Newark Lodge Trustee Dave Underhill, PER, presented a $250 lodge award to Student of the Year Eowyn Frail. Eowyn, whose home school is Granville High School, is a recent graduate of C-Tech from the Fire/EMT program.

Upper Sandusky Elks Lodge #83 recently held their annual Purse Bingo to raise funds for local youth charities. Over 250 people attended the event which raised $4,000. These funds will be used by the Wyandot Family and Children First Program and the Wyandot County Mentoring Program.

Gallipolis Elks Lodge #107 Past Exalted Ruler Nelson Dray, South Central District Cerebral Palsy Chairman, presented Cerebral Palsy grant checks to Superintendent Pamela Combs, Guiding Hand School, Gallia County Board of Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities (MR/DD) and Kay Davis, Director of Education, Meigs County Board of MR/DD.  The grants, which totaled $8,500, were provided by the Ohio Elks Association Cerebral Palsy Fund Board.

Athens Elks Lodge #973 presented nine College Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each to local students.

Ohio Elks Northeast District golf outing  was hosted by Alliance Elks Lodge #467 at Tannenhauf Golf Club. Twenty-three (23) teams participated in a shotgun start. The Elks National Foundation Charity hole collected $327 and the Cerebral Palsy hole collected $875. The event raised another $170 for the Ohio Elks Endowment Fund.

Connie Smith, Exalted Ruler of the Salem Elks Lodge #305 presented Chief Allen Haueter of the Leetonia P.D. with a check for $750 to help with the purchase of 2 additional, PatrolEyes, body cams. This check was from a Community Investment Grant issued by the Ohio Elks Association. This is for the safety of not only the officers but the public as well.

Robert Bycroft received a grant from the Ohio Elks Association CP Fund Board for $3,213. Andrew Garber, Principal accepted the funds from Connie Smith, Exalted Ruler of Salem Elks Lodge #305. The grant will be used to purchase a new Rifton Supine Stander which will give those unable to stand on their own a chance to experience the world in a whole new way.

Van Wert Elks Lodge #1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Golf Committee recently made a donation of $300 to the Van Wert Salvation Army.  The monies will assist the Salvation Army with their Wednesday lunches as well as the food pantry.

Salem Elks Lodge #305 local Soccer Shoot held Sunday, May 19th at the Community Center's indoor soccer field.

Cuyahoga Falls-Akron-Barberton Elks Lodge #1923 participated in the City of Cuyahoga Falls annual Memorial Day Parade with 6 local Veterans riding in3 total cars.  The sides of the vehicles have each Veteran’s names on the cars so when we went by the grand-stand, they read off the names of our Veterans and announced who we were.  It was a lovely day.  There were over 80 folks in the parade, we were number 41.

Cuyahoga Falls - Akron - Barberton Elks Lodge #1923 hosted “Music on Mission”. It was an evening of live music at our lodge, all donated by our Songwriters group named Pandora’s box that meets at our lodge the second Wed of every month. We raised over 17 large clothing baskets full of much needed toiletries and supplies, plus almost $500 in monetary donations for local women’s center.

Cuyahoga Falls - Akron - Barberton Elks Lodge #1923 held a family friendly event at the lodge all day and into the evening, where we hosted and raised funds for Happy Trails Farm Animal Sanctuary out of Ravenna which rescues neglected, abused and injured Farm Animals in Summit County and beyond. 

The Berea, Lakewood, and Willoughby-Cleveland Elks Lodges volunteered at the Cleveland Food Bank earlier this month to help pick and pack more than 36,000 pounds of fresh produce that will serve about 1,000 families across Northeast Ohio. Seventeen Elks from the three lodges worked together to help our neighbors in need.

Upper Sandusky Elks Lodge #83 presented their annual Student of the Year Awards at the Upper Sandusky Middle School Honor's Program on Thursday night.

Van Wert Elks Lodge #1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks held their Soccer Shoot on Saturday, May 4, 2019 at the Elks Lodge.   Approximately 25 students participated in the event and were cheered on by parents and grandparents.

Selected as Student/Volunteer of The Year was Hannah Kraner, a senior at Van Wert High School.   The Student of the Year winner received a certificate as well as a $200.00.   The winner is eligible to apply for a $1000.00 scholarship through the Ohio Elks Association vying for the Student Volunteer of the Year award.

Gallipolis Elks Lodge #107 utilized an Elks National Foundation Beacon Grant to donate $2,500 to “Gallipolis in Bloom” (GIB) in the support of the beautification of the city of Gallipolis on planting day, May 4th. 

Berea Elks Lodge #1815 hosted a Youth Appreciation Awards banquet to honor several local kids on their achievements and accomplishments over the past year. This included Boy Scouts, Hoop Shoot Winners, Americanism Essay Contest Winners, and Most Valuable Student scholarship recipients.

The 90th Annual Fall Reunion of the Ohio Elks Association will be held at the Columbus Marriott Northwest in Dublin, OH August 15-18, 2019. All Ohio districts will be housed at this venue. Reserve your hotel room now.

The first of two $500 scholarships was presented to Nicholas Workman. Nicholas is a senior at Newark High School graduating this spring and will be attending OSU to study Engineering in the fall.