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Royal Purple holds hoe down in McLennan
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Anne Trotter with an antique threshing whip that belonged to her father.
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For their skit, members of the McLennan Lodge 62 do their best impression of a western band
by playing air fiddle.
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Maggie Gervais passes the gavel to the High Prairie lodge.The traveling gavel, decorated to fit the
Western theme, was passed along to each lodge in turn as they performed songs and skits.
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Susan Thompson
for Smoky River Express
It was a day filled with good food and great entertainment, albeit for ladies only, at the Royal Purple’s second annual travelling gavel event.
Eight lodges in Royal Purple’s district two were invited to have lunch at the McLennan’s Elks Hall on Oct. 3.
Lunch was followed by themed entertainment provided by the ladies of the lodges themselves.
“We combined two districts together a year ago,” explains District Deputy Lorene Rose.
“In our own district we’d have the travelling gavel, and since we’ve combined we decided to adopt that and do one big one.”
The gavel is ceremoniously passed from one lodge to another as each of the different lodges performs a skit or song.
“It’s a way for the ladies in the lodges to get together, reminisce and have a little fun,” says McLennan’s Anne Trotter.
The event is not a fundraiser and absolutely no business is conducted, since it’s meant to be just for fun.
A different theme is chosen for the event every year. The decorations for this year’s western “Hoe Down” theme included many antiques.
“We brought in everything from the olden days,” says Trotter. Trotters contribution was an antique treshing whip her father used to use to thresh peas and small amounts of wheat.
Lodges from McLennan, Valleyview, High Prairie, Faust, Grimshaw, Fairview and Manning were all in attendance, with only the Slave Lake lodge unable to attend.
Lea Dashkewytch, provincial first vice-president and Michelle Simpson, provincial outer guard both attended.
The M.C. for the event was Linda Dionne Marcoux.
The next travelling gavel will be in Fairview next year.
Two delegates from McLennan Lodge 62 also recently attended the Royal Purple of Canada Supreme Lodge Convention in Fredericton, New Brunswick on July 25 to 28.
Jeannine Labbe and Anne Trotter attended along with 42 other voting delegates from Alberta.
The Royal Purple is a national charitable organization identifying and addressing community needs through the volunteer efforts of its membership.
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