GRAND PRAIRIE MOOSE LEGION BULLETIN
AUGUST 2009

MEMBERSHIP:
Our quota for the 2008-2009 year is 22 new and reenrolled members. So far we have 3 New Members.

Grand Prairie173 Board of Directors for 2009-2010 are:

President- Bruce Derby, Morris
Vice President- Leroy Olson, Mendota
Chaplain- Michael Cinnamon Streator
Financial Director- Matt Derby, Morris
Fraternal Director- Michael Luft Princeton
Past President- Luther Kaiser, Mendota
Secretary- Randy Ryder Morris
MEETINGS:
August 13, 2009, (Board of Directors only) Mendota; Oct. 25, 2009 * Streator; Oct-Dec, Gold Ball Ceremony TBD; Jan 30, 2010, TBD; March 14, 2010 (Board of Directors only), TBD; April 11, 2010, (Election and Installation of 2010/2011 Board of Directors), Morris.
Board of Directors Meeting at Noon; Membership Meeting at 1:00 PM

*Please note that the Oct 25 meeting is in Streator not Ottawa.
There Will be a card party w/ refreshment following the 2pm meeting

50/50 winners for August 2008 were:
Jack White, Rick Galvin, Don Schodrof, Greg Hess

50/50 winners for September 2008 were:
Don Schodrof, Steve Herber, John Boyer, Don Schodrof

50/50 winners for October 2008 were:
Chuck Greenfield, Marvin Hartley, Leroy Olsen, C. J. Stockin

50/50 winners for November 2008 were:
Chuck Hill, Dan Weber, Frank Berger, Larry Snook

50/50 winners for December 2008 were:
Greg Flemming, George Miller, Tom Weygand, Nikki Karales

50/50 winners for January 2009 were:
Van Weber, Clark Debolt, Dawn Kimpfin, Charles Johnson

50/50 winners for February 2009 were:
Jim Watson, Judy Ballard, John Ryder, Pat Barkley

50/50 winners for March 2009 were:
Chuck Urbanek, Larry Majerito, Dave Ryder, Jay Ruby

50/50 winners for April 2009 were:
James Watson, Howard DeRose, Glenn Murphy, Tim Temminello

50/50 winners for May 2009 were:
Dewey Anderson, Rusty Stroud, Leroy Olson, Brandon Male

50/50 winners for June 2009 were:
Joe McCormick, Bill Beadleston, Glenn Mattes, Steve Pritchard

50/50 winners for July 2009 were:
Ivy Bowers, Jerry Kambie, Vicky Bergland, Randy Ryder

Enclosed with this bulletin are the raffle tickets for the drawings starting in October
2009 This year we will again have four drawings each month.

50/50 INCENTIVES
We will offer the same incentive program for raffle ticket sellers as we did last year.
Sell ten books and receive one year Moose Legion dues, sell twenty five books and
receive one year Moose Legion dues and one year Moose Lodge dues, sell fifty books
and get four years Moose Legion dues and four years Moose Lodge dues. The books
are six tickets, sell a book of six for $25.00 or five at five dollars each and the sixth is yours for a free chance to win.

WHAT'S NEW:
This Year sometime in October to December, Mike Luft our Fraternal Director would like to put on the Gold Ball Ceremony. If anyone would like to help him please contact him.

For the 2009/2010 Year, the Board of Officers have decided to have an Attendance Drawing at our Celebrations. The first one will be held at Ottawa on October 25, 2009. It will start out at $25.00, if the winner is not present we will add another $25.00 for the next Celebration and will keep doing so until we have a Winner. So if you want a chance to win you must be present at the Celebrations. Hope to see you there.

NEWSLETTER:
This will be the only Edition of the Newsletter, due to the cost of printing and postage it has become too costly to mail every quarter. I will be sending the Minutes from all the Celebrations to all the Lodges by Email. So if you are not hearing them at your Lodge meetings or Legion Celebrations, ask your Administrator. If any Legionnaire would like me to Email the minutes to them, my Email is
r_ryder@yahoo.com , and would be happy to send them the minutes also.


Fraternally
Randy Ryder
Secretary

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