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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,2:49 pm |
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Orange and the Veterans
A very busy few weeks for the Orange Elks Lodge #1475 in supporting our military. Our motto is “As long as there is a Vet, the Orange Elks will never forget”.
At the lodge’s annual flag ceremony, we honored and thanked our veterans that included Orange Elks and a World War II veteran Armand Cruz.
Orange Elks World War II veteran Armand Cruz and Blake Cuiper
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,2:54 pm |
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This week started at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base with ten members cooking lunch for the three hundred members and family of the Chaplain Corp.
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Next up was Christmas in July at the Long Beach Veterans Hospital where we worked with other Elk members from the Orange Coast District playing bingo with the veterans and providing chips, cookies and drinks. Each veteran was given a tee shirt. The veterans played bingo for over $300 in prize money.
L _ R Sera Farmer, Randy Farmer, Army Veteran Viet Nam and Tom
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,2:56 pm |
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The last event was the Camp Pendleton Summer Barbeque Beach Bash where we provided lunch for over nine hundred.
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,2:57 pm |
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Del Mar Beach at Camp Pendleton was the scene of the annual Summer Barbeque Beach Bash for the 7th Engineer Support Battalion and their families. Twenty seven members from the Orange Lodge served lunch to over nine hundred Navy and Marine personal and their families.
They are a bunch of great folks in orange shirts doing what they like to do best!
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,2:58 pm |
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Peter Lent of the Firehouse BBQ assembled a crew of cooks that came from Santa Ana, Temecula, Bakersfield, Sun City and Menifee.
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Frank Martinez, Andy Soto, Jim Lemkin, Pete Lent, Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer Nash and Shawn Kellam, Family Resource Officer
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,2:59 pm |
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Where it all happened!
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,3:00 pm |
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They showed up the night before to cook five hundred pounds of pork for pulled pork sandwiches, one hundred and twenty pounds of chicken and one hundred and twenty pounds of hot dogs. In addition they prepared baked beans, coleslaw, and watermelon. Drinks and chips were included.
Cooking chicken
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,3:01 pm |
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Making the pulled pork
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,3:02 pm |
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The Commanding Officer of the 7th Engineer Support Battalion Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer Nash stopped by to personally thank Orange for supporting this event.
L _ R Harvey Langham, Orange Coast District National Veterans Service Chairman, Lieutenant Colonel Jennifer Nash and Brian Fitzpatrick Orange National Veterans Service Chairman
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Posted on: Jul. 16 2016,3:03 pm |
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What a great day to be an Orange Elks!
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