I know that many of you have been saving the pull tabs from your cans at home.  Now is the time to turn them in!

Monte and I are going to make a trip to Ronald McDonalds House this month.   If you have any tabs at home for this drive, PLEASE bring them to the lodge now.  We need as many as we can get to make this donation bigger and better than last year.  Help us and the children at CHOCS by bringing in your tabs.

Those of you that don’t know about this project, let me explain.  We save all our pull tabs from all cans, drinks, etc. and we take them to our local Ronald McDonald House.  They use them to help the parents of children in CHOCs to be close in their time of need.

HELP US HELP THEM … save those pull tabs !!!!

Mooseheart Schools earn Free Merchandise.  Over the past 30 years Campbells labels for education program has delivered over $100 million in free merchandise to schools nationwide.  Mooseheart schools are asking chapter members, lodge and friends in their community to collect Campbell product labels that can be redeemed for free educational merchandise.

Please save the labels from the following Campbell Products and deposit them in the Jar next to the Penny Jar.

Campbell's Soups, Campbell's Supper Bakes meal Kits, Franco-American Spaghetti O's pasta, Prego Pasta Sauce,

Swanson Broths and canned poultry, Pace salsa and picante sauces, V8 Vegetable juices and V8 Splash juice drinks

Campbell's Tomato juice, Pepperidge Farm breads, cookies, crackers and frozen products, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers, Campbell's Foodservice products.

Along with the above we are also collecting Box Top $.  We will be sending our first package in September.  Lets’ see if we can fill the jar.

Tommy Moose:
A Very Successful Community Service Program Gets Even Better!

By SHAWN BAILE, Director/Fraternal Programs

If you happen to see a cuddly plush moose in a red sweater in the coming months that looks like the Tommy Moose--just more cuddly and lovable looking--don’t be shocked.

Tommy has gotten quite a makeover! With his updated appearance, we hope he’ll be even more welcome in police cars, fire trucks and ambulances than ever.

In February 2007, the Supreme Council began to seriously consider redesigning Tommy Moose. The opportunity existed to take a very successful community service program to the next level; to continue the initial concept of providing a plush Moose in emergency vehicles while expanding Tommy’s recognition into additional areas to create a more identifiable image.

Doing so enables the Moose the chance to trademark the Tommy Moose character to restrict use of the likeness only to programs approved by the Order.

A new design created by Chris Ecker of Moose International Communications & Public Affairs was submitted to a vendor and a prototype was composed. The design was approved, and production of the “new and improved” Tommy Moose has begun!

While it was extremely important to continue the success that Tommy Moose has spread throughout the fraternity, it was equally important to assure that the new design was flexible enough to be utilized in other arenas. Fraternal units will continue to be encouraged to purchase plush Tommy Moose through Catalog Sales and present the items to emergency services personnel in their respective communities. Units that have made an initial presentation should stay in contact with these personnel and replenish their stock when necessary.

The newly designed Tommy Moose will be available beginning in January 2008 and will be used to fill all orders placed from this point forward. The price remains at $75/dozen; the catalog item number is 130. To order, call 630-966-2250; fax 630-859-3505; or e-mail order details to catalogsales@mooseintl.org.