On Tuesday, Aug. 7, 60 members of the Alabama Elks Assocation visited Camp ASCCA for the annual Elks Day. To get the day started, Camp Administrator John Stephenson picked up members from the Alexander City Lodge while other members traveled in from around the state. The Elks have been supporting and serving Camp ASCCA for more than 15 years and their contributions can be seen all across the 230+ acres!
The lodges represented this year include Anniston, Calera, Decatur, Mobile, Roebuck, Alexander City, Cahaba Valley, 
Cullman, Dothan, Bessemer and Auburn-Opelika. While here, the Anniston and Bessemer Lodges provided a grill and the funds needed for a hamburger lunch for everyone at Camp. The Alexander City Elks showed off their chef skills by grilling the hamburger patties to perfection, but there was plenty to do before lunch.
Director of Marketing Dana Rickman and the PR interns gave tours to Elks members, old and new, all morning long, and the main event was seeing the new tritoon boat, the “Floating Elk.” The new addition to the boat rides program was funded through donations from Elks around the state. Over the years, the Alabama Elks have contributed to camperships, lodging, programs and much more. They even gave donations to fund new accessible picnic tables for around camp.
Elks Day 2019 included a visit from Matt Kornegay, state president of Alabama Elks Assocation, and Shriley Jerrall, 
president elect, who presented Camp ASCCA campers with a generous donation of $50,000 that will support capital projects. We were also joined by Elks leaders and ASCCA board members Mike Thrasher, Wayne Reuter and Tony Glebosky. Camper C.C. Perry is a member of the Bessemer Elks Lodge and just so happened to be at Camp this week. We were so excited to be joined by the Elks that campers and staff presented each member with their own ASCCA Achievement and balloons!
We cannot thank the Alabama Elks Association and its members enough for their continued service and support for everything we do here at Camp ASCCA and the people we serve each day!
Located in Alabama on Lake Martin, Camp ASCCA offers campers a wide variety of traditional recreational and educational activities with a unique design for accessibility.
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