Community Service

LOOM 1504

Legacy Of The Moose Dinner & Dance March 3, 2012 5:30PM

$15.00 per Person OR $25.00 per Couple

In Advance of 2/20/12, then $15.00 per Person

Charity Fund Fundraiser

Dress Code

Business Casual (No Sneakers, Jeans, T-shirts, or Collarless Shirts) (Regalia as appropriate)

Laurel Moose Family Center

3340 Laurel Fort Meade Rd.

Laurel, MD 20724

This is a community service event and will be open to the public

LOOM Lodge 1504 and WOTM Chapter 1327 are pleased to invite you to our “Legacy of the Moose” evening, to be held on March 3, 2012 at the Laurel Moose Family Center in Laurel, Maryland. We will gather at 5:30 PM, allowing guests to view, and bid, on silent auction items. Dinner is at 6 o’clock. We will enact the Legacy of the Moose presentation at 7 o’clock. Desert will follow the presentation.

Numerous local businesses, including the Baltimore Ravens, have donated items for the silent auction, so we believe we will have a significant opportunity to support the Endowment Fund through this event. Auction items will be called twice; at 7:30 and right after the 9 o’clock ceremony.

We have received proper dispensation to have this event open to the public in an effort to show our community why we’re here, and what we support.

We sincerely hope you decide to join us for this Endowment Fund-raiser. It will be a much better event if we can enjoy your presence. Your RSVP is requested for planning purposes, and tickets may be purchased in advance at our Laurel Family Center if that is convenient.

Fraternally Yours,

Tim Gaverth

Junior Governor and Event Chairman

gaverth.loom1504@gmail.com

Our website: www.loom1504.org

MOOSE COMMUNITY SERVICE AT WORK

The meeting of the 7^th District, MD,DE,DC Moose association held at Harrington Moose Family Center #534 on January 8^th, 2012, featured the Color Guard from Dor-Wic Post 218, American Legion from Sharptown, Md.

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The Colors were presented by the Color Guard to start the meeting.

A tribute to all Veterans was given after which the Color Guard was presented with several checks to enable them to continue their good work.

The Color Guard normally donates their time for their various programs and it was decided that the Moose should help them with their endeavors.

This is just one example of the many Community Service projects sponsored by The Loyal Order of Moose

MD-DE-DC Moose Association teams up with the Washington Area Wheelchair Society & DC SHARES

First 2 months Community Service Project totals $15,508.75

May 15, 2009 Outstanding effort on first collection!

Special thanks to coordinator Capitol Region Moose Service Center #2680 and the donating Moose Family Centers, College Park #453, Edgemere #537, Laurel #1504 & Silver Spring #658.

If you, your friends or any Moose Family Center would like to learn more or make a donation to help others in need; please call Paul Holland 301-495-0277 with the Washington Area Wheelchair Society or Frank Courtney 301-495-9180 Secretary of Capital Region Moose Service Center #2680.

For info via email contact webmaster@mdmoose.org

Flight 93 Memorial Never Forget

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Tommy Moose gets a new look!

Tommy Moose Color Flyer Available Here in Adobe PDF

By SHAWN BAILE, Director/Fraternal Programs

Tommy has gotten quite a makeover! With his updated appearance, we hope he’ll be even more welcome in police cars, fire trucks and ambulances than ever.

In February 2007, the Supreme Council began to seriously consider redesigning Tommy Moose. The opportunity existed to take a very successful community service program to the next level; to continue the initial concept of providing a plush Moose in emergency vehicles while expanding Tommy’s recognition into additional areas to create a more identifiable image.

Doing so enables the Moose the chance to trademark the Tommy Moose character to restrict use of the likeness only to programs approved by the Order.

A new design created by Chris Ecker of Moose International Communications & Public Affairs was submitted to a vendor and a prototype was composed. The design was approved, and production of the “new and improved” Tommy Moose has begun!

While it was extremely important to continue the success that Tommy Moose has spread throughout the fraternity, it was equally important to assure that the new design was flexible enough to be utilized in other arenas. Fraternal units will continue to be encouraged to purchase plush Tommy Moose through Catalog Sales and present the items to emergency services personnel in their respective communities. Units that have made an initial presentation should stay in contact with these personnel and replenish their stock when necessary.

The newly designed Tommy Moose will be available beginning in January 2008 and will be used to fill all orders placed from this point forward. The price remains at $75/dozen; the catalog item number is 130. To order, call 630-966-2250; fax 630-859-3505; or e-mail order details to catalogsales@mooseintl.org.

TIP's Program-Our order is a large supporter of the TIP's program for training your social quarters servers. Moose Intl. has agreed to give your lodge a rebate on it's risk pool insurance assessment if the entire wait staff is trained. The state currently has several trainers that will train your staff. You may contact several new trainers in the State office. You may also contact the TIPS program to get more information on trainers. You may also invite the local merchants to attend at a nominal cost and list this as community service.

Moose International has taken on the challenge and concern of insuring that each lodge home have staff that is properly trained to handle the concerns that come with serving alcohol. To this end, they are requiring that all servers of alcohol be TIPs certified. Due to this initiative, the State Trainers have purchased the required supplies at a discount and are willing to train you and your volunteers for $35.00 per participant. If you are ready to schedule a 5-6 hour class, please call James Bolling (410) 388-1225 and he will contact the nearest trainer to you.

The Moose Community Service program of today and for the next century challenges people to become volunteers through membership in the Moose. It calls for capable and inspired leadership and for a generous giving of thought, effort and time according to the Moose Six-Point Community Service Program. Counting hours worked, miles driven and dollars donated, the Moose contribute $70 - $80 million worth of service every year to communities throughout the U.S., Canada and Great Britain.

Six Point Program for the Moose Lodges and Chapter Community Service has been an ever-growing portion of the overall Moose fraternal program ever since its inception under the name "Civic Affairs" by then-Director General Malcolm Giles in the late 1940s. The kaleidoscope of all that is Moose Community Service was organized into a "Five-Point Program" in the early 1990s, then expanded in mid-decade to the "Six-Point Program" with its familiar logo at left

Youth Awareness Program Can teenagers persuade younger children to make the right choices in life? "Yes!" say the teens and the adults who work together in the Moose Youth Awareness Program. For more than a decade, the Moose has organized high-school-age leaders into a highly effective "speaker's bureau" to persuade preschool and elementary-age youngsters against drug use. The program, founded in 1986, has now expanded to bring awareness to 4-to-9-year olds on other subjects such as child abuse, gangs and other elements that have an adverse effect on the youth of today.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Loyal Order of Moose is a private organization. Activities and events referred to on this web site or other center links are available to members in good standing only. This web site is for informational purposes with proprietary information intended for members only. General information is provided for the public at large but should not be construed to be a solicitation for membership. This web site is an initiative of the Md-De-DC Moose Association, and is not sanctioned by the Loyal Order of Moose, Moose International, or any subsidiary thereof. All logos, trademarks and service mark pertaining to the Loyal Order of Moose and/or it's programs or degrees are Copyright © Moose International, Inc., Mooseheart, Illinois.

Last update 02/20/2012