Welcome to the BPO Elks of the USA. With more than one million members in more than 2,100 local lodges nationwide, the Elks are one of the largest and most active fraternal organizations in the world!
Please come and visit us tonight. Ask a member to bring you down and show you around the Lodge.
Once again it is that time of the year for the Elks annual 4th of July Parade. Thank you so much for your past participation in helping made the parade a huge success.
The parade will start at 10:00 AM, and the route will take you through Old Town Pocatello, up Center Street, across 8th Ave. to the parking lot between ISU Student Union building and Davis Field.
Participants are asked to meet at 8:00 AM Friday July 4th in the Union Pacific RR parking lot located just one block east of Main St. on North Union Pacific Ave. There will be parade helpers there to inform you of your position in the line up, and the Pocatello Police Department will be escorting the parade.
Businesses and Floats entry fee is $50.00, $25.00 for non-profit organizations. Please make checks payable to “Pocatello Elks”. The increase in price is due to new restrictions by the city of Pocatello.
This year absolutely no candy can be thrown from the float. All candy is to be handed to people watching from the street. We also require that each float provide 1 person walking on each side of the float to keep people away from the float.
Please fill out the enclosed forms and return it to the Lodge at address above.
POCATELLO -- Sera Bosen, secretary at Elks Lodge 674 in Pocatello, started out as a volunteer for the fraternal order, but joined six years ago because she liked the idea of serving the local community.
Bosen, a computer programmer at the Idaho National Laboratory, said the Elk's Lodge contributes to the Pocatello community annually. It offers an Easter Egg hunt at Ross Park and the "Adopt A Veteran" program at the Pocatello State Veteran's Home, hosts the city's annual Fourth of July parade and sponsors a number of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
Lodge 674, which is more than 100 years old, also supports the Elks Rehabilitation Hospital in Boise and contributes to national scholarship projects. Bosen followed her husband, Greg, the organization's current exalted ruler, into the organization, which until 20 some years ago did not allow women to become members.
However, following a court ruling, women were allowed to join the Benevolent Protective Order of Elk.
Acting as the lodge's secretary and helping her husband to fulfill his duties keeps her busy.
"If we're not here, these days, we're usually sleeping," Bosen said.
She and Greg have been married three years and have a 9-month-old son, Avi.
When she does find enough time, Bosen said she also enjoys mountain biking and skiing.
She is also working on her master's degree.
She opted to keep her current position instead of advancing through the ranks of the organization to help keep the organization on track.
"I want to stay where I'm at right now in order to get this in order so I can pass it on to someone," she said.
Bosen said the organization currently has 290 members and is working hard to recruit new Elks.
"We really need new members to keep ourselves here and to be able to continue to do the work we do," she said.
Membership dues are $99.50 per year.
Membership includes use of the facility's gym and steam room, lounge privileges and admission to other lodges nationwide, she said.
For additional information about Elk's Lodge 674, or Elk's membership, call 232-2400.
This is a celebration of Greg Bosen's successful year as Pocatello Elks Lodge Exalted Ruler (ie. president). It is also the inauguration of Chris Neeser as the new Exalted Ruler.
This is an event to look back on last year and forward to the upcoming year. You will get to see an awards ceremony for Elks of the Year, Officer of the Year, Citizen of the Year, and other special citations. Cocktail hour will be at 5:00pm. Complimentary Vodka drinks and Miller Lite for 1 hour. Installation ceremony to follow. After all that stuffy stuff we will have a catered dinner and dancing till the cows come home. More details to follow.
This is one of our BIGGEST parties of the year. So if you miss it, "I told you so"
Don't miss the Elks party of the year!
410 S Main
April 4th
5:00 Cocktail Hour - Complimentary Vodka drinks & Miller lite till 7:00
6:00 Installation of Officers and Awards Ceremony
7:00 Catered Dinner
8:00ish Dancing / Live Band
