Recently Springfield Elks Lodge #1560 for the sixteenth year since 2007, handed out personal dictionary’s to local students. Over the years the count each year usually averages (85) kids or some times more. The dictionary the Elks hand out are the students own book to do with what they want with them. Keep them at the school or take them home.
This is just one of the many youth programs including, Scholarships to seniors, Drug Awareness essay contests, Hoop Shoot, Soccer Shoot and SHS Student of the Month.
Present for the Elks were PER Vicki Siloiski, Trustee Victor Backevich, Past Trustee Eugene Siliski and Secretary Mike Gunn.
Shown are the third graders at Union St. School showing off their new dictionary’s handed out to them by Springfield Elks Lodge #1560 members.
News item submitted by Mike Gunn.