Faces & Places

By Alisa Star

Helping Hands with Big Hearts

By Alisa Star

The small communities of San Leon and Kemah came together again for fundraisers for the American Legion Post 291 of San Leon, Texas and the Kemah Elks 2322 of Texas on June 14th. A generous portion of the community gave a helping hand in preparing and cooking over 20 orders of homemade lasagna

The American Legion Hall Post 291 was established in San Leon in 1952. The post was incorporated in 1954 when the first hall was built. It held the largest members in Texas in 1963. During its history it has overcome two disasters. The hall was destroyed by fire in April 2006 and was resurrected in April of 2007. It was then destroyed by Hurricane Ike in September 2008. New construction began in May 2009 and was completed in January 2010. The Kemah Elks Lodge is a social club located in Clear Lake Shores. This lodge offers community investments, state projects such as medical research, scholarship youth programs, hoop-shoots which is a program for basketball programs, drug awareness, and veterans services.

Isis Mangum-Ward with the helping hands of Jody Ward and Jerry Heintzman made lasagna togo orders for over 20 people in the surrounding communities and raised over $200 for the lodges, which will be split to the American Legion Post 291 and the Kemah Eks 2322.

We want to thank all the people who go out of their way to give a loving hand to help raise money for good, and give back. So thank you Isis, Jody and Jerry for the love and support of our small communities.