A reminder that Moosers are also volunteering for the Vienna Oktoberfest on Saturday, October 2.  Here’s the link: Sign-Up Genius.  This is to help with community outreach/service as well as getting some viral marketing done.  😊  There are quite a few more spots available if you haven’t signed up yet.  To clarify we are NOT having a Vienna Moose tent at Oktoberfest this year.  We didn’t have the time to set things up and were afraid we wouldn’t have enough volunteers to help with our tent as well as the required 20 for Vienna to get our tent.  So this is all for the Town of Vienna.  But next year maybe. We ordered some Vienna Moose t-shirts to wear.  If you didn’t get a chance to, please wear any Moose Lodge paraphernalia if you have any.  We plan to do another t-shirt order again soon so if you missed the first time, no worries you’ll have your chance.

Finally, if you haven’t been to the Moose lately, what the heck are you doing?  Get over there.  But seriously though we have some new things happening.  First, we have a new board, so come on down and say hello. We have a new NFL pull-tab game too.  Many have won and there aren’t too many left before the final drawing so come on in and try your hand.  Finally, we are serving new fries.  No more crinkle-cut.  We got good old straight-cut. Oh yeah!!

September brings the start of cooler weather at the lodge and with it brings lots of changes too!  Our reorganization is going well.  We managed to welcome a lot of new faces to the lodge and not just to the board of officers and committees.  I want to personally thank all the members for stepping up during this reorganization.  It is you we must thank for the continued success of the lodge.  Going forward I am sure there will be some more hiccups to overcome.    But the one thing I can say for sure, we are back open for business.

My list of members to thank is long please bear with me as I go through some.  Thanks to my new board of officers and committees.  I do also want to say this list is not all-inclusive because there are so many new members to thank.  Just know we are so thankful for all your help!

Our New Board Officers

• Vice President: Bruce Chappell
• Treasure: Robert Vilardo
• Chaplin: Scott Flesch
• First Year Trustee: Roger Chang
• Second Year Trustee: Kurt Kohls
• Third Year Trustee: Andrew Jennison 
• Our appointed Sargent at Arms: Alan McClelland

Our New Committee Chairs

• Activities: Steve Torregrossa
• Application Review: Sharon Chappell
• Financial Review: Looking for a chair
• Communications: Daniel Sullivan
• Heart of Community: Looking for a chair
• Government Relations: Chris Oskuie
• Loss Prevention:  Looking for a chair
• Membership/Retention: John Dearing
• Moose Charities:  Looking for a chair
• Moose Legion: Mark Los
• Ritual: Jeff Sargent

Now, I know many of you knew the former board of officers and our former administrator, while they are no longer with us, it was my pleasure to work with them.  They worked tirelessly for years to move the lodge forward in the right.  The one constant in life is change.  I can only hope that those of you that continue to stay understand too and help the lodge in moving forward to a more harmonious fraternity and financial success.

In conclusion, we are still in need of some committees to be formed, but I see that happening soon.  I am overwhelmed by the support of our new members.  Please keep up the great work and stay tuned for new member activities being planned right now.