Local Elks receive $2,500 grant

The local Elks Lodge has received a $2,500 grant from its national organization, which will in turn be distributed to local causes.

Lodge #1595 met its per-member fundraising goals through member contributions and gaming earnings last year, which entitled it to a Gratitude Grant through the Elks National Foundation. Grants vary from $2,000 to $2,500, and are meant to support local charitable activities.

Lodge secretary Shirley

Clark explained Wrangells grant will be split between four causes, with $625 going to each. Benefitting from the disbursement will be the lunch and dinner

program at the Wrangell Senior Center, the local Little League, the Irene Ingle Public

Library summer reading

program, and seniors at Wrangell Medical Centers long-term care center.