The St. Charles Elks Lodge #690 has awarded three police officers and a firefighter for their service.

The winners, who received plaques at a recent steak dinner celebration, all were nominated by their departments to receive the awards.

Lodge member John Still, a retired St. Louis city police officer and chair of the lodge’s drug awareness committee, described the winners as follows:

-St. Charles County Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Bell, who in July, helped save a woman’s life by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation until paramedics arrived.

-St. Charles police officer Charles Hayes, a school resource officer who runs DARE programs at schools.

-St. Peters police officer Dan Plumb, who has made several drug-related arrests.

-Cottleville firefighter Skip Stephens, chair of the district’s community outreach program that helps families displaced by fires.

Also, the lodge gave “Life Savings” awards to St. Louis County police officer Kyle Jundt, Union, Mo., police officer Michael Williford and Kelly Wilken, the wife of a lodge member. In June, a woman stopped breathing during a birthday party at the lodge. The three awardees, who were attending the party, helped restore her breathing until emergency workers arrived.