On Feb. 28, members of Cornerstone Church of Miami along with members of Miami Elks Lodge #948, the JROTC program at G. Holmes Braddock High School and the One More Child organization gathered at the lodge to pack 350 bags of food for the local community suffering from food insecurity. The food was purchased using $1,000 from the lodge charity fund and $1,500 from the church. New lodge member John Martinez supervises this JROTC program and brought several of the cadets (in yellow shirts) to help.
Pictured in the front row are Yvonne Makenna; Patricia Jaromilla; Kathleen Blackwood, lodge member; Michael Naya, lodge member; Doris Meyers, lodge member; Ignacio Pena, lodge member; Amparo Pena, Carmen Layne Powers, lodge member; and Panos Kourtesis, regional director of south Florida for One More Child. Pictured in the middle row and in the middle of the back row are members and family of the JROTC. Pictured in the back row on the left is Jeffrey Muehlfeld, PDD, Exalted Ruler, and on the right is John Martinez. Not pictured is Maria Dewitt who volunteered with the packing but took this photo.