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February 2015
Issue No. 10 - 15
Hello
Here we are in February
already; the New Year is
off to a good start. One of
the first things that I must
do is apologize to the Kovi
family
who
made
a
generous donation to the
lodge in the name of
Theodore P. Kovi at the
Memorial
Service
in
December. I would have
put the information in the
January Elks Tale, but I
had already submitted my
article before the Memorial
Service.
I still have not heard if
there is going to be a
Valentine’s Day dinner around the 14th of
February. Look for a flyer or sign up sheet at
the Lodge. As I said in last month’s Elks Tale on
the 16th of February the Elks Organization will
celebrate their One Hundred and Forty Seventh
Birthday. We need to increase membership to
help keep the Elks alive. One of the ways to
help is to step up and be an Officer in your
Lodge.
On February 27th their will be a St Patrick’s day
dinner and dance. The dance group for the
Curron School and the Willie Lynch Band will
perform with Irish Beer on tap.
Details will be coming soon about the Inaugural
“Harvey Stout Shuffleboard Tournament” being
held on March 7 and 14 in the grill room. Sign
A Fraternal Organization
Our Sixty First Year
up now and put your teams
together for the tournament.
As stated in the past, crews are
needed to work Friday Night
Dinners to help the Bodnar/
Trautman crew. Please let any
Officer or me know if you are
interested in putting together a
crew.
The first Lodge meeting in
February will be run by the
PER’s it is when the new
Officers for the next year are
nominated. I hope that we
have some names that can be
nominated for Officers. Please
let any Officer, PER or I know if
you are interested in becoming
an Officer of Flemington lodge.
Without the membership increasing (instead of
decreasing) and members stepping up the
Lodge may not be around in the future. I am
proud to be a member of Flemington Lodge and
to hold the position of Exalted Ruler this year.
Remember this Lodge is only as good as the
members make it, so please step up and make
us all proud.
Fraternally
Barry Sheppard
Exalted Ruler 1928
Officers of Lodge No. 1928
2014 – 2015
EXALTED RULER.........Barry L Sheppard ........782-3307
EST. LEAD. KNIGHT ....Rick Decker.................806-8279
EST. LOYAL KNIGHT ...Jeffrey Allegar .............237-2856
EST. LECT. KNIGHT ....Erik Anderson..............439-2532
TREASURER ................George Upton, PER ....788-5963
SECRETARY ................Michael A. Sarno, PER310-4945
TILER ............................Vincent LaSpada.........236-9098
INNER GUARD .............J. D. Harvis, PER ........337-2271
CHAPLAIN ....................Mauro Fanelli, PER .....735-5460
ESQUIRE ......................Ken Whalen, PER .......730-0400
TRUSTEE-1 YEAR ....... John Kalmbach,Chairman 284-0290
TRUSTEE-2 YEAR .......Robert Rowe ...............296-1738
TRUSTEE-3 YEAR .......Joel Wolff ....................782-7095
TRUSTEE-4 YEAR ....... ..................... To Be Determined
TRUSTEE-5 YEAR ....... ..................... To Be Determined
Monthly Meetings
Lodge: September – June 2nd & 4th Wednesday – 8:00 PM
July & August – 2nd Wednesday – 8:00 PM
Auxiliary: September – June – 2nd Tuesday, 7:15 PM
ABSENT MEMBERS FOR THE
2014 - 2015 ELK YEAR
Richard D. Goodell Jr. 6/6/14
Grenelle “Slim” Storr
7/4/14
Gerald P. Kutsop
7/16/14
Paul R. Kuhl Sr.
7/22/14
Joseph Klecynski
9/1/14
Ted Kovi
10/20/14
THEIR VIRTUES ARE WRITTEN UPON
THE TABLETS OF LOVE AND
MEMORY
Grill Room Hours
Monday - Thursday 4 - 11 pm
Friday - 4 pm - 1 am
Saturday - 12 pm - 12 am
Sunday - 1 pm - 7 pm
1st and 3rd Fridays are Pasta Nights –
6 pm – 7:30 pm $8.00
Committee Chairpersons
Americanism ................. Bruce Totten, PDD ..... 806-8151
Auditing ......................... Daniel E. Knee, PER . 782-0335
Better Parades.............. J.D Harvis, PER.......... 337-2271
Community Activities .... ...................... To Be Announced
Drug Awareness ........... ...................... To Be Announced
Dishwasher ................... Bruce Tomb ................ 612-3096
...................................... Randy Sornberger ...... 328-3432
Elks Tale Editor............. Lisa Alexander, PP ..... 581-2576
Friday Night Dinner....... ...................... To Be Announced
Government Relations .. Erik Anderson ............. 439-2532
Hoop/Soccer Shoot....... Ray Fella..................... 806-7737
House Committee ......... Randy Kerr, PER ........ 328-4091
Indoctrination ................ Jeffrey Allegar............. 237-2856
Internet Coordinator...... Lisa Alexander, PP ..... 581-2576
Investigation.................. Jeffrey Allegar............. 237-2856
Lapsation ...................... Michael A. Sarno, PER310-4945
Legal Advisor ................ Daniel E. Knee, PER .. 782-0335
Lodge Accountant......... .......................To be Announced
Lodge Activities............. Rick Decker ................ 806-8279
Mediator ........................ Lee Trautman, PDD.... 996-6724
Membership .................. Michael A. Sarno, PER310-4945
National Foundation...... ...................... To Be Announced
National Service............ Mauro Fanelli, PER .... 735-5460
Pasta Night ................... Patti DeLuca, PP ........ 528-7328
PER Association ........... Lee Trautman, PDD..........996-6724
Presiding Justice........... Daniel E. Knee, PER .. 782-0335
Public Relations ............ Mauro Fanelli, PER .... 735-5460
Recreation .................... ...................... To Be Announced
Ritual Coach ................. Peter Naccarato, PER 788-0276
Safety Officer ................ Joel Wolff .................... 782-7095
Scholarship ................... Jeff Anderson.............. 439-2532
Sickness and Distress .. Rick Decker ................ 806-8279
Social/Comm. Welfare .. ...................... To Be Announced
Special Needs Children David B,. Miller............ 797-6434
Visiting .......................... Lee Trautman, PDD.... 996-6724
Youth Activities ............. George VanWhy,PER. 788-7832
Elk of the Year:
Lee Trautman, PDD
**************
Citizen of the Year:
Joan Fasanello
Officers of the Auxiliary
2014 – 2015
PRESIDENT ................. Patti DeLuca, PP ........ 528-7328
VICE PRESIDENT........ Pat Trautman, PP ....... 996-6724
TREASURER................ Suzanne Lucas, PP .... 782-5037
SECRETARY................ Kathy Nemec .............. 782-7273
TRUSTEE ..................... Joan Purdy, PP........... 369-4841
EDITOR’S NOTE
NOTICE
Submission deadline is the 10th of the month.
Submissions received after noon on the 10th will
not be used. Please submit articles and
advertisements as early as possible. Articles,
ads and other information to be published can be
sent to [email protected] or left in the
Elks Tale mailbox at the lodge. If you leave
something in the mailbox, please call Lisa at 908581-2576 so that it can be picked up.
FOR BOOKINGS
Please Call
908 -788-8203
Please be sure all bookings for both
inside the lodge building and outside
the building go through the booking
agent.
Somerset Children’s Center
Board of Directors
Joel Wolff – Secretary
Barry Sheppard - Member
Friday Night Dinner
6:00 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.
Funeral Services
A reminder to all members and their
families: Should a member pass away, the
Officers will perform the funeral service at
the family’s request. Please contact the
Exalted Ruler for arrangements.
Friday Night Dinners will be served every
Friday night, depending upon volunteers to
cook and serve the meals.
Please volunteer to support this event!
Contact Exalted Ruler Barry Sheppard if you
are interested in helping with Friday Night
Dinners. We need more volunteers in order to
keep this function going! Please consider
helping out…
Menus are posted on our website weekly at
www.elks1928.com.
LODGE WEBSITE
Please visit the Flemington Elks lodge
website at www.elks1928.com for
more information on upcoming events,
lodge happenings, pictures from lodge
functions, and general lodge information.
National Foundation
For pledges, contact
ER Barry Sheppard
at
908–782-3307
Identification Statement
Publication Title:
Statement of Frequency:
Elks Tale
Published Monthly
Authorized Organization:
Flemington Elks Lodge No. 1928
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Of the United States of America
Address:
165 Route 31
Flemington, New Jersey 08822
Web Address:
http://www.elks1928.com
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Veterans
Past Exalted Rulers
Alert To Veterans Residing in Hunterdon
County
The Hunterdon County Division of
Veteran Affairs is conducting a
survey to assess the needs of
Veterans in the community. I
would strongly suggest you
review this opportunity and see if it can be of
assistance to you. There are numerous ways
to access this survey form.
Members,
We have a serious situation in our
lodge, where the time is coming
quickly where we nominate officers for the Elk
Year 2015-2016 and at this point we are missing
members to fill some of the officer chairs.
Speaking for the Past Exalted Rulers
Association, it is hard to believe that out of our
membership of over 400 members we can not
get enough dedicated members to fill the officer
chairs.
Please ask yourself, what have I done for the
lodge since I became a member? If your answer
is, I really haven't gotten involved in the workings
of the lodge, then maybe its time to step up to the
plate and become involved. It really is not that
time consuming and can be very rewarding.
Please give serious consideration to our plea, for
more information contact either myself at
[email protected] or cell phone # 908797-6457 or Exalted Ruler, Barry Sheppard at
908-782-3307. We are looking forward to hearing
from you, and please don't feel that you don't
think you are officer material. The rest of the
officers and the PER Association are more than
willing and able to guide and help all of our
membership.
The next PER Meeting will be held
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 7:30PM.
Lee R. Trautman, PDD
Past Exalted Rulers Association, President
on
1) Our Elks Web Site
2) The Hunterdon County Website—
www.co.Hunterdon.nj.us/seniors.htm
3) At the Lodge—On a table in the foyer.
4) The County Veterans Service Coordinator
is Sabrina Baarda. Her phone is 908-788-1358.
We dedicate and pride ourselves to the cause
and motto of Elks which is “So long as there
are Veterans, the Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks will never forget them”. In all, as
a symbol of our appreciation, gifts were
distributed to some 44 Veterans during this
Christmas and Holiday season. We also
patronize these facilities during the course of
the year. It may be of interest to you to know
that we have some very good Elks friends in
these care centers.
By now after 14 years, you have become
familiar with our journeys through Nursing &
Care facilities. We pursue this excellence with
the help of our Santas, PDD Bruce Totten, and
lodge Lecturing Knight Erik Anderson. Two of
our regulars were unable to join us this year,
our long term Santa, Walt Williams who was
tending to his ailing wife, Marie, and good
member Joel Wolff who has been participating
as an Elf for many years. To these gentlemen
I offer my sincere thanks.
Special Thanks to my wife Fran for all the gift
wrapping through the many years. To her, I
offer my 56 years of loyalty (oh my).
Fraternally
Mauro N. Fanelli, PER,
Chairman, National Veterans Service Comm Picture in photo are Left to Right, PDD Bruce
Totten, US Army Veteran Anthony Ferri and
Lodge Lecturing Knight, Erik Anderson
----------------------------------------------------------------Army of Hope
I hope everyone had an
enjoyable Christmas, Hanukah
and a Happy New Year. Your
committee collected thank you,
get-well, holiday and Christmas
cards during December from our local schools
and sent them to our troops rehabbing at
Walter Reed National Military Hospital,
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in
Germany and to Bagram Airfield in
Afghanistan. These reminders of what our
children and grandchildren think and wish for
our troops is welcomed by those recipients that
are away from their loved ones during the
holidays while serving our Country. Anyone
that would like to collect thank you and get well
cards from their community neighbors,
churches,
synagogues
or
service
organizations, I would be happy to give you
APO addresses of our troops to send them.
They LOVE hearing from those of us that are
stateside and appreciative of their efforts and
sacrifices. I will be sending Valentine’s Day
cards to them by the time you read this article.
Once the Americanism essays are graded,
those not moving forward to the district level
will be sent to our troops for their enjoyment.
The State Committee spent a total of
$78,250.00 in commemorative wreaths, gift
cards and checks to our Fallen Hero and
severely Wounded Warriors families for their
Christmas Holidays.
On another topic, Our lodge is in dire need of
leadership for the 2015-2016 Elk year. I bring
this up because all the charitable work that this
committee and all others do will die without
member(s) willing to become officers of this
lodge. Without an Exalted Ruler this lodge, by
Grand Lodge Statutes, will cease to exist. Our
legacy of charitable work within our
communities, district and state, parade
trophies, veteran’s assistance, special needs
contributions, Ritual pride and the great times
at the Charity Balls, Elkoberfests, Shuffleboard
league, Friday Night Dinners and Pasta nights
will be a distant memory. We will become
another statistic of Elkdom in the West Central
District along with Franklin Park, Washington,
Phillipsburg and Somerset Hills…IS THAT
HOW WE REALLY WANT TO BE
REMEMBERED ?
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS, VETERANS
AND THEIR FAMILIES
Bruce R. Totten – PDD,
Army of Hope Chairman
Americanism
Wishing everyone a Happy New
Year and reminding all that
Spring is only a couple of months
away.
We will be reading, grading and sending the
top Americanism essays on to the district level
at the end of the contest period. All the essays
that we receive will be sent to our troops
overseas as a morale boost. The 5th through
8th grade students have written very touching
essays that are very appreciative of our
American dreams and heritage. This year’s
topic, “What does the Pledge of Allegiance
mean to me?” will be no different.
What is more significant to showing your pride
in America than displaying and/or flying the
American Flag. We, as Elks and American
citizens, should be first and foremost in
showing that PRIDE. After 9/11 you could not
travel far throughout any area without seeing
the American Flag in the fronts of homes,
stores and displayed on various motor
vehicles. We need to get that PRIDE and
LOVE back and show others that we have not
given up on those principles that made this
Country great. Too many of our men and
women serving in the military have fought and
died since 1776 trying to keep those principles,
that this Nation was born, from being taken
from us.
Nostalgia Time: I remember when there was a
waiting line to be seated for Friday Night
Dinners and Pasta Night would fill the room
with overflow going into the Grillroom. I
remember 30-40 people attending lodge
meetings and a constant flow of people at the
lodge on any given night.
I remember
members willing to assist the betterment of the
lodge by becoming officers or committee chairs
to enable our lodge to exist and all our
charitable programs to flourish. Times have
changed to where now we cannot find
members willing to become officers or
committee chairs and the attendance at
meetings has become a disgrace. If we do not
change the path that we are on this lodge will
cease to exist in the not too distant future. So,
if the smile on a special needs child’s face that
WE HELPED or a tear in the eye of a veteran
that WE REMEMBERED doesn’t affect you the
way it does me then….
Be PROUD, Fly your AMERICAN FLAG
Bruce R. Totten – PDD
Lodge Americanism Chairman
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Scholarship
The Flemington Elks Scholarship
Committee has reviewed and
forwarded
three
ENF
2015
scholarship applications to West
Central District for further review. Best wishes
to our applicants.
All parents and grandparents please note! If
your child or grand child is graduating from
either Hunterdon Central or Delaware Valley,
they should consider applying for our
Flemington Elks scholarship. We offer one
$500.00 scholarship per school. Please have
them check with their guidance counselor for
further information. I would appreciate an
email if your graduate intends to apply.
You may support our lodge scholarship by
donating directly to our lodge scholarship fund
or play the 50/50 at Friday Night Dinners.
Either way, everyone benefits.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Anderson, Ed.D.
Scholarship chairman
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The Harvey Stout Memorial Shuffleboard Tournament
March 7 and 14, 2015
in the Grill Room
 First game will begin at 7:00 PM each night.
 Sign up your team of two, or join a team. Limited to 16 teams
of two.
 Entry fee: $5.00 per person (to benefit ENF)
 Bring an appetizer or dessert to share.
 50/50 held on each night of the tournament (to benefit the lodge)
Register in the Grill Room or call DD Rich Lavagno (908-7882917)
Deadline to register: March 2, 2015
Cheer on the teams in memory of Harvey!
Lapsation For 2014 – 2015
______________________________________________________
2053 – Craig R Becke
2377 – Douglas Peters
1263 – William A. Fahr 2438 – Darren Leotti
2152 – Jerry Rotella
2144 – James J. Toth
2412 – Nancy Murin
The preceding is a list of all Delinquent members of the Flemington Lodge # 1928. If your
name is listed, Please remit your dues of $67.00 for the year 2014-2015. A dues notice has
been sent to all those listed, If your dues are not paid you will be dropped from membership
on March 31,2015.
As a delinquent member, you are not allowed to use the facilities, attend meetings, and can not be
sponsored by a member in good standing. It is against the By-Laws of Flemington Lodge # 1928 and
the Grand Lodge Statutes.
Won’t you Please pay your Dues? We do not want to lose you as a member.
If your name is on this list and you know that you have paid your dues please do not be concerned ,
as this list is prepared ahead of time for printing. Thank You.
Michael A. Sarno, Secretary
AD PAGE ON FILE AT CORNERSTONE
February 2015
2/2
Gerald Slovikolwski
2/3
Thomas Buxron
Steve Brown
2/4
Chester Dalgewicz
2/10
H. B. Thomas
2/11
Douglas Wachter
2/13
Douglas D. Dickson
2/15
William Horn
Robert Jablonski
2/18
John Fasanella
2/20
Peter Consentino
Ken Gangaware
2/21
Alexander Leist
2/22
James Suskiewicz
Larry Johnson
2/23
Bernice Sabo
2/26
Frank Garrett
Derrald Mark
Arthur Clark
Jeffery Crine
Erik Anderson
2/27
Edison Morris
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Barry Sheppard
C/0 Flemington Elks Lodge No. 1928
P.O. Box 261
Flemington, NJ 08822 (or drop it in the Secretary’s box at the Lodge)
Phone: 782-3307
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Upcoming Events & Important Dates
2/5/15 – BINGO
2/22/15 – Lodge Breakfast
2/27/15 – St. Patrick’s Day Party
3/5/15 - BINGO
3/7/15 & 3/14/15 – Harvey Stout Memorial Shuffle board Tournament
Remember – Lodge meetings are the second and fourth Wednesday of each month.
Friday Night Dinners are every Friday providing there is a volunteer crew to cook.
Breakfasts are the last Sunday of every month, except for July, August, & December
Auxiliary meetings are the second Tuesday of the month, except for July and August
BINGO to benefit Special Needs Children is the first Thursday of every month
Flemington Elks Lodge No. 1928
165 Routes 31 South, P.O. Box 261
Flemington, New Jersey 08822
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(908)782-8759
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