Del Leween Sunday FunDay Bowling League Meeting
Tonight is the Del Leween Sunday Funday bowling league meeting at 6 PM.
veterans dinner november 9th, 2024
Watertown Elks # 496 hosted an amazing Veterans Dinner on the evening of Saturday, November 9th, 2024. Nearly 100 people attended the Turkey dinner. Dinner included: turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, vegetables, salad, dinner rolls, and desserts. Meals were all donated and prepared by amazing volunteers.
Evening included our honored guest speaker; Eric B. Soluri, Retired United States Air Force Chief Master Sergeant. The evening was introduced by our Veterans Committee chairman Past Exalted Ruler Ed Massa. Exalted Ruler Mike opened the evening and introduced Reverend Linda Taber for invocation. Star Spangled Banner was performed by a singer from Fort Drum. Esquire Karen Miller and the Boys Scouts led the Pledge of Allegiance. Before close of the evening, the Veterans Committee presented a check for $1,000 to Joseph P Dwyer Veteran Peer Support Center in Jefferson County. The $1,000 was received from Freedom Grant from the Grand Lodge. A lot of money was raised by the Veterans Committee's fund-raising events held over the summer with a lot of donations being made to the Feed Our Vets program, Camp Bristol Veterans Program, Welcome Home Kits done by the committee (all monies were reimbursed by the Elks National Veterans Service Commission), the USO, etc.
Reverend Linda Taber and her husband also presented a check to the Veterans Committee in gratitude of the committee's commitment and support to the local veterans' programs.
Veterans Committee Chairman PER Ed Massa would like to thank all the committee members and volunteers for their hard work and dedication to the Vets. He would like to thank the committee members Fran Alberry, Sheri Doroha, Renee Cook, Karen Miller, Jay Miller, PER Dennis Brady, Linda Lepper. He would also like to thank the supporters and volunteers PER Anne Fleming, PSP Tim Kelly, PDDGER Jill Bruce Wiley, Korey Phelps, Lisa Cooley, Lisa Margaret Greene, Linda Cantwell. Special thanks to Chris "Mongo" McCauley, Geoff Mattraw, Robin Riley and the Boy Scouts for preparing and serving us meals. Thanks to the several members of Watertown Lodge for their continuous support to the Veterans Committee (too many to name).
Last, but not in the least, thank you to those that attended the dinner. Thank you to the Veterans for their service in defending and maintaining the freedom of our Country!
See below for pictures from the Veterans Dinner.
Veteran's Committee's Call To Duty
Donations Delivered
Volunteers @ Feed Our Vets
Delivery of Donated Items
Veteran's Committee Chair PER Ed Massa delivered $500 worth of donations that were collected by Jay and Karen Miller to the Veteran's Outreach Center.
Delivery of Donated Items
Volunteers @ Feed Our Vets
Delivery of Donated Items
Abundance of donated items that were collected and delivered. There are additional collected donated items that will be delivered to the Salvation Army of Watertown, NY.
All this being done during the weekend of October 19th.
Volunteers @ Feed Our Vets
Volunteers @ Feed Our Vets
Volunteers @ Feed Our Vets
Lodge Members: Lisa Cooley, PER Ed Massa, Renee Cook, PER Dennis Brady, Fran Alberry and non-member Korey Phelps (Korey in the grayish hoodie). Veteran''s Committee donated $300 to the Feed Our Vets program of Jefferson County and members took part in assisting area Veterans in getting their groceries.
Feed Our Vets
Feed Our Vets
Volunteers @ Feed Our Vets
Feed Our Vets is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help Veterans in the United States, their spouses and children whose circumstances have left them on the battlefield of hunger, and to involve the public in fighting Veteran hunger.
Feed Our Vets
Feed Our Vets
Feed Our Vets
Click "learn more" to learn more about Feed Our Vets.
Feed Our Vets
Feed Our Vets
Feed Our Vets
There was a quote we read that was written on the board on the wall. "Volunteers do not necessarily have the time. They just have the HEART": by Elizabeth Andrew.
Welcome Home Kit
Welcome Home Kit
Welcome Home Kit
On October 24th, a Welcome Home Kit was given to a local Veteran moving into a home. Lodge Chaplain/Grant Writer assisted in making this possible.
"So long as there are Veterans, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will never forget them".
My Elks App Now Available!!!
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Veterans Quilt Raffle
Veterans Committee Quilt Raffle
The Watertown Elks Veterans Committee is currently selling Quit Raffle as part of the fund-raising event to help support local Veteran programs. Our Lodge’s Veterans committee has been actively supporting our local Veterans either directly or in collaboration with local Peer-To-Peer Outreach Center.
This 70” X 90” Quilt was made by our Lodge member Renee Cook and her friend Betty Ann Macomber, which won first prize at the Jefferson County Fair this past summer. Out of the goodness of their hearts, they have donated this beautiful quilt to be raffled off to help support the Veterans Committee.
$5 per ticket or $20 for 5 tickets
Drawing to take place on November 9th at the Lodge during the Watertown Elks Veterans Dinner.
Need not be present to win.
Volunteering
Volunteers are always welcomed!! When one volunteers, everyone gets a prize! Only we can't see it, or spend it, or even drive it. We can only feel it and it's the greatest feeling ever!!! Print the volunteer sign up sheet and give it to the Lodge secretary or leave it with the bartender.