Some McKinleyville High graduates will be receiving scholarships presented by the lodge. For many years, as part of our lodge's community involvement, we have given thousands of dollars to deserving Mac High grads.
Our lodge has always been interested in helping members of the McKinleyville community family through various means, e.g., free firewood for needy seniors, participation in the Chamber of Commerce activities, notably Pony Express Days, free Mothers' Day breakfasts, fielding a team for competition in the softball league, and of course, scholarships.
Members who have relatives or friends whose children are graduating this June should tell about our program and urge them to apply.

McKinleyville LOOM
2016-2017 Elections Information
• Deadline for any interested parties to submit his name for an office will be May 4, 2016. Nominating committee will meet May 11,
2016, Wednesday at 6:00 pm to consider
candidates for office.
• Lodge elections to be conducted May 25, 2016
starting at 11:00 am and ending at 5:00pm. At
the regular generalship meeting at 6pm, lodge
election will be conducted - first order of
business.
• Installation of new officers will be held on May
29, 2016, Sunday at 2:00pm.

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~Revisiting the Lincoln Highway, James J. Davis, and “Red Ramblers”via Mooseheart and Livermore~

Earlier this month, I had a chance to actually see things I had depicted in previously researched historical articles written for our lodge newsletter. A death in the family led to an impromptu seat-of-the-pants visit to Illinois to attend a funeral and I was able to visit Mooseheart, our “Child City”, and Camp Ross to gather material for this month's newsletter. The pictures are too numerous for one newsletter so we plan to release a special in-house edition which will have photos for the entire trip, and I can do slide presentations as appropriate.

In the meantime here is a sampling of pictures from the visit which relate back to information conveyed in previous newsletters: [editor's note: go to the photo tab to view the pictures]

First here are some pictures of Mooseheart, from the entrance at Ill. Rt31, to the sign indication the graduating class, to the Museum of Moose History ( I still have never been in this building), to a pic taken in front of the Supreme Lodge, and Post Office.

Next, form the past article on our founder James J. Davis, a monument across the street from the Supreme Lodge which conveys information about the man.

From the article on the Red Ramblers, the Mooseheart town water tank with “Mooseheart” painted at the top of the tank and “Red Ramblers written along the vertical support for the tank (and me pointing up at the bottom of the support).
From the article on the Lincoln Highway, here is a picture of the actual monument placed at Mooseheart which indicates that the route traverses the front of the property. Recall from the original article that it was 1000 Moose Members who poured concrete by hand to form the first two miles of paved Lincoln Highway in the state of Illinois.

Subsequent to my trip back to Mooseheart I did one final piece of research on the Lincoln Highway. At the suggestion of Allen Guiles I found the actual garage in Livermore, Ca., which, according to Allan, is the original terminus of the Lincoln Highway.

It was very gratifying to find the physical manifestations of things only researched prior to this trip. It is a privilege to be of service in the Loyal Order of Moose.
~ Mitch Williams, Historian.