Woodbury Moose Lodge receives visit from its Supreme Governor

Terry L. Walls, Supreme Governor of the Loyal Order of Moose, visits local lodge

Terry L. Walls, Supreme Governor of the Loyal Order of MooseCourtesy Photo 

Terry L. Walls, Supreme Governor of the Loyal Order of Moose, will speak at Woodbury Moose Lodge No. 2585 at 402 Cook Ave. in Paulsboro at 7 p.m. on March 31 as part of his travels across the state of New Jersey.  

Walls rose from the post of Supreme Junior Governor to become the Moose Fraternity's Chief Presiding Officer on July 7, 2015, elected by vote of Supreme Lodge delegates to a one-year term as Supreme Governor at the organization's 127th International Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Moose organization, headquarterd at Mooseheart, Illinois, consists of nearly 1.1 million men and women in approximately 1,600 lodges and 1,400 chapters throughout the United States and Canada, Great Britain and Bermuda.

The organization owns and operates Mooseheart, a 1,000-acre community and school for youngsters in need, located 40 miles west of Chicago, and Moosehaven, a 75-acre retirement community near Jacksonville, Florida. Additionally, Moose lodges and chapters conduct more than $90 million worth of community service annually (counting monetary donations, miles driven and volunteer hours worked).

Such community service can be tailored to local needs, but also takes the form of organization-wide programs. One of these programs includes Tommy Moose, where lodges and chapters have provided nearly 200,000 plush Moose figures since 2003, free of charge to emergency workers and hospitals to give to children in stressful situations.

Also, the Moose Youth Awareness Program annually brings together hundreds of bright teenagers for Youth Congresses to discuss the most effective ways to conduct "KidsTalks," communicating positive life choice messages to very young children, ages 4-9. Moose-trained teens have given KidsTalks to more than 700,000 youngsters across North America since 1990.

For more information about the Woodbury event contact the Moose Lodge office at 856-423-1495.

This item was submitted by the Woodbury Moose Lodge.