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The Exalted Ruler’s Message

As the train pulls out of the station this month, we are all aware that fall is upon us. We have all had a very busy summer but now the work really begins. Our DDGER North, John Montgomery has been challenged by DDGER South, Andrew Murdock, in a membership drive. The south believes that they can get more new members and reinstatements than we can. I need all of your help so we don’t loose the challenge. You all must know of at least one person that is worthy of becoming an Elk member. Please help us “grow our membership”.

Please check our list of members that have not renewed their membership. Maybe you know one of them. Give them a call and invite them back into our lodge. The list is on the bulletin board next to the pool room. We must not let our members stray. Please do your part to keep our membership up. Very shortly, all members will be receiving our annual “Silver Towers Camp for Exceptional People” raffle tickets. We have had a 35% return on these tickets in the past. Let’s strive for 100% or at least close to that this year. Remember, it is our state project. If you didn’t attend our Family Day picnic, you surely missed out on one great day of Elkdom. There were plenty of games for the children and this year, there was even some fun competition for the adults. They were all winners in the Redneck Horseshoe Throw, the frozen T-Shirt contest and of course, Bingo. Thanks goes out to all the daring contestants as well as to our Esteemed Lecturing Knight, Rick Boucher and wife Brenda for putting a lot of time and effort into making this day fun for all. I know that it is impossible to have all members on the same side of the track, but hopefully, by the end of my year, we will all be on the same train with the same goals – Elks United to serve others.

Fraternally yours, Diane Hazen, Exalted Ruler

THE 916 BULLETIN The Monthly Newsletter of the BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS Lodge #916

SEPTEMBER 2007

350 Club.....................................................4 916 Surprise Drink Party............................5 Activity Calendar .......................................8 Birthdays....................................................5 Bits & Pieces..............................................4 BPOE Scholarships....................................3 Contact Information ...................................2 Eldoes Update ............................................7 Family Day ................................................6 Great Idea...................................................7 In Vain We Call .........................................3 Lodge Notices ............................................2 Make A Wish .............................................5 Newest Addition ........................................7 Officers ......................................................2 Off to the Races .........................................3 Oops...........................................................6 Pig Roast ....................................................7 Proposed Members.....................................2 Ritual Roulette ...........................................4 Snowbird Christmas Party .........................4 Steak Night Menus.....................................3 Texas Hold’em...........................................3 Three Corks................................................6 Volunteer Corner .......................................5 Volunteer of the Month..............................8

Steak Night Wednesday, September 5th

Herb Robair Golf Tournament

Sunday, September 9th

350 Club Thursday, September 13th

Pig Roast Saturday, September 15th

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• The regular membership meetings will be held on the third Thursday of the month at 7pm. • Members are welcome to attend the Governing Board meeting on the second Tuesday at 7pm in the upstairs meeting

room. • The Lodge Investigating Committee meets the first Tuesday of every month at 7pm when there are members proposed.

THE 916 BULLETIN

The Monthly Newsletter of the Benevolent Order of Elks Lodge #916

Published monthly and mailed to all current Lodge Members and select others, by bulk mail at Burlington, Vermont. The content can also be viewed at the Lodge’s Website, www.bpoe916.com

Relevant information for inclusion is welcomed and should be submitted by the 15th of the month proceeding the publication by:

• emailing to bpoe916bulletin@comcast.net • Placing the material in the 916 Bulletin mailbox at the Lodge

front entranceway. • Mailing it to the Lodge to the attention of the 916 Bulletin.

We do our best to include all pertinent information that our members would find interesting, however if the materials are not received by the Editor on or before the 15th of the month, there is a chance that they may not be included in the next issue due to the time needed to produce, print and mail the Bulletin. Our goal is to have it delivered to our members by the 1st of the following month.

We reserve the right to edit submitted items for brevity and appropriateness. The Exalted Ruler has the final responsibility for the Bulletin content.

Editor - John Hill Photography - Wayne LaBonte

LODGE OFFICERS 2007-2008

Exalted Ruler: Diane Hazen Esteemed Leading Knight: Dave Blankemeyer Esteemed Loyal Knight: Mary Paule Hill Esteemed Lecturing Knight: Rick Boucher Secretary: Charles Munson Treasurer: Brian Bouchard Inner Guard: Steve Schifilliti Esquire: Robert Brown Tiler: Daniel Ryan Chaplain: Hank Metevier Organist: Rick Guest State Trustee: Bruce Webster, PER

LODGE TRUSTEES Trustee (exp. 3/2008): Fred Dusablon, PER Trustee and Chairman (exp. 3/2009): Chris Bissonette Trustee (exp. 3/2010): Ron LaRose, PER, PSP Trustee (exp. 3/2011): Jim Procopio Trustee (exp. 3/2012): Gary Little, PER

HOW TO CONTACT THE LODGE

General Information ..................................bpoe916@comcast.net Exalted Ruler..........................................bpoe916er@comcast.net Lodge Secretary.......................... bpoe916secretary@comcast.net Lodge Treasurer ..........................bpoe916treasurer@comcast.net Trustees .........................................bpoe916trustees@comcast.net Event Bookings ...............................bpoe916events@comcast.net Bulletin Editor ...............................bpoe916bulletin@comcast.net

Name Address Occupation Proposer KUNO OLSON BURLINGTON RETIRED GEORGE JETTE

HALLY MCHUGH COLCHESTER IBM ANNE CROSS

RALPH BERNARDINI III WINOOSKI TEACHER THOMAS MAGUIRE, JR

MICHAEL GOGUEN BURLINGTON DIANE HAZEN, ER

RAYMOND GALLANT BURLINGTON RETIRED DENIS OSBORNE

HEIDI BROUILLETTE BURLINGTON RETIRED CAROL MIRANOWICZ

THOMAS SORREDE PAWTUCKET, RI BALLPLAYER RAYMOND LOPES

RICHARD JAPHET COLCHESTER RETIRED CHARLES MUNSON

ELIZABETH BOSMA WILLISTON RETIRED DOROTHY LAHUE

JOHN MURRAY, MD COLCHESTER RETIRED DIANE HAZEN, ER

THESE APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP OR REINSTATEMENT WILL BE BALLOTED ON AT THE SEPTEMBER 20TH MEMBERSHIP MEETING

BY AFFILIATION: ST. ALBANS LODGE

CHARLES CONSIDINE SWANTON ENGINEER

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IN VAIN WE CALL

“We shall meet, but we shall miss them, there will be the Vacant Chair, but though we no more possess them, still our hearts their memory bear.” Name Birth Date Initiated Died Milton Lasker 11/11/1925 3/20/1975 7/19/2007 James Lefebvre 4/7/1942 5/18/1986 7/23/2007 Robert Reuschel 1/26/1929 3/19/1998 8/2/2007 Benjamin Winterbottom 12/18/1921 3/18/1979 8/8/2007 The family of a deceased Member may request the Lodge to conduct a funeral service either in supplement to the usual religious rites or as the only ceremonial to be used. This “Lodge of Sorrows” is without any suggestions or sectarianism. The service is beautiful and impressive and is appro-priately designed for use in a Church, Chapel, Lodge Room or at the graveside.

Sunday, October 7, 2007 Entry Fee: $100

Arrive: 9:30am Start: 10:30am

Limited to the first 144 players to put cash down. No reservations. Pick up rules at the Lodge bar.

Last month we awarded our annual BPOE #916 scholarships. Pictured last to right: $500 recipient Elizabeth Dusablon, ER Diane Hazen, $1000 recipient Kayla Norris. (Not pictured was our other $500 recipient Kylie McLane). CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Off to the Races!! Last month Linda Langlois once again lead a group to Saratoga for a day of fun and chance. Thanks to Dave Eaton Photography for the pictures (more photos online at www.bpoe916.com under “Event Photos”).

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BITS & PIECES

• Last week my mother in law was invited to lunch. She quickly slathered on some lipstick, grabbed a can of hair spray and did that circle around her head that women do. Now this doesn’t sound like big news until you know that instead of hairspray, she grabbed the can of Lysol Basin, Tub, & Tile Cleaner! When she realized that the scrubbing bubbles couldn’t tell the difference between her head and porcelain she took evasive action, blotting the little bug-gers off her head. Fortunately for her she has an understanding son-in law who went out and purchased her a new “Johnny Mop/Hair Brush, with the lament “It’s too bad your eyesight isn’t keener, you’d ne’er use Basin, Tub & Tile Cleaner. • John Hill stabbed himself in the thigh with a #2 pencil. His co-workers gave him a “Barbie” band-aid to staunch the bleeding. Very cute, I’m sure. • Speed demon Barney Lilley was sitting at a stop light when he got rear ended. The force knocked him into the car ahead of him. Aren’t you supposed to keep your foot on the brake? • It was reported that on Family Day some of our older officers held a contest to see who had the most false teeth. While that has since been debunked, I couldn’t help but wonder what type of activities we could provide for our senior members. The margarita mixing con-test. Each contestant would get 1/2 full glass of margarita mix and the first one to shake their’s to a head without moving their arms would win. Another competition that’s sure to be a big hit is bobbing for apples ( without dentures, of course ). The prune eating contest, ear hair comparison (men), mustache competition (women), and the walker toss. Events that were nixed by the ER include the wet t-shirt competition (men’s & women’s), and the De-pends changing contest. Also the naked co-ed twister. • Congratulations to Emily Miles and Andrew Plunkett on their new employments. Andrew is at Gustin Advertising in Massachusetts, and Emily is at The Shelburne Fitness Arena.

John Plunkett

Date Menu Extra Meal 9/13 Chicken Cacciatore $10.00 10/11 Shepherds Pie $8.00 11/8 Roast Port $10.00 12/13 Baked Stuffed Chicken $10.00 1/10 Ribs & Baked Beans $12.00 2/14 Ham Steak $12.00 3/13 Steak No Extras (March is for ticket holders only)

Reminder: Make reservations for 350 Club Dinners at least TWO DAYS in advance.

Only ONE (1) dinner per ticket Only ONE (1) guest dinner per ticket

The next 350 Club dinner will be on September 13th. Volunteers are needed. Fraternally yours, Dave Blankemeyer Esteemed Leading Knight

SNOWBIRD CHRISTMAS PARTY

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22nd

ROAST TURKEY, BAKED HAM, MASHED POTATOES, BUTTERNUT SQUASH, SAUSAGE STUFFING,

ROLLS, BUTTER,COFFEE,AND TEA, PUMPKIN PIE AND APPLE PIE

ENTERTAINMENT: QUEEN CITY QUINTET

6:30 COCKTAILS - 7:30 DINNER

$18.00PP ON SALE AT THE MEMBER BAR

Brrrrrrrrrr….Winter’s coming, I’m going South!

RITUAL ROULETTE

Our lodge will have the honor of host-ing the “Area I Elks Roulette Contest” on Sunday, September 16, 2007. Many guests will be here from sur-rounding states. Let’s all welcome them to our lodge and wish all of the participants the best of luck in the competition. You will get to meet many of them at our Pig Roast on Saturday night. Diane Hazen Exalted Ruler

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1 John Coomes Robert Hartwick Benjamin Kershner Paul Martelle Ryan Navin Paul Robar 2 James Buckley Louis Cooper Marcel Fregeau Kenneth Peters Donald Picard Jeffrey Ploesser 3 Jerome Perras 4 James Hayes, Jr. Keith Kovacik Marilyn Lozon 5 Almon Atkins Lawrence Davis Matthew Gazo Buster Graham

Raymond Harvey 6 Robert Ley 7 Edward Malila Robert Martell William Miller Larry Snow Stephen Whitehouse 8 Kim Finley 9 Rhonda Tebeau 10 Rollin Brown Paul Campbell Richard Greenough Alfred Peake Ronald Reade 11 Donald Bourque Kenneth Limoge Donna Wheelock 12 Carl Carleton 13 Arthur Boucher Catherine Copp-Dion

Gary Desjardin David Minahan Paul Wright 14 Byron Audy John Barrett Lawrence Coghlan Curtis Echo, Jr. Mary Fitzgerald Robert Knapp J. Andrew Terrien 15 Edwin Combs Jeff Grimes Christine Johnson Peter McGovern Duncan Parkes William Yendrzeski 18 Thomas Chastenay Bruce Fisher Paulette Haselau Mark Lamphier 19 Roland Frechette Robert Gamelin Eric Kurtz Daniel McDevitt

John Terrien 20 Richard Couture James Robert Mardi Senna 21 Nicholas Aloi Alfred McLane Thomas Rotella 22 Pamela Bean Gerald Greenough Charles Hastings, Jr. Harry Jones George Langlois Richard Renaud Joseph Rossetti 23 Leo Collins John McGrath J. Peter Trono 24 Doug Demag Larry Stevens 25 Vicki Cunningham- Macarthur Richard Desautels Craig Gutchell Garret Huyer

26 Carol Ann Cassell Raymond Cristelli John Somers Jason Thibault John Wager John Wagner 27 Barbara Baxter Brenda Boucher Anthony Carpenter Walter Labounty Joseph Mailloux 28 Raymond Lopes Antonio Pomerleau 29 Thomas Bara Anthony Brandolino Leslie Chandler Dick Studley 30 John Cannizzaro Kyle Kadish Donna LaBonte Joseph Lander P. George Martone Stephen Roberts Scott Somers

Birthday this month? Bring your driver’s license to Steak Night and get $5 off !

Dinner: Wed - Sat 4:30pm till 9:30pm Awesome Sunday Brunch: 9am till 2pm

ENTERTAINMENT 8-11pm EVERY FRIDAY

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We will be serving a breakfast for the walkathon to benefit the “Make a Wish Foundation”. We will be serving approximately 100 runners before the event on Sunday, September 23 at 8:00am sharp. Anyone wanting to help out, please give me a call or leave a message in my mailbox. Diane Hazen, Exalted Ruler

There are many volunteers whom you see at every event day in and day out. There are also many volunteers you don’t see doing their own contribution to the lodge in many different ways. Have you noticed the freshly painted shutters on our lodge? Thank you, Jim Brousseau for a job well done. Do you every won-der how we get our weekly supply of spirits? Don Sawyer quietly does the run for us. How about every Monday night at our Bingo Hall when Dave Blankemeyer can always count on his weekly, faithful staff of Ollie Howard, Bob Steele, Jim Procopio, Barry Griffin and Cookie Manning. Oh, by the way, did you know that Mary Richard, one of our own Silver Tower campers often helps Richard Schmidt set up the tables for Steak Night? Keep up the good work. You are all very much appreciated! Diane Hazen Exalted Ruler

916 “Surprise Drink” & Karaoke Party

Friday, September 28th 6pm-???

Bring a dish or your favorite appetizer to share. Be sure to bring your singing voice too!

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THREE CORKS by Brother Matthew Engels

There are many parallels between the Boy Scouts of America and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Both groups integrate the concept of community service deep within the substance of their organization; and both groups realize that relentless recruiting is inte-gral to the survival or their organization.

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, creator of the BSA, while never an Elk, borrowed heavily from the Freemasons, another fraternal organi-zation when developing his rituals and structures of leadership both within the BSA and his honor camping group, the Order of the Ar-row. On his return from fighting in Africa in 1903, Baden-Powell found that his military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had be-come a best-seller, and was being used by teachers and youth organi-zations. Following his involvement in the Boys' Brigade as Brigade Secretary and Officer in charge of its scouting section, with encour-agement from his friend, William Alexander Smith, Baden-Powell decided to rewrite Aids to Scouting to suit a youth readership. In Au-gust 1907 he held a camp on Brownsea Island for twenty-two boys of mixed social background to test out the applicability of his ideas. Baden-Powell was also influenced by Ernest Thompson Seton, who founded the Woodcraft Indians. Seton gave Baden-Powell a copy of his book The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians and they met in 1906. Scouting for Boys was subsequently published in six install-ments in 1908.

The BPOE’s involvement in Scouting has been a long one, as a Charter organization and until 2006, the Elks provided a scholarship for select Eagle Scouts under the auspices of the Elks National Foun-dation. In 2006, the ENF awarded its last Eagle Scout Scholarship with the BPOE Board of Trustees deciding to discontinue funding for the two Scouts scholarship programs, in favor of increasing funding for our own Most Valuable Student program. This new program does not preclude the participation of Eagle Scouts, as all Boy Scouts that meet the Most Valuable Student eligibility criteria are able to apply. Additionally, the Elks provide an award to BSA adult leaders called the “Marvin S. Lewis Award” named after a PGER who advocated Scouting’s relationship with the BPOE.

There are many youth programs that parallel the BSA. The Elks themselves operating groups such as the Antlers program currently being restarted by the Burlington Lodge is similar to the BSA’s Ven-ture Crew program which was originally known as the BSA Explor-ers. According to the official Venture Crew website “What a Ventur-ing crew does is limited only by the imagination and involvement of the adult and youth leaders and members of the crew: sail the Carib-bean, produce a play, climb a mountain, teach disabled people to swim, or attend the Olympics. All these adventures and many more are being done today by Venturing crews and ships across the coun-try.” A parallel membership in a Venture Crew along with other youth memberships provides opportunities to participate in high ad-venture activities under the auspices of the Boy Scouts of America including the use of their facilities and camps.

The Boy Scouts of America’s slogan is “Do A Good Turn Daily.” What represents the goals of the BPOE more than this? To serve oth-ers is one of the BPOE’s stated goals as well.

WOW!!! That sums up the Family Day we had this year. Fantastic weather, GREAT family attendance, food, beverages, entertain-ment, games, etc. What more can anyone ask for? Even Mickey Mouse & BINGO!!!

On behalf of your Lodge Officers, I cannot say THANK YOU enough to all of our guests and all of the FANTAS-TIC volunteers I had, of which are too many to name individu-ally here (but you know who you are), and the excellent en-tertainment afforded by John &

Mary Paule Hill. We truly had a day where we showed that ELKS are indeed “family” in many ways. I am very proud to have been asked to chair this event this year. However, I would be doing an injustice if I didn’t acknowledge that I had a very close co-chair in the person of my wife Brenda. She was by my side all the way and I thank her for that! We are hoping for an even bigger & better day for next year and future years. ELKS are indeed passionate about their Brothers & Sisters however their families are an even bigger part of the overall scheme and that was truly seen on this special day! Thank you again for your time and for sharing your families. We greatly appreciated it! Rick & Brenda Boucher

PS

Somehow I missed listing Esteemed Leading Knight Dave Blankemeyer’s birthday on August 16th in the Birthday page of the Bulletin. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest my shorts!

John Hill, Editor

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ELDOES UPDATE

“Be the Best of Whoever You Are!”

With the Champlain Valley Fair and the autumn season ap-proaching, I hope you have all had an enjoyable summer. Looking ahead, I would like to encourage the members to share ideas for group outings as well as possible fundraisers at the September 18th meeting. An Eldoe sponsored luncheon was held at the Lodge on Au-gust 8th with approximately 45 in attendance. This social affair, with no agenda, gave us all a chance to visit and get reacquainted. The consensus of the group was that “ we should do this again”. Thanks to John Plunkett and his staff for a fine menu and service on one of his “busier” days. Thanks to Debby Stapleton for arrang-ing this for us. The Directors of the Partners in Adventure Organization ex-pressed their satisfaction and appreciation to all Eldoes for the en-joyable social outings we afforded them last year. They are looking forward to this year’s events, the first of which is scheduled for October 14th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. All Eldoes extend our condolences to Elsie Dinwiddie on the loss of her long time friend, Ben Winterbottom – you are in our thoughts and prayers. Our best wishes go out to Sandi and Tom Gamelin who have moved to Florida. Hope we will still see you once in a while at a meeting or social event. Our thanks for all you did for the Eldoes.

September birthdays: Doris Curtis

Beth Dusablon, Virginia Giroux Sally Vachereau

Happy Birthday to all!

If you come to a steak night during the month of your birthday, you will receive $5.00 off your meal. Other items to keep in mind: September 18th regular meeting 7:00 p.m. – members and

guests October 16th is our “popular” pot-luck dinner and raffle.

Members and guests are welcome. November 11th Annual Holiday Bazaar. If you know of

someone who would like to rent a table, please give their name to Chairperson, Mary McMaster, or they can call her at 863-2424

Also, anyone with jewelry that you would like to donate for our jewelry table, please bring it to the club to my attention or con-tact any Eldoe. We will be glad to make arrangements for pickup. See you all in September! Sincerely, Linda DeLaricheliere, President

PIG ROAST Saturday, September 15th

Cocktails 6:30pm / Pigout 7:00pm

Music by DJ Squealer Hill Tickets are $12.00pp

Tickets always sell out

early! Get yours now at the Member bar.

It’s always lots of fun and one of our most popular

events!

NEWEST ADDITION

Exalted Ruler Diane Hazen and Trustee Chairman Chris Bissonette stand next to a beautiful player piano in the Bob Carr Room. It was donated by the family of Joe Kelly. There are dozens of rolls of songs and it has a variety of sounds besides piano. THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATION!

GREAT IDEA! We want to applaud the decision to furnish the Member bar with new tables and stools. What an asset to the Lodge! We love the fact that many can gather ‘round and chat and laugh all to-gether at the same time. What a great idea! One more thing to help make our Lodge the best establishment in town! Sincerely, Gary and Janet Benway

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BURLINGTON LODGE #916 Benevolent and Protective Order of ELKS 925 North Avenue Burlington, VT 05408

NON PROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID

BURLINGTON, VT PERMIT # 15

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday September 1

CV Fair

2 CV Fair

3 Labor Day Regular Hours NO BINGO CV Fair ends

4 Investigating Committee 7pm

5 Steak Night 6pm

6 7 Private Function

8 Private Function

9 Herb Robair Golf Tournament

10 Bingo

11 Private Function Governing Board 7pm

12 13 Private Function 350 Club

14 15 Pig Roast 6:30pm

16 N.E. Roulette Team 8am

17 Bingo

18 Eldoes Meeting

19 Steak Night 6pm

20 Private Function Regular Meeting 7pm

21 Private Function

22 Snowbird Christmas Party 6pm

23 Make-A-Wish Breakfast 8am

24 Bingo

25 26 Private Function

27 28 Private Function 916 Surprise Drink Night & Karaoke

29 Private Function

30 DD Visitation & Initiation 1:30pm

October 1 Bingo

2 3 Steak Night 6pm

4 5 Private Function

6 Private Function

NOTICE: If you have not paid your dues, this will be your last newsletter. Keep your membership in good standing!

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