MA Elks Association Informational Special Update
Massachusetts Elks Association
Email Informational Special Update - 10-13-09 
Today is: National Peanut Festival in the United States
Born on this day in 1775 - The United States Navy
 
 
 
Here is a Link for the 2010 Elks Midwinter Cruise 
 
MA Elks Webpage - http://www.masselks.org/
 
 
 
MA Elks Annual Night at the New England Revolution
 
Once again the MA Elks were in attendance for our Annual MA Elks Night at the Revolution on Saturday October 10, 2009.  As pictured below, the Revolution welcomes the Mass Elks to the Game.
Our State Soccer Shoot Director Craig Shurtleff and his committee did a great job and we had our Drug Awareness Trailer and Elroy at Gillette Stadium to greet many of the fans who came to see the game.  Also, our 2008 State Soccer Shoot Champions were able to great some of the players from both the Revolution and the Columbus Crew as they entered the field.  To bad our team lost 1 to 0, but everyone had a good time. 
 
Pictured below is Tyler Strojny (son of our State President) with Elroy, outside the Fan Fest area at Gillette Stadium, before the game.
 MA Elks News - Fall 2009 Edition Now Online
 
To view the newest edition of the MA Elks News, just click on this link:
 
http://www.masselks.org/Mass_Elks_News/MASS%20ELKS%20Fall%202009.pdf
 
MA ELKS NEWS UPDATE:
 
The deadline for the December 2009 issue of the MQ Elks news is Sunday November 15, 2009. the same day as the regional Meeting in Tewksbury.
Please get you articles and pictures to me or your district Chairman ASAP.   The sooner the better.
 
1. All pictures that you email must be originals, sent as jpeg attachment. Pictures sent embbed in the email messages or as word doc.s can be used to reprint in the newspaper.
 
2.  All state chairmen, if you have a report on an event you already have run , or have a flyer on events you plan to run after January you should get it to me know for publication into the next issue.
 
3.  Lodge Secretaries:  December is remembrance month please send me the names of all your members who have passed between January 2009 and November 2009 so they can be published in our Lodge of Sorrow,
 
4. Members all:  I've had a couple of people complain because their pictures didn't get into the paper, when asked if they had sent them to me, I was told no but they sent them to Jim for the MA Elks Email .  IF YOU WANT YOUR ARTICLES AND PICTURES TO BE PUBLISHED IN THEMASS ELKS NEWSPAPER THEY MUST BE SENT TO ME NOT JIM!  Jim and I both have told people this before,  I can not take things off Jim's email to use in the paper.  We are to different committees.
 
Thank you
Dot Balestrieri - MA Elks News Chairman/Editor
MA West Central District Past Exalted Rulers Association Meeting
 
The MA West Central PER Association will be meeting on Sunday November 1st, 2009 at the Worcester Lodge #243.  The meeting will start at 11:00 AM.  Coffee and donuts will be served.
 
Any West Central PER planning  on attending the meeting should notify the Association Secretary Pamela Lester at plester56@hotmail.com  
 
Fraternally,
Pam
Montague Lodge #2521, PER
West Central PER Secretary
 
MA Elks News From 30 Years Ago 

Who would of thought that this young Hoop Shoot Winner would be volunteering to the elks when she got older!  This was taken in 1979.  The local lodge of Elks was the old Chelsea Lodge.   That young lady is no other than Winthrop Lodge member Brenda Kowalczuk (and look at that fine young man on the right, now our Past Grand Lodge Lecturing Knight Ed Volta)