Welcome To the Rochester, NH Elks Lodge #1393
Serving the Lilac City for 125 years!
Visiting Elk Members always welcome!
Click on Facilities and / or Newsletter to see our operating hours.
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Welcome to our Lodge Webpage!
Jeff Rasmussen, Exalted Ruler
2025-2026
First, I would like to thank the members for allowing me to advance into this position of Exalted Ruler. The month of April is the start of the nice weather and a new start for our lodge. For those members that are unaware of who I am, my wife (Teresa) and I moved to this area in 2001 from Wisconsin for employment opportunities. I transferred from Baraboo Lodge #688 to Rochester Lodge #1393 in 2002. I am a life member of this wonderful organization and have met many wonderful people along the way. Since I have retired, I felt that it was a good time for me to go through the chairs here at the lodge and serve our members and give back to the community. I have been blessed with a great suite of officers and volunteer’s that are working hard to make our lodge the best in the state. I would like to thank Mark, his wife Deb and his suite of officers and committees for the work they provided to move our lodge forward in a positive direction this past year. There are a number of activities coming up in April so mark your calendar and enjoy what the lodge has to offer. We look forward to seeing many of you here this next month and the year to come. Thank you again for your confidence in me and know that I will do my very best for our lodge and our members.
Kind Regards
Jeff Rasmussen, ER
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Lodge Officers for 2025-2026
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Our April 2025 Newsletter is posted under the "News" tab
on the left hand side of this page. Click on "Lodge 1393 Home".
Attention Members - Pay your dues online!
Go to the "More Info" Tab and click on "Pay Dues Online".
If you have issues with the dues payment online, please contact
the Lodge Secretary, Norman Gervais at 603-332-9700, option 2.
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Rochester Lodge Scholarships for 2025 !!!!
Click on the "More Info" tab and then on "Scholarship App"
for the 2025 Application.
Questions or Comments should be directed to:
Jerry Skidds, PER, PDD, Lodge Trustee, Chair.
Note: Student must be a Child, Grandchild, or Great Grandchild of a Current Rochester Elks Member.
Student must attend or live within a 20-mile radius of the Rochester Elks Lodge.
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Rochester Elks #1393 - 2019 Non Profit of the Year!
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FEELING LUCKY?
We have five electronic gaming machines in operation.
Come in and give them a spin!
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Keno & other games from the NH Lottery are also available in our Lounge!
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Our Original Elks Lodge!
The Wallace Mansion was the first home of the Rochester Elks #1393 circa 1926, located on South Main Street.
Check out the Lodge History to find out more about this!
Click the "More Info" tab on the left hand side of this page.
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Present Day Main Entrance on a Snowy New Year's Eve!
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Front Entrance Area of Elks #1393 looking towards Columbus Avenue
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FREE DOOR PRIZE IF YOUR MEMBERSHIP # IS DRAWN AND YOU ARE AT THE MEETING! THE MONEY PRIZE GROWS EVERY MEETING UNTIL IT IS HIT!
LODGE MEETINGS ARE HELD ON THE 2ND AND 4TH WEDNESDAYS OF THE MONTH EXCEPT FOR JULY AND AUGUST (4TH WEDNESDAY ONLY) at 7 PM AND USUALLY LAST LESS THAN AN HOUR.
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Elks National Foundation
Norman Gervais, PER, Lodge Secretary and
Rochester, NH Elks National Foundation Chairman
Members - Our Grant Programs are thriving at Rochester Lodge #1393 thanks to your continued generosity regarding the Elks National Foundation. We appreciate that so much and are looking forward to another great year for the ENF and the programs it supports.
Rochester #1393 has again exceeded the Grand Lodge Per Capita Goal for 2024-2025 with a final tabulation of $13.747 per member and total donations of $13,293.04. We also won the State "Chairman's Challenge" Award for the sixth year in a row! Congratulations to our Lodge Chairman Norm Gervais for these accomplishments and to all the Members who support this fine program.
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Important Info for Members
In accordance with State Liquor Laws, all non-members MUST BE SIGNED IN by a member. This includes spouses or significant others. A Member can sign in up to four (4) guests. Members who sign in a guest are responsible for their guest. Guest must leave when the sponsoring member leaves, unless another member signs the guest in and assumes the responsibility for that guest. NOTE: DELINQUENT or UNAFFILIATED (dropped) Elks CANNOT be signed in as a guest. If delinquent, they must pay their dues, if unaffiliated (dropped), they must be reinstated.
REMEMBER – If your guest is not your spouse or significant other, and they live within the jurisdiction of this Lodge, you can only sign them in three times – after that they must either join the Lodge or stop coming in as a guest.
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Charitable Giving & Elks Programs
You made a difference in the 2024-2025 Lodge Year!
In the Lodge Year ending 3/31/2025, the Rochester Elks #1393 performed volunteer work that resulted in Non Cash Donations valued at $48,779.00 dollars and Cash Donations amounting to $50,331.00 dollars! Our Elk Programs involved over 3,489 Participants. In addition, members also traveled 73,050 miles and logged over 5,139 hours doing our volunteer work and making the city of Rochester a better community due to these efforts. Thanks to everyone who was involved! To see the complete breakdown of our efforts, please click on the Charity Records Tab on the left!
Dues Dues Dues Dues
WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING DUES FOR THE 2025-2026 LODGE YEAR. YOUR 2025-2026 DUES ARE DUE APRIL 1, 2025.
REGULAR MEMBER $98.50 – LIFE MEMBER $58.50 - Funds received in excess of these amounts will be deposited in the Lodge Charity Fund, unless otherwise requested. The online dues payment program will be updated to pay your 2025-2026 dues on January 15th, 2025.
PLEASE DO NOT PAY 2025-2026 DUES ONLINE UNTIL JANUARY 15th, 2025.
Delinquent Members - Please pay your dues NOW for 2025-2026!
NOTE: If you ring the buzzer to gain entrance to the Lodge, you must show your membership card to the bartender on duty before you can be served. Please use your membership card to get into the Lodge. Please don't make the bartender buzz you in. We are a private organization and we must verify you are a member.
Please contact our Secretary Norm Gervais if you have an issue with paying your dues online.
SPECIAL NOTE:
IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY RECEIVING YOUR NEWSLETTER BY POSTAL MAIL, PLEASE CONSIDER RECEIVING IT BY EMAIL. SIMPLY SEND AN EMAIL TO: sec1393@metrocast.net AND REQUEST YOUR NEWSLETTER BE SENT BY EMAIL. PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND MEMBERSHIP NUMBER IN THE EMAIL.
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120 CLUB ! Tickets Available!
Free parties in September and March with a great meal and a chance to win prizes every week, including grand prizes at the parties! $20.00 gets you in!
Don’t forget to pick up and pay for your 120 Club tickets, they’re available behind the bar. If you’re not paid, you can’t win!
If you do not belong to the 120 Club, and would like to, you’re in luck – tickets are available.
Contact Harry or Jan Tagen.
Simply put your name, membership number and telephone number on a piece of paper, state that you would like to join the 120 club, and drop it in the dues box. You will be contacted.
Karaoke!
Watch our Facebook Page & Newsletter for Upcoming Dates!
Members and Guests!
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GUEST REGISTER - IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Please observe the proper sign in procedure when signing in your guests. Make sure you include the date, your name, your membership number at the left, and to the right your guest’s full name, and the city or town and state where they reside. Please write legibly! Officials from the Liquor Commission periodically inspect this guest register. A messy, shoddy, or improperly completed guest register can jeopardize our liquor license. Please take the time to complete it neatly and properly. Thank You.
For a complete listing of Lodge Events, month by month, click on the Calendar Tab, located on the left hand side of the Home Page. The newsletter also has a calendar for events taking place in that particular month.