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Redlands Elks Lodge provides shopping spree for Boys & Clubs members

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9 years ago Yazmin Alvarez

courtesy photo Redlands Elks Lodge member Dennis Grimes checks out with Stevan Ocampo at Kohl’s in Redlands on July 16. The Elks used a grant to fund a back-to-school shopping spree for more than 20 kids from Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redlands-Riverside..

shopping_vert — courtesy photo Redlands Elks Lodge member Christine Coates helps Thelia Marohn shop for clothes at Kohl’s in Redlands on July 16. The Elks used a grant to fund a back-to-school shopping spree for more than 20 kids from Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redlands-Riverside.

More than 20 members from the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Redlands-Riverside start the new school in style thanks to the Redlands Elks Lodge.

The youth were treated to a shopping spree recently, paid for with a $2,500 grant the lodge received from the Elks National Foundation. Each child was paired with an Elks member and a Kohl’s volunteer.
Club members were given the opportunity to shop for $100 worth of clothes, shoes and other necessities.
It was the lodge’s first shopping spree with Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redlands-Riverside.
“I’m not sure whose faces had bigger smiles, the kids or the Elks who had just spent a couple hours exemplifying our motto of ‘Elks Care, Elks Share,’” said John Fulton, a Redlands Lodge member and Elks Southeast District public relations chairman.
“The consensus of our participating Elks was, ‘when can we do this again?’” he said.
Local Kiwanis clubs are funding a back-to-school shopping spree for Club members in August.

~Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Redlands-Riverside