Tampa Elks Lodge #708 will now be using the Elks National Foundation Beacon Grant to fund the lodge-sponsored Club Chivalry at Robinson High School instead of the Elks National Foundation Impact Grant. The Florida State Elks Association also matches the Beacon Grant, giving the club more funds. During the January club meeting day, yearbook photos were taken, and the Elks volunteers for the day joined in the Club Chivalry photo. Afterward, in celebration of National Pizza Week, the lodge treated the club members to a pizza party. The Elks reminded them to sign up for Relay for Life in April and also told them about an upcoming service hours opportunity with the lodge. On Jan. 15, some students helped lodge members perform community service by cleaning the roadside along Himes Avenue. This project is done quarterly by Tampa Elks in conjunction with Mayor Jane Castor’s Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful project. The students earned four community service hours for their efforts.

Elks pictured in the club yearbook photo in the bottom row on both sides of the four club student officers are Tommy “Loyd” Moore, Betty Orcutt, Carolyn Miller and Edie Hanley. 

Pictured during the highway cleanup are Wendy Wiesler, member; Andy Zheng, student; Melissa Bertoch, Esquire; Bianca Blevins, student; Richard Whizenhut, member; Comfort Njoku, student; Bonnie Atwood, member; and Rita Smith, Leading Knight.