Greetings, When I was at L&M today, they had a huge Christmas display by the check-outs. You couldn’t miss it as you were leaving the store. Christmas stockings, lanterns, gnomes and other Christmas décor. It isn’t even Halloween yet. I am sure most of you have your Fall or Halloween decorations out already and like […]
Welcome to the month of Thanksgiving members. Although I certainly believe we can be thankful for all of the months. This is the start of the next of my favorite seasons. You all know how much I love summer and my flowers and being on the lake and hot weather. But the Holidays are really […]
Happy October Members. I know I say this every month, but how is it even October yet? The months really go a lot faster as I get older that’s for sure. I writing this article on September 21st and yesterday it was 80 degrees and we were able to take a boat ride. I still […]
I’m a little bit in denial that it’s September already. My garden is still producing, my flowers still look amazing, I haven’t seen too many grasshoppers yet, the lake is still warm, the weather has been AMAZING! I’d honestly take this weather year around. But alas, here we go. Pretty soon we’ll be seeing the […]
Greetings, Fall is here and we are looking forward to several important activities. We still have tickets for the Side-by-Side Raffle. If you don’t need a side-by-side, you can take $10,000. The tickets are $100 but they are only selling 300 tickets. Please support our efforts to improve our community with a lovely pocket park. […]
Happy August Members. I’m writing my article a little early this month because it’s due while we are at our absolute favorite place in the entire world, EAA Airventure in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. If you ever have a chance to visit this amazing show, don’t hesitate to go. It’s so much fun. And we’ll get to see our friends at […]
It’s audit time again for Gambling, which means we are SUPER BUSY and hard at work getting all of the required items ready to send off to the auditor, and also hopefully June will be our last month for a huge tax bill! We’ve been holding off on our donations to make sure we can […]
Happy June Members – I’m sure a lot of you have heard and seen many things regarding the electronic pull tabs at the state level during their last session. This is something I’ve been following, and right now, even they don’t necessarily understand the language it seems. Yes, there are some changes coming, what I’m […]
Greetings, June was a busy month for Elks. Cary and Greg drove our float in the Land of the Loon Parade. Many of us attended the Minnesota Elks State Convention in Rochester. Our Public Safety Night was a huge success. We gave away every life jacket and bike helmet we had. The kitchen crew, headed […]
Greetings, Now that Memorial Day has passed, it is officially summer. Our first June event is our Public Safety event on Tuesday, June 6. We are inviting our local public safety personnel up to the lodge for a free burger. We will have an ambulance, a police car and a DNR boat for all to […]