Gallup Elks Lodge held their Flag Day ceremony and invited the Gallup Fire Department to assist them. Crew A was honored to be a part of this event for the Elks Lodge and our community.
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Lodge 1747 held it’s first Flag retirement ceremony. The Veterans committee led by Cara Richter held the ceremony on June 10th. Thank you to Tommy Bolack an Elk Trustee for allowing this event to be held on his ranch. Also a huge shout out to the Veterans Committee for putting this together. John Tucker did a great job as MC. The ceremony was open to the public and had a good turn out.
14th Annual Veterans Golf Tournament benefiting our local veterans!! Huge thank you to our Chairman Craig Sutherland, all volunteers for putting this great event together. We are most appreciative of all our sponsors, volunteers and golfers!!! $24,450.00 raised on this tournament!!
The Lodge awarded six Elks Most Valuable Scholar Applicants a gift of $400 for the hard work they accomplished during their high school career. Thank you to Jan our Lodge Scholarship Chair for her dedication in promoting our youth. Thank you to the members for being present and honoring our youth.
The Elks hosted a Pizza Party for the 5th Grade Bilingual Class at La Mesa Elementary School. The Party was in Celebration of the Posters they created for the Elks Drug Awareness Poster Contest. The top 4 winners received the kindle 8s. They also received framed Certificates and their posters framed. All youth received Certificates, Elks currant Coloring Books, Non Smoking Books and stuffed moneys saying “Don’t Monkey Around with Drugs”. It was a great day in the neighborhood for the Children and the Elks.
Elks rallied the students at La Mesa with a pizza party for their awards celebration for the Elks Drug Awareness Poster Contest , “One Pill Can Kill”. Thank you to the dedicated teacher who supported the children in her bilingual class in winning Kindle 8s for the top student’s Posters.
All the Youth were winners as they each received Non-Smoking Books, The Elks Coloring Books, Stuffed Monkeys that say, “Don’t Monkey Around with Drugs” and a certificate for job well done.
Today the Elks Americanism Program takes great pride in educating our community about our Flag History, Flag Etiquette, and Flag Folding with over 400 military, veteran, DOD, and civilians at Ft Bliss Army Installation. The community came together to celebrate the month of the military child.