Officer of the Year

James Caldwell, Elk of the Year

Allison Holshouser, Special Commendation Award

Bernie MacDonald, Special Commendation Award

Becky Sifford, Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award

Award winners not pic-tured are John Salonen, Chair-man of the Veterans Service Committee, Steve Vail, Chair-man of the River Park Commit-tee, and Andy Jenkins, who has volunteered his time over the years cooking for our Poker Runs and Luaus. The one thing that all of these recipients have in common is that they all have worked tire-lessly for our lodge and our com-munity. They don’t do it for money; they don’t do it for rec-ognition; they do it because there is a need. They recognize the need and respond accordingly.

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April 2010

Bingo at the Lodge

April & May Birthdays

Come to the lodge on or near your birthday for a

free birthday drink.

James O’Connor 4-2 Fred Setzer 4-3

Wayne Allman 4-7 Gregory R. Tano 4-8 Mike Sharpe 4-9 Tim Wheet 4-9 L.A. Christy, Jr. 4-10 Dominque Shifs 4-12 John N. Kepple 4-15

Newton Walser 4-16 Billy E. Payne 4-17

Teresa Miller 4-18 Francis L. Janis 4-19 Joyce Higdon 4-19 Michael R. Jones 4-19 Edward A. Crabtree 4-19

Tony A. Ward 4-20 William T. Brown 4-22

Benjamin Vaughan 4-23 Mark Vaughan 4-23 Donnie L. Miller 4-24 Lorena Chase 4-27 Bill Brown 4-29 Noah R. McKinney 4-30 Brad Treece 4-30

Every Monday at 7:00 p.m. Refresh-ments available along with great fun

This year’s league went down to the last game to decide the winner this season. Heading into the last week, The Ball Bust-ers had a 6 point lead over the second place, The Ace Holes. The Ace Holes won the first game by 80 pins and the second game by 17 pins, giving them a comfort-able 107 pin lead going into the last game. But the Ball Busters fought back in game 3 and won by 5 pins giving them the last 2 points and 1st place. Congratula-tion to the 1st place team: Michelle Rivers, Deb Tomei, Mark Tomei, and Mike Mauney. I would also like to congratulate the 2nd place team, Lori Mann, Allen Riggs, Kevin Frey, and Ted Bryant. Thanks to both teams for such an exciting finish. The last week was the league’s fun day, where we had a

different format for each game. The first game was what’s called a no-tap game. Simply put, if you knock 9 pins on your first ball you will get credit for a strike. I guess Jim Oliver did not understand that, as he proceeded to throw 12 natural strikes in the first game for perfect 300 game. Nice bowling Jim!!! This year’s standouts are as fol-lows: Men high game, series, and average all belong to Jim Oliver with a high series of 705, and high game of 276, and high average of 212. As for the Ladies, the same applies, Julie Caldwell holds the high series 539, high game 244, and high average of 160. In the handicap category, game and series for men belongs to Randy Higdon, with a 748 handi-cap series and a 276 handicap game. For the Ladies high handi-cap game belongs to Barbara Can-nito 274, and high handicap series is held by Marcie Puckett with a 705. Great bowling everyone. The awards banquet will be a steak dinner held on April 24th, at the lodge. Guests may attend cost $10 per person. Sign-up sheet will be at the lodge.

Salisbury Elks Bowling League Finishes in a Flurry

PROPOSALS FOR MEMBERSHIP

• Matthew Vail by Steve

Vail—employed by Duke Energy

• Kevin O’Mellan by David

Thrift —employed as real estate appariser

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April 2010

SALISBURY ELKS LODGE #699

4th ANNUAL DON STOUT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

GOLF TOURNAMENT

DATE: ------------------------SATURDAY MAY 22, 2010 TIME: -------------------------1:00 Shotgun Start

WHERE: ---------------------Rolling Hills Golf Course FORMAT: ------------------- 4 Person Captain’s Choice

COST: ------------------------ $40 per person

(Includes- 18 Holes plus Cart, refreshments on

the course, Prizes, and meal at the Elks Lodge )

Don was a member of the Salisbury Elks lodge for ma ny years. He held many po-sitions, most recent, Lodge Chaplin, Publicity chai rperson, District Veterans Ser-vices chairperson, and Scholarship chairperson. Don also conducted VA Bingo the first Tuesday of each month at the Salisbury VA Hospital; he made arrange-ments and scheduled members to ring the Bell for th e Salvation Army at Christ-mas each year, along with making arrangements for t he Recreation Singers. Don also had a long career as an educator with the Sali sbury school district and took great pride in teaching young students. It is this reason that Salisbury Elks Lodge #699 has chosen to award two $1000 scholarshi ps, to deserving students, in Don’s name. The Elks feel there is no better way to honor Don’s memory than

by helping a student further their education .

Sign up at the Elks Lodge or call 704-636-1161

to make your reservation. For more details or information about the Tournamen t contact:

Bob Sce at 704-798-8813, James Caldwell at 704-232-9953 or

Bernie McDonald at 704-232-1132

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VIEWS AND MEMORIES FROM THE 2010 ER BALL

April 2010

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 April Fools Day

Lodge Meeting And new officer

installation 7:30 p.m.

2 3 Karaoke at the Lodge 7 p.m.

4 Easter

5 6 House

Committee Meeting 6:30

p.m.

VA Bingo 7 p.m.

7 8 Trustees meeting

7:30 p.m.

9 10 River Park Clean-up

11 12 13 14 15 Lodge Meeting

7:30 p.m.

16 17 Wine Tour and

Tasting at Raylen

Vineyards

18 19 20 21 22 PER’s Meeting

7:30 p.m.

23 24 Elks Bowling

Banquet

25 26 27 28 29 30 NC State Elks Convention in

Wilmington, NC Begins

April 2010

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