As fellow Elks look on at the Frontier Family Restaurant, Elks Lodge president Clancy Boettger (center) hands a cheque for $2,030 to Catherine Bellerose who organized, along with Gregg Walker (left, beside Boettger), last Saturday's benefit evening for Pauline Hunt, the local woman who was recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. The cheque represented all of the money that the Elks made when they manned the cash bar for the event. The lodge is one of the city;'s most active fund-raisers. Among other donations in the last year they gave $8,000 to the City for new playground equipment at Queen Elizabeth Park and $3,400 to Queen Elizabeth Hospital for tonsil-extraction equipment. Bellerose was very appreciative of the lodge's generosity and told them that the silent auction raised more than $12,000 to help Pauline and her husband Simon take their two young daughters on some adventures that will help build the kind of happy memories they will need as the incurable disease progresses and life becomes much tougher for them. David F. Rooney photo
