June 2021 Official Monthly Publication of Riverside Elks #643 Volume 84 No. 3

Principles - Passion - Progress

Exalted Ruler………….…...Brian Paquette

Leading Knight .………..…..…Lilly Allala

Loyal Knight ………….…...Diane Reveles

Lecturing Knight …………..Diane Howard

Secretary …………...…..Gerrie Brewington

Treasurer .…………… Carole De La Ossa. Tiler …………………….…… Martin Vaca

Esquire ………..………...…Melissa Perkins

Chaplain ……..……………..…Sonja Allala

Inner Guard ………..…...……Jesse Velarde

Organist……………………..Randy Akes Jr Officer-At-Large……...…Tom Leslie, PER

Club Manager……………..…Kristin Nunez

Banquet Manager…..….. Gerrie Brewington

One Year…………….……Roman Pallacios

Two Year ………………...Raymond Allala

Three Year …………………….Tim Gamar Four Year …………………………....Gina Tipre Five Year …………….…………….Jim Madison

Lodge Activities.………Carole De La Ossa

Auditor…... ………………… Lisa Gamar Membership ……………Gerrie Brewington Christmas Baskets …… Gerrie Brewington. Bulletin …………………….Carrie Madrid

Facebook Admin……………Fred Banuelos

Web Master……………………Martin Vaca

Lounge TV Monitor …………..Martin Vaca

Safety Officer ………………..…Ray Allala

Youth Activities/Awards..….Evelyn Eckroth

Scholarship ………………,,,,,Susan Straight Grant Chairperson………..Mona Perez, PER

Sickness & Distress ...………….Lilly Allala

Drug Awareness……………..….Carol Tong

Hoop Shoot ………………... Diana Reveles

Veteran’s Committee Chair …Carrie Madrid

Public Relations ………….…Diane Howard

Indoctrination ………….…Larry Perez PER

Bingo ……………..,…………...Josie White

Elk of the Year …………Cliff Wadley, PER

Elks National Foundation (ENF) .. Kamper Klub…………………...Pat Olagues

Pistol Team ……...……..…..….Pat Olagues

P.E.R. Association.……Steve Buttress, PER

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Officers for 2021—2022

Trustees for 2021—2022

Committee Chairpersons for 2021—2022

Message From Our Exalted Ruler

As we go about our daily lives, we have the good fortune to interact with many different people from many different backgrounds. The diversity of our society enriches each of us. As Elks, we seek out those with similar beliefs; patriotism, service, charity, and faithful-ness. With all that we have in common, even Elks are ex-tremely diverse. I challenge all members of Lodge #643 to in-troduce yourself, and have a conversation with a fellow Elk you do not know yet. Or even better, a new member! Learn something new about your brothers and sisters. By doing so you can grow in your understanding of not only what makes us the same but also what makes us different. Differences can make it hard to understand people some-times, it can challenge our own beliefs. We won't always agree or get along. When these times occur it is best to re-fer back to the motto of our order; The faults of our mem-bers we write upon the sand, their virtues on the tablets of love and memory. Brian Paquette

Exalted Ruler 951-415-2297

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Greetings Elkdom, In the month of June every lodge observes June 14th as Flag Day, a tradition in which the Elks began in 1907. The American Flag is a symbol of patriotism and was officially declared Flag Day on June 14th by President Truman back in 1949. The Elks are a patriotic organization and aspire to capture the spirit of American patriotism by flying of the flag, saluting, and reciting the pledge of allegiance at all our meetings. The American Flag is revered in Elkdom. The Elks also demonstrate their patriotism by supporting our local veterans through several ongoing programs. The flag is a symbol of Freedom, Liberty, and Justice for all. Check your bulletin for Flag Day event.

Diana Reveles

Esteemed Loyal Knight

Hello Fellow Elks, Half of the year is over! Welcome June, the gateway to summer. We get to enjoy warmer weather, longer days and something most of us couldn’t do last year, getaways and vacations. Slowly but surely restrictions have been lifted and it feels awesome to be able to enjoy all of the things we were not able to do in 2020. I hope you all are living your best lives and don’t ever forget, health and safety for everyone is still the priority. Have fun this June, take care! Lilly Allala

Esteemed Leading Knight

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Lodge Meetings

6/3 7:00 PM

Hot Dogs After Meeting

6/17 (VP DINNER) 5:00pm

The lounge is closed during lodge meetings

Elk of the Month

Our Elk of the month is Ken Campbell. Although only an Elk for just over 6 months Ken has become one of our most helpful volunteers. He cashiers twice a month and works on one of the Tuesday night cook teams. Other times when he is down at the Lodge he frequently asks how he can help and jumps in where he

may be needed. He regularly attends Lodge meetings and has provided great feedback during them.

Thank you Ken!

Officer of the Month

Our Officer of the month for May is Jim Madison.

Jim is a new Trustee this year and his energy, enthusi-asm and knowledge is a great addition to the team, Jim has already gotten his hands dirty helping out with re-pairs and maintenance around the Lodge and came down extra early on Mothers Day to help cook and to serve all

of our awesome moms and their families that day. Jim welcome to the team and I am glad to have you!

Welcome New Riverside Elk Members!

Henry and Carol Tong Honored by PER Association

The Lodge Past Exalted Ruler Association, on behalf the Lodge, established a Lifetime Achievement

Award in 1997. It was first presented to Paul Glab on the occasion of his 80th birthday after five dec-

ades of dedicated service to the Riverside Elks Lodge. There can be only one Elk of the year, selected

by the Exalted Ruler, but there may be more than one special member who deserves recognition. It

was for that purpose that the Lodge PERs established the Paul Glab Award. Elks selected for this

award have contributed time, talent, expertise, money, and materials to the lodge over many years,

most over multiple decades.

This year, The PERs honored two individuals, Henry and Carol Tong, who are long overdue for recogni-

tion. They have contributed their time, leadership, labor, and financial resources for benefit of others

for over two decades. They have participated on or led the Scholarship Committee, the Drug Aware-

ness Committee, Veterans Committee,

been on their hands and knees scrubbing

the kitchen and other cleanup activities ,

served meals to Lodge members and to

Veterans, contributed funds to help keep

the Lodge running during the Covid shut-

down, and contributed to ENF and the

Purple Pig. Henry and Carol have exhibit-

ed the selfless dedication to the Lodge over

many years which exemplifies the Cardi-

nal Principles of our Order; Charity, Jus-

tice, Brotherly Love, and Fidelity. The

PERs are delighted to present this singu-

lar honor to these deserving Elks.

Steve Buttress

PER Association President

Riverside Elks

Tacos and Tunes!

Thursday, June 10th

Thursday, June 24th

6:00—7:00pm

Tacos to order served at your table

for $1.50 each

DJ Carlos and Karaoke!

7:00pm

BINGO! COMING SOON!!!!!

Riverside Elks Store

Lodge Pins $5.00 each

Lodge T-Shirts $12.00

Custom Black Lodge Shirts $43.00—$75.00

For more information or any

Purchase your California Lottery tickets from our lodge!

When you WIN, We all WIN!

Good Luck!!!!!!

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VETS STEAK DINNER DONATIONS MADE BY:

Hubey Shipley Steve Borden

Thank you for your support!! Would you like to donate for Veteran’s dinners?

Forms on Veteran’s table in lobby or pay in office!

VETERAN’S NEWS

DATES TO REMEMBER

Tuesday, June 1st March Veteran’s Village Vets 6:00pm

Tuesday, June 1st Veterans Committee meeting 7:00pm

Sunday, June 13th Flag Day Ceremony Lodge Room 3:30pm

Friday, June 18th Friday Night Spaghetti Dinner 6:00pm

Tuesday, June 22nd March Veteran’s Village Vets 6:00pm

A giant shout out and thank you to Bonnie Wadley for miraculously supporting our Veteran’s Pantry with some additional money per her work at Stater Bros. We received an additional $250.00 in Stater Bros Gift Cards for our Veterans! Please contact Carrie (951-640-3673) if you would like to volunteer at the pantry on Saturdays helping Veterans shop for their groceries.

Carrie Madrid

Veteran’s Chairperson

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DRUG AWARENESS At the Youth Awards Program on April 21 the 5 winners from the Drug Awareness Poster and Essay contests received gift cards of $30 to $50 from Barnes and No-ble bookstore, certificates from the Elks Lodge and California Legislature Assem-blyman, Jose Medina. The 2020-2021 theme was "Drug Abuse? No Excuse! The poster contest is for grades 3rd, 4th and 5th, and the essay contest is for grades 6th, 7th and 8th. Unfortunately this year because of COVID we did not have any video entries from the high school level. In the poster contest we are proud to an-

nounce the following winners from Mrs. Chatterton 4/5 combination class at Tomas Rivera Elementary: 1st place, Quantrell Richardson, 5th grade; 2nd place, Dakota Showalter, 4th grade; two 3rd place winners, Nataly Scarff, 4th grade and Wyelan Myers, 5th grade. In the essay contest we have Addi-son Sutton, 7th grade as our 1st place winner from Amelia Earhart Middle School. Mr. Dan Biersch-bach, PER, and SE District DAP Chairperson came and presented awards to Quantrell Richardson and Addison Sutton. They also each received gift cards from Barnes and Noble as District level winners. Elroy, DAP mascot came to our lodge event to greet the winners and said we need to continue to edu-cate our students about drug awareness. Thank you Evelyn Eckroth for organizing this wonderful event. Carol Tong

FROM THE DESK OF CAROLE DE LA OSSA

ACTIVITY CHAIRPERSON

I want to thank everyone who helped make the Kentucky Derby a huge suc-cess: Thank you to my derby committee for all your help with planning, making the food, raffle baskets and working the derby. Thank

you to everyone who helped decorate, worked in the kitchen, set up the television

and screen, donated a raffle basket, our great MC and auctioneer, and to everyone

who showed support by attending. There's no way it could've happen without your time

and support. Thanks again !

BINGO UPDATE We are now in the process of trying to contact the City of Riverside for current licensing to start our Bingo Wednesday again. We should be updating with an opening day soon! Thanks for your patience!

Calso Elks Pistol Club CalSo Elks Pistol Match Results for April, 2021:

Bill Webb Trophy Ed Weese Fontana 295 Chuck Grano Trophy Susan Smith Fontana 293

Judy Thomas Trophy Bob Blair Yucaipa 275

Judy Thomas Trophy 2nd Orlo Sturdevant Ontario 274

Sharpshooter Rick Buck Fontana 255

Marksman A Dale Tomlinson Yucaipa 246

Marksman A 2nd Gary Deaton Yucaipa 246

Marksman B Mike Brittingham Redlands 151

April Team Scores and Team Points: Yucaipa Lodge 1190 5

Fontana/San Bernardino Lodges 1183 4

Ontario Lodge 1180 3 Redlands/ Riverside Lodges 1173 2

For the April matches, there were 30 Elks, spouses, and guests that participated. Please contact your team Captain for when and where your team will shoot.

Our next monthly meeting will be on June 12, 2021 at 11:00 a.m.at the Fontana/Rialto Elks Lodge in Fontana.

If you would like more information to become a member of our club, please call Pat Olagues at 909-997-1203. Please leave a message, if he is not available and he will return call as soon as possible.

Ed Weese, Range Master: Fontana Lodge

Danell Duncan, Club President: Redlands Lodge

Steve Arbelbide, SED Pistol Shoot Chairman and CEPC Publisher: Yucaipa Lodge

Riverside Elks Kamper Klub

If you are interested in joining the Kamper Klub, Contact Pat Olagues 909-997-1203

June 25th – 28th 2021

Vista Elks, Vista

53rd Annual Elks Rally

Hemet, Ca

October 14th—17th

Kamper Klub Meeting

Tuesday, June 8th at 7:30pm

$2500.00 Grants were given out to each of the following Organizations! Trinity Veterans Pantry at March Veteran’s Village,

FOP (Fraternal Order of Police), Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit, Family Promise and Voices For Children

Happy Birthday Member! Bring this with you on the 1st Friday of the month for a FREE DINNER & CAKE TOO!!!

Member’s Name ____________________

Birth Date _________________________

Elks Card # ________________________

Redeemable on Birthday Dinner Night Only

Good For Birthday Drink! Present this filled out coupon to the bar for a “Free Well Drink.”

Member’s Name ______________________________

Birth Date ____________________________________

Elks Card # ___________________________________

Redeemable During Birthday Month Only

Purple Pig Donations

Jeffrey Wilson

Ingrid Holston

Becky Wendt Phillip Emerson

JUNE BIRTHDAYS Larry Hahne ................. 1

Ray Loud ...................... 1

Susan E White .............. 1

Carrie Madrid ............... 2

Patricia Ann Jacobsen.4

Lori Lee Robinson ....... 4

Joseph E Walsh Jr ........ 4

Curtis Wyrick ............... 4

Peter V Harding ........... 5

Donavon DeVoll .......... 6

Edward J Hernandez .... 6

Vito Palazzola .............. 6

Susan L Page-Logger ... 7

Lesa Dodson Harder ..... 8

Annie M Fitzpatrick ..... 8

Richard Barr ............... 10

Irma Grano ................. 11

Stephen Segura ........... 11

Rose M Rodgers ......... 12

Destiny Spears ............ 12

Kimberly Anne Evans 13

Gary Odebralski ......... 13

Jay Riddle ................... 13

Robert Conacher ......... 14

Robin Morris .............. 14

Laurence Aveling ....... 15

Joe Gene Troxel ......... 17

John H Brown ............ 18

Phil Ricciardi ............. 20

Steven A Posey .......... 21

Randall Rouse ............ 22

William Young .......... 22

Jennifer Eileen Diaz ... 23

David Bunch .............. 25

VictoriaA Lee ............ 25

Paul J Arnold Jr .......... 27

Bobby Morales ........... 29

Armando Ruiz ............ 29

Jeanette Antongiorgi .. 30

Christopher Corr ......... 30

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Riverside Elks FACILITY RENTALS

Dining Hall, Lounge,

Lodge Room

Contact Gerrie Brewington

Event Manager for prices & availability

951-683-0370

6166 Brockton Avenue

Riverside, California 92506

Lodge Phone:951-683-0370

E-mail:Elks643@sbcglobal.net www.elks.org

Meetings 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.

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Official Monthly Publication of Riverside Elks #643

HOW ARE WE DOING?

Membership Monthly Report As of May 28, 2021

We have 598 members

Non-Profit Organization

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PAID Riverside, CA

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UPCOMING EVENTS IN JUNE!

Thursday, June 3rd ~ Lodge Meeting 7pm

Friday, June 4th ~ Birthday Friday 6pm Entertainment– Deena and the Dirty Dogs

Thursday, June 10th ~ Tacos and Tunes 6pm

Saturday, June 12th ~ Lodge Cleanup Day 11am-3pm

Sunday, June 13th ~ Flag Day Ceremony 4:30pm

Thursday, June 17th ~ VP DINNER 5:00pm

Friday, June 18th ~ Spaghetti Dinner 6pm

Monday, June 21st ~ Paint Night 6:30pm

Thursday, June 24th ~ Tacos and Tunes 6pm

Friday, June 25th ~ Senior Grad Night 6pm Entertainment DJ

Tuesday, June 29th ~ Indoctrination

Check our Calendar for all our activities during June!!!