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Florida Keys Elks Lodge #1872 held their seventh annual ladies dolphin fishing tournament June 7-8. This always proves to be the lodge’s biggest fundraiser of the year. The event had 31 boats and 76 anglers participating. The junior winner was Brianna Sullivan and the two women who won first place were Candace Everett and Tiffany Vega. This tournament requires months of planning and many volunteers which raises several thousand dollars for the lodge charity fund.

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Florida Keys Lodge held a food drive for the students at Coral Shores High School and also provided a check to Voices for Children of the Florida Keys for $1,500. Voices for Children of the Florida Keys is a guardian ad litem program that benefits children in the court system including children who are in foster care, children who have been neglected and children who are in the adoption process. Monroe County has approximately 325 in the program. The donation will help pay for extras that the government does not cover such as school field trips and prom gowns.

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Florida Keys Lodge participated in the large annual Nautical Flea Market in the upper Keys. The Rotary provides a free booth to all charitable organizations and the lodge used the opportunity to promote their upcoming annual ladies dolphin fishing tournament June 7-8 which benefits various charities. All members wore Elks T-shirts and sold tickets for the raffle item which will be drawn during the tournament. Lodge members also distributed information about Florida Elks  Children’s Therapy Services and the Florida Elks Youth Camp and handed out membership applications. There were several thousand people in attendance for the two-day event.

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On March 2, Florida Keys Lodge held their biggest fundraiser for the quarter with a Blues Brothers theme spearheaded by member Joyce Musselman. There were 265 tickets sold. Fifteen students from Coral Shores High School helped serve dinner and dessert at the event to earn some of their community service requirements. The lodge made $9,083 for various charities including scholarships, veterans, the Florida Elks Youth Camp and Florida Elks Children’s Therapy Services.

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Florida Keys Lodge donated $1,500 to Voices for Florida Keys Children through the Guardian Ad Litem program. It will help provide funds for foster children’s needs that are not provided by state funding. Pictured are Susan Raffanello, president of Voices for Florida Keys Children; Dennis Tarbell, Exalted Ruler; and Sandi Webb, Guardian Ad Litem’s child advocate manager. This donation was made possible through the Elks National Foundation Anniversary Grant.