Issue 1213 Volume 06 A Fraternal Organization Serving Livonia for Over 50 Years December 2012

2012 Lodge Officers Exalted Ruler .................................. Vacant Leading Knight ............................... Vacant Loyal Knight ............................ Ernest Otter Lecturing Knight ........... Karl Swieczkowski Esquire ........................................... Vacant Chaplain ................................ Kevin Kokko Secretary ....................... Dave Fisher, PER Treasurer .................. Joe Antonishek, PER Inner Guard .................................... Vacant Organist ........................ Martin Testasecca Tiler ................................................ Vacant Trustee 1 Year ......................... Tina Culver Trustee 2 Year ................ Heather Morrison Trustee 3 Year ...................... Darrin Brown Trustee 4 Year .......................... Greg Ross Trustee 5 Year ........... Gary Rushford, PER

Committees & Chairpersons Accident Prevention .................. Tina Culver Americanism................... Dave Fisher, PER Auditing ....................... Mike Brennan, PER Bone Marrow/Organ Donor .........John Mark Bugle Editor ............. Ernie Otter/Greg Ross Calendar................................... Tina Culver Community Activities ...... Dave Fisher, PER Drug Awareness ........ Joe Antonishek, PER Elks Training........................ Gary Rushford Entertainment ... Greg Ross & Darrin Brown 50 Uppers ....................... Dave Fisher, PER Flag Day ..................... Gary Rushford, PER Govt. Relations ............... Marty Testasecca Hoop Shoot .................... Dave Fisher, PER House Committee ....... Ron Lang/Bob Szaal Investigation ........................ Charlie Hopps, Russ Lantz, Kevin Kokko Indoctrination .................. Dave Fisher, PER Lapsation............................. Lodge Officers Lodge Activities ................... Lodge Officers Lodge Manager ............................... Vacant Major Projects ................................. Vacant Membership ........................ Lodge Officers Memorial Service ........ Gary Rushford, PER National Foundation . Geno Grabinski, PER Public Relations ........ Geno Grabinski, PER Ritual ................................... Lodge Officers Scholarship ..................................... Vacant Soccer Shoot .................. Dave Fisher, PER Veterans .................. Velinda Stenson, PER Visitation......................... Dave Fisher, PER Youth Activities ......... Geno Grabinski, PER

The Bugle Call is published by Livonia

BPOE Lodge No. 2246, every two months.

Next Newsletter Deadline: January 23rd TO CONTACT THE EDITORS:

email: bugle@livoniaelks.org phone: (734) 425-2246

From the Secretary’s Desk

Midge Manni and I would like to wish all the Officers, Mem-bers, and their families a safe and joyous holiday period.

Dave Fisher, PER Lodge Secretary dfisher2@peoplepc.com or 734.425.2246

GIFT-GIVING IDEAS THAT WILL HELP OUR LODGE

With Christmas right around the corner, here are a few thoughts about some different gift-giving ideas that perhaps you haven’t considered.

First and foremost, an Elks calendar is the perfect fit to stretch out the largest stocking! Pick up as many as you need from the lounge at the Lodge for a mere $13 apiece.

Next, many of us enjoy a holiday ham at Christmas dinner. This year the Lodge will having a fund raiser through Dearborn Brands just before Christmas, so please consider ordering your ham through the Lodge. The quality of the torch-glazed, spiral sliced ham is, in many people's opinion, on par with HoneyBaked and the price is quite a bit less, with an average price per pound approximately $4.20 for an 8lb. ham – and no lines to wait in. By purchasing this through the Lodge, you will be doing your part to help keep the lights on while checking off another detail off of the ‘to-do’ list. Orders will be available after the 21st of December and the order forms will be at the bar. Please pay in advance.

How many of your spouses and children are members? Consider giving the gift of member-ship! The more people that use the Lodge, the more we will grow. Contact any of the Officers for a membership application.

And, of course, you could give the most precious gift of all: your time. Your Lodge needs your help to make it run. Whether that means getting more involved with committees, volunteer-ing to help for free at Bingo, the Hoop Shoot, or helping set up the rooms for the next event, the Lodge is run by volunteers and NEEDS YOUR HELP in order to continue.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Season’s Greetings from your Esteemed Knights

Members all, everyone appears to be enjoying the din-ners and events that we are having at the lounge and we are interested in adding some additional events during the holidays. Watch your Bugle Blasts (e-mails) for an-nouncements regarding a members’ luncheon on Christ-mas Eve and a News Years party. We have lots of new

energy going on at the lodge and we are very thankful for all of our devoted volunteers. We don’t know where we would be today if we hadn’t had Linda Szaal step in as interim office manager this fall. Now we have Gary Rushford and Bill Calabrese holding down the fort and helping the lodge on its new path to success. We cannot thank all of our volunteers enough for their devotion and commitment to our Lodge. Ernie & Karl

Tamale Dinner Success!

Our November Tamale dinner was yet another success. The Tamales were fantastic and everyone had a great time with another sold-out crowd to boot. A special thanks to Leroy for coordi-nating food and volunteers and to the Scouts of Troop 732 who showed up in force to serve food, bus tables and do the dishes! Leroy’s next dinner will be an Italian theme on January 24th. Look for the sign-up sheet on the activities bulletin board outside the lounge soon.

Lodge Decorations

A great big Thanks to everyone that came out and help decorate the Lodge for the Holidays. Come on down and check it out!!! Dear Fellow 50 Uppers,

During our November meeting we final-ized plans for our annual Christmas Par-ty which will be Thursday December 13th at 5:00 pm. The Menu will be: Hors d’oeuvres Salad Prime Rib Potatoes Vegetable Desert

Music will be furnished by the Wolver-ines. This party is a gift to our members by the 50 Uppers club — FREE TO ALL 50 UPPER MEMBERS.

The Christmas Party was always John McQuade’s special baby, so we are ded-icating this evening to his memory. Come and join us and have a great time. If you didn’t sign up yet you can call Jeannette Dougherty at 734-425-6489 to make your reservation.

I am happy to report that Lorraine Mar-tin is home now from the rehab facility. I’m sure she’d like to hear from you, so give her a call. Also remember Rose-mary Olst and Mary Cagon with a card or visit during this holiday season. December Birthdays:

Elaine Ewald 12/8

Marilyn Loriaux 12/9

Jerry Valley 12/15

Shirley Terrian 12/23

You all have a wonderful birthday and enjoy your special day.

December Anniversaries:

None

Enjoy the Holidays and have a wonder-ful Christmas and we wish you good health and happiness in the New Year.

Our next meeting will be January 9, 2013

Katherine Culley

Holiday Lodge Schedule

Please note that the lodge will be open for lunches December 18-21st from 11:00—3:00 pm. Please feel free to bring friends, family and co-workers in for a lunch on those days.

The Lodge will also be open on Christmas Eve for a Members Luncheon from 11:30—3:00. Please join us in the members lounge for some Yuletide food & fun!

A few of us are working on plans for a New Years Eve Party at the lodge. We are working on some ideas right now and will send out a Bugle Blast and post it at the lodge when we have more information available.

Doc’s Sports Retreat Update

Thank you to all of the volunteers that helped with our Millionaire’s Parties at Doc’s Sports Retreat! Your time donated made it a great suc-cess! Through an arrangement with a group called Aim High Proceeds that runs the poker room, we provided the licenses and they provided everything else, including the gamblers! Our part was basically to use our Charity party licenses at their venue and to handle the money, which involved trading poker chips for cash. It was easy work and turned out to be a great fund raiser for our Lodge. Come to our next Lodge meeting for a summary of how well we did.

Sincerely, Greg Ross Trustee, Event chair

Thank You

I would like to thank everyone that do-nated candy and time to make the Pumpkin Patch a huge success. With your generosity we were able to enter-tain 50 special needs children and their families. The kitchen help was great and the food service was excellent. Sully our DJ was wonderful. Just the right kind of music for the kids to dance to.

We have a table of books set up in the Lodge for anyone to take for a dona-tion. This is how we raise money to spend on the Pumpkin Patch Party. If you have any books that you have read and would like to donate them please bring them down to the lodge.

Thank you again,

Pumpkin Patch Committee

Livonia Elks Hours of Operation Lodge office open by appointment

Lounge Hours: Tuesday—Sunday 3:00 pm—9:00 p.m. Lounge will remain open later if three or more members are present.

December 2012

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Hoop Shoot

9:00 am

2

Memorial Sunday

1:00 pm

Bingo 6:30 pm

3

Scout Night

Lounge Closed

4 5

Bingo 6:00 pm

6 7

Fish Fry Dinner

5:00—8:00 pm

8

Elks Children's

Christmas 12:00

Clawson Lodge

Visit @ 3:00 pm

9

Bingo 6:30 pm

10

Scout Night

Lounge Closed

11

Lodge Membership

Meeting 7:00 pm

12

Bingo 6:00 pm

13

50 Uppers

Christmas Party

5:00 pm

14 15

16

Bingo 6:30 pm

17

Scout Night

Lounge Closed

18

Open for Lunch

11:00 — 3:00 pm

19

Open for Lunch

11:00 — 3:00 pm Bingo 6:00 pm

20

Open for Lunch

11:00 — 3:00 pm

21

Open for Lunch

11:00 — 3:00 pm

Fish Fry Dinner

5:00—8:00 pm

22

23

Bingo 6:30 pm

24

Member’s Holiday

Luncheon Buffet

11:30—3:00 $7:00

25

Christmas Day

Lodge Closed

26

Bingo 6:00 pm

27

28

29

30

Bingo 6:30 pm

31

New Year’s Eve

Party?

Members’ Lounge

January 2013

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4

Fish Fry Dinner

5:00—8:00 pm

5

Euchre Night

7:00 pm

6

Bingo 6:00 pm

7

Scout Night

Lodge Closed

8

Lodge Membership

Meeting 7:00 pm

9

50 Uppers

Meeting

Bingo 6:00 pm

10

Pizza Party

5:00 pm

11

12

13

Bingo 6:00 pm

14

Scout Night

Lodge Closed

15

16

Bingo 6:00 pm

17 18

Fish Fry Dinner

5:00—8:00 pm

19

20

Bingo 6:00 pm

21

Scout Night

Lodge Closed

22

Lodge Membership

Meeting 7:00 pm

Denneland Meeting

23

Next Newsletter

Deadline

Bingo 6:00 pm

24

Italian Dinner

5:00 pm

25 26

Bags & Balls

Spaghetti Dinner

27

Bingo 6:00 pm

28

Scout Night

Lodge Closed

29

30

Bingo 6:00 pm

31

30

Themed Dinner

5:00—8:00 pm

LIVONIA ELKS LODGE No. 2246 31117 Plymouth Road Livonia, Michigan 48150 Telephone: 734-425-2246

www.livoniaelks.org

NON-PROFIT U.S.

POSTAGE PAID

Permit No. 113 LIVONIA, MI

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Big Buck Calendars on Sale

The 2013 Elks Big Buck Calendars are now on sale at the lodge. Your $20.00 donation will aid the continuance of many programs of our organization including: Youth, Spe-cial Needs Children, Seniors, Veterans, Drug Awareness and Scholarships. Fill-out the registration card and you will be entered to possibly win—based on the daily drawings from the Michigan State Lottery. If your number matches on a weekday draw, you will win $50.00. If your number matches a Saturday draw, you will win $300.00!