CLEARFIELD – Twenty-six organizations and groups benefitted from the Elk’s High Country Arts and Crafts event at S.B. Elliot Park this year. Split was $4,500 between the organizations this year at the Clearfield Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks first dedication dinner. Twenty-four of the 26 invited groups made an appearance to receive their donations in person.
This was the 22 year of the High Country Arts and Crafts show, an event that has grown from 400 visitors to around 9,000 visitors. The first year had 22 vendors, but this year had 160 vendors present. The B.P.O. Elks has been played a role each year since having been asked to cater the first show.
“While they were planning the first event, Carole asked her husband Dwayne Barry, the exalted ruler, if the Elks would like to cater the event,” said Joe Waroquier.
The High Country art show is one of the events the local Elks participates in to help the community and show it is more than a club focused around a bar and restaurant.
“Yeah, we have fun, but we also work to help people less fortunate than us,” Waroquier.
Recipients included:
- Clearfield-Lawrence Township Airport Authority
- Clearfield Art Studios Theater, Inc.
- Joseph-Elizabeth Shaw Public Library
- Nathanial D. Yingling Cancer Center
- Area Agency on Aging
- Clearfield Area High School Band Boosters
- Clearfield Area High School Girls Soccer
- Susquehanna Rural free Clinic
- Elks Christmas Parade
- Clearfield Swimming Pool Association
- American Cancer Society
- Salvation Army
- Marian House
- Clearfield Bison Quarterback Club
- American Red Cross
- Clearfield Area United Way
- Clearfield Area Ministerium Food Bank
- Clearfield YMCA
- Tagg Team Cooperation (North Third Street Youth Center)
- Society for Handicapped and Disabled Citizens
- Clearfield EMS
- G.T. Waroquier Scholarship
- Clearfield County Crime Stoppers
- Judd Zimmerman Scholarship Foundation
Invited, but did not attend:
- Second Mile
- Special Olympics
