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Handbags of Hope
October 1, 2025

Handbags of Hope

During the Ladies Breakfast, the ladies will be assembling "Handbags of Hope". This wonderful project was created by my Presidential Aide Gigi Jones several years ago. Thousands of these handbags have been distributed to ladies who have suffered mental as well as physical abuse, shelters, and hurricane survivors to name a few. Please review the list and bring some items along with a handbag or two. We will have some extra supplies to help fill these beautiful "Handbags of Hope".

Since we are in the hurricane season, these "Handbags of Hope" will go to an area if they suffer damages. If no damages, they will be delivered to a local "Shelter for Abuse" in the Virginia Beach area. Thank you so very much for participating in this very worthwhile project! Let us "Show Our Love For Elkdom" AND "Be The Difference". We ARE the B.P.O.E. ......... Best People On Earth!


Fraternally, 


Lynn Rutherford-Snow, PDDGER

VEA President 2025 - 2026

"Show Your Love For Elkdom" 

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