Last Monday Sister Lou Goodell, on the right, handed over a check for $5,000 to Cook County Senior Center Director Bev Green and Jess Rodne, the senior center program coordinator with Brother Tom Hedstrom & Sister Linda Ottis witnessing. This gift was possible because of a generous donation to the Order of Eastern Star & Emera Chapter 160 of Two Harbors by Bea and Ralph Griffis, former owners of Chik Wauk Lodge at the end of the Gunflint Trail, and members of OES Northern Light Chapter 292, Grand Marais, now merged with Emera Chapter in Two Harbors. Photo courtesy of Linda Ottis
The Cook County Senior Center received a welcome gift of $5,000 from Emmer Eastern Star from Two Harbors on Thursday, September 6.
Local Eastern Star representatives Lou Goodell and Linda Ottis presented the check to Bev Green, director of the senior center, and Jes Rodne, the center’s program director.
“Do you know why we were selected to receive this money?” Green asked.
“The money was originally donated to the Cook County chapter of Eastern Star by the late Ralph and Beatrice (Bea) Griffis, owners of Chik Wauk,” said Goodell. “But when we disbanded, we gave the money to Emmer Eastern Star in Two Harbors.”
Ottis asked Green what the money would be used for.
“Our two biggest needs are to replace the carpeting and to improve our food that we serve,” Green said.
“We are in a long process of revamping things here at the center,” said Rodne. “Replacing the carpet will be a first step in making the facility more attractive to the public.”
“This is always a welcoming place, a great facility,” said Ottis. “We’re glad we can help.”
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