NEW MEMBERS NEEDED
Congratulations to Ron Clow for bringing in 23 new members over the past year. He was presented two Elks watches and a congratulations from the Grand Exalted Ruler. Ron's name was also entered into a raffle for a trip for two at the Grand Lodge Convention, however, he did not win.
How about you? Sponsor three new members and get your dues paid for next year. We like you, we would probably like your friends and family. Share the secret of Elkdom.
Gene Koerber
Parma Elks Mens Senior Bowling
Bowling will begin 9 am on Tuesday, October 6th at Yorktown Lanes
2009-2010 Machine Bowling
The season is beginning October 11th. Feel free to sign up as an individual or team--the sign up sheet is on the bowling machine. We will match up individuals to form a team or choose your own partners. Hope you decide to join us!
FROM THE SCHOLARSHIP CHAIR:
Ohio Elk Association Educational Fund Grants are available on line from the OEA website or by contacting me.
Forty-eight $1000 grants will be awarded statewide – 8 to each District. These are open to anyone of any age desiring to further their education at a career or technical institution. Bachelor or Graduate degree programs are not eligible.
Applications must be turned in to the Lodge by midnight, February 1, 2010. Applications received after that will not be accepted.
Dianne Good, P.E.R. 440-884-1168 DJG840@aol.com
Entertainment Book/Our Town
& All Around Book
Parma Lodge is now selling the above 2010 books that can be used NOW. Both offer great discounts for dining, sports, travel, entertainment, etc. The price of the Entertainment Book is $30.00 and the price of Our Town and All Around Book is $28.00.
A sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board in the Lodge Lounge. If ordering either or both books, please note it on the sheet and leave a check made out to the Parma Elks Lodge #1938 in the black payment box. Your support of this fundraiser is greatly appreciated.
If you have any questions or want to review either book, please contact me at (216)749-4841 or see me at the lodge.
Joe Mandula, Treasurer
2010 Ohio Elks Association
Calendars
We now have a Calendar Chairman, thanks to one of our bar personnel, Rose Dearth.
We have a complete list of numbers posted on the bulletin board. See Rose to choose your calendar or take some to your place of business or work and sell them to anyone you know.
The price is $20. and they contain a four digit number that is tied to the daily pick four lottery number. They make great stocking stuffers.
VETERANS HISTORY
Twenty-five (25) years ago, Carl Ritcher volunteered to Chair the Veterans Program and began taking books, toiletries, shavers, and more to the Veterans in Brecksville.
When Carl retired, he turned the Chairmanship over to Rich Grzelecki and Frank Lehnert. This year, Ed Kupski, Preston Neal, and Fran Benko-Trozzi volunteered to Chair the program.
As part of our 300th consecutive visit with the above mentioned items in November, we want to host a celebration for our Veterans. We are making up goodie bags for each Veteran there. I am asking every member to send a THANK YOU CARD to help show our appreciation for their time and sacrifice in the defense of us all. Send the card or cards to the Lodge at 2250 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134 or drop them off. Please do it now to give us time to get the bags together. If you want to contribute items to the bags, let Ed, Preston, or Fran know. This celebration is being planned for soon after Veterans Day.
Check the November Bulletin for final details. Plan to support our Veterans Committee. Gene Koerber ER
To celebrate our 300th consecutive visit to the VA, we are planning a Veteran’s Day “party” at the Brecksville VA. We will provide pizza and ice cream to the vets as our way of saying “thanks”. We’d also like to provide a “thank you” card to as many vets as possible.
We are asking ALL members to bring or mail a card to the lodge to be delivered. There will be a designated card box in the lodge. You are also invited to join us at the “party”, the more support we can show, the better—let’s let our vets know that they are not forgotten!
Because of logistics, we are awaiting to finalize the date. We will post further information as soon as it is available. You may also contact Fran Benko Trozzi at 216-469-7401 with questions.
E-Mail Addresses
Thank you to the ten (10) members that sent me their e-mail addresses. However we have 673 members on the roster.
PLEASE take the time to cooperate and send it to my e-mail ("elkoerber@sbcglobal.net") ASAP.
TUESDAY DRAWING
Did you know we have a drawing every Tuesday evening at 9:00 pm?
Visit your lodge on Tuesday evening and enjoy the fun, and a chance to win big bucks. If you are a paid up member, just come down any time the lodge is open before the drawing on Tuesday. You can enter your name in the book up till 8:00 pm before the drawing. It only costs a dollar. Our pot is growing and you could be a winner!!!!!
Please Help Our Troops!
Daily our soldiers, both Men and Women are living in deplorable conditions and could use the support of all of us. In our lobby is a box which is almost always empty. I ask you not to forget our soldiers as they fight a war for our freedom and for those they are meeting as they go about their daily duties.
In your summer travels if you stay at a hotel or motel that has toiletries for your use, bring in those unused toiletries and put them in the box in the lobby. (only unused toiletries)
When you travel through Marc's or your favorite grocery store and see non perishable food items that could be sent to our soldiers, pick up some and drop them in the box. If it is something you would like to snack on, so would they. They are without those conveniences and you would be sending something from home for them to enjoy. Let's all put a little in the box so that they can all feel a little closer to home.
God Bless Our Soldiers, and you for your gifts. Freedom is not free.
Remembering Our Troops
We are collecting items for packages going to the troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and other remote locations around the world. Click here for a list of recommended items. A list is also posted at the Lodge.
Boxes will be in the main hallway outside the Lounge for contributions. The USO will do the mailing and the Parma Elks will be acknowledged in the mailings.
Since the war on terror, the USO has sent over 20,500 packages to our troops overseas. Monetary contributions are also needed to defray the cost of $8.50 to send each package. Checks can be made out to Parma Elks #1938 and send them to PO Box 29008, Parma, OH 44129. We will then send one check to the USO.
Travel sized items only are requested. The troops have to carry everything with them. Besides large items are too bulky and cost more in packaging.
Please indicate on the check that it is for Troop Packaging. We can make a difference in the lives of the men and women who are putting their lives on the line everyday. Please join me in this worthwhile project to show our troops we care!
God Bless them and God Bless America!
Thanks for your support, Norm Fugitt, Americanism Chairman
From the Secretary’s Desk…
Please let me know if you are moving - whether permanently or temporarily. We paid out nearly $5.00 this month in postal notices regarding members who moved or moved back from their winter homes. Sometimes the postal service doesn't send us the notices until several weeks after the INFO has gone out. This means that the next INFO may also go out with an old or an undeliverable address which incurs a second charge. It also means that you may get your INFO late - or not at all! So please take a minute to call me, email me, or drop me a note - about a month ahead of time - indicating that you will be at a different address by a certain date. Your Lodge and I both appreciate it!
I will be at the Grand Lodge convention in Portland and out of town on vacation from July 5th thru the 19th. If you send in a check for dues during that time, you will not get your card until I return. You can still call if you have any questions and Joe will get the message to me. I would love to come back and find everyone has sent in their dues!! Thanks for your assistance with these two items!
Dianne Good, Secretary
440-884-1168
djg840@aol.com
OSU TICKETS Tickets
OSU TICKETS Tickets are available behind the bar, for a chance on TWO SEASON TICKETS to the OSU football season home games. The donation of $5.00 will benefit Cerebral Palsy, and our Lodge will get credit toward their per capita. There are also Cerebral Palsy lapel pins on the back bar, which can be purchased along with Lodge pins, $3.00 each or two for $5.00, mix-n-match.
ELK FUNERAL SERVICE
An Elk service is held at the request of the family of the departed. Elk members should discuss this with those who will be responsible for carrying out the members wishes upon their death. Put it in writing and make it part of their final papers. Also include the phone number of the lodge to make it easier to contact the lodge secretary and Exalted Ruler. Most funeral directors will assist in making proper contact with the lodge.
“QUEEN OF HEARTS”
Saturday Night Drawing!!
DRAWING: 9 pm or shortly thereafter
Rules:
- Tickets can be purchased by members, spouses or widows only.
- Tickets 1 for $1.00, 3 for $2.00, or 8 for $5.00.
- Deck of cards numbered 1 through 54
- Info on ticket, name, membership #, and envelope # of preferred card (1-54)–if any info is missing ticket will be discarded and another drawn
- Spouses use membership number of member.
Winners
- If your card is queen of hearts you win the pot if you are here—50% if you are not.
- If any other queen is your card—you win 10% of pot if you are here—5% if you are not.
- If a joker is your card—you win 15% of pot if you are here—7.5% if you are not.
- If your ticket is drawn, and your card is not a winner and you are present you win $25.00
Additional Rules
- When the jackpot is won, the current week’s sales will carry to next drawing.
- Only one name per ticket and only paid up members are eligible to participate!
- Only three designated members of the lodge will have a key to the card cabinet. The cabinet will only be opened for drawing or to set up another game.
- Game will be set up with assistance of several members.
- A new game starts with current week of sales.
- All pay outs over $599. will be issued a “1099”
- You can only purchase tickets for yourself.
- Tickets must be purchased and deposited in box at the time of purchase.
YOU CAN NOW PURCHASE TICKETS UP TO 6PM ON SATURDAYS. SEE BARTENDER TO OBTAIN A CHANCE TO WIN…THE DRAWING CONTINUES TO GROW…
All questions should be directed to Gene Koerber, 440-840-4845.
HISTORY OF THE ELKS
See previous History Articles Here
PROPOSITIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP
Balloting at Meeting on 10/8/2009
- Neal Montgomery, Brunswick, OH, Construction worker, sponsored by Attila L. Berta
- Leonard Mosley, Cleveland, OH, Auto body repair, Reinstatement, sponsored by Richard Dufek
2009-2010 ER LODGE PINS
NOW AVAILABLE
AT THE BAR FOR $3.00
or 2/$5.00
AMERICANISM
We had 3 winners this year in the Elks Americanism Essay, "What Freedom Means to Me". Brandon Mabin's essay came in first place in the district. He was a 7th grader at Shiloh Middle School. I would like to share it with you.
What is Freedom to Me? Freedom to me is the right to have a dream and make that dream come true. Freedom is being able to speak out and say what you want about something you don't agree with. Freedom is the right to express yourself in any way in which you please to. My belief is that everyone in the world deserves the right to be a free individual. The great thing about freedom is that with it everyone gets a chance to be something amazing—whether you are African American, Caucasian, poor or wealthy—no matter who you are or where you live you get this once in a lifetime opportunity to create something that truly matters to this world. So now you can see even when it seems you have nothing you will always have your freedom because no one can take that away from you.
Norm Fugitt, Americanism Chairman
American Flag
I would like to thank those that have contributed to our American flag in May: Ken Oberg , Sal Sottosanti , Ed Kupski , Norm Fugitt
A POW/MIA flag was also purchased thanks to: Ken Oberg , Ed Kupski , Preston Neal , Norm Fugitt Please note that the MIA/POW flag was put up under the American flag for Memorial Day!
At the present time we have an American Flag in reserve. The flags last about 4 months so we will probably need one more to last until next year. If you would like to contribute to the flag send your check to Parma Elks #1938 and memo the American Flag or see Ed Kupski or myself. We still need fifty dollars more for the next flag.
Thank you.
Norm Fugitt, Americanism Chairman
VETERANS
Thanks to all our members who donated books and other miscellaneous items for our Veterans. Your Lodge made its 298th consecutive donation to the hospital in Brecksville in September.
We are very short of paperback books and need your help with the donations.
Ed Kupski, Preston Neal & Fran Benko Trozzi Veteran’s Chairpersons
MANAGER'S CORNER
Happy Fall! Thank you everyone who made the all you can eat spaghetti dinner a success. Thank you Dave and Marie Placko for your great cooking.
We now have Wii & Wing night every Wednesday in the Lounge. Thirty five cents wings from 6:00-11:00 pm—dine in only.
So, come on in and have a cold drink, some wings and have a good time playing the Wii game, darts or corn hole.
Watch for the Lounge’s upcoming events. Thank you.
Your Bar Manager, Josie Clow
BIRTHDAY CERTIFICATE
Are you on the birthday list and is today your birthday? Bring the ad from the "info" with you and stop by the Lounge on YOUR BIRTHDAY for one free beverage compliments of…The Trustees
BIRTHDAY BONUS
Jordan’s Family Restaurant is offering a free meal on your birthday to any Lodge member who presents their card on that day.
CEREBRAL PALSY COIN BANK REPORT
Amount collected in the coin banks from August 1st to August 30th was $68.78.
Donors: Bar Banks. J. & J. Bolibrush, B. Coad, R. & R. Elavsky, E. Fenner, N. Fugitt, J. & N. Kowalchik, K. Kupchik, L. Papp, B. Radwanski, C. Radwanski & G. Sharpe
This brings the total for the year to $1,570.96.
This would be the equivalent of 483+ banks that have been turned in so far. Thanks to everyone that has contributed to this worthy cause! Please continue to ask the bartenders for additional banks when you need them.
John M. Kowalchik, Chairman
YOU MUST HAVE A CURRENT PAID-UP MEMBERSHIP CARD TO ENTER THE LOUNGE.
If you are buzzed in, please be prepared to present your membership card to the bartender.
BE A PROPOSER!
WE LIKE YOU, WE'LL LIKE YOUR FRIEND, PROPOSE A FRIEND FOR MEMBERSHIP AND BE A PART OF ELKDOM!
FINANCING FOR THE "INFO" COMES FROM OUR ADVERTISERS
BECOME AN ADVERTISER TO SUPPORT OUR LODGE ...AND SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS.