Elks Lodge Awards Scholarships

Roger Mastro, scholarship chair, Catalina Mountain Elks Lodge, has shepherded the scholarships for the Arizona Elks Association and Elks National Foundation Most Valuable Student Scholarship Awards. This year, we are proud to recognize six soon-to-be college/university freshmen as recipients of one $4,000 Elks National Foundation (ENF) Scholarship and five $2,000 Arizona Elks Association Scholarship Awards (AEAs). The five…

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SBR: Strong-Brave-Resilient; Fighting Cancer with Knowledge

Sandy Jessop When SaddleBrooke Ranch (SBR) residents Nancy and Chris Racioppo’s youngest son, Anthony, was 4 years old, the unthinkable happened. Fifteen years later, those feelings come back as she describes those first days: “We took Anthony to the doctor one morning with a slight fever and bloody nose, and he was very pale. We were sent for…

Word of the Month: Piastre

David Zapatka Reader Chuck Hakkarinen, commenting on the May WOTM column, writes, “In the 20th century, Paladin was the name of the character played by actor Richard Boone in the TV western “Have Gun, Will Travel.” He was quite the dandy, living in San Francisco, quoting the Classics, fast on the draw. I think he typically…