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Reporter 2011 Dromedary Award Winner Sahib Shriners The A.A.O.N.M.S. Reporter 2011 Dromedary Award Winner Volume 31, Number 4 Sarasota, Florida April 2012 April 1 King Pin Pancake Breakfast, 8:00 a.m., 40 Shrine Club Directory, 12 Shriners 5 Stated Meeting, 12:45 p.m., 6 Shrine Club News, 12 7 Club/Unit Head Meeting, 9:00 a.m. Shrine Unit News, 18 Having 10 Birthday/Anniversary Dinner Dance, 6:00 p.m., 6 Thursday Luncheons, 34 12 Nobles & Ladies Luncheon, Masonic Digest, 42 Fun & w/Concert Band, 11:00 a.m., 21 Ladies Calendar, 51 52 Helping 13-15 Sahib Shrine Circus, 16 Officers, Appointees and Unit Leaders, 27-28 Spring Ceremonial, 28-29 Index of Advertisers & Shriners Info, 53 54 Kids May 2-5 FSA Convention - Ft. Myers Sahib Shriners Calendar, Sahib Shrine Salads House Salad $2.50 Restaurant & Lounge Caesar Salad $2.00 APRIL 2012 Asian Chicken Salad Bowl $8.95 Chopped Chef Salad Bowl $8.95 Lunch 11 AM – 2 PM Chicken & Tuna Salad Plate $6.95 Lounge 11:00 am to 9:00 pm Lettuce, tomato cottage cheese Friday 11:00 am till… Monday Evening Tacos & Hot Dogs $1.50 each Chili Dog $1.75 Appetizers Tuesday Evening ½ dozen Chicken Wings $3.95 CLOSED Dozen Chicken Wings $6.95 Wednesday Evening served hot, mild or Bar B Q 5 PM till 7:30 PM with celery and bleu cheese Prime Rib Night $12.95 Onion Ring Basket $4.95 With Baked Potato, Vegetable, Chicken Tenders $7.95 Choice of Soup or Salad french fries & honey mustard sauce **Appetizers and Sandwiches available** Reservations Please: 366-4449 Combos HILLBILLY BUFFET-THURSDAY’S Low Calorie Plate $6.95 Serving 5:00 to 7:00 PM 8 oz ground beef patty with cottage $8.50 PER PERSON cheese and fresh fruit Soup and 1/2 Sandwich $4.75 April 5 Ham Cup of soup of day and ½ sandwich April 12 Salisbury Steak tuna salad, chicken salad, sliced ham April 19 Pot Roast or sliced turkey April 26 Baked Chicken Western Omelet $5.95 Includes: Fried green tomatoes, fried fish, with fresh fruit potatoes, beans, coleslaw, gravy, biscuits, rolls, dessert, coffee and tea Sandwiches Friday Evening 5 PM till 7:30 PM 8 oz Burger on a Kaiser roll $6.95 All Dinner entrees are served with your choice of lettuce, tomato, onion with French fries potato or rice, chef choice of vegetable, and soup Cheeseburger $7.25 or salad (dinners only) Turkey-Ham Club with fries $7.95 Ham and Cheese sandwich $4.95 Boneless Chicken Breast $ 9.95 with chips Twin Tenderloins $12.95 Pan fried with Monterey Jack cheese, Chicken Salad Sandwich $4.95 mushrooms, tomato with chips New York Sirloin Steak $10.95 Tuna Salad Sandwich $4.95 6 oz. Maine Lobster Tail $14.95 with chips With drawn butter Liverwurst & Onion $4.75 Grouper Sandwich $ 8.95 ¼ Lb. Hot Dog with fries $3.95 Lettuce, Tomato, Tartar, French Fries Reuben Sandwich $ 8.95 BLT with chips $4.50 Corned Beef, Sauerkraut, Swiss cheese Grilled Cheese & Tomato $3.95 **ASK ABOUT THE CHEF’S SPECIAL** Soup of the Day Soda $1.00 Coffee/Tea $1.00 Cup $2.50 “Dinner Reservations Encouraged” Bowl $3.75 941-366-4449 Page 4 SAHIB REPORTER April 2012 The Chaplain’s corner Reporter by the Rev. Noble Don Kerr, Chaplain The Official Monthly Publication of nce upon a time a man lived Our hopes are always in the fu- Sahib Shriners Owhose name was Sir Nowyufff ture. Nature follows that pattern. A.A.O.N.M.S. Dunnit. He had invented a unique Spring follows winter. Flowers be- 600 N. Beneva Road medicine, called “Juniorite.” He ad- gin to blossom and days become Sarasota, FL 34232 vertised his invention in magazines longer. Phone: (941) 366-4449 and newspapers, saying, “Don’t Easter always looks to the fu- FAX: (941) 366-8578 grow old! Take Juniorite and be ture. It symbolizes light out of dark- Email: [email protected] young again!” So it happened that ness. When we become Masons in Web: http://sahibshrine.org Lord and Lady Dunnit became par- that third degree, we are “raised.” Editor-in-Chief ents of a baby, who, instead of We are pointed in a new direction. Gary Schweinshaupt being a baby, was born an old man It is like a resurrection from the Phone: (941) 356-5381 of ninety. Lord Dunnit had taken past. Easter is our time to feel Email: [email protected] too much Juniorite. The baby, born confident about the future. “He who Staff Writer at ninety, soon became eighty then was dead is alive.” That is our faith. Malcolm Van Dyke II seventy and sixty and every ten God does not stop when we stop. Phone: (941) 955-6483. years the baby grew younger. Even- The resurrection is a testimony to Email: [email protected] tually the child was ten and five the continuity of life. Staff Photographers and then without teeth or hair and So, may the Risen Christ bring Sarasota County could only cry and squeal. Juniorite to us a blessing of confidence and Malcolm Van Dyke II was a big success. It had made hope for the future. And, those who Phone: (941) 955-6483. Email: [email protected] time run backwards. celebrate Passover, may them be Manatee County When we think about that, ever grateful for the One who rose Bob Rodd would we like it? The Creator of up to bring freedom to an enslaved Phone: (941) 776-0937 time designed us to go forward, not people. Email: [email protected] backward. Life is made to move A Happy Easter and a Happy Staff Assistant beyond what was, to what will be. Passover to one and all. Bobbi Schweinshaupt The Reporter is dedicated to promoting the Editor’s notes interests of Sahib Shriners, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Shrine Burns Institutes and the by Gary Schweinshaupt, KCCH, [email protected] Sahib Shrine Clubs and Units and Freemasonry. DEADLINE hat do young Shriners want? quietly stop appearing at meet- All materials for publication must be submit- WI have been in many discus- ings and simply slip off the rolls. ted to the Sahib Shriners office no later than sions over the years with nobles They return to our communities the first Thursday of the month for publication my age and older, and they always outside the temple disheartened in the following month. are able to come up with a long list with the Shrine, and—unfortu- Text and images produced using comput- what they think young Shriners nately for the fraternity—they will ers may be submitted via email or on a PC- want. Whatever it is, it most as- often share their disappointments compatible floppy diskette or CD. Text should be submitted in ASCII format or in a com- suredly isn’t what I have discussed with their friends. Sadly, they then monly-used word processor format. Photos, with my Brothers over the years, join a group of Shriners as diverse floppy diskettes or CDs from units or clubs will for if we were right, and imple- as Shrinedom itself: unfulfilled be returned to writer. mented any of these ideas, they Shriners. Sahib Shriners disclaim any liability from don’t seem to have worked, as we I relate this subject not to just any loss or damages resulting from articles, still have problems recruiting lament over a failure, but to ask all opinions, statements or representations younger nobles, and when we do young Sahib Shriners (or any dis- expressed or implied in this publication. initiate younger men, they often satisfied Shriner) who reads this, to All rights reserved. No part of this publication don’t stay around very long. If they please discuss what has disheartend may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, don’t stay around very long, isn’t it you with being a member of Sahib except by other Shriner publications. Requests obvious they are not getting what with nobles you know, or any noble for reproduction should be addressed to Sahib they wanted from being a Shriner? who will listen (I’ll listen)—please Shriners. Copyright © 2012. I suspect they are often uncom- communicate with us, we need your fortable declaring their desires, input. Tell us what we need to do to SHRINE HOSPITAL INFORMATION For information or assistance in contacting their disappointments and their enhance your experience, so you the Shriners Hospitals for Children or a Shrine frustrations with what they find at will be heartened by your partici- Burns Institute call: Sahib. And what do they do? They pation at Sahib. National: (800) 237-5055 Florida: (888) 665-KIDS Photo on Page 1: Imperial Potantate Michael G. Severe with Sahib Potentate Charles M. Levan, 33° Sarasota: (941) 955-2494 The Reporter: is published monthly (except in July), a subscription is included in our member’s annual Sahib Shrine dues of $100, by Email: [email protected] the Sahib Shrine Temple, Inc., 600 N. Beneva Road, Sarasota, FL 34232. Third-class postage paid at Manasota, FL. Change is inevitable, Growth is optional! April 2012 SAHIB REPORTER Page 5 Potentate’s Notes Nobles, The Sarasota County Fair has come and gone, the nobles and ladies have returned from their cruise of the Eastern Caribbean. It is Circus Time! Come out and enjoy the Circus. See the faces of happy children as they watch the clowns perform their hilarious antics. Thrill at the daring aerialists, acrobats and other entertainers per- forming their maneuvers flawlessly under the Big Top! See the trained animals.
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