Staff Writer
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The Elkins Elks Lodge 1135 recently donated $500 to the Randolph County Childrenâs Home to help with a Christmas party for the residents. The lodge raised the money through direct donations from lodge members. The Elks Clubâs Jeff Pritt, left, and Derrick Pritt present a check to West Virginia Childrenâs Home Director CheDella Ware.
ELKINS The Elkins Elks Lodge 1135 refused to allow COVID-19 to keep the organization from successfully making its annual holiday donations to the local community.
Each year during Christmas the Elks Club hosts two separate events for area youths. The lodge traditionally presents an annual Santa Claus night for less fortunate children at the Woodford Methodist Church, and also offers a pizza party/bowling night for the kids of the West Virginia Children’s Home at the Elkins Recreation Center.