Annually every Elks Lodge in the country celebrates Flag Day on June 14th with the history of the American Flag starting in the 1700’s.
This ceremony is performed by the officer’s of Springfield Elks Lodge and area Boys and Cub Scouts. This year the Lodge also handed out Eagle Scout plaques to two fine young men of Troop 252 in Springfield who had recently reached the rank of this high and prestigious level of the Boy Scouts of America. Their Scoutmaster, Bruce Czwakiel remarked that both young men had worked very hard over the past six years to gain this rank. These young men were, Joshua Aldrich and Richard Stokarski both of Springfield.
At the recent Flag Day ceremony at the Springfield Elks Lodge the following Cub & Boy Scouts participated in the ceremony. Frt L to r; Andrew Alexander, Wyatt James, Nelson Bosley, Noah Eades and Elijah Childers. Back L to r; Are Eagle Scout Adam Stokarski, Thomas Czwakiel, Cameron Driscoll-Page, Patrick Vollman and Eagle Scout Al Aldrich,
News item submitted by Mike Gunn