Members Lounge is open every day! Join us for our Annual Veterans Dinner Nov 14th.
652 Andover St, Lawrence, Massachusetts 01843, United States
Grateful, Thankful & Blessed
Annual Veterans Appreciation Dinner
Please join us as we show our appreciation for our Veterans, Active Military, and 1st Responders. Enjoy a delicious dinner, raffles and great conversations with our heroes. Tickets are available in the members lounge or you may email the Secretary @ Elks65Secretary@gmail.com to reserve your tickets.
Saturday lunches are back starting on November 2nd!
Things are getting back to normal, check out the new Members Lounge Hours and come enjoy the Lounge
Our New Lounge hours:
Monday: 3pm - 10pm
Tuesday: 3pm - 10pm
Wednesday: 3pm - 10pm
Thursday: 3pm - 10pm
Friday: 3pm - 10pm
Saturday: 12pm - 7pm
Sunday: 12pm - 6pm
The hours and number of days may increase as participation grows.
Bartenders have the right to keep the lounge open later if they wish and may close early for lack of members.
Hope to see you all down here, soon.
Big Events
What are the Benefits from these Events?
1. Veterans Outing and Cookout: During the summer we hold a cookout to give something back to our Forgotten Hero's and to help them feel appreciated.
2. Someone Cares Package Party: For the past few years we have worked with Deb Carberry to purchase Misc. goods and products and to host the "Someone Cares Package Party" that gives backpacks filed with snacks, water, hats, gloves, and personal hygiene products to the needy and homeless. Please check out: Someone Cares Package Party - Home | Facebook and read about how and whom it helps, and check out the pictures in the Photo Gallery to see the Volunteers of all ages, in action, helping to assemble these lifesaving care packages. So, if you can come down and help at the next party, it will make your heart swell with pride and joy.
3. The Elementary School Sneaker Grant: This is where we purchase 60 to 70 pairs of sneakers from the New Balance Company at an amazing discount to help us give away, to these less fortunate elementary students, a nice new pair of Sneakers for school. No one should feel ashamed of their clothing as a kid, no one.
4. The Psychological Center: Cares for, assists and houses the homeless, those fighting addiction, and battered women, to name a few. It is a place to get things straight and focus on improving on their lives in the future.
5. Groundwork Lawrence: Is a place for inner city kids to get involved in cleaning and restoring the city's open spaces and learn to save the environment through reclaiming trashed lots and dirty river beds. It also teaches the benefits of teamwork and responsibility of keeping the earth clean for the future. They also get assistance with homework and access to computers and the internet.
6. VNOC: Veterans Northeast Outreach Center cares and supports homeless and less fortunate Veterans with food, clothing, and shelter.
7. Seniors Valentine Dance and Senior Ho- Down: Are parties to give some seniors a special event to look forward to and get away from their regular daily lives and have some fun with others from their generation. Included is Food, Dancing and the celebration of life.
8. ENF Steak and Lobster Cookout: A great meal designed to give members and guests an amazing surf and turf dinner , some music, raffles and a great afternoon out. The proceeds are donated to the ENF (Elks National Fund) which in turn gets us the money for grants to support all our other events.
9. Veterans Day Dinner and Raffles: Today we give a little something back to our beloved Veterans, a nice dinner and the chance to win some fun and interesting prizes. Veterans eat "Free".
Final Notes:
A lot of hard work and planning goes in to pulling off these events and I want to thank Rick Restivo for all his hard work to write these Grants, to promote our Lodge's Benevolence and coordinating these many amazing events by getting volunteers like me to climb aboard the Giving Train. Wouldn't you like to come with us for a life changing ride? We always need more help.
The Psychological Center
Over $5,000. in appliances and food goods were purchased through a grant from the Grand Lodge via Rick Restivo. The goods were purchased and delivered by Officers of the Lawrence Elk's Lodge to help support our community. The Psychological Center administrators, and its clients, were overwhelmingly grateful.
Veterans Northeast Outreach Center
Our Veteran's are our Guardian Angels
The VNOC is doing amazing things for our "Forgotten Hero's", the men and women that have given up a part of their lives for the safety and security of our nation and your families.
Rick Restivo has taken on the task of applying for grants from Grand Lodge and his diligence has paid off with the awarding of $2,000. to help assist the VNOC in their hard work to support our Vet's with living quarters, food and clothing. We should all feel proud to be part of the Lawrence Elk's for all the assistance our volunteers are affording our local Vet's. To donate yourself, click on the VNOC Website link below
"Elks Care and Elks Share"
VNOC Website: https://vneoc.org
VNOC Facebook Link:
9th Annual Someone Cares Package Party
The Lawrence Elk's donated over $3,000. worth of food goods purchased for the Lazarus House for distribution to the community at large. Rick Restivo applied to Grand Lodge for this grant and it was award to us for that mission.
A big "Thank You" goes out to all the amazing volunteers that showed up to help that day.
Groundwork Lawrence
Groundwork Lawrence (GWL) has been making change happen since its beginnings in 1999.
The Lawrence Elks has received two checks totaling $950. that we donated to Groundwork Lawrence to support their community work to reclaim unkept city space by employing city youth volunteers.
Elk Volunteers
Volunteers are who make things happen!
We are coming into the season that we do most of our fund raising and need your help. Volunteers are the backbone of any Fraternal Benevolent organizations. You are our secret weapons to conquer the needs of the less fortunate, homeless, elderly, hungry children and Veterans in our community. Without you, we are weak and unproductive. Please get in touch with one of the lodge officers to see how you can help. Thank you!
Voting on New Members
Below is the list of the Applicants, Reinstatement (R) Demits (D) who will be voted on for Membership at the Lodge Meeting.
List of New Applicants to Become Members
Below is the list of the applicants, reinstatement (R) Demits (D) who will be initiated as Members at a future Lodge Meeting.
Name
Initiation Date:
Membership
If you see any of our new Members Say Hi,
Welcome Our Newest Members
Upcoming Special Events
Scholarship Awards
Scholarship Awards
Temporarily Closed!
Come purchase some tickets and win some
amazing and fun prizes.
There will also be some music between games so you can get up on the dance floor and
"Shake Your Booty"
Don't be left out.
See all you Scallywags there!
Arrrrggg!
Scholarship Awards
Scholarship Awards
Scholarship Awards
Three Card Cover for Scholarships:
Temporarily Closed!
Three Card Cover for Scholarships is
back from Summer vacation, now on Saturdays after Saturday Lunch!
Join us every Saturday afternoon
in the members lounge.
1:00 pm start time.
The proceeds from these games fund our Scholarship Program to aid our students in paying outrageous college fees. We take all the proceeds collected and divide them between the students that fill out our
applications for assistance,
Every little bit helps to ease the accumulation of student loan debt.
Come down and play to help us raise the funds to give some relief to our over burdened students.
Thank You!
Where's the Beef?
Sports Night Dinners
Sports Night Dinners
Meat Raffles:
It's Back as Big as Ever!!
Held in the Members Lounge
The next Meat Raffle is:
Saturday - May 18th, 2024
The fun Starts at 1:30pm
12 Prizes will be raffled off.
There will also be a 50/50 game.
For the first part of the year the proceeds of the Meat Raffle go towards the
ENF Fund (Elks National Fund).
Some of the Grants go toward the "Someone Cares Package Party" which gives less fortunate and homeless people a backpack loaded with snacks, personal hygiene products, hats and gloves etc.
Another Grant helps our keep our Veterans warm with hats and gloves and allows us to serve them dinners a few times a year. All of these Grants are the possible through the hard work of Rick Restivo and his crew of helpers.
Come win some meat
Sports Night Dinners
Sports Night Dinners
Sports Night Dinners
Sports Night Dinners!
Dinner's are back
Come down every 3rd Thursday to the Members Lounge and fill up on the best meal for the best price in town.
It will be great to see all your smiling faces.