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NEWSLETTER
SEP/OCT 2012
EDITOR - JOE PIKULA
Ins ide this is sue:
KUDOS KORNER SPECIAL OLYMPICS
MATT ARRUDA DAVID FAHEY
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STATE PRESIDENTS VISIT
CELEBRATION TIME
3
ELKTOWNER SPONSORS
3-6
52 CLUB MEMBERSHIP
SCOUTING MEN OF THE YEAR
S&D
7
VETS BBQ 8
2012 ARTIE HARTEL
MEMORIAL CHARITY
GOLF OUTING
I N S E R T
YORKTOWN LODGE # 2324
MID HUDSON DISTRICT # 6180
EXALTED RULER MESSAGE
When I traveled to Albany, NY for the Spring Convention, I was pretty impressed by the NYS Elks Association. When I went to Austin, TX for the Grand Lodge Convention, I gained a greater appreciation for being a member of this fine Ameri-can organization. Jimmy Vignola and I traveled over a thou-sand miles away to represent our Lodge on a national level. In no way whatsoever was it a chore; it was an abso-lute honor to be an Elk and to be from Yorktown Lodge #2324.
I met Elks from across the country - from California, to Wis-consin, to the great state of Texas. I had one of the best times of my life! I've realized that the heart and soul of this country and organization doesn't only come from large cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, it comes from small towns that exist in Utah, Arizona, Missouri, the Dakotas, the deep South, and last but certainly not least, New York State.
I'm proud to be an American! Honor the Flag!
Respectfully, Exalted Ruler Paul Egan
ITEMS OF NOTE FROM OUR ER
Mary Blackadder and I attended the homecoming of our out-going District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler, Al Shrock on July 14th at the Beacon Lodge. Delicious food was cooked and served by the Beacon Elks. Congratulations to PDDGER Al Shrock for his hard work and dedication over the past year!
AND FROM RICH DE SILVA
We have an opportunity to have an impact on the lives of children who need help at a Hospital. There is a program at the Hudson Valley Hospital and the Helen Hayes Hospital which provides free help to children in exchange for bottle caps and can tabs. We don’t have details but we recently turned in a bag full to Peekskill Lodge and they were happy for it. Please join us in this effort by saving them and bringing them to the Lodge in a container marked for Rich or Mary De Silva; they will coordinate the handling of these for our Lodge.
IMPORTANT DATES TO
REMEMBER
SPECIAL OLYMPICS CYCLING SEP 15
DD AUDIT
SEP 17 VISIT
SEP 19
300 CLUB DRAWING
SEP 30
SPECIAL OLYMPICS
GOLF OCT 6
CHARITY
FUND RAISER FOR
SPOL & CP PANCAKE
BREAKFAST LEOS & ELKS
NOV 4
BINGO EVERY
THURSDAY DOORS OPEN
5:00 PM GAME START
6:50 pm
SPECIAL MESSAGE Another summer season is about to end and it’s back to school for our school aged children. We hope you had a great time.
We all have an opportunity to save ourselves some money and help the Special Olympics Community by downloading discount cou-pons for purchases at Mod-ells. (See Pg 2 for details)
We also can help our com-munity’s children by saving bottle caps and can tabs and bringing them to the Lodge. They will be sent to the hospi-tals in exchange for service.
SOME EFFORT NEEDED
BUT NO $ COST TO YOU !!
PLEASE GET INVOLVED
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
KUDOS KORNER
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THANK YOU THANK YOU
SEP/OCT 2012
OUR BUSY BEAVERS
Our Thanks goes to Joe (Tel) Cacciola for fixing the Lodge's telephones when Verizon could not quite figure what was wrong; he saved the Lodge $300. Thanks also to Mike Adamovich for his dona-tion to the bar. Our Thanks go to all the members who attended the State President’s lunch and espe-cially to Mary Blackadder for all her hard work in getting the lunch together. A special thanks goes to Angelo Salzillo for his donation of the beautiful grill which is now being used for our periodic Friday Night Barbeques, and which is being run by him, Danny LoPresti and Bobby Kramer. Good Job Guys ! Our Thanks go to Bobby Kramer, who ran a Yankee Stadium visit. The 48 attendees were treated to a bus ride in coach, plenty of food and beverages, and they saw the Yankees beat the Cleveland In-dians. All had a great time and said they look forward to the next trip….great job Bobby !
Yorktown Plaque Dedication Ceremony
On Sunday August 20th there was a special ceremony at Yorktown Patriot Garden for a war Veteran Army SPC David Fahey JR from Yorktown who was killed one year ago in Afghanistan. The event was attended by over 500 local residents, politicians, State Senator Ball, State Assemblyman Katz, County Legislator Testa, our Town Justices, Supervisor Grace and the Fahey family. The American Legion presented the Colors and the VFW did the Rifle Salute. The Elk's were thanked for attending the ceremony. Town Judge Lagonia played Taps to close the ceremony. A special thanks by the Community was given to Councilman Patel for coordinating this cere-mony. Representing Yorktown Lodge were: PSVP's Mary & Rich De Silva, Tony & Jenny Grasso, Norine Charlonis, Mary Blackadder, Kathleen O'Keefe, Betty O'Neil, Nick Bianco, Nick Capoccia, Gary Raniolo
Rich De Silva, Public Relation Chair
Yorktown Leos Select Matt Arruda As Citizen Of the Year
It was a busy time before our meeting in August when we were visited by the Yorktown Lions, and their youth group, the Yorktown Leos. Our Lodge formally presented our Citizen Of The Year plaque to Al Avitible of the Li-ons Organization (see pg 7), while in the meantime, their Youth group used the occasion to honor our own Matt Arruda as their Citizen Of The Year. Congratulations Matt, on a well deserved award for your service Pictured are Matt (l) and Leo’s President Joe Cirone (r).
Lodge Major Project - Special Olympics
A Very Special Thank You goes to the Galgano Family for their generous donation of $1200 to our Lodge Special Olympics fund, in memory of our departed brother Ted Galgano.
THE NEW SEASON BEGINS….YOUR HELP WILL BE APPRECIATED
Saturday September 15 - Cycling at FDR Park in Yorktown Saturday October 6 - Regional Golf Competition Mohansic GC and BBQ at our Lodge
Saturday November 10 - Regional Adaptive Games at St Agathas in Nanuet
A WIN - Win Situation For Everyone Modells has partnered with Special Olympics NY where Coupons are available for a 15% Discount to you on identified purchases at their stores during August 24 - September 20; with an additional 5% going to the Hud-son Valley Region. Please use the link shown below to download the coupons at the end of their newsletter; and please share this information with your friends. Coupons have been left at the Lodge for those in need. Joe Pikula , Chairman
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MEMBERS
SPOUSES
CELEBRATION
TO ALL OF YOU, WE WISH YOU THE VERY BEST ON YOUR SPECIAL DAY
STATE PRESIDENT VISIT
John Ahern
Alfred DePrado
Edward Faughnan
John Gembecki
Ron Jordan
John Karagozian
Barbara Leifels
Edward Lynch
Kevin Martin
Frank Mastro
Jack McCarthy
Kevin McKenna
Peteer Simon
Curt Trumbetta
Merrilee Wages
Roxanne Visconti
Fred Zapka
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
Mary Ellen Falco
Marilyn Hembury
Michelle Littleton
Lori Locke
Dorothy Marro
Lucy Occhipinti
Carol Ruocco
Stephanie Stebbins
Matt & Ann Arruda
Dennis & Marie Beers
Al & Gloria DePrado
Thomas & Rita Dunnings
Mark & Marilyn
Hembury
Bill & Laurel Hopper
Jay & Suzanne Horgan
John & Lisa Hufnagel
Vincent & Sarah Lemma
Lawrence & Courtney
McCarthy
Jim & Anne Morrison
Joe & Patrice Nelson
Bill & Ruby O’Reilly
Joe &Patricia Plitnick
Gene & Gynnette-
Deschenes Pullins
Andrew & Marie Ryder
Don & Flo Simione
Jesse & Tina Tiani
Tom & Susan Williams
Irving Breitbart
Martin Brennan
Paul Egan
Hans Fischer
Elizabeth Gentile
Phillip Grealy
John Hyler
James Mallon
Herman Moeller
James Morrison
Donald Peters
Robert Simmonds
George Taylor
Mary Brennan
Ginny Cacciola
Eileen Gravanese
Frede Pikula
Patricia Plitnick
Kate Scheld
Jeanne Swick
Carol Yazzetti
Andrew & Carol Alimonti
Marty & Mary Brennan
Anthony & Lauren
Cacciola
Rich & Elaine Cariello
Rich & Mary De Silva
Bob & Mary Falco
Hans & Christine Fischer
Phil & Nancy Grealy
Frank & Marie Mastro
James & Kathleen O’Neil
Tom & Jay Savage
Tony & Joann Venditti
Fred & Doris Versaci
Dave & Carol Yazzetti
New York State Elks Association Presi-dent Larry Contratti and his cohorts vis-ited our Lodge on Aug 4. After a tour of the property and the building, he sat down and ate a hot lunch. He signed membership cards for those in atten-dance and in turn, collected donations for Cerebral Palsy, our State Major Pro-ject.
Bill O’Reilly Bobby Kramer Rich De Silva Al De Prado Art Rogrow, SVP
Tony Venditti Paul Egan ER Larry Contratti SP Joe Petriello PSP Ron Hansen
TO ALL OUR MEMBERS
COMPLETE CATERING SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR
WEDDING RECEPTIONS FAMILY CELEBRATIONS
FULL BAR SERVICE AVAILABLE
CALL THE LODGE @ (914) 962 - 7895
Sickness or Distress as of 6/20/2012
Pete Gubello 1924 - 2012
RIP Our Brother
We send our Prayers & Best Wishes to all who are ill and/or have been recuperating at home or in the hospital:
John Hyler, Bill Lynch, Peter Mastropolo, Joe Rago, Jerry Sammon, Andy Tumolo, Larry Zamolsky
If you know of anyone who is ill or needs help, please call the Lodge (914) 245 - 9839
52 CLUB WINNERS
06/06 - Angelo Salzillo
06/13 - Jack McCarthy
06/20 - Charlie Jones
06/28 - Steve Smith
07/04 - Mike Littleton
07/11 - Ed Santiago
07/18 - Mary Blackadder
Congratulations
Dave Yazzetti Chairman
MEMBERSHIP
NEW APPLICATIONS
Applicant Proposer Edward Koliz Robert Kramer Salvatore Lagonia Gary Raniolo Louis Saraceno Anthony Grasso Robert Pregiato George Taylor
Candidates elected to membership will be initiated on September 19, dur-ing our DD visit
As of August 18th, there are 17 members in arrears. Reminder, your dues were due in April.
Rich De Silva, Membership Chair
SEP/OCT 2012
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SCOUTING PROGRAM PSVP’s Richard & Mary De Silva pre-sented Eagle Scout Certificates and American Flags to Dylan Calderaro and Jacob Herandez of Troop 164. Dylan's project was a shelter to house bee hives at Hilltop Hanover Farm and Jacob's project consisted of construction of 3 flower beds at Yorktown HS.
In a separate ceremony Norine Charlo-nis presented Eagle Scout Daniel Fay with a certificate and an American Flag on August 5th.
(pictured l to r Town Councilman Vishnu Patel, PSVP Rich De-Silva, Asst Scout Master and 50 year Eagle Scout John Mc Quillan, Dylan Calderaro, Jacob Hernandez, Scoutmaster Mike Barr, PSVP Mary DeSilva and Town Justice Sal Lagonia
Men Of The Year
We formally presented plaques to previously announced Elk Of The Year - Fred Versaci (l) and Citi-zen of the Year Al Avitible (r) at our August 15 meeting.
Liz Gentile, PER Fred Versaci
Al Avitible Bill O’Reilly
Liz Gentile, PER Matt Arruda
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Thanksgiving
Special Olympics
Back To Work
Haloween
VETERANS Day
Elections
MONTROSE VA HOSPITAL BARBEQUE “SERVING THOSE WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY”
On August 7th, Elk members joined the Knights of Co-lumbus at the Mon-trose VA Hospital for an annual sum-mer BBQ. It was especially reward-ing to serve those who have served us! Thanks to Mary Blackadder, Rich and Mary De-Silva, ER Paul E g a n , B i l l O'Reilly, Jimmy Vignola, and to our brothers in the Knights of Colum-bus.
SEP/OCT 2012
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