Utilizing an Elks National Veterans Service Commission program at no cost to the lodge, Sanford Elks Lodge #1241 donated 200 square feet of bulk leather hide, valued at $4.50 per square foot, and 78 therapeutic craft kits containing leather moccasin craft kits and various wood craft kits, retailed at $2,235, to the Lake Baldwin VA Domiciliary. The veterans plan to create belts with the bulk leather hide and use the various kits to assist in their therapeutic treatment for PTSD. The bulk leather was delivered May 1 and the craft kits were delivered May 16.
Pictured are Mike Weaver, head of Lake Baldwin VA Domiciliary; Fred Holmes, VA volunteer and currently the oldest VA volunteer there; and Donald Soderblom, Lodge Veterans Services Chair.