Entertainment Edition

Spring is in the air and the festive time of the year is here, so let’s party. To begin the month, our regular Saturday Night Dance features the “Freestyle Band” in the Lounge Social Quarters on May 5th. This band’s genre of music includes country, 50’s, 60’s, classic rock and R & B. The doors open at 7:00 pm with the dance taking place from 8:00 pm until 12:00 am. At the door admission price for this dance is $7 per person for all who attend and is open to all Moose members along with their guests. The sandwich and appetizer menu will be available with BYOB on the table for members. Consider attending this activity and inviting a friend or qualified guest to observe our Lodge fraternalism.

We are excited to announce that the Lodge is sponsoring a “Patriot Dance” in the
Back Hall Social Quarters on May 12th. We have aligned with the Boot Campaign
nonprofit corporation for this event, to spawn and display support for our armed forces. Information about the Boot Campaign and the services they provide can be found on their website: http://www.bootcampaign.com/welcome.html . There will be a special opening ceremony for this event along with honorary veteran guests.
Also, the Virginia Beach Boot Girls from the Boot Campaign will be present to
give details about the Boot Campaign and their promotional programs. Our brother
Dave Cynar & his “high energy country” band will perform with their stimulating
music for the dance. Tickets for this special event are $10 in advance which are available at the Lodge Office or the Game Room Bar and $12 at the door. Those who wear their Boot Campaign boots to the event will be admitted free and those who order boots during the dance will have their admission fee refunded. Also, any
Moose Lodge 898 member who is a veteran (past and present) will be admitted free. Reserved seating for parties of six or more are available and can be acquired by contacting Taunya Ayers at 757-544-4440. Please consider inviting some friends and attending this meaningful patriotic dance.

The karaoke on the third Saturday of the month continues to be very popular with our members. This months Karaoke Night will be on Saturday, May, 19th from 8:00 to 12:00 pm in the Game Room Bar Social Quarters. Our DJ Mike Przytula will provide the supporting music for singers along with playing your favorite song requests. Also, there will be a featured food special provided for this activity which is to be announced at a later time.



Entertainment Calendar
May 4th - KJ Koastal Karaoke

May 5th - “Saturday Night Dance "
The Freestyle Band May 11th - DJ Charlie Mathis

May 12th -“Patriot Dance”
The Dave Cynar Band
May 18th - DJ David Faulkner

May 19th – “Saturday Karaoke”- DJ Mike Przytula
May 25th DJ Tim Freeman

Entertainment Committee

Portsmouth Moose Legion Saturday May 5th, 2012
Open to all Lodge 898 and Chapter 966 members
It's May already !
How does a GRILLZILLA sound!
Don't know what a GRILLZILLA is? Well you bring your steak or other grill-able main course and we will furnish your baked potato, toss salad, condiments, Moose Milk, iced tea for a paltry sum of Five Dollars. Other low cost refreshments will also be available for your pleasure. What a deal!
This time the GRILLZILLA will be open to all Lodge 898 and Chapter 966 members and their guest. We will open the doors at 6pm . Grills at the Scout Cabin will be hot by 6:30pm and great fun, food, and Fraternalism will be required of all who come.
All this for Five Bucks! Are those guys crazy? Come on out and enjoy the fun rain or shine.
Not a Legion member? Come out and join our festivities. You just might find you want to join us.
Legion members find a Lodge member who is not Legion and bring him and his guest out to our GRILLZILLA so he can see a little of what were about. Just maybe he'll want to join our ranks.
Portsmouth Moose Legion President
Jerry D. Ayers

Moose Riders 898
Saturday May 12th
Moose Riders 898 will be sponsoring a fund raising dinner meeting each month in 2012. The dinner will be held on the 2nd Saturday of each month at the lodge. Dinner will begin at 6 pm and run thru 7 pm. The cost is $25. Dinner as always is no smoking.
After dinner Moose Riders 898 will host a free Texas Holdem Tournament for dinner participants from 7 pm until. Prizes Furnished by Moose Riders 898 will be awarded. You must be a Moose member in good standing to play. Moose Dues cards will be checked. No smoking at tables. A smoking area will be available.
The top 15 players by point totals in the 1st half of the year and the top 15 players by point totals in the 2nd half of the year will win a seat in the end of year tournament. The 1st place winner in that tournament will win a buy-in to the 2013 International Moose Texas Holdem Tournament to be held at The Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on January the 6th thru the 13th, 2013. This prize package consists of Tournament buy-in, hotel accommodations and some travel expenses with a combined value of $1,000.00.
Last year's 1st place winner at the 2012 Moose International Tournament was Nathan "Pete" Pipkin from Greenville, NC Lodge # 885 for a whopping $16,000.00.
Our Virginia winners were
10th place Keith Donald Lodge 1413 Luray, VA $4,000.00
19th place Dave Gledhill Lodge 2168 Centerville, VA $2,000.00
40th place Joy Wood Chapter 366 Richmond-Lakeside, VA $900.00
45th place Garrett Awkard Lodge 2168 Centerville, VA $850.00
82nd place Scott Noteboom Lodge 2168 Centerville, VA $700.00
Jerry Ayers
Vice Chairman Moose Riders 898

We would like to Welcome SHARON JONES our NEW SOCIAL QUARTERS MANAGER to our Moose 898 Family. Sharon brings many years of Lounge Management and Food & Beverage experience to our Lodge. We hope everyone will come out and greet Sharon as she helps us grow along with our New WOTM and LOOM Board members in our 2012 – 2013 Moose Year.