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Elks help sponsor local DARE Camp

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DARE campers enjoy ice cream with Elks Exalted Ruler Al Lautzenheiser. (Elks photo)
DARE campers enjoy ice cream with Elks Exalted Ruler Al Lautzenheiser. (Elks photo)

Van Wert Lodge 1197, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, helped sponsor the annual DARE Camp, which this year was held at the S.F. Goedde Building the week of July 12.

The variety of activities provided for the campers included swimming at the YMCA and a water fight that concludes the camp on the last day. Van Wert Lodge, through a Promise Grant it received from the Elks National Foundation, provided hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and pop for the campers each day. On the last day of camp, the campers were all treated to ice cream, also provided by the Elks.

Promise Grants are administered through the Elks National Foundation to local lodges that want to sponsor any type of drug- and alcohol-free event in the community.

POSTED: 07/30/15 at 6:29 am. FILED UNDER: News