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Tickets are on sale NOW for the Elks Charity Raffle! The featured prize this year is a 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T Shaker SCAT Pack .

This year’s car has a retail value of $52,900! Members will receive 20 tickets in the mail and are encouraged to purchase them for yourself, or sell them to family and friends.

Tickets are $3 each and are also available at the Office and from the doorman in the lobby!

Thank you to our prize sponsors this year: MVP, Inc., Expressway Inn & Suites, Herbergers, Scheels Sports, New Image Tanning, Butcher Block Meats, Dan’s Supermarket, Knowles Jewelry, Pacific Sound & Video, Bismarck Parks & Rec, Prairie West Golf Course and Bismarck-Mandan Elks Lodge.  Best of luck!

Know a high school senior who needs money for college?  Your Bismarck-Mandan Elks Lodge is excited to again award $4,000 in college scholarships to 6 of the highest-rated applicants in May 2016.

The 2016 Most Valuable Student scholarship contest, open to any high school senior who is a US Citizen, kicks off September 1, 2015.

•    Any high school senior who is a citizen of the United States is eligible to apply.

•    Applicants need not be related to a member of the Elks.

•    College students are not eligible to apply.

•    Applicants must be citizens of the United States on the date their applications are signed; permanent legal resident status does not qualify.

•    Male and female students compete separately.

Applicants will be judged on scholarship, leadership, and financial need. Applications for the 2016 contest are available to download now. The applications will be due to the Elks Lodge nearest to the applicant’s home by December 4, 2015.

For more information, e-mail Lodge #1199 Scholarship Chair Michael Lindblom at [email protected] or visit www.elks.org/ENF/scholars/

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Whatever good things we build, end up building us. – Jim Rohn

With June’s Elks Burgers, Brats, and Beer concessions during the 40th Annual McQuade Charity Softball Tournament and July’s Elks Camp Grassick Day, dozens of volunteers members donated hundreds of hours of their personal time for the cause of the Elks.  These people could have been doing many other enjoyable things; spending time with family, going camping, golfing, you name it.  But they didn’t.  Instead, they chose to spend their time in the service to others.

On behalf of the Officers, Trustees, and Team members of the Elks, we thank the many volunteers who help make our many projects successful.

According to the “Points of Light” Foundation, volunteering refers to ―rendering of service by choice of or free will for the benefit of the wider community by an individual, group, or institution without necessarily expecting monetary gain in full knowledge and appreciation of being a volunteer.”

Along with helping assist with Burgers, Brats, and Beer and Camp Grassick day, you see Elks volunteer helping serve burgers on Wednesdays during the summer and seafood on Saturdays during the winter.  You see them at the Hoop Shoot, Soccer Shoot, Student Government Day, and Children’s Christmas Party.  (You also see them occupying chairs on the lodge floor the first Thursday of every month.) [Read more…]