Anne and Steven Sheldon with daughter Jade
Mission Viejo / Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge (“Elks Lodge”) supported the recent Miracles for Kids Backpack Event. The Elks Lodge helped stuff 450 backpacks for sick children throughout Orange County with supplies for their new school year.
Elks Lodge member Beverly Richmond spent the day with the Miracles for Kids Backpack team preparing the gift packages for the sick kids. “The Miracles for Kids Backpack group is a wonderful charity and I wanted to do what I could to brighten the day of these ill children. This is a very small way to give back to some kids who appreciate the gifts.”
Elks Lodge members Stephanie and Bill Bongartz from Bongo Ink generously donated backpacks with school supplies purchased by funds from the Elks Lodge Community Charity fund.
The Mission Viejo / Saddleback Elks Lodge No. 2444, celebrating forty-four (44) 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 146 year history of giving, “Elks Care, Elks Share.”
Andy Costello, Lodge Publicity
Mission Viejo / Saddleback Valley Elks Lodge No. 2444
