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Scotia-Glenville Elks Lodge #2759 176 Sacandaga Road, Scotia, NY 12302

Phone: (518) 393-3504

Exalted Ruler’s Message

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season with family and

friends. December was a very busy month for us.

As 2019 came to a close I am proud to say the members of our lodge

stepped up and donated items and time to a lot of great causes. Just to

name a few, the Duffel Bag Project, Socks for Veterans, Toys for Tots,

and the food pantry.

We also outdid ourselves and adopted three families.

Our members also donated time over the holidays to serve a meal at the city mission

and serve ice cream to veterans at the VA hospital.

Ultimately this is why we became Elks, isn't it? To help our community and those that

are less fortunate than us.

Wednesday meals will be starting again in January, so stop in for a bite to eat.

Fraternally, Maria Dickerson, PER

https://www.facebook.com/sgelks/

V i s i t o u r w e b s i t e a t w w w . s g e l k s . o r g January 2020

Scotia-Glenville Elks Lodge #2759 Volume 10 Issue 10

Secretary’s Message

I hope everyone had a great Holiday Season.

Please think back to the many things we have

accomplished in December.

The Adopt-A-Family went off so well that with all

you’re your gifts and donations we were able to

assist a third family.

The Toys for Tots box was over flowing with toys.

What a great sight.

The Food Pantry was able to stock its shelves

with your donations to make sure those who

need food and toiletries get what they need.

( Continued on page 2)



The socks for Veterans was even more successful

than last year. Thank you for thanking those who

served our country.

The City Mission food service program is packed

with our Elks and served over 200 meals.

The Veterans Ice Cream Program brought smiles to

those in the hospital over the holidays , most

without families to visit them. It was you that

made their day and brought smiles to their faces.

Fraternally,

Thomas R. Myslinski

Secretary

Proposition for Membership:

John Baumgartner proposed by Deb Kruk

Cesar L Martiwez proposed by Anthony Mazzone

As of 12/21/19 the following members have not

yet paid their dues.

Clarence W Adams, Michael Bachleda, Cynthia A

Biega, Kevin C Braley, Helen Carll, Vincent Galante,

David Haberland, Richard Hale, Liza Hunt, Robert

Hunt, Michael Kocienski, Robin Kocienski, Andrew

Kuhn, Anthony Lievanos, John Noble, Ann Olds,

Daniel Ossenfort, Gary Smith, and Hans Walter.

(Secretary’s Message, Continued from page 1) Scotia Glenville Elks

Email Notification

On December 3rd we sent out an email

reminding everyone about our Charity

Auction

On December 10th we sent out an email

listing important dates in December

On December 12th we sent out an email

notifying everyone about our Christmas

Caroling.

If you did not receive these emails, then

we do not have your email address

To receive our emails please email

your name and email address to

John Pytlovany at [email protected]

We do not share your email with anyone

Scotia Glenville Elks Website

Please explore our website at http://www.sgelks.org

NEWS: Recap of many of our events. CALENDAR: A list of everything that is happening. LINKS: Links to lodges in our district plus links to the Village of Scotia & the Town of Glenville. PHOTO GALLERY: Photos from our events. (Let me know if you have some photos to share) NEWSLETTERS: All the newsletters from the past year. P.E.R.’S: A clever view of our Past Exalted Rulers. NYS PRES: A bio of Brian Greene our NYS Elks President. MORE INFO: Info on Elks Membership and our eleventh hour toast.

The Scotia-Glenville Elks would like to wish

our members in good standing a "Happy

Birthday" for their birthdays in January.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Joseph O'Connor 01

Peggy Grandy 09

Shane Cramer 12

Brian Jewell 16

James Welnhofer 17

Kevin Braley 19

Matthew Swiatocha 19

Robert Youngs 21

Theodore Bochenek 22

Debie Jo Payette 22

Shawn Grandy 23

Ryan Schlicht 25

Anthony Lievanos 26

Madelyn Brennan 27

Victoria Lanceri 28



2019 – 2020 Officers

Exalted Ruler Maria Dickerson

Esteemed Leading Knight Fred Mowers

Esteemed Loyal Knight Terry Bacchi

Esteemed Lecturing Knight Pat Pytlovany

Tiler Leo Palmer

Treasurer Debra Kruk

Secretary Tom Myslinski

Esquire James Brennan

Inner Guard Mary Palmer

Chaplain Karen Hale

Organist Rich Kruk

Trustees

5 Year Brad Harkness

4 Year Keith Dickerson

3 Year John Pytlovany

2 Year Curt Ryder

1 Year Michele Moore

Grand Exalted Ruler 2019-2020

Culver City Elks Lodge #1917

Robert L. Duitsman (Beth)

P.O. Box 5159

Torrance, CA 90503-5159

Phone: (310) 534-2012

Email: [email protected]

Honoring the past Honoring the past Honoring the past Honoring the past –––– Embracing the futureEmbracing the futureEmbracing the futureEmbracing the future

https://www.elks.org/grandlodge/ger/files/RobertLDuitsmanBio.pdf

2019-2020 NYS Elks Association

President Brian J Greene

Glens Falls Lodge #81

"Elkdom, a team effort"

The Official Website of the Great

Northeast District #6280 may be

found at

http://www.nyselks.org/NorthEast/

Our District Sponsors are

Past Grand Tiler Paul A. Galarneau

Cohoes Waterford Elks Lodge # 1317

Past State President Michael J. Bloss

Clifton Park Elks Lodge # 2466

NYS Northeast District Officers

State Trustee Thomas Waring

Greenwich Elks Lodge # 2223

2018-2019 District Deputy Carmella Gillis

Amsterdam Elks Lodge # 101

2019-2020 State Vice President Edward Zuzick Jr

Mechanicville Elks Lodge # 1403

2018-2020 Lodge Development

Thomas Myslinski

District Committee Chairs

Accident Prevention : Keith Dickerson

Business Practices: Bradley Harkness

Drug Awareness: Tim McFarlane

Internet/Electronic Media: John C. Pytlovany

Lodge Development: Debra Kruk

Major Projects: Michele Moore

National Foundation: Greg Myslinski

2019 – 2020 Committees:

Auditing/Accounting - Greg Myslinski

Activities - Michele Moore

Community Project - Jim Trapini

Youth Activities - Rich Kruk

Hoop Shoot - Lee Hale

Drug Awareness - Patricia Pytlovany

Fraternal - Tim McFarlane

Americanism - Diane Wyso

Elks National Foundation - Theresa Bacchi

Flag Day - Colleen Hale

Elks Memorial Day - Kirstina Mowers

Membership - Tom Myslinski

Lodge Activities - Michele Moore

Veterans Services - Jeffrey Lodge

Accident Prevention - Curtis Ryder

PER Association - Bradley Harkness

Standing Relief - Maria Dickerson

Public Relations - Debra Kruk

Ritualistic - Michele Moore

Soccer Shoot - Joseph O'Connor

Government Relations - John Pytlovany

State Major Projects - Fred Mowers Jr.

Cruisin on the Avenue - John Pytlovany

Adopt a Highway - Lee Hale

Business Practices - Bradley Harkness

Lodge Rental - Carol J. Squires

House Committee - Rich Kruk

Bar Stewart - James Nevins

Cinco de Mayo - Colleen Hale

Scholarship - Brad Harkness

Food pantry dinner - Jim Trapini

Adopt a family - Michele Moore

ENF grants - Deb Kruk

Lodge Newsletter - Pat Pytlovany

Toys for Tots - Michele Moore

Memorial Day Parade - John Pytlovany

Elks Training - Tom Myslinski

Bylaws/House rules - Rich Kruk

Mothers Day - John Pytlovany

Indoctrination - Tom Myslinski

Investigation - Tom Myslinski

Visitation - Michele Moore

Raffle & Gaming - James Nevins

Golf Outing - John Kruk

Kitchen Manager - Stephen Eddy


Scotia-Glenville Elks Lodge

I would like to thank all the members of

the lodge for their continued support of

our veterans. Over the last several months

the lodge has visited the VA hospital in

Albany, distributed ice cream to the vets;

10 of our members spent many hours over

2days helping veterans at the annual

Northeast Homeless veterans standdown

held this year for the first time at the

Schenectady Armory where 155 veterans

were given free meals, clothing and access

to free medical and legal aid. Also the

lodge again has donated 120 pairs of socks

to the Fisher house for the vets.

God Bless our vets and God bless you

Jeff Lodge, PSVP

Lodge veterans chairman

https://www.elks.org/vets/

NEWSLETTER EDITOR'S NOTEPAD

Articles for the February 2020 edition of the

newsletter are due to me by

Friday January 17th.

On-line newsletters may be found at

http://www.sgelks.org

~ Patty Pytlovany @ [email protected]

Bring your friends and family to support this year's

Annual ENF Tubing Event. All proceeds will be

donated to ENF on behalf of all the participating

lodges of the Great Northeast District.

Saturday February 1st, 6 to 9 PM

Willard Mountain

77 The Intervale Rd.

Greenwich, NY 12834

$15.00 per person to support ENF

City Mission Meal Our next opportunity to serve a meal at The City Mission is Saturday January 18 at 2:30. Save the date for Saturday February 15 as well. Please go to our landing page to register for this event. It takes us about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to serve about 150-200 guests. We need at least 10 people to help serve the meal. If you are unable to sign up on the link below, let me (Deb Kruk) know and I will see that you are included. Use the following link: sgelks.citymissionofschenectady.volunteerhub.com. If you are unable to help at the Mission, consider donating a few dozen cookies or cupcakes as we bring these for dessert. This is our Beacon Grant and a way to serve and donate money to benefit our local residents in need. If you have never been to the Mission, take a trip over and see some of the great things they do to assist people who are in need. ********************* Grants Update We are nearly complete with our Grants for the 2019-2020 year. We were able to donate $300 of toys to The City Mission Toy Program and our Adopt A Family was a huge success. We were able to bring Christmas to 3 families this year. Thank you! We have yet to distribute our dictionaries to local third graders. Please let Jim Trapini or Rich/Deb Kruk know if you would like to help with this. ******************** Weekend Back Pack Program We continue to deliver weekend food to needy children. This year we are up to 95 children served at our

school.

We were also able to assist a family at the school with some needed items on their Christmas list.

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Fundraisers for Endorsed Candidate for NYS Elks State President Paul C Galarneau $100 raffle tickets for $17,000 drawing, to be held Feb. 23, 2020. You can send a check in the mail and I will send you a ticket. You do not have to be a member or an Elk to participate so ask your family/friends. Raffle for Donna Summer show at Proctors in March - Tickets $10 each or 3/$20 includes 2 tickets for the show, $50 dinner card at Johnny’s and $50 Visa card for a night on the town. See Deb - We have tickets left



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Meetings: 2nd & 4th Thursdays @ 7:30

PM

4th Thursday only in July and August @

7:30 PM

Lodge Hours:

Monday - Friday: 3:30 PM to 9:00 PM or

later

Saturday: 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM or later

Sunday: Noon to 7:00 PM or later

**Closed Sundays Memorial Day through

Labor Day

Benevolent and Protective

Order of Elks of the U.S.A.

A Fraternal Organization

Mission Statement To inculcate the principals of Charity, Justice,

Brotherly Love and Fidelity;

to recognize a belief in God; to promote the

welfare and enhance the happiness of its

Members; to quicken the spirit of American

patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to

perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and

to provide for its government, the Benevolent and

Protective Order of Elks of the United States of

America will serve the people and communities

through benevolent programs, demonstrating

that Elks Care and Elks Share.

January 2020

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