On Sept. 19 at the VP/DD visit, Trustee Jay Swisher announced that Lake City Elks Lodge #893 had been awarded an Elks National Foundation Beacon Grant of $2,000 for a reading program begun more than five years ago by the lodge in concert with Columbia County Schools. The school district has a grant matching incentive that added $2,000 to the lodge’s initiative, and another $2,000 was added by the FSEA’s practice of matching Beacon grants.