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Steps to Join the Fraternal Order of Eagles
Nov 30th
To be eligible for membership in the Fraternal Order of Eagles, you must be a citizen of the United States or Canada over the age of 18 who believes in God.
You must be sponsored by two members of a Fraternal Order of Eagles’ aerie or auxiliary. The Eagle member who proposes you for membership must obtain a membership application from the aerie or auxiliary secretary. Fill out the application for membership and submit the completed application to the aerie or auxiliary secretary.
Your application will be read at a regular aerie/auxiliary meeting and you will be interviewed by the local membership committee. After the interview is concluded, the committee will report to the aerie/auxiliary concerning their recommendation of your membership.
When the vote is concluded, you will be notified and asked to present yourself for the Fraternal Order of Eagles Initiation Ritual. The Ritual is a set of rules by which Eagles are to conduct themselves not only in the confines of the aerie, but in life in general. It’s one of the most outstanding models for living a good and useful life. It was designed to teach candidates for membership the highest standards of human conduct expected of us.
After initiation as an Eagle, you can take part in all meetings and social functions of the aerie/auxiliary.
Tracy does not have an Aerie/Auxiliary. If you are interested in helping start one in our great community then sign up to the right. A meeting will be scheduled in a few weeks or after the holidays with information about forming an Aerie here in Tracy.
Pull Pop Tabs for Kids
Nov 23rd
Why save pop tabs?
Saving pop tabs from aluminum cans is an easy and environmentally friendly way of supporting the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House. You can store them in containers to be transported to the House and they don’t take up alot of room. This program began in Minneapolis where the community collected One Million (1,000,000) pop tabs. It has since spread to Ronald McDonald Houses throughout the country! Last year the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House collected over $17,000.00!
What do they do with the pop tabs?
The pop tabs are turned in for their recycling value after being collected by student groups, auxiliaries, service clubs (like the Fraternal Order of Eagles) and children and their families. Ronald McDonald House Charities Northern California operates both the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House which is a “home away from home” for families of seriously ill and injured children who are being treated at Sacramento-area hospitals ad Camp Ronald McDonald at Eagle Lake, a camp for children with disabilities and/or disadvantages. The proceeds collected from recycling the pop tabs go into the Adopt-A-Family fund to help subsidize the cost of families staying at the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House.
What does it take to collect pop tabs?
If you drink Soda and want to help children, it is pretty easy to collect pop tabs. Please recycle your entire aluminum can, but save the pop tab for Ronald McDonald House. A simple sandwich bag on the side of your regridgerator is enough to get you and your faily started. As your bag fills, you can turn them in at the House. For larger groups, use containers with wide mouths such as oatmeal boxex, paper milk cartons or coffee cans.
From the Ronald McDonald House Charities Northern California Website
Pop Tabs
The Pop Tab Program began when a community in Minneapolis collected one million pop tabs to recycle as a fundraiser and the trend has since spread to hundreds of Ronald McDonald Houses across the country.
A pop tab is the small metal tab on the top of aluminum beverage cans. The Sacramento Ronald McDonald House collects these pop tabs to recycle and puts these proceeds towards the Adopt-A-Family Program. This fund helps subsidize the cost of families staying at the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House.
The House receives thousands of pop tabs each year collected by families, church groups, service clubs, auxiliaries, and student organizations.
Saving pop tabs from aluminum cans is an easy and environmentally-friendly way of supporting the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House. A simple plastic bag on the side of your refrigerator is an easy way to get started. As your bag fills, you can drop them off or mail them to the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House. For larger groups, use containers with wide mouths such as oatmeal boxes, paper milk cartons and coffee cans. You can event print out our label and attach it to the side of your container with clear tape.
Sacramento Ronald McDonald House Pop Tab Label
While we do not have the storage space to collect and recycle the entire aluminum can, we do also encourage supporters to cash in their own cans and send a check with the donation to the address listed below.
For more information contact Dawn Brown at 916.734.4230. Pop Tabs do not need to be counted and can be mailed or dropped off at the Sacramento Ronald McDonald House located at 2555 49th Street, Sacramento, CA 95817.
You can visit the Ronald McDonald House Charities Northern California website at www.rmhcnc.org.
Volunteers, city collaborate on local park improvements
Nov 4th
From Columbus Ohio — Columbus Local News – By KRISTIN CAMPBELL — Published: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:42 PM EST
With a three-season shelter house and an herbal grove approved for two local parks, improvements to both Fryer Park and Gantz Park are getting closer to completion.
Monday, Nov. 3, council set aside $25,000 for design costs related to the multi-season shelter at Fryer Park on Orders Road. The building will feature moveable walls along its exterior and a fireplace inside. The building would seat as many as 200 people, and a grill, benches and tables will be added in the vicinity of the shelter house.
The project will be completed through a continuing partnership with the Grove City Rotary Club and a new pairing with Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles, which has its headquarters in Grove City.
The FOE has pledged $100,000 over four years and Rotary has pledged $50,000 over five years to help pay for the project. The total cost is estimated at $300,000.
Council members have asked parks officials to look into the possibility of converting the building to a four-season shelter, but Councilman Larry Corbin urged fiscal conservatism.
“I think we ought to find out how much it would cost to open it four seasons,” he said.
Council members also approved a $20,710 appropriation for engineering costs related to the herbal grove that is planned for Gantz Park on Home Road.
The new addition would be located behind the Gantz Farmhouse to the west of the large red barn where recreation school classes are held.
Plans show a two-tiered, circular garden that takes visitors down one of two sloping, tree-lined path to the lower level, where a labyrinth surrounded by a walking path make up the center of the garden.
The project is being paid for in part by the Gardens at Gantz volunteers, a group of plant enthusiasts who tend the gardens, teach classes and offer tours at the Home Road park and historic farmhouse.
The group has formed a fundraising committee and pledged $15,000 toward the project. The fundraising committee plans to sell commemorative bricks to be installed in the park, and they are also planning to compile a cookbook next spring.
Also at their Monday meeting, city council members approved a switch of the city’s telecommunications services to AT&T. Currently, for all of the city’s phone services in all of their buildings, the bill runs about $4,800 per month. Officials said the new contract will lower the cost to about $3,000 per month.
“Our information services people did, in my opinion, a good job negotiating,” city Administrator Phil Honsey said.
Council members also approved a special use permit for True2Form Collision Repair Centers, which is planning renovations to a building at 3965 Brookham Drive. Representatives from the company showed plans and drawings to council members, outlining the improvements they intend to make.
Among those are functional improvements including the paving of a gravel lot and construction of a fence to hide damaged cars from view. The new occupants also plan to reconstruct the entryway and change the roofline to make it look more like an office building and less like a metal warehouse. Juniper bushes will also be planted at strategic points to camouflage parked cars and increase visual appeal, officials said.
The next regular council meeting will be held Nov. 16 at City Hall, 4035 Broadway. Council members meet in caucus at 7 p.m. and open the regular meeting at 8 p.m.
Fraternal Order of Eagles Did you Know
Nov 4th
- For more than a century, the Fraternal Order of Eagles has had a major positive influence on our region, nation, world… And most importantly on our communities.
- It was the Eagles who pushed for the founding of Mother’s Day, who provided the impetus for Social Security and, who pushed to end job discrimination based on age. The Eagles have provided support for medical centers across the country to build and provide research for medical conditions — we raise millions of dollars every year to combat heart disease and cancer, help handicapped kids, uplift the aged and make life a little brighter for everyone.
- The Fraternal Order of Eagles uphold and nourish the values of home, family and community that are so necessary and it seems so often get ignored and trampled in today’s society.
- The Eagles are hometown builders. We support our police, firefighters, and others who protect and serve. We fund medical research in areas such as spinal cord injuries, kidney disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s. We help raise money for our communities…we are the Eagles and we are “People Helping People.”
Fraternal Order of Eagles Facts
Who We Are
The Fraternal Order of Eagles is an international non-profit organization uniting fraternally in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills and promoting peace, prosperity, gladness and hope.
Our History
The F.O.E. was founded in February, 1898 by six theatre owners gathered in a Seattle shipyard to discuss a musician’s strike. After addressing the matter, they agreed to “bury the hatchet” and form “The Order of Good Things.” As numbers grew, members selected the Bald Eagle as the official emblem and changed the name to “The Fraternal Order of Eagles.” The women’s auxiliary traces its roots to 1927.
Our Membership
F.O.E. membership exceeds 1.1 million, with more than 1,700 local aeries (male groups) in the U.S. and Canada. Women’s auxiliaries total more than 1,500, with more than 335,000 members. Members are recruited by other members and must be sponsored by two members before the membership process begins.
Our Motto
People Helping People
Major Accomplishments
- Founded Mother’s Day
- Served as driving force in founding Social Security Program
- Helped end job discrimination based on age with the “Jobs After 40″ Program
- Distributed Ten Commandments monoliths and fought to keep the Commandments in public places
Donations
- F.O.E. donates more than $100 million a year to local communities, fundraisers, charities and more. As part of its philosophy, the F.O.E. gives back 100 percent of monies raised in the form of grants.
- Fundraisers are conducted for eight major charities, including kidney, heart, diabetes, cancer and spinal cord injury funds, a children’s fund, memorial foundation and the Golden Eagle Fund.
Noteworthy Members
- Theodore R. Roosevelt, former U.S. president
- Warren G. Harding, former U.S. president
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, former U.S. president
- Harry S. Truman, former U.S. president
- John F. Kennedy, former U.S. president
- Jimmy Carter, former U.S. president
- Ronald Reagan, former U.S. president
- Bob Hope, comedian, performer
- Max Baer, boxer/heavyweight champion
- Gordie Howe, Hockey Hall of Fame
- William Allen Egan, Governor, Alaska
- Tony Stewart, NASCAR driver
- Sam Hornish, IRL and NASCAR driver
- Billy Ray Cyrus, musical performer
- Tony Orlando, musical performer
Women’s Auxiliary
- Bess Truman, wife of former U.S. president
- Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of former U.S. president
- Virginia Graham, radio and TV personality
- Susan Wagner, wife of New York Mayor Robert Wagner
Press Release
Nov 3rd
The Fraternal Order of Eagles would like to partner together with the Citizens of Tracy, California, with a vision of hope for the city of Tracy – To grow together to make the Tracy Community the best it can be through ideas, solutions, meeting challenges head on seizing opportunities, taking action and making things happen.
Teaching our citizens and young people the value of volunteerism and the power of concerned citizens pulling together and sharing our charitable nature together to raise funds and give support for people and agencies in need; in particular, helping young people in the Tracy Community, graduating High School Seniors with college scholarships. To build an inner spirit and character with young people.
Supporting and recognizing teachers, civic leaders, law enforcement, fire fighters and EMTs, people who make our community safe. Supporting and recognizing our young people in our community who are our leaders of tomorrow.
The Eagles will donate to the Tracy Community:
- $1,000 Grant from one of our Eagles Charities
- Up to a $500.00 Matching Community Grant after the first year of institution.
- One Years free membership to Law Enforcement, Firefighters and EMTs.
- The $20.00 Charter Fee will still need to be paid if they are a Charter Member.
Out of our Memorial Fund (if an Eagle member has a loss of life on the job or job related for any reason) each one of their children will receive $20,000 in medical benefits up to the age of 18 which will cover all medical bills. Also, from ages 18 to 25 years old, they will receive up to $30,000 per child in college scholarships.
So let us grow as our dreams grow in our life’s journey together!
WE WANT TO EMPOWER THE CITIZENS OF TRACY THROUGH GOOD DEEDS AND ACTION – HUMILITY AND SERVICE
OUR THEME
OUR VISION OF HOPE FOR THE CITY OF TRACY
Meet the Grand Madam President
Oct 28th
Jean Kerr, the 2009-2010 Grand Madam President, joined the Moose Jaw Auxiliary in 1975 as a Charter Member and has held numerous leadership positions including all chairs of the Moose Jaw Auxiliary, provincial and regional president, Grand Madam Trustee, Grand Madam Conductor and Grand Madam Inside Guard. She believes in the fundraisers and the grassroots programs hosted by our members. Jean enjoys sports, gardening and camping and believes that by keeping busy, helping others and working helps keep her healthy and her mind active. Jean’s charity is the Fraternal Order of Eagles Memorial Foundation.
Meet the Grand Worthy President
Oct 27th
Mike Lagervall, the 2009-2010 Grand Worthy President, joined the Ballard Aerie #172 in 1968. He is a dedicated Eagle member serving in various leadership roles including Worthy Secretary since 1986, a Grand Aerie Officer since 2001 and chief justice of the Grand Tribunal for three years. Mike believes in meeting and helping people and enjoys antique cars, archives and Eagle history. His charity for this year is the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center.
Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center
Oct 26th
Fulfilling a Shared Vision:
Eagles To Present First $5 Million Donation to the Diabetes Research Center
One year after making a historic five-year, $25 million pledge to establish The Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center at the University of Iowa, the Eagles have reached the first milestone.
Dennis Gilhousen and Bettie Williams Clark, Co-Chairs of the Diabetes Research Center, Jim Roberts, Chairman of the Board and Bill Loffer, Membership Director, will present the first $5 million installment in a pre-game ceremony at the Hawkeyes football game with Arkansas State University on Saturday, October 3.
“I am so proud of our members for their hard work in reaching this exciting milestone,” said Lagervall. “However, our work has only just begun. I encourage all Eagles members to continue their remarkable fundraising efforts.”
University of Iowa (UI) Foundation and UI leaders, including UI President Sally Mason will accept the gift on the 50-yard line at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City.
To reach this first goal Eagles members throughout the US and Canada have held various fundraisers such as poker runs, benefit concerts and tournaments.
The Eagles $25 million commitment will be used to recruit and support the work of the best diabetes researchers, and to fund research programs that will bring experts from several fields together to seek a cure for diabetes.
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