This coming Wednesday, November 24, the Brothers & Sisters of Elks Lodge 1040 are having a benefit spaghetti dinner to raise funds for the new Wellsville Honor Roll. There use to be several in the area honoring all Wellsville area veterans that served in the Armed Forces. There use to be a big one next to the old City Hall near 5th & Main that was removed when they built Shoub Towers. No one knows what became of it or the one in Hillcrest or near Koontz Avenue.
Fortunately Wellsville has such people as George Crews in the community. Crews said it has long been a dream of his to have a new Honor Roll built. This past spring he enlisted Debbie Koffel to get things started in making that dream come true. Together they made up plans with blue prints, a location, enlisting others and an artist's rendition of what it would look like. That picture is shown above.
Once they got all that together the question was "how are we going to pay for it?" Original cost estimates are $20,000 for the brick and mortar memorial to all Wellsville area veterans. They established an account at CF Bank and set out on a fund raising campaign. Part of the campaign was contacting all area organizations asking for donations.
That's where the Elks came in with the benefit dinner on Wednesday night. The Elks are going the extra step to make it a fun night. The dinner is from 4 to 7:30 P.M. with a dance to follow. Music will be provided by the Acme Brothers and there will be a Chinese Auction. The cost of the dinner is only $7 for adults, $4 for children age 7 to 12 and children under the age of 7 eat free. The dinner and dancing is open to the public. The Lodge is located at 723 Riverside. All proceeds go to helping with the new Wellsville Honor Roll.
Stop by and help support this community event for a great cause. Skip and the members of BPOE 1040 promise you will have a great time.
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