We are currently working on our nominations for the coming year. We hope you are thinking of what you can do to assist your chapter with either running for an elected office, a chairmanship or appointed officer position. Your chapter cannot succeed without your help.
We would like to take a moment to welcome some new members to our chapter!
New Member
Sponsor
Betty Clark
Michele Barr
Nancy Bullock
Sherri Baumes
Welcome ladies to our organization and we hope you will join us in our activities we are planning in the future.
The Kid's Easter party is scheduled for March 27, 2010 (Saturday) from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM. There is a sign-in sheet located on the door to the social quarters for those planning on attending. If you can't get by to sign up, just give the lodge a call at (703) 385-4403 and leave your name and the number of kids that will be coming. We need this to make sure we have enough "goodies" for all. We will be having snack foods, egg hunt and of course, our clown will be returning again this year.
March is election month for those that have put their names in for an elected officer position. The elections will take place on 3/22/10 just prior to the second meeting in March at 7:00 PM. If you want to find out who will be your board of offices for the new year, come down and join us for voting and stay for the meeting. If you are still interested in putting your name in for an elected officer position, there is still one more nominating committee meeting to be held on 3/8/10 - forms are available at the lodge.
Please join us at our meetings on the 2nd and 4th Monday's of each month at 7:00 PM. We discuss a lot of things that we can do to help support our lodge, chapter and community. We are always open to new ideas for activities to assist us in supporting the kids at Mooseheart, the elder at Moosehaven and those in need in our very own community.
Fraternally, Hannah Hoover Senior Regent
Western Fairfax Christian Ministries
Written by Lodge Reporter
Monday, 01 March 2010 06:35
We are continuing our Winter Clothes Drive. Yesterdays Rose continues to tell us they don't need more clothes. Not to worry, we have lots of charity groups in the area that have clothing needs. We donated to Western Fairfax Christian Ministries today. They are always eager to work with us. They thanked us for our support and look forward to our help in the future. We donated 267 clothing items today. Thanks to Wendy Barboza for helping in the donations.
Western Fairfax Christian Ministries runs the Mercy Closet. They supply free clothing and other essential goods for those that cannot afford to purchase them. The Mercy Closet has: clothing, personal hygiene items, linens, furniture, appliances, and baby items, among other things. These supplies ease the burdens of parents as they strive to maintain stable housing and learn independent living skills.
The Centreville Moose lodge continues to donate gently used clothing to their charity each month. This month, we are changing gears again. They need jackets, sweaters, gloves and mittens now. They say they have their fill of regular clothing. Please hold on to your regular weather clothing for now. We will start accepting regular clothing next spring.
In the month of November 2009, we donated 240 clothing items!
Please also know that they no longer accept stuff animals per a new Virginia State law.
Some times we forget to say one important thing, thank you for helping make our community a better place with your donations!
Important Note: We know that some of our lodge members are having troubles in this economy too. There are reports of missing jackets near the clothing drop-off box in the lodge. If you see a jacket or coat hung up by the lodge drop-off box, please dont take it! If you have taken a jacket or sweater hung up please return the item. No questions will be asked!
Our Daily Bread Needs
Written by Mary Amsden
Saturday, 01 August 2009 15:49
This week (August 20, 2009) we donated another 136.6 pounds of food. This is approximately $219.93 in food donations. Keep up the great work!
In our efforts to continue the food drive to help the needy families in our area, you, the members, recently provided canned goods to the Our Daily Bread Center on Main Street in Fairfax City. Thanks to your donations of canned goods and dry goods, we were able to donate 146.16 pounds of canned/dry goods which equates to approximately $235.31 value of food to this worthy cause.
If you want to visit their site – go to www.our-daily-bread.org and check out the various places they supply items to as well as other items that they are looking for. They are also looking for people to volunteer their time to help out in the kitchen, deliver food, or help with emergency items just to name a few things. If you have some free time, this would be a worthy cause and would go toward the Moose Lodge and Women of the Moose Community Service. But now is not the time to stop, many families continue to need your support. We ask that you continue to bring in your food items to the lodge. We will continue to collect items and donate them to local charities.
As an incentive for you to continue bringing needed food items, you will receive a Texas Hold’em chip card for each item brought in. The Texas Hold’em chip cards are redeemable during regular tournament play. The cards are not redeemable during the final tournament.
Below is a suggest list of items that they accept for donations.
Our Daily Bread - Food Items Currently Needed (August 2009)
Women of the Moose
Co-Workers,
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In our efforts to continue the food drive to help the needy families in our area, you, the members, recently provided canned goods to the Our Daily Bread Center on Main Street in Fairfax City. Thanks to your donations of canned goods and dry goods, we were able to donate 146.16 pounds of canned/dry goods which equates to approximately $235.31 value of food to this worthy cause.