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Dancing for Flood Relief!!
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We are sponsoring a dance benefit to save Czech Village businesses
on Wednesday, August 27
at the Elks Lodge, 801 33rd Ave. SW in Cedar Rapids.
The benefit features an exciting band,
Barefoot Becky and the Ivanhoe Dutchmen, playing party favorites,
polka, big band and country music. Admission is
$15.
There will be a silent auction with a variety of
donated gift items and a bake sale with kolaches and other goods from
6 to 7 p.m. and doors open at 5:30 p.m.
A dinner of pulled pork sandwiches, bratwurst and sauerkraut,
or loose meat sandwiches with chips and pop is available for $5. Beer
is available for $2.
Tickets are available only at the door. Come early
to win door prizes!!
For
information please call the Fraternal Department at (319) 363-2653. A
big thank you to Barefoot Becky, and The Elk’s Lodge for
generously donating their time and space. Proceeds of this benefit will
go directly to the Village business community that was flooded on 16th
Avenue in Cedar Rapids.
click here
to download a printable version of the flyer
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| Disaster Relief - Matching Funds
2008 |
Members
of lodge 423 helping clean up for Olivet Mission
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We would like to thank all that
have donated to wfla's disaster relief fund. Your help is sincerely appreciated,
your donations will assist members devastated by flood waters, and help to
preserve Czech culture by supporting the National Czech & Slovak Museum
& Library.
The road ahead is long and the rebuilding process is extensive. We
need your help. The Home Office is continuing to collect donations from
individuals and lodges. Has designated a
special temporary wfla Disaster Relief Fund 2008 for lodge members in the
Midwest who have been severely affected by unprecedented floods and tornadoes.
Western Fraternal Life Association has broadened the rules to create a special
temporary Disaster Relief 2008 Matching Funds program for lodges, which will
provide up to $500 in matching funds to help individual lodge members who have
suffered losses. WFLA will also offer up to $500 matching funds for flood
recovery for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library. Your lodge
may raise money however you like, via a fundraiser or donations, with a minimum
contribution of $50 to participate. Relief is needed immediately. Please send in
your contributions in one check, preferably, by September 1, 2008 and your lodge
will receive recognition in the Fraternal Herald.
For contribution form please
click here to download it
If you personally need this
relief assistance or know people in your lodge who need help, please call the
Fraternal Dept. at 1-877-935-2467 or 319-363-2653 with their names, addresses,
contact phone (if temporary residence) lodge number and crisis situation
description. Thank you.
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The purpose of this Association is to associate
its members and thus enable them to aid themselves and others in
programs of:
- Fraternal and benevolent activities through the lodge
system, ritualistic work, and otherwise.
- Encouragement, cultivations, and preservation of learning
and study of Czech and Slovak history, culture, language,
and traditions - bearing in grateful and appreciative memory
the vision and pioneer spirit of the many immigrants and
their descendants who founded and maintained the Association
in its earlier years and generations.
- Insurance and other benefits permissible under the laws
governing fraternal beneficiary associations.
- Assistance to such other lawful, social, educational,
intellectual, patriotic, or civic undertakings as may be
determined upon.
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