Atta Kulla Kulla Lodge is involved in several service projects throughout the year:

• "Gobbler Grab" is an annual project that collects hundreds of frozen turkeys for local area food banks during the weeks before Thanksgiving
• OA Workday at Camp Old Indian to clean up and get ready for the upcoming campers in the summer.
• Christmas gifts are collected for children in area foster care facilities at the December chapter meeting for A-Ni-Wa-Ya chapter
• "Good Fellows" is an annual project at the Palmetto Center that organizes and distributes thousands of boxes of food and other items for needy families identified by the Salvation Army
• A National Order of the Arrow Committee matching service grant of $5,000 will be used to improve the Field Sports Department at Camp Old Indian in 2004.  Matched by another $5,000 in funds from AKK Lodge, this service grant will be used to purchase eight (8) .22 rifles, four (4) .50 caliber muzzle loaders, & two (2) youth shotguns for the Shooting Sports program at Camp Old Indian.  It also increases the quality of the program, and shooting opportunities for campers.  This grant also provides materials to re-roof the shed of the range. Atta Kulla Kulla is also working on a new rifle range for 2005.

Gobbler Grab for the Hungry

Every year since 1997, arrowmen from Atta Kulla Kulla Lodge collect turkeys to feed the needy in Upstate South Carolina.  The Gobbler Grab started in A-Ni-Wa-Ya Chapter, but now the entire lodge has joined in.   The success of this project resulted in feeding thousands of needy families, an article in the March-May 2002 issue of the OA National Bulletin (page 5), and required shipping some frozen turkeys as far away as Charlotte, NC to have room to store them.  In 2002, a corporate sponsor for a Thanksgiving dinner for the needy dropped out, but some turkeys from this project allowed Red Lobster to host the dinner anyway.

Turkey collection for the Gobbler Grab

and more turkeys for the Gobbler Grab...

... loading up the freezer truck with turkeys.

OA Trail Day at Camp Old Indian

On January 17, 2004, a group of lodge members and scouts throughout Blue Ridge Council met to begin construction of trails that will connect the Poinsett Bridge to Camp Old Indian.  Dr. Vic Shelburne and Buster Andrews, the Camp Ranger, coordinated construction of the trail and removal of debris from the trail pathways.

The small images below link to full-sized images of the COI Trail map, and a picture of the dedicated crew that did so much on our OA Trail Day.

Christmas Gifts from a Chapter Party

Each December, arrowmen from A-Ni-Wa-Ya chapter bring unwrapped toys for children in local foster homes and in needy families.

Good Fellows Food Distribution

Food and other items are organized in boxes and distributed to needy families identified by the Salvation Army at the Palmetto Center in Greenville, SC each December.  The picture below shows arrowmen from AKK after the boxes are ready to distribute.

2004 National OA Service Grant

Atta Kulla Kulla Lodge is honored to be one of the 2004 OA Service Grant Recipients.  This $5,000 grant from the National OA Committee will be matched by $5,000 from Atta Kulla Kulla Lodge to create a great marksmanship range, with new rifles and muzzle loaders at Camp Old Indian.