Silver Towers

Silver Towers Ride – July 16, 2023

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Happy Friday all, attached you will find the documents for the Silver Towers Ride on Sunday, July 16.

 
Please make copies of the Waiver and the Pledge sheets to have available at your lodge for all participants.
 
Also attached is a raffle ticket template. Please make copies of this template to sell tickets for your lodges basket/gift item.  Remember; you can start selling raffle tickets as soon as you have your raffle item ready, so the sooner you start selling the more you will collect. All pre-sold tickets will be brought to Silver Towers on the day of the ride with your raffle item, and that amount collected will go directly towards your lodges Silver Towers Assessment. We will continue to sell tickets for all of the raffle items on the day of the ride. The ticket sales from the day of the ride will be split among the lodges for your Silver Towers Assessment fees.
 
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We thought this would be a fun idea to decorate the vehicles, motorcycles, and yourselves in Red, White, and Blue for the final ride from Middlebury HS to Silver Towers, making a grand parade to greet the campers. And if I know the campers, I’m sure they will be decked out as well!! Please be sure to spread the word.
 
Once you have a gift basket or raffle item ready, please send an email to me and I’ll start sharing what lodges have come up with for ideas.
 
Please share this in your Newsletters, at your lodges and with your members and community.
 
Let me know if you have any questions.
 
Have a great weekend and thank you for your continued support of the Silver Towers Camp.
 
Lisa Hickory
Lodge 1535
 
Links to the forms:
Raffle ticket
Waiver
 
 

SOME IMPORTANT 2023 DATES FOR THE SILVER TOWERS CAMP

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Here are some key dates for the Silver Towers Camp for 2023.  
 
Saturday May 6 – Opening of Water System and prepare camp for Endurance Society rental. 
Saturday June 3 – Annual Camp Clean-up – folks are welcome to spend the entire weekend.  
Sunday June 25 – Camp Opens 
Sunday July 16 – 16th Annual Motorcycle and Car Ride to Camp 
Sunday August 6, Pilgrimage and Walkathon. 
Saturday August 19 – Camp Closes 
August 25 – 27 – 2nd Annual Elk Fest at Silver Towers.  
 

The AmazonSmile Feature is ending

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Many of us have probably used the AmazonSmile feature to have Amazon make donations to our Silver Towers Camp Charities.  However we have just been informed that as of February 20, 2023, Amazon will no longer be supporting the AmazonSmile program. While our purchases triggered small individual donations, Silver Towers Charities did receive an overall contribution of $1672.00 during our participation.  

Thanks to all who used it. 

Grand Exalted Ruler T. Keith Mills and his wife Amy visited Vermont this week

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Grand Exalted Ruler T. Keith Mills and his wife Amy visited Vermont this week.  They were accompanied by PGER David Carr, his wife Penny, SDGER Robert Campo and his wife Michele.

A welcome reception and dinner at St. Johnsbury Lodge #1343, hosted by VEA State President Scott Phillips and his suite of officers, was held to welcome Keith and Amy to Vermont.  Elks from all 12 Vermont lodges were in attendance.  The following morning they traveled to Ripton, Vermont to visit Silver Towers Camp for Exceptional People, the Vermont Elks state major project.  Keith is the FIRST GER to visit Silver Towers.  Camp director, Carolyn Ravenna highlighted the new pool and dining hall on the tour.  A quick stop at Rutland Lodge #345 for lunch and the group was on to Bennington for a dinner held in their honor in the newly opened carriage house at Bennington Lodge #567.  
 
From L to R:  SDGER Robert Campo, PSP John Montgomery, DDGER North Kristin Calcagni, PGER David Carr, GER T. Keith Mills, DDGER South Henry Diemer and VEA State President Scott Phillips.
From L to R:  VEA State President Scott Phillips, Silver Towers Camp Director Carolyn Ravenna, BPOE First Lady Amy and GER T. Keith Mills
From L to R:  SDGER Robert Campo, Michele Campo, DDGER North Kristin Calcagni, Penny Carr, PGER David Carr, Amy Mills, GER T. Keith Mills, Silver Towers Camp Director Carolyn Ravenna and VEA State President Scott Phillips.
From L to R:  Silver Towers Camp Director Carolyn Ravenna, Silver Towers camper Michael Sabataso, Amy Mills and GER T. Keith Mills
 
News item submitted by DDGER North Kristin Calcagni