Scott Swanson
Of The New Era
Leighton Freeman wasn’t there, but most of the rest of the town seemed to be Saturday night at the Elks Lodge as the Elks held a luau to raise money for their fellow member, who has been stricken by cancer.
Some 350 people turned out for the event, a crowd that some Elks members said was the largest they’d seen in the building in decades.
Freeman, 53, has been…