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2015-2016 Lodge Officers EXALTED RULER

Warren Wertman ESTEEMED LEADING KNIGHT

Charlie Nelson, PER ESTEEMED LOYAL KNIGHT

Lona Bignell ESTEEMED LECTURING KNIGHT

Justin Key SECRETARY TREASURER Becky Nelson Rollie Meffert ESQUIRE Susan Henke TILER TRUSTEES Mike Bignell Scott Guse, PER INNER GUARD Royce Bottin, PER Tom Scheibel Dennis Herling CHAPLIN Greg Fleming Lottie Aslakson, PER Steph Riegelman, PER

ELKS LODGE #845 P.O. BOX 167 RED WING, MN 55066 (651)388-5862 redwingelks.org

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November 2015

It’s Great to be an Elk!

Look inside for more information on…

UPCOMING EVENTS: 11/ 7 - Youth Outreach Expo & Spaghetti Dinner 11/10 - Flags up at 5 PM - meet at Lodge 11/10 - Lodge Meeting 7 PM 11/11 - Veterans Night (FREE STEAKS FOR VETS) 11/12 - Flags Down at 5 PM 12/12 - Jerry Borgen Day 11/13 - Turkey Games 11/17 - Trustee Meeting 6 PM 11/21 - Party for a Cause 11/22 - Border Bash (Vikings / Packer Game) 11/24 - Lodge Meeting 7 PM 11/26 - Tom & Jerry’s on Thanksgiving Day 11/27 - Holiday Stroll CHECK OUT OUR VIKINGS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE!!!!!

Dec 4 - Christmas Party / Silent Auction Dec 6 - Memorial Service at 1 PM Dec 19 - Deliver Food Baskets

ISSUE 2015 - 11

Contact the Lodge to book your

party, meeting or special event!

Hello to all members - - - I trust that November finds you healthy and doing well. November is always a busy month for all of us, I encourage all of you to visit the lodge this month. We have a lot of stuff going on and there is bound to be something you would enjoy doing.

Thank you to all the lodge members and volunteers that were at the different events in October, your continued generosity is what makes the lodge such a great place. The Youth Outreach Drive was a great event; the many cars that came to be shown were a joy to see. Supporting events such as this one show the entire community that Elks Care - Elks Share in Red Wing.

In reviewing the October Elks Magazine there were 5 different MN Lodges with Snippets about events. Red Wing has an item about the lodge’s support of the Bike Rodeo. Brainerd, Winona, and Worthington held Veterans support events, and Faribault has a picture and story about their outstanding student award program. It is very exciting to see how the Minnesota Elks support our local communities with programs and that they get nationwide recognition for the good work that is being done. I encourage each of you to read the magazine if you get it and review the work that is being done throughout our great country by the Elks Organization, it will make you proud to be a member of such a giving organization.

In October, I attended the Mid-Year Conference in Eveleth, Minnesota with over 100 other Elks from the various lodges throughout Minnesota. The conference was fun and informative, it is the place where we can interact with the other lodges from the state and see what they are doing to promote Elkdom. Many lodges face the same challenges that we face here in Red Wing and it is a good thing to hear how they are handling similar situations. I want to thank our 10 Lodge Members who attended!

Recruitment of new members is going well this year and I encourage all members to keep up the good work. Remember new members are out there they simply need to hear what we do and be asked down to the lodge, and then we can see if they are interested in joining us and supporting our community through lodge services. Scott Guse is the lead recruiter this year so far, so thank him when you see him at the lodge.

Please remember to sign in when you visit the lodge, it is an IRS requirement and helps us keep our nonprofit status.

Fraternally & Sincerely, Warren R Wertman Exalted Ruler

Exalted Ruler’s Message

Contact ANY of these chairs to

find out more & get involved!

Red Wing # 845

2015 – 2016 Committee Chairs

Accident Prevention – Lottie Aslakson PER Activities – Scott Guse, PER

Americanism – Warren Wertman Auditing & Accounting – Dale Mehrkens Charitable Gambling – Larry Larson PER

Christmas Baskets – Dennis Herling / Paul Drotos Community Activities – Karlyne Bottin

Drug Awareness – Steph Riegelman PER Flag Day – Charlie Nelson PER, (Lead Knight)

Flags for Holidays – Lona Bignell (Loyal Knight) Government Relations – Gary Iocco

Highway Cleanup – Justin Key (Lecturing Knight) Hoop Shoot – Greg Frankowski

Lodge Activities – Warren Wertman Membership – Becky Nelson

Memorial Service – Charlie Nelson PER (Lead Knight) National Foundation – Pete Sorensen PER

PER Association – Kevin Riegelman PER Public Relations – Steph Riegelman PER ENF & Local Scholarship – Linda Larson Soccer Shoot – Steph Riegelman PER

Veterans Service – Lottie Aslakson PER Youth Activities - OPEN

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We will meet at the Lodge - See you there!

Flags Up: Tuesday, Nov 10th, 5:PM

Flags Down: Thursday, Nov 12th 5 PM

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651.388.6934 info@riesterrefrigeration.com

301 Main Street, Red Wing

651.388.3571 Mon-Sat 9-5, Thurs til 7 PM

CONSTRUCTION INC.

Concrete Driveways - Patios - Sidewalks - Brick Fireplaces - Basements - Stonework

Chuck Klair 715.792.5200 - Office 651.764.3145 - Cell

DID YOU KNOW . . . Your lodge is open until

10 PM Friday & Saturday!

Stop down and relax after a long week!!!!!!!

KEEP IN TOUCH AT REDWINGELKS.ORG Know any High School Seniors

applying for college?

Send them to www.elks.org/enf/scholars to find out more!

Children & grandchildren of Elk members are eligible to apply for ENF Legacy Scholarships. Applications due

1/29/16.

ANY student is eligible to apply for the Most Valuable Student Scholarships. Applications due 12/4/15.

Applications are ONLY accepted online! However, a printed copy must be dropped off at the lodge by 12/4/15.

ENF Scholarships

Be sure to let them know about our

At the Elk’s . . .

Holiday Stroll Friday, November 27th

Pancake Breakfast

Bring your family and friends for a tasty breakfast of pan-cakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, juice, milk & coffee.

Breakfast served from 7:00 am to 10:00 am

$6.00/Adults $3.00/Children

Burger Baskets

As you wrap up a full day of shopping and fun - grab the kids and your friends - everyone is invited back to

the Elk’s Lodge.

Serving 1/3 lb burger basket specials for $6.00 from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - INQUIRE AT LODGE

VETERANS NIGHT STEAK DINNER

On Wednesday, Nov 11th – Join us for a steak dinner to thank ALL of our veterans for their service to our country!

Dinner served 5:30 - 7:30 Free meal for veterans!

RW Elks # 845’s Annual

Christmas Food Basket Drive

Give Generously . . . Start a new Family Tradition

Sat. Dec 19th

at 8 AM

Our day starts with breakfast, then we pack & deliver the baskets. It’s chaotic but VERY rewarding when you drop off a basket and see the smiles on the faces of mom or dad.

Food for thought . . .

It is not (and will not be) the holiday season for awhile. But, when that time comes around, we will need a list of families that may have had a little more than their share of setbacks this year. Please remember that the core of the Christmas Basket Project is the names of families(STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL) submitted by our members to receive a basket. The heart of Elkdom needs eyes and ears in our community now so we can help those in need.

Please drop off the names, addresses, phone numbers & number of people in family of any de-serving families at the lodge, watch for the donation envelopes in next month’s newletter and watch for the sign up at the Lodge to join us for breakfast and then help pack & deliver these wonderful baskets to local families. It’s GREAT to be Elk - - Merry Christmas!!!!

Paul Drotos & Dennis Herling, Co-Chairs

RED WING ELKS # 845 Red Wing E lks Lodge #845

12 th Annual Member &

Guest Christmas Party

Mark your calendar and plan to bring your friends down to the Lodge for a night of food, fun and friendship while raising funds to support

our Lodge or the MN Elks Youth Camp! (More details in December newsletter)

If you or your business is interested in donating an item for our

silent auction, please contact Royce Bottin (651-301-0075), Becky Nelson (715-495-2978) or Kevin Riegelman (651-764 2373)

As donors, you can choose where the funds raised from your donation go - either RW Elks Lodge #845 to support our Lodge or to the MN Elks Youth Camp (our State Project and a 501c3

charitable organization)

Fr iday, December 4th , 2015

Tom & Jerry’s 9:00 a.m. to Noon - 11/26/15

Annual

Thanksgiving

Day Tradition!

Come down to the Lodge for

The Guse family’s Famous Tom & Jerry

Recipe

Barb’s Buffet - 6 PM

Games - 7:00 PM

TURKEY GAMES Friday November 13

BE SURE to mark this one on your calendar! You won’t want to miss the fun!!!!

Sponsored by Red Wing’s Past Exalted Rulers!

Elks Lodge #845 Memorial Service

Help us honor those true and loyal Elks who have gone before us. . .

1 PM - Sunday, December 6th

In the Lodge Room

Elks honor living and departed members

at the hour of Eleven. We also honor our departed members at the

annual Memorial Service on the first Sunday in December.

Please join us for the service and for refreshments following the service.

From the Manager...

CHECK US OUT AT REDWINGELKS.ORG!!!

Fall brings Sunday Vikings Football. We will be open on Sundays with special drink prices. We will be serving Coney Dogs or Wings with your choice of sauces at Half-time. Join our Sunday football group.

November 11th is of course Veterans Day and as our Elks motto “So long as there are Veterans, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will never for-get them” we will be honoring our vet-eran members to a free steak dinner. This will be on Veterans Day. A special thanks to all of our Veterans.

November 12th is a reception for our very own “Jerry Borgen” as he will be honored by the city. Our Elks members will be providing the food for this event. Come and honor Jerry at 4PM.

November 21st is “Pay it forward”. This provides cancer patients during their hard times. Please join in and help out this worthy cause!

It’s GREAT to be an

ELK!

Left & Above - Highway CleanUp Below - Drive for Kids

JOIN THE FUN - GET INVOLVED!!!

30874 Cty Rd 53 Blvd, Red Wing

651.388.3302 staticelectricllc@gmail.com

Sunday - Nov. 1

At Chicago Bears Lodge opens at 11:00

Sunday - Nov. 8 St. Louis Rams

Lodge opens at 11:00

Sunday - Nov. 15

At Oakland Raiders Lodge opens at 11:00

Sunday - Nov. 22, open at 11:00

Green Bay Packers BORDER BASH!

Sunday - Nov. 29

At Atlanta Falcons Lodge opens at 11:00

Build Your Own

Bloody Mary Bar

$3.00 w/snit!

Sunday Wings

.50 each

BBQ, Teriyaki, Buffalo,

Hot Buffalo

Drink Specials

Every Sunday!

Play Our Guessing Games!

RW Elks 845 was PROUD to partner with Youth Outreach to be the Red Wing host of this event on Sunday, Oct 11. Cool cars and trucks from around the area converged at the Elks for a family-friendly event. THANKS so much to our volun-teers who made this a HUGE success in-cluding PER Dave Riegelman for helping to create this partnership with Youth Out-reach along with Lottie Aslakson, Mike & Lona Bignell, Justin Key, Darnell Smith and our Exalted Ruler, Warren Wertman

Volunteer Kitchen

Help Needed

To keep our kitchen open and serving great meals - we are in DESPERATE need of help in our kitchen! Contact Lottie even if you can only help once a month! PLEASE DON’T WAIT TO BE ASKED - STEP UP and help make a difference!

2015-2016 Officers

Front L-R: Lona Bignell, Charlie Nelson, Becky Nelson, Susan Henke, Lottie Aslakson, Steph Rie-gelman

Back L-R: Mike Bignell, Justin Key, Royce Bottin, Warren Wertman ER, Scott Guse, Rollie Meffert & Dennis Herling.

Missing: Greg Fleming

CHECK US OUT AT REDWINGELKS.ORG!!!

ORDERS DUE 12/8/15 - Include Check Payable to RW Elks

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! THANKS SO MUCH . . . Newsletters - Thank you to everyone who

help fold and address last month’s newsletter mailing! The crew included: Mike Bignell, Royce Bottin, Betty Guse, Mark Lynch, Rollie Meffert, and Kevin & Steph Riegelman .

ENF Night - Thanks SO MUCH to everyone

who made this night a HUGE success! Gary Ioc-co, our Rib Chef, Linda & Larry Larson for their help in the kitchen, Lottie for her work in getting craft beer donations for tasting along with ENF organizers Pete & Peggy Sorensen. THANKS to ALL OUR DONORS - We have exceeded the goal!

Fall Golf Classic - Thanks to everyone who

made this event a success including organizers Linda & Larry Larson and Karlyne & Royce Bottin! Thanks also to Lottie Aslakson, Kari Bemis, Joe & Rhonda Dube, Alex Hardyman, Pam & Larry Horlitz, Kathy Hutchson, Bonnie & Lee Lohmann, Mark Lynch, Betsy Mahn, Barb Siewert, Milt Sorensen, Peggy Sorensen & Brenda Voth.

Highway CleanUp - Thanks to our hard

working crew who cleaned the ditches including: Coordinator Justin Key, Mike Bignell, Karlyne Bottin, Royce Bottin, Greg Fleming, Roger Kolsrud, Warren Wertman. Their “big find” was 30 rubber duckies this fall in the ditches!

THANKS MIKE! For taking the time to fix our sliding doors to close off the lodge room!!

Flag Crew - Thanks for helping with flags for Co-

lumbus Day! Our crew for putting up flags included: Amy Carda, Courtney Celt, Denny Hinck, Mark Lynch, Barb & Neil Siewert and Scott Smith. We GREATLY appreciate those who stepped in when help was needed!!!! Thanks to the team that took them down - Mike Bignell, Royce Bottin, Courtney Celt, Greg & Jolynn Fleming, Mark Lynch, Steph & Kevin Riegelman and Gerry Strom

Cooks - Thanks SO MUCH to everyone who

helped in the kitchen this past month! Thanks to Rod Frantzen and Cooking Team #1 for their Beef Bolognese dinner!

Thanks to our Raw Oyster Crew led by Frank Neises with shuckers Courtney Celt , Jeff Cole, Bruce Dugstad, Jolynn Fleming & Dave Wooden

It’s GREAT

to be an

Elk!

RED WING ELKS # 845

A few more thanks!

THANK YOU to our Trustees Royce Bottin, Scott

Guse & Steph Riegelman who along with Lottie Aslakson and Dave Petersmeyer painted the AA meeting room on Saturday, October 24th - Their hard work was greatly appreciated!!!!!

Thanks also to Greg Fleming & Kevin Riegelman for their work around the lodge. THANKS to Rollie Meffert & Arnie Strusz for helping out even more when Lottie had her knee replaced!!

It takes ALL OF US to keep our lodge looking great!

THANK YOU to everyone who purchased one of the Youth Camp Raffle tickets! The pro-ceeds pay our camper fees for 2016 & some of our Per Member Assessments fees. We had three winners sold by our lodge: $200 - Jim Kloster $500 - Carrie Heimer $500 - Kevin Riegelman & Greg Fleming

The complete list is posted at the lodge

Sunday, November 22nd

Doors open at 11:00 AM!

Bloody Mary bar all day!

Prizes for best dressed Viking

& Packer fan!

Other prizes throughout

the day!

Food & Drink specials all day!

Game starts at 12:00!

Come down for the fun!

See you at the Lodge!

It’s GREAT

to be an

Elk!

5th

Annual

“Party for a Cause”

Saturday, Nov 21, 2015 starting at 6PM

Red Wing Elks Lodge

6-8 Barb’s Mouth-watering buffet

Live Music by the local “Hooligans”

Thanks to everyone who supports this event and helps to pay it forward

Ron Tlougan Registered Investment Advisor

Pottery Place, 3rd floor Office: 651.388.2632

ron@rtfinancialadvisors.com

MAKE THE SWITCH FROM

SNAIL MAIL TO EMAIL!!!!!

Every month - Our Lodge prints AND mails about 300 newsletters to lodge members around the country! During the course of the year, that equates to more than $3,000 in pr inting and postage . . . This is money that could be used to fund other charitable work in our community

If you get your newsletter by mail and have an email address - PLEASE,

PLEASE, PLEASE send an email TODAY to our lodge secretary:

rw845secretary@qwestoffice.net and ask her to change you to email newsletter. Thanks so much for taking a minute to make this helpful environmental and economical change!

SIGN UP FOR EMAIL TODAY!

SAY GOODBYE TO SNAILMAIL FOREVER . . .