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Above: Annie Oakley Festival Committee. Below, in order: Bears Mill,
Boys & Girls Club, Crime Stoppers,
Greenville Fire Department,
Darke County Humane Society, and Greenville Shriners.
Greenville
Eagles donates over $24,000 to local non-profits
On February 5, 2019 Greenville Fraternal Order of Eagles presented
donation checks to seven local area non-profit organizations, which
included: The Humane Society, Friends of Bear’s Mill, The Boys and
Girls Club of Greenville, The Annie Oakley Festival, Darke County Crime
Stoppers, Greenville Fire Department and Darke County Shrine
Club.
The Greenville Fraternal Order of Eagles is a fraternal organization
that focuses on helping people in our local community through donations
and activities. With charitable bingo funds, our organization can
give back through donations that directly impact our local
community. We welcome the public to join our organization,
located at 113 East Third St., Greenville, Ohio, where you can be a
part of our mission that focuses on people helping people.
Gratitude from recipients of our recent donations are as follows:
The Darke County Humane Society is a No Kill, Nonprofit organization.
Established in 1953, DCHS has expanded and grown every year, and so has
our facility. Our main focus is to provide medical care to the
injured strays of Darke County, and to enforce the laws for animal
abuse and neglect. In the spring of 2018, we prosecuted our very first
felony cruelty case under the new Ohio laws. We are not funded by
any state or county tax dollars; we survive on bequests, donations, and
fundraising. We encourage our community to come by and visit,
donate, or volunteer. We are pushing to make our volunteer
program the biggest and best that we can. The Darke County Humane
Society and all the animals we serve want to thank you for your support!
Thank you to the Greenville Fraternal Order of Eagles #2177.
Gratefully, The Friends of Bear’s Mill, a local non-profit
organization, will use funds generously donated by the FOE to continue
to preserve and maintain this cherished, historical mill in Darke
County. Bear’s Mill is a working mill open to the public for all
to enjoy. It is with donations from individuals and
organizations, such as the Eagles, that allow for future generations to
appreciate the beauty and history of Bear’s Mill. Bear’s Mill is
open Thursday thru Saturday 11-5, Sunday 1-5 during the winter and
Tuesday thru Saturday 11-5, Sunday 1-5 during the rest of the year.
The Boys and Girls Club of Greenville, Inc. is a wonderful place for
children ages 7-16 to come after school, on weekends, and during the
summer. The staff provide a safe and well supervised setting for
the kids to come and enjoy social time, time getting healthy while
using the exercise equipment, time making crafts, reading books,
playing video games, doing homework, working on computers or learning
how to cook in our kitchenette. We want to thank the Greenville
Fraternal Order of Eagles for their wonderful donation to our
club. The funds will be used to purchase equipment, art supplies,
food and kitchen supplies and games for the boys and girls that attend
to use.
The Annie Oakley Festival is celebrating 56 years of being one of the
best festivals in Darke County. The Annie Oakley Festival
Committee strives each year to bring a festival to Darke County that
honors our very own native daughter, Annie Oakley, “Little Sure
Shot.” The 3 day festival will run July 26-28, 2019, located at
the south end of the fairgrounds in the area near the 4H horse
arena. These three days will be full of delightful entertainment,
fun activities, and the opportunity to meet our very own “2019 Miss
Annie Oakley” who will win her title in the days leading up to the
festival. Please plan to come and enjoy the festivities of the
weekend. Sit down, listen to entertainers, watch the horse
events, enjoy the venders and concessioners and the wonderful
atmosphere that this festival brings. We want to thank the
Greenville Fraternal Order of Eagles for their generous donation.
It will go a long way in covering some of the cost of our entertainment
and activities that will take place.
Darke County Crime Stoppers was started to aid local law enforcement
with gathering tips from the public about how to find fugitives that
have an active warrant out of Darke County. Crime Stoppers deals
primarily with unsolved felony crimes and felony fugitives. We
thank Greenville Fraternal Order of Eagles for their donation, which
will assist our partnership of the community, media, and law
enforcement designed to combat crime and keep our streets safe.
The Greenville Fire Department would like to thank Greenville Fraternal
Order of Eagles for their generous donation which will assist our
organization in donating fire and life safety education to local
children and to install numerous smoke and CO detectors throughout the
city for those residence who completed an application of for those whom
the fire department responded to their incidents and no detectors were
currently installed.
The Darke County Shrine Club assists Shriner’s Hospitals that offer a
wide variety of specialty care for children in one of our 22 hospitals
through the country. Treatment for burn victims is the specialty
in three of our hospitals including the Cincinnati Burns
Hospital. We also treat children with cleft lip, cleft palate,
orthopedic disorders, crippling injuries and spinal cord injury.
The hospitals are also pioneers in medical research and medical
education in all four specialty areas. The care offered by the
hospitals is freely given and over a million children have been treated
for various conditions regardless of their ability to pay. The
Darke County Shrine club sincerely thanks the Greenville Fraternal
Order of Eagles to supporting our cause.
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