It’s been a long time coming, but spring has finally “sprung” in the Laurel Highlands and we’re looking forward to another riding season! We’ve had a busy first quarter with the Corntoss against Cancer and the Tom Beard Memorial Scholarship dance, but both were great events and we appreciate all your support.

2013 membership dues can be made payable to the secretary or treasurer and are now due. Please come out and see what we are up to this year. Consider joining (or re-joining) and bring us your ideas!

The Moose Riders are becoming more organized on a national level and Moose International has made some modifications to the guidelines for local lodge groups. In accordance with these guidelines, we will move our elections to the month of December each year. With that in mind, a motion was passed at the April meeting to elect for a shortened term and hold another election in December to get on track with other groups. The newly elected officers are:
George Wolf, President
Greg Smith, Vice President
Carrie Wolf, Secretary
Lynn Borischak, Treasurer
Jeff Thomas, Sergeant at Arms

Regards,
Carrie Wolf, Secretary

Thank you so much to all who ordered gobs and also the people that worked so hard making over 1,000 gobs! The gob sales are always such a big success. We appreciate all who support this fundraiser.

The annual Bark for Life is May 4th at Windber Park. You can bring your dogs or if you don’t have a dog there are vendors and food booths set up. The moose team sells porkettes that are AMAZING! You can register online by googling the Windber Bark for life and it will take you to the page. You don’t have to preregister. Just show up and register there. Registration opens at 8:45 am.

This year’s dance will be held downstairs in the social quarters. We will be doing various tickets and raffles as well as a specialty drink with all proceeds going to the Moose Relay for Life Team. The relay theme this year is a barnyard theme with the slogan “Mooving towards a cure”. We will be having a Hoedown. We have KB and the Crew playing. If you haven’t heard them they are an amazing country band. This will be held on May 11. Please come out and support the dance. It’s a guaranteed a good time!

The signup sheet for the Pittsburgh Pirates bus trip is behind the bar at the lodge. It is June 15th and the cost per person is $60. This includes the bus and an all you eat game ticket. What that means is that the section we are seated in has its own concession stand. All your food there is free. They have hot dogs, hamburgers, nachos, salads, popcorn, peanuts, peanut butter filled pretzels, ice cream and soda. There is no limit. As I explained in the last newsletter signups will be handled differently this trip. The signup sheet is behind the bar and not on the bulletin board. Your name will go on the list when you pay for your tickets. No more signing up and paying later. We have too much chaos with cancellations and nonpayment at the last minute. If you pay for your ticket and you decide not to go you are responsible for selling your ticket. We will do what we can to help you with that but we can’t guarantee it.
As always thank you so much for your support of our relay team.

God Bless,
Susan Shaffer
Co-captain
Windber Moose Relay for Life team

Congratulations to Gloria Rager and Sandy Korns for receiving their Academy of Friendship degree in Gettysburg.

The Josh Moore Fulfilling Your Dreams Memorial Fund is a non-profit organization operating under the direction of Loyal Order of Moose Lodge No. 349. It awards youth in Somerset, Cambria and Bedford Counties, age 14 to 21, who do volunteer hours. Since it began in 2006, over twenty awards have been made. Some of the awards have been used for mission trips, restoration projects or as a way to attend training to become certified youth leaders. To find out how to receive an award or to help support our cause visit www.jmfulfillingyourdreams.org