925 North Avenue Burlington, VT 05408

(802) 862-1342

The Exalted Ruler’s Message

The Lodge Soccer Shoot was held at Leddy Park on September 29th. We had 104 shooters. We had seven shooters who were eligible to go to St. Albans for the State Soccer Shoot on October 12th. Ben Silver was the winner of Boys (10-11) group and is eligible to shoot in the Regional Soccer Shoot representing our lodge in Windsor, Conn. on November 8th. Our District Deputy Tom Maloney and our State President Kyle T, Brown III made their annual inspection/visit to our lodge on October 11th. As part of the DD inspection requirements we performed an initiation of new members. We initiated 8 new members.

With the announcement of Charles Munson’s retirement as Lodge Secretary at the end of November, nominations for his successor were opened at the October 16th lodge meeting and will remain open until November 6th. The election of our new secretary will take place at the November 6th meeting, with the installation being at the first meeting in December. November is Veteran’s Month. Remember a VET and thank them for what they have done in the past and what they are doing today for us. Many have made the ultimate sacrifice so we can live the way we do today. GOD BLESS THE VETERANS.

Fraternally Yours,

Dave Blankemeyer, Exalted Ruler

THE 916 BULLETIN Monthly Newsletter of the BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS Lodge #916 Vol. 8, No. 11

NOVEMBER 2008 350 Club ....................................................... 4 Activity Calendar ......................................... 8 Bar Bingo ..................................................... 4 Birthdays ...................................................... 5 Bits & Pieces ................................................ 4 Caddy Raffle ................................................ 3 Champlain Valley Fair ................................. 2 Contact Information ..................................... 2 Dear Elks Club ............................................. 7 Eldoes Update .............................................. 7 Elks Memorial Service ................................. 1 Happy Birthday Silver Towers ..................... 7 Karaoke ........................................................ 6 Kid’s Christmas Party .................................. 3 Lodge Notices .............................................. 2 Officers & Trustees ...................................... 2 President’s Raffle ......................................... 4 Scholarship Awards...................................... 7 Steak Night Menus ....................................... 6 Thanksgiving Day Bags ............................... 5 Turkey Bingo................................................ 3 Veteran’s Recognition Lunch....................... 5 Volunteer of the Month ................................ 8 Volunteer Survey.......................................... 6

Steak Night

Wednesday, November 5th

Meeting Night

Thursday, November 6th

Karaoke Friday, November 7th

Veterans Ceremony Saturday, November 8th

ELKS MEMORIAL SERVICE

SUNDAY, DEC. 7th - 2PM Lunch will follow

Mark your calendar!

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• The regular membership meetings will be held on the FIRST and THIRD Thursdays of the month at 7pm every month except in the months of July, August and December as approved by Grand Lodge Resolutions. In July, August and December the regular membership meeting will be held on the THIRD Thursday of the month.

• 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

Monthly Newsletter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks #916

925 North Avenue - Burlington, VT 05408

Published monthly and mailed to all current Lodge Members and select others, by standard mail at Burlington, VT. 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 2008-2009

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

LODGE TRUSTEES 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 Trustee (exp. 3/2013): Diane Hazen, 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 .......................................... bpoe916trustee@comcast.net Event Bookings ...............................bpoe916events@comcast.net Bulletin Editor ...............................bpoe916bulletin@comcast.net

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR: ANOTHER YEAR OF FUN AND HARD WORK! The 2008 CVF was another year of bringing a lot of good, hard working Elks together. Without the hard work of all the volunteers this year at the Fair it would never have gone as well as it did. The set-up, manning the booth for ten days, and the clean-up went extremely smooth. There are days before the Fair to prep. Paint, clean and organize. Bringing supplies to the booth and getting all the equipment up and running for a long ten days takes some time. Then we have to find volunteers to run the booth for those ten days! Sign-up goes up on Family Day and usually fills up very fast. Three shifts a day with two shifts on the last day. After all that...don’t forget clean-up! Cleaning all the equipment and storing all the sup-plies that are left over and a complete cleaning of the booth for winter. Finally we have to winterize eve-rything. This usually adds up to about 80-100 volunteer hours for set-up, 1000-1100 volunteer hours to run the booth for ten days, and 30-35 hours to close the booth. That is not including any large projects

done at the Fair. That is a tremendous amount of volunteer hours. I would like to THANK YOU for all the time you were able to give to one of the largest, single most volunteer events we have. We even have a few volunteers that take vacation time from their jobs to help me at the Fair. My right hand man and “Little Buddy” Exalted Ruler David Blankemeyer, “Grill Master” Trustee Jim Procopio, and “All Around Man” PER Al Peake. A special thanks to the three of them!

Once again I THANK YOU ALL. This is a wonderful showing of what Elkdom is all about. Hope to see more of you next year. Check with any of the volunteers and they will tell you what a great time they had. Gary Little, PER, Trustee

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SPECIAL TURKEY BINGO NOVEMBER 24!!

All Games Pay $100.00

COVERALL $500.00

Free turkey

giveaways and other prizes!

Come and enjoy the fun!

Early birds start at 6:30pm

Regular games follow.

CADDY RAFFLE

Sunday, November 30th

Letters have already gone out. If you didn’t get one, or would like to be put on the waiting list, please contact Gary Little at 233-8104. All payments must be received by November 21st or your number will be sold to the next person on the wait-ing list.

KID’S CHRISTMAS

PARTY

Sunday, December 21st 11am-2pm

Santa will handing out gifts for member’s chil-dren and grandchildren (ages birth to 10). We will also be making Christmas cards for local elderly people. Lunch will be served as well.

Please call the bar or sign up using the forms at the Lodge by November 30th with the member’s name, each child’s name, age and gender and the number of adults attending.

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Date Menu Extra Meal 11/13 Baked Stuffed Chicken $10.00 12/11 Ham Steak $12.00 1/8 Ribs & Baked Beans $12.00 2/12 Chicken Marsala $10.00 3/12 Steak No Extras (March is for ticket holders only)

Reminder: Reservations are appreciated and guarantee that you will not have to wait for a table to be set up!!! Please call 862-1342, ext. 4, by Wednesday, November 12th at 5 p.m.

OCTOBER 350 WINNERS Ray Sicotte ...................................$275 Dean King.....................................$150 Neale Schmitt ............................... $75 Nancy Connor........ Raffle Ball Winner

The next 350 Club dinner will be on

November 13th. Volunteers are needed. Signup sheets are on the Lodge bulletin board.

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

Fraternally yours, Mary Paule Hill, Esteemed Leading Knight

Raffle Tickets The 2008-2009 Vermont Elks State President’s Raffle tickets are now available at the bar. Tickets are only $10 each with the drawing at the Vermont State Convention in Killington. Prizes are: 1st ...... $1000 CASH GRAND PRIZE 2nd ...... Weekend at the Killington Resort for 2 plus $400 cash 3rd ...... $750 cash 4th ...... Weekend at the Killington Resort for 2 plus $300 cash 5th ...... 4 New England Patriots tickets 6th ...... $500 cash 7th ...... 4 Boston Red Sox tickets 8th ...... $500 cash 9th ...... 4 Nascar tickets at NHIS 10th ...... $500 cash

BITS & PIECES

• My sincere apologies to the readership for the lack of Bits & Pieces last month. My wife says I was being a brat. I guess it’s back to anger management classes for me. • Roland LeBlanc is leaving the Lodge after seven years work-ing in the kitchen with me. His sunny disposition will be missed. Please join me in wishing him success in any and all of his fu-ture endeavors. • I would like to address a serious matter that many people may not be aware of. Certain individuals here at the Lodge have been receiving anonymous poison pen letters for over a year now. I would like to plead with the person writing these letters to seek professional help. Whoever you are, you clearly suffer with seri-ous psychological problems. This behavior must cease immedi-ately. You will be horribly ashamed when you are exposed, as you are bound to be. Many of us already suspect we know who you are. You masquerade as a friend, but you clearly are not. Get Help! • I have a few observations about what it is like to play Bingo. Whenever someone hollers Bingo, and grins victoriously, every-one else in the room immediately hates this person. Always. This is probably because everyone in the room is just waiting for one more number and has let their hopes get unrealistically high. Some Bingo players are hard of hearing, and some are hard to keep quiet. Buying multiple tickets does no good. If you have 6 tickets going it only means you must concentrate harder, and when that insufferably cheery old lady yells Bingo, you are wait-ing for six numbers, and are that much more annoyed. (I’ll have to ask my anger management counselor if she has ever played this frustrating game). • Bill and Julie (the squirrel people) were saying they had not yet turned on their heat. Julie does not feel it is warranted. Bill was complaining about how cold his house was in the morning. I think it’s his flatlander roots showing through. Hang in there Bill. Spring is right around the corner. John Plunkett

Bar Bingo Join in the fun every Saturday night at

6pm (new time). You will also get a chance to win $1000! Meals will be served as well.

C’mon...a little dab’ll do ya!

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1 Ulrich Friese Charles Ryan 2 Laurette Atkins Gary Dion Thomas Gordon Janet Lopes 3 John Irish Fred King 4 Angela Rossetti 5 Richard Bushey Drew Chace Thomas Eustace Eugene Morrissey 6 Gregory Clairmont Jay Leonard David Mahoney 7 Roger Charlebois Beverly Hayden

Henry Robinson 8 Edward Goddard Lorraine Russell Henry Sisters 9 R. Lee Bowen Donald Carpenter Richard Compagna Thomas Ross 10 Gary Bombard Tim Clark Bridget Gracey Nancy LaPointe 11 Scott Carleton Carmen George Thomas Maguire George White Lauren Williams 12 Richard Lockwood, Jr.

Eric Robbins Stephen Sweeney 13 Leonard Bullinger Raymond Campbell Brian Hoyt Andrew Worden 14 Reginald Lamb Wilfred Racine 15 Maurice Eustace Cheryl Heppner John O’Brien 16 James Cutler James McMaster 17 Scott Brown Kevin Carmichael Thomas Cozzy Tammy Murphy Donald Trombley

18 Peter Crosby Jeannette Martin 19 David Demag Larry Gaudette Leo Hance Richard Moser Chris Paquette 20 James Consedine Paul Dufresne John McCabe Tim Perrin 21 Roger Blanchard Joseph Germani, Sr. Thomas Godbout William Riley 22 Frank Donahue Peter Nattress 23 Gerald Blanchard Robert Freeman Nathan Horst Glenn Martin 24 Gary Mathon Gislaine Uzzell

25 Joseph Albarelli, Sr. Bernard Boutin Patricia Jarvis William McHugh Richard Vogel 26 Kenneth Benoit 27 Christopher Clark John LaCroix Dennis O’Hora John Place Gerald Plunkett Neil Shepard 28 Robert Barnes Rosario Cannizzaro Ralph Leo Sylvia Rouille 29 Marie Hayes Linden Witherell 30 William Cain John St.Hilaire

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

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THANKSGIVING DAY BAGS

Once again Burlington Lodge will share our bounty with those less fortunate than ourselves by helping in our annual Thanks-giving Day Food Drive. This is our 7th year of doing this project.

Bags will be available Nov 1st till

Nov.23rd on a table in the bar area as you enter. There will be a list of suggested items on a sheet attached to the bag, but you may substitute any items you want. Instead of filling a bag you may opt to just give a gift card to a local market such as Hannafords, Shaws or P&C. Please drop your bags off in the coat room no later than Nov 23rd.

We hope each member will help make

someone else's holiday just a little more enjoyable! Remember - Elks Care, Elks Share.

Fred Dusablon, PER

Veteran’s Recognition Luncheon

November 8th - 1pm On November 8th, the Lodge will hold it's second annual Veterans Recognition

Luncheon. The Event starts at 1pm with the presentation of colors, which will be fol-lowed by a flag retirement ceremony.

This event will be open to Veterans of any U.S. conflict, families of soldiers who are currently stationed in harm's way and the families of any soldier who has lost their life during the current Gulf Conflict - so please spread the word.

We are looking for volunteers to assist in the kitchen and with serving and clean up - please sign up on the volunteer board in the bar.

Jim Procopio, Trustee, Veterans Affairs Committee Chairperson

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STEAK NIGHT MENUS

NOVEMBER 5, 2008 PRIME RIB

BAKED SCHROD SEAFOOD PIE

ROAST PORK LOIN PETITE FILET

BLACKENED CAJUN CHICKEN

NOVEMBER 19, 2008 PRIME RIB

BAKED SCHROD LOISIANA BLACKENED CATFISH BAKED STUFFED PORK CHOPS

CHICKEN KIEV

Friday, November 7th & Friday, November 28th

7pm-10pm

FREE MUNCHIES!

Bring your singing voice (or a reasonable facsimile) and be ready to have fun!

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Volunteer Survey

It is with a great deal of pride that the Elks National Veter-

ans Service Commission lists the statistics of the Student and Veteran Volunteer Service Program for the 2007-2008 Fra-ternal Year compiled by the Office of the Grand Secretary

Participants in Programs: 36,370 Elks Who Worked................................ 4,303 Helpers Who Worked........................... 3,152 Combined Total .................................. 7,455 Hours Donated: Elks ................................................... 49,837 Helpers .............................................. 23,727 Total Combined Hours ..................... 73,664 Cash Value of Donated Hours* $1,429,818.00 Miles Traveled: Elks ................................................. 225,695 Helpers .............................................. 64,459 Total Combined Miles .................... 290,154 Cash Value of Miles traveled** $147,979.00 Contributions: Cash .......................................... $114,628.00 Non-Cash ................................. $363,657.00 Hours Worked ....................... $1,429,818.00 Miles Traveled ......................... $147,979.00 Total Contributions ............. $2,056,082.00 *The Federal Government has determined that the cost of

work done by charitable organizations like the Elks would average out to $19.41 per hour if performed by social care and government agencies. **Mileage computed at $.51 per mile.

Robert M. Hennings, Director, Elks National Veterans Service Commission

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ELDOES UPDATE

“Be the Best of Whoever You Are!”

The Eldoes are holding our Annual Holiday Bazaar on Sunday, November 2. We thank all who attend for their support. This is one of our biggest fundraisers, which enables us to continue our financial support of local charities. Once again - thank you.

November Birthdays: Jan Bossi, Marilyn Luchini, Mary McMaster,

Yvette Poulin, Pam Senesac & Debby Stapleton

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. A foliage/shopping trip was held on October 9 with 40 partici-

pants. We certainly ended up with a beautiful day. There was terrific peak foliage scenery (after I threatened the bus driver) with stops at the Quechee Gorge and shops, lunch in W Lebanon, important stop at the NH liquor store and a final stop at King Arthur Flour in Norwich. I would like to thank Bea Sylvia and her golfing buddies, the Eldoes, Elks and friends who made this possible. We will be planning an-other excursion soon with the many great suggestions given to me on this trip.

Other dates to keep in mind: 11/22 ......Meeting 11:30am at the Elks 12/14 ......Partners in Adventure holiday social outing 2-4pm 12/16 ...... Eldoes Holiday dinner 6pm (Eldoes please call me if

you plan to attend 862-8878) 1/20 ......Potluck dinner 7pm

Happy Thanksgiving to all and their families – see you in December.

Sincerely, Linda DeLaricheliere, President

HAPPY 50TH SILVER TOWERS! 1958-2008

50 years of Elks Care - Elks Share

Scholarship Awards

Burlington Lodge #916 B.P.O.E. announces the establishment of

the “916 Scholarship Awards”. These scholarships are awarded to students who graduated from

high school in 2008, and who are attending an accredited institution of higher education. Children and grandchildren of Elks in good standing of Lodge #916 are eligible to apply.

Applications may be picked up at the Lodge bulletin board table.

Scholarship amounts will range from $500 to $1000.

Jack Murray, MD, Scholarship Chairman

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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 November 1

Bar Bingo 6pm

2 Eldoes Bazaar

3 Bingo 6:30pm

4 Investigating

Committee 7pm

5 Private Function

Steak Night 6pm

6 Mtg Night 7pm

7 Karaoke 7pm

8 Veteran’s

Ceremony 1pm Bar Bingo 6pm

9 Private Function

10 Bingo 6:30pm Elks Training

Test 6:30pm

11 Private Function Governing Board

7pm

12 Private Function

13 Private Function

350 Club 6pm

14 15 Bar Bingo 6pm

16 17 Bingo 6:30pm

18 Private Function Eldoes Meeting

7pm

19 Private Function

Steak Night 6pm

20 Private Function

Mtg Night 7pm

21 22 Eldoes Meeting

11:30am Bar Bingo 6pm

23 24 Special Turkey

Bingo 6:30pm

25 26 27 THANKSGIVING

(Open 4-9pm)

28 Lighting of the

Lodge 6pm Karaoke 7pm

29 Bar Bingo 6pm

30 Caddy Raffle

December 1 Bingo 6:30pm

2 Private Function Investigating

Committee 7pm

3 Steak Night 6pm

4 Private Function

Mtg Night 7pm

5 Private Function

6 Private Function Bar Bingo 6pm

Volunteer of the Month:

P.J. Aumand Please volunteer for events!

You could be Volunteer of the Month!

GOBBLE...GOBBLE...GOBBLE Come to the Lodge! We’ll be open Thanksgiving Day from 4-9pm with lots of special surprises and prizes to win!