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Nebraska Lodges Receive Youth Awards at the Grand Lodge Convention
Three Nebraska Lodges received awards for their Youth Week Brochures and
activities at the annual Grand Lodge Convention that was held in Minneapolis
during Independence Day Week. Capturing first place awards in the Youth
Week contest was the Norfolk and Falls City Lodges. Norfolk's award was in
Division 1 and Falls City in Division 2. A third place award in the Youth
Week competition went to the Grand Island Lodge in Division 2.
In Youth Programs, the Norfolk Elks Lodge captured a second place award in
Division 1. After falling out of the top three places in the previous
year, Tony Kochenash, immediate past Youth Chairman at Norfolk, said he was
pleased to see that Norfolk hit the top three again. Norfolk has won a state or
national award in 12 of the past 14 years, all years that Kochenash chaired the
committee In addition, Norfolk received a national award for being
the top youth program in Nebraska.
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A special Nebraska salute goes out to all these Lodges that won awards and to
the special people that made the awards possible.