CANADIAN ELK ÉLAN CANADIEN - Elks of Canada

More documents

Recommendations

Info

N E W B R U N S W I C K/PEI K / P E I Ron Roy God bless and may you all have a successful and prosperous year. Sincerely, Ron Roy, President NB/PEI Elks Association For some reason I thought that my last report was “exit stage right” or my last curtain call for the last two years as Provincial President. I will be brief in my final report. I wish to congratulate all Elks members who have let their names stand for election and have been selected to represent their various jurisdictions. My advice is to do your best, have fun and try not to take things too seriously. Encourage as many people as you can to help you. Ask and you may be surprised. Today’s challenge is: - How to enrich the volunteer experience. - Organizations like the Elks who seek volunteers need to recognize that every action counts and members should be able to contribute in ways that work for them. - Volunteerism has always been a part of who we are as Elks. I will add this quote I ran across recently by John Quincy Adams. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, do more and become more, you are a leader”. N E W F O U N D L A N D / L A B R A D O R Thomas Brown Greetings Brother and Sister Elks and Ladies of the Royal Purple: During my working life I sold automobiles for the big three - the last was the Chrysler dealer for 28 years. During that time I attend- ed countless seminars and motivational meetings. I will share with you the one constant in each and every meeting . . . COMMUNICATIONS, or lack of them. Some people complained of the “mushroom effect” (kept in the dark and manure heaped on them). That is why I get a little upset when members complain about the correspondence from Grand Lodge. They are doing a fantastic job of letting all members know where we are going and how we are getting there; their goals, vision, benchmarks etc. If the Elks succeed where other organizations fail, it will be in no small way because of their commitment to keeping members abreast of what is happening. A 14 great deal of dealerships closed over the years, but not the ones that had great communications with their employees. I would like to thank all members of the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Association, my home Lodge of Corner Brook No. 505 and the Royal Purple Lodge No. 330 for their outstanding support. To the staff of Grand Lodge Office, thanks again for efforts on my and Newfoundland Lodges behalf. I hope to see everybody in Gander this July. Sincerely, Thomas Brown, President Newfoundland/Labrador Elks Association
Gaétan Daigle Je dois vous avouez que je suis inquiet de notre avenir. Seulement une portion des membres sont vraiment dédié à leurs Loge et à l’Élantisme. Si on prend quelques instants pour réfléchir à tout le bien Dear Editor: Q U E B E C que l’on peut faire dans nos communauté il me semble pourtant facile de comprendre notre importance et notre raison d’être. Ne perdons plus de temps à regarder les autres et travaillons tous ensemble et dans le respect pour rendre nos efforts plus attrayant pour nous et le public. Si nous réalisons de grandes choses dans l’harmonie nous serons beaucoup plus satisfais de nos réalisations. Au plaisir de vous rencontrer d’une prochaine activité. Gaétan Daigle, Président Association des Élans du Québec 15 I admit that I am worried about our future. Only a portion of the members are really dedicated to their Lodges and to Elkdom. If we take a few moments to reflect about all the good that we can do in our community, it seems to me nevertheless easy to understand our importance and our reason for being. Let us not waste time any more looking at others and let us all work together and with respect to make our efforts more attractive for us and the public. If we work in harmony we shall be much more satisfied of our goals. Hoping to meet you at the next event. Gaétan Daigle, Président Québec Elks Association LETTER TO EDITOR In response to the new national affiliation fee that became effective January 1, 2011. There are a lot concerns that I/we feel should have been thought of before this was voted on and passed at the last convention. After researching and reviewing what has transpired over the last three conventions I/we feel that there should be some soul searching done by our National Executive and office staff. Prior to the Convention of 2007 the Constitution required that the Grand Lodge Office or Judiciary Committee had to notify all Grand Lodge Officers, District Deputies, all Lodges and all Associations of the intent to raise the Per Capita tax in writing 60 days prior to the convention. In 2007 the 60 days notice seems to have gotten deleted and I did not see a resolution that allowed that to happen. At that convention the PC tax was set at $3.39 per month per dues paying member. At the Convention in 2008 the Grand Judiciary submitted a resolution a new revised edition of the Constitution be accepted. Granted it took a lot of work and a revised edition was circulated to all lodges in March of that year. I am sure that a lot of members have never even seen this new revised document and if they had seen it I am not so sure that they would have been able to spot all of the changes that were made. I feel that when we have a Judiciary Committee that did this work that they would have done it with the best interest of its members and the good of the Order foremost on their minds. Since this is a money resolution why are we not sticking to the 60 days written notice??? Now move ahead to the Convention of 2009 a resolution was passed to be able to tie the affiliation fee to the cost of living, to a maximum of 5% still no 60 days written notice!!! Per Capita tax now $3.59 per month per member. Now looking back that is a .20 cent increase (5% would be .17 cents). This pretty much makes this new revised Constitution just a guideline. Back then the maximum of 5% was not adhered to. Now move ahead to the one that should have caught everyone’s attention. The Convention of 2010 another resolution was passed to increase the national affiliation fee from $3.59 TO $4.15, almost 16% increase. So why tie it into cost of living to a maximum of 5% and the last two increases have been in excess of the original resolution. Continued next page
Page 1 and 2: C A N A D I A N E L K É L A N C A
Page 3 and 4: INSIDE THIS ISSUE . . . . Check out
Page 5 and 6: SUPREME HONOURED ROYAL LADY’S MES
Page 7 and 8: HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY The Number
Page 9 and 10: LET’S MAKE 2012 A YEAR TO REMEMBE
Page 11 and 12: Fred Weber Brother and Sister Elks:
Page 13: Derek Barkley Brothers & Sisters of
Page 17 and 18: FUNDING REQUEST EVALUATION Every Lo
Page 19 and 20: Hour of Eleven continued . . . . No
Page 21 and 22: grants to students, community group
Page 23 and 24: AROUND THE COMMUNITIES GRAND FORKS
Page 25 and 26: Come Rant & Roar at the Crossroads
Page 27 and 28: “HOW TO” ORGANIZE A NEW LODGE T
Page 29 and 30: Fires destroy homes Left to right:
Page 31 and 32: The gift of sound Without hearing a
Page 33 and 34: ELKS & ROYAL PURPLE SCHOLARSHIP PRO
Page 35 and 36: The need for speech-language pathol
Page 37 and 38: GOLDEN BOOK OF MEMORIES THE GOLDEN
Page 39 and 40: Eight-year-old Tyler MacDonald, who
Page 41 and 42: GRAND EXALTED RULER DAVE HURLEY DED
Page 43 and 44: MODULE #2 - LODGE OPERATIONS 1. Are
Page 45 and 46: MENS EVENT WINNERS From Halkirk AB
Page 47 and 48: FIFTY YEARS OF ELKDOM FOR LAKE OF T

CANADIAN ELK ÉLAN CANADIEN - Elks of Canada

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?