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Written by Titusville Elks

Titusville Elks Lodge #2113 donated $2,000 from its Elks National Foundation Spotlight Grant to the Children's Hunger Project March 3. This project helps elementary students in need by providing them with food to take home for weekends and during school breaks. Their goal is to ensure that children have access to basic nutrition when they may not have access to school meals.

Pictured are Cheryl Cominsky, Children's Hunger Project executive director, and Pete DeMonte, Exalted Ruler.

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Some members of Titusville Elks Lodge #2113 have been busy with crocheting and knitting. They sent 250 hats, mittens and scarves to First Free Will Baptist Church in Hayesville, North Carolina, for hurricane survivors, and now they are working on lap blankets. They delivered 56 lap blankets to Crescent Wood Senior Living in Titusville the week of March 17.

Lodge members Tammy Reynolds, Terry L'Heureux, Lisa Suttles, Kathy Malecha and Rhonda Ballard are pictured with residents and their blankets.

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Written by Lisa Lindstrom, PER

On Feb. 22, Sanford Elks Lodge members attended the opening day celebration for the Sanford Babe Ruth Baseball Little League. The lodge has sponsored two teams per year for over 60 years. This year they’re sponsoring the Rookie Brewers and the Major Dodgers.

Pictured in the back are Donald Soderblom, Lodge Veterans Chair; Bill Klinefelter, Little League chair; Gaye Lyga, spouse; Dylan Lindstrom, minor member; and Andy Lyga, member. Pictured in the front are Libby Jett, member; Jayden Harden, minor member; and Lisa Lindstrom, PER.

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Written by Debbie Brozyna

On Feb. 22, Ormond Beach Elks Lodge #2193 donated $2,000 from its Elks National Foundation Spotlight Grant to the Jerry Doliner Food Bank, which serves those in need in Volusia and Flagler counties. It is maintained by the Social Service Council of the Jewish Federation and provides nonperishable foods as well as fresh produce and meat.

Pictured are Nick Siprak, trustee; Mickey Symington, chaplain; Rob Lennick, Jewish Federation of Volusia and Flagler Counties executive director; Joe Brozyna, Exalted Ruler; and Steve Brozyna, trustee.

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Written by Frank Kuczkowski

Members of Port Orange Elks Lodge #2723 donated 200 pounds of jars of peanut butter and jelly to the Atlantic High School student food pantry.

Pictured at the donation presentation Feb. 11 are Jason Watson, principal, and Lois Place, Lecturing Knight.