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there was a vacant lot in the Phoenix area that had homeless veterans living there,” says Bill Hudson, PER
at Sun City Lodge and the force behind Gary’s nomination for this award. “Gary learned of this and bought
sleeping bags, tents and other things the veterans needed. These things were purchased by Gary and
other Elks out of their own pockets.”

With Gary’s leadership, Sun City Elks Lodge has
also become a hub for collecting needed
donations from the community, whether it is
clothing, furniture, power wheelchairs and
medical equipment, or even cars. Once
collected, these supplies don’t stay at the Elks
Lodge for long.

The Lodge then collaborates with veterans
organizations everywhere to get these supplies
to veterans in need. Over the past 6 years, the
amount of non-cash contributions the Lodge has
collected and distributed to veterans amounts to
$2.5 million in aid!

“Gary works tirelessly for the veterans,” Hudson Listen to Drumheller accept his award (remotely)
concludes in his nomination. “Gary's devotion to and share more about his work in the video above.
the veteran community is second to none and
his performance is above and beyond any expectation. Gary's work with veterans is known throughout the
BPOE as well and it is time that we acknowledge this on a national level.”
We couldn’t agree more, Bill. Congratulations to Gary Drumheller for being named the 2020 Elks Veterans
Service National Volunteer of the Year!

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