April 2016 Volume 42 No. 4

The ELKHORN

Mount Adams Elks Lodge #1868

White Salmon, Washington

“The Birthday Lodge”

Free Offer

Friday, April 15, 7pm

$25 Buy-in $5 goes directly to charity Members & their invited guests

PRIME RIB DINNER Saturday, April 16

Served 5:30-7pm $19

RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

Children are welcome

SATURDAY, April 2nd, 2016

Join us in welcoming this year’s officers. Cocktails and Champagne start at 5:30pm Dinner is served at 6:30pm

Music by DJ CW A large variety of music available for your dancing pleasure and if your

so inclined…….karaoke too!!

PREPAID RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED

By 3/29 Call the Lodge 509-493-1868

Prime Rib or Halibut $21 per person $40 per couple

Friday, April 8th & 22nd 7pm

PUBLIC IS INVITED Minors allowed with parent, grandparent, or guardian

Tuesday, April 12th 6pm $5 buy-in

Members & their invited guests

Tuesday, April 26th

Go to www.paintnite.com to purchase your ticket. Use promo code bpoe1868 & receive a 40% discount...your final price….only $27!! Included is a canvas, brushes, paint, instruction & LOTS OF FUN!!!

In the Lounge every Wednesday

Adults only

Hello Friends, Let’s hope some sunshine is coming our way. This year’s new ER, Julio Flores, will be installing this year’s LOE officers at our April 6

th meeting.

This year’s elected officers are: President – Denise Campbell Vice President – Chris London Secretary – Hope Baker Treasurer – Jaci Dietch Sgt. at Arms – Gloria Gault Historian – Freddie Trout We will celebrate with a home cooked prime rib dinner following the meeting. The LOE will also be presenting Julio with a check for $506.34 to the Elks for deposit to the charity of their choosing. It is through your generous support that we are able to share the gratuities that we receive and are able to pass them along to our Lodge and its charities. Great team work! The LOE has also purchased two new deep fryers for behind the bar. Again with your continued support of LOE activities and events, we are able to lend a hand in purchasing much needed equipment for our business. Thank you! See you all at the Installation Ball!

Take care, Denise Campbell

On behalf of the elected officers I would like to thank the membership for your support and trust in allowing us to lead the lodge for the 2016-2017 year. A special thanks to the newly minted PER Cheri Michaelson who did a great job and put countless hours into our lodge events this past year. From speaking with Elks across the country its evident that all Lodges have challenges to overcome; however, I noticed the constant and key theme of embracing or enacting “Change” emerge during these conversations. Change, a subject which our lodge has tactically embrace and acted upon to ensure our survival and contribute to its growth. Others lodges take a “Hope and Change” position (We hope this will change), our lodge has taken a “Try and Do” attitude (Let’s try this; if it works let’s keep do it again). I challenge the membership to come up with ideas for events or passion projects so that we can consider and move them forward as a Lodge. Don’t let the fact that an event or project hasn’t been done or didn’t succeed before deter you: let’s talk about it, let’s do it, and if it works let’s

keep it! Julio Flores

OFFICERS OF THE LODGE

Exalted Ruler ……………….....Julio Flores

Leading Knight………..…...... Bill Caldwell

Loyal Knight…….………..…Dick Ohnemus

Lecturing Knight ……..... Wendy Viehmann

Secretary………………....…....Carol DeLay

Treasurer……..……....….….. Rachel Year

Esquire…………..…….... Kevin Jasperson

Chaplain …………..……...….....…. Vacant

Inner Guard…………..………...Gloria Gault

Tiler…………….……........…...Jason Ontko

BOARD OF DIRECTORS/HOUSE COMMITTEE

1 yr………………….,………….…. Bud Wall

2 yr………...………....…...…….Don Morley

3 yr………………...……..……..Jim Fritchey

4 yr……………………..………..Bill Muncey

5 yr………………........…….. Curt Simmons

LADIES OF ELKS

President………….……….…. Denise Campbell

Vice President…,….…....…....….. Chris London

Secretary…………...………......….....Hope Baker

Treasurer………..…..……........…….Jaci Dietsch

Sergeant at Arms………...….……. ..Gloria Gault

Historian..……………....................Freddie Trout

LOUNGE

Open: Monday thru Saturday 2—10 pm

124 NE Church Avenue White Salmon

Club Manager: Jeremy Strobehn

509-493-1868

OFFICE

Open Monday thru Friday 8am –noon

Office Manager: Carol DeLay

509-493-1868 FAX: 509-493-3533

Email: bpoe1868@gorge.net

PO Box 647, White Salmon, WA 98672

South District #9400 District Deputy

Duane Beecher 541-980-2925

d.beecher@earthlink.com

Thursdays, April 14 & 28 6pm ALL ages are invited to participate. Great family fun. Entry fee is $5, pays 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. April 14th Prime Rib Melts w/fries $7 April 28th Corn Beef & Cabbage $8

Proud of being locally owned & operated! Kevan Bren, Manager (509) 493-9494

Town and Country Square White Salmon WA 98672

April

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 INAUGURAL

BALL Cocktails 5:30 Dinner 6:30

3 4 5 Officer Mtg

6pm

Investigation

6:45pm

6 LOE Mtg 6pm

American

Legion Mtg

6:30pm

Cards Against

Humanity

7 Chicken

Marsala $8

6-7pm PER Mtg 6:30

Children Welcome

Lodge Mtg 7 Balloting

8

7pm

9

Celebration Of Life for

Don Larsen 2pm

10 11 12

6pm

13 Cards Against

Humanity

Spaghetti $5

14 Wii Bowling Tournament

$5 buy-in 6pm Children Welcome Prime Rib Melt $7

15

7pm

16 Prime Rib

Dinner $19 5:30-7pm Pre-Paid

Reservations Required Children Welcome Initiation

Celebration

17 18 19 Board of

Directors Mtg 7pm

20 Cards Against

Humanity

Pizza $2

Large Slice

21 Hot Beef

Sandwiches $8

6-7pm Children

Welcome

Elkhorn Deadline

22

7pm

23

24 25 26

7pm

27 Cards Against

Humanity

Spaghetti $5

28 Wii Bowling Tournament

$5 buy-in 6pm Children Welcome

Corn Beef & Cabbage

$8

29 30

Rental

May

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 Officer Mtg

6pm

Investigation

6:45pm

4 LOE Mtg 6pm

American

Legion Mtg

6:30pm

Cards Against Humanity

5 Pre-Lodge Dinner 6-7pm

PER Mtg 6:30 Children

Welcome Lodge Mtg 7

Balloting

6 7 Fish Fry $10 5:30-6:30 pm

Children Welcome

8 9 10

6pm

11 Cards Against

Humanity

12 Wii Bowling Tournament

$5 buy-in 6pm

13

7pm

14

Rental

15 16

Lions Club Mtg 6pm

17

Board of Directors Mtg

7pm

18 Cards Against

Humanity

19 Pre-Lodge

Dinner 6-7pm

Children Welcome

20

7pm

Elkhorn

Deadline

21 Prime Rib

Dinner $19 5:30-7pm Pre-Paid

Reservations Required Children Welcome

22 23 24 25 Cards Against

Humanity

26 Wii Bowling Tournament

$5 buy-in 6pm

27

7pm

28 Razor Clams

$12 6-7 pm

Pre-Paid Reservations

Required Standup

Comedian 7:30pm

29 30 31

7pm

ADVERTISE in the Elkhorn

ONLY $7.50 A MONTH

Don Larsen Born: July 20, 1936

Died: March 16, 2016 Initiated: September 11, 1958

Jim Randall Born: July 21, 1936

Died: March 14, 2016 Initiated: February 16, 1968

John Fishback Born: November 13, 1936 Died: November 19, 2015 Initiated: October 18, 1962

The faults of our members, we write upon the sands, their virtues upon the tablets of love and memory.

William Altig, Trout Lake Proposer: Duane Warren Lanny Smith, Trout Lake Proposer: Larry Holtmann Shannon Cantwell, White Salmon Reinstate on Certificate of Release Proposer: Cheri Michaelson Jeffrey Rosen, White Salmon Reinstate on Certificate of Release Proposer: Carol DeLay

JACKPOT LOSERS Curt Simmons, Jesse Eaton, David Pfister, Stephen Bishop, Jason Herman, Duane Ohnemus, Barbara Parrish, and Robert Fordyce. These members all missed an opportunity to win the $100 Jackpot! Attend Lodge...it pays-if you’re there!!

Great big thank you to Rick Ensminger and his kitchen crew, Dennis Beeks, Clark Zieger, Jack Brady, and Jim Bryan, and wait staff Bill Muncey and Bud Wall. They prepared and served a delicious meal for Old Timers Night. A special thank you also to Becky Beeks for making and donating some tasty crème puffs. A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who has been sending in charity donations with their dues payments. It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw

You will need your new 2016-2017 membership card and key card to gain access to the Lodge beginning April 1. If you ring the buzzer be prepared to show your membership card. Additional key cards are available for $1 from the bartender if your dues are current.. Check your cards, the 2016-2017 cards are green.

APRIL CHARITY

SEATTLE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

“Buck Fund”

We will be raffling this Seahawks

Toilet Paper Dispenser, handcrafted

and donated by Ray Clift. Tickets are

$1 each and all proceeds will go to

our Buck Fund which is then donated

to the Seattle Children’s Hospital for

their Uncompensated Care Fund.

Tickets will be sold in the Lounge all

month and a winner will be drawn on

April 30th. On display in the Lounge.

2015-2016 Donations

As of press time, our Lodge made the following monetary donations for the 2015-2016 Lodge year totaling $14,075.71 Seattle Children’s Hospital (Buck Fund) $2,843.75 Elks National Foundation (ENF) $2,659.90 WA Elks Therapy Program (Tall Elks) $2,227.06 Mt. Adams Local Charity Fund (MAC Fund) $2,710.00 Scholarships (MVS) $1,000 Klickitat Co 4-H $75 Bruin Boosters $50 Mighty Bruin Boosters $50 Boy Scouts $250 White Salmon Community Youth Girls Softball $300 Klickitat County Fair Fat Stock Sale $200 Klickitar High School Seniors Banquet $100 Lyle Babe Ruth $500 White Salmon SpringFest $100 Hood River Elks Most Valuable Student Golf Tourney $320 Free Swims at White Salmon Pool for Whitson Elementary $240 Columbia High School Project Graduation $250 White Salmon Valley Schools PTO $100 Klickitat School District PTO $100 THANK YOU to everyone who made a monetary donation or gave of their precious time at one of the many activities or meals at the Lodge this past year. You make all these wonderful gifts possible. Remember we are a non-profit volunteer organization and all of our wonderful events are only made possible because of VOLUNTEERS!!!

Congratulations to all you new

Lodge Officers! By Ron Hicks Grand Exalted Ruler

Congratulations to all newly elected Lodge Officers! You can be proud that the Members of your Lodge have selected you to serve in a leadership role for the coming Lodge year. I know that each of you will uphold the principles of Elkdom as you support and enhance the activities of your Lodge and commit yourselves to my theme of “Elks Pride – Community Focus.” Now, please take the next essential step of coming together, as a team, to assess where your Lodge is and make plans for where you want it to be. Consider: 1) What has worked well for your Lodge, 2) What can be improved, and 3) What are some new ideas to try in your Lodge? Then, seek out the talents in your Lodge and surround yourself with Members who want to join you in helping to make a difference. Understand and utilize the resources offered through your State Association and the Grand Lodge, be willing to take time for others and listen to your Members. Don’t dwell on the negative, and when making any decision, always have the best interests of your Lodge in mind. Be positive and enthusiastic in all you do. Be a mentor and bring others along with you, and when communicating, choose your words wisely, for the words you use have the power to put spring into a Member’s step and give him or her confidence. Expect success and celebrate your successes. The “Community Focus” of your Lodge is greatly enhanced when driven by “Elks Pride.” Take your Elks Pride into the Community and show how “Elks Care – Elks Share,” and demonstrate your commitment to youth, patriotism, Drug Awareness, Veterans, local charities and those in need. Through these efforts, you will put a face on your Lodge and prove that you are a reliable partner for your community. We offer great appeal to those who know who we are and what we do,

01 Ed Arnold

01 Melvin Bowen

01 Colin Palmer

02 Phillip Ohnemus

02 William Ward

03 Bernard Elsner

07 Tom Becker

07 John Dance

07 Rudolph Dierickx

08 Raymond Clift

09 Matthew Colloton

09 Richard Hansen

11 Robin Knoke

11 Charles Moore

11 James Ziegler

12 Gloria Gault

13 Gary Cooper

13 Michael Tiffany

14 Dale Papworth

16 Eric Plimmer

16 Alfred Sanders

17 Mark Cox

17 Izak Riley

17 Fred Steinbach Jr

17 Robert Van Alstine

19 Gail Hutchins

21 Joseph Billette

21 Roger Miller

22 Timothy Urness

22 Patrick Wedrick

26 Chad Feller

26 Christopher Tyndall

27 Casey Arnold

27 Peter Meresse

27 Michael Murray

27 John Stevenson

27 Wendy Viehmann

28 Kelly Deschand

28 Mark Garrett

28 Cleland Harr

29 Robert Fordyce

30 Alan Carlock

30 Wilbur Marsh

and by sharing your “Elks Pride and Community Focus,” those around you will quickly learn that we are the “Best People On Earth.” Again, congratulations on your election and all my best for a successful year.

WSEA THERAPY PROGRAM STATE MAJOR PROJECT

TALL ELKS $2,227.06

ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION

ENF YTD = $2,659.90

SEATTLE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Birthday Buck Fund

YTD = $2,843.75

MT. ADAMS RESERVE CHARITY FUND

Serving our local community

Mac Fund YTD: $2,710.00

SEAHAWKS COOLER RAFFLE Top

CALLING ALL SEAHAWK FANS

We are raffling this awesome Seahawks Cooler that was handcrafted and donated by our own Ray Clift. Proceeds from this raffle will go the the Elks National Foundation (ENF). Tickets are $1. The drawing will be held during halftime of the Seahawks first regular season game, Sept. 11.

FREE BIRTHDAY MONTH PRE-LODGE DINNER

Members bring this coupon to one of our Thursday pre-lodge dinners DURING your birthday month

and eat for FREE

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