Shari Scott, Elks Lodge Veterans Chairperson; Jason Spence, Leading Knight; Veteran Jane Schmidt; Gloria Le Couvre, Past Exalted Ruler
ELKS LODGE BRINGS GIFTS TO HOMELESS VETS
Mission Viejo / Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge No. 2444 (“Elks Lodge”) members joined forces with Huntington Beach, Garden Grove, Westminster and Buena Park Elks Lodges to visit veterans at the Long Beach V.A. Hospital Cabrillo Veteran’s Village. The Villages at Cabrillo is a unique residential community offering transitional housing for homeless veterans, families, and youth. For the vets in this transitional housing, the Elks members brought TV’s, new shirts, appliances, gift cards and other gifts totaling approximately $5,000. The vets were treated to bingo games and refreshments of pizza, punch and cookies. Between the bingo games, raffles were held so that all of the vets received at least one gift.
The Mission Viejo / Saddleback Elks Lodge No. 2444, celebrating forty-two (42) years of service to the Saddleback Valley communities, is one of ten lodges in the Orange Coast District of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) whose headquarters is in Chicago, Illinois. The BPOE is a charitable organization with a 144 year history of giving, “Elks Care, Elks Share.”
Hal Mattson, Lodge Publicity
Mission Viejo / Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge No. 2444
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