For the past 60 years, Sanford Elks Lodge #1241 has sponsored Sanford youth baseball teams. Each year the lodge donates a total of $1,000 to sponsor two teams, to be used for whomever needs it. Throughout the year, members attend the teams’ games and host an end-of-year celebration. This year’s celebration was different, because one of their teams, the Major Mets, was in the playoffs. Lodge members attended the April 27 game and set up tents at the field to provide pizza to the players and their families and invited their other sponsored team, the Rookie Red Sox, to attend as well.

Pictured are Julian Gavilanes, Major Mets coach; Bill Klinefelter, Little League lodge committee chair; and Mark Platt, Major Mets coach. Also pictured are some players’ jerseys with the lodge name on the back and all the members and volunteers who attended.