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Shriners Having Fun & Helping Kids Volume 35, Number 2 Sarasota, Florida February 2016 Shriners February 1 REPORTER DEADLINE Shrine Club Directory, 8 13 Potentate’s Ball, 5:00 - 10:00 p.m., 13 Shrine Club News, 8 Having 19-20 Tampa Hospital Benefit Days Sahib Shriner’s Parade Schedule, 21 21 Motor Corps Spaghetti Dinner, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m., 12 Fun & Shrine Unit News, 18 March 1 REPORTER DEADLINE Thursday Luncheons, 30 Helping 3 Imperial Potentate & First Lady Luncheons, 11:00 a.m., 12 Masonic Digest, 32 4 Patty Waszak Show, 5:00 - 10:00 p.m., 24 Kids Officers, Appointees and Unit Leaders,44 5 Hillbilly Hoedown, 2:00 - 10:00 p.m., 12 Index of Advertisers & Shriners Info, 45 16 Tampa Bay Downs/Sahib Race Day, 47 Sahib Shriners Calendar, 46 17 St. Patty’s Day Dinner, 6:00 - 10:00 p.m., 12 30 Rusty Mason Night, 6:30 p.m., 16 Page 4 SAHIB REPORTER February 2016 Ill. Sir Jacobi Accepts Presentations The Official Monthly Publication of Sahib Shriners Shriners International 600 N. Beneva Road Sarasota, FL 34232 Phone: (941) 366-4449 FAX: (941) 366-8578 Email: [email protected] Web: http://sahibshrine.org Editor-in-Chief Ed Firquin Phone: (941) 366-4449 ext. 305. Email: [email protected] Staff Writer Editor Emeritus Gary Schweinshaupt A representative for Shriners Hospitals for Children Manatee Shrine Club Noble Ed Cramer presents $650 Phone: (941) 356-5381 accepts $10,000 at the bequest of the estate of to Sahib’s Transportation Fund. Email: [email protected] Mabel D. Jackson. Staff Photographers Bob Rodd Phone: (941) 776-0937 Email: [email protected] Editor Emeritus Gary Schweinshaupt Phone: (941) 356-5381 Email: [email protected] Staff Assistant Wanda Firquin The Reporter is dedicated to promoting the in- terests of Sahib Shriners, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Shrine Burns Institutes and the Sahib Shrine Clubs and Units and Freemasonry. DEADLINE All materials for publication must be submitted to the Sahib Shriners office no later than the first day of the month for publicationin the fol- lowing month. Noble Sig Pahl presents $530 from proceeds Chief Rabban Carroll Scribner presents $250 Text and images produced using computers may be submitted via email or on a PC-compatible as a vendor of the FEZtival of Trees. to Sahib’s Transportation Fund. floppy diskette or CD. Text should be submitted in ASCII format or in a commonly-used word proces- sor format. Photos, floppy diskettes or CDs from units or clubs will be returned to writer. Sahib Shriners disclaim any liability from any loss or damages resulting from articles, opinions, statements or representations expressed or implied in this publication. All rights reserved. No part of this publication 50 Year/Shriner & Past Potentate may be reproduced or transmitted in any form John Williams receives his pin without permission in writing from the publisher, and certificate. except by other Shriner publications. Requests for reproduction should be addressed to Sahib Shriners. Copyright © 2016. SHRINE HOSPITAL INFORMATION For information or assistance in contacting the Shriners Hospitals for Children or a Shrine Burns Institute call: National: (800) 237-5055 Florida: (888) 665-KIDS Photographer Bob Rodd provides front cover photo of statue located at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Tampa. 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 $125, by the Sahib Email: [email protected] Shrine Temple, Inc., 600 N. Beneva Road, Sarasota, FL 34232. Third-class postage paid at Manasota, FL. Change is inevitable, Growth is optional! February 2016 SAHIB REPORTER Page 5 Potentate’s notes Greetings to all! Here we go again! It has been a month of learning. You cannot know the job until you are in it and responding to all of the needs and wants of a very busy temple. We have a busy year ahead with a number of activities both old and new coming our way. Among these are a Maker’s Mark & Cigar Night and a fun night with Patty Waszak, which is a great show from Pidgeon Forge! We will have our Dog Track trip, Tampa Bay Downs, a Day at the Races with The Kentucky Derby and mint juleps. As all other Potentates, I have a couple of pet projects to hopefully bring to fruition. My first is a major cleanup of our temple and areas around it. I am asking all clubs and units to join me in this effort. We will start with the upstairs store room area and then to all trailers and storage areas. I will establish dates and time for all club/units to be in the storage areas with their keys, etc. so we have access to the closets and bins and can clean up! Detailed information will be coming out soon. My second and equally important is a call for all to practice what we were taught as kids-- -CIVILITY---be nice to each other and to our staff. We have had a number of unnecessary and unfortunate incidents in our restaurant and lounge areas that a “COUNT to TEN” pause would have prevented! Please, if there is a problem, see Ed Shauan. It is his job to correct any problem that may arise. There are remedies that can be applied by the Potentate, but that is the last step and will be used only if absolutely necessary. Thirdly, and as important as any other, I am reaching out to our candidates from the past four years, inviting them, by letter, to join us for a pizza party and a gab session to see what we can do to bring them back to Sahib. I have already received support from a number of Shriners to help us with this endeavor. This may well be the best activity of our year. Keep your fingers crossed! A busy year for all, membership is crucial to any organization and we are at the edge of a freefall, losing more brothers to the Black Camel than we are bringing in! We cannot continue this way. The only ones who can stem this tide are you, Sahib’s membership. No committee, individual or Divan member can do it---only you! A heads up - we will have our Imperial Sir Gantt and his staff visiting us on March 3, 2016. Please make an extra effort to be here to welcome him! Yours in the Faith, Carroll G. Scribner Sahib Potentate 2016 We can’t grow, if they don’t know! Page 6 SAHIB REPORTER February 2016 SAHIB SHRINERS “Mardi Gras” presented by The Clowns LADIES NIGHT DINNER DANCE With Birthday and Anniversary Celebration Tuesday, February 9, 2016 • Social Hour – 6:00 p.m. • Dinner – 7:00 p.m. • Dancing – 6:30 to 9:30 p.m • Choice of Entree: Prime Rib OR Coconut Fried Shrimp Tickets: $19.50 per person, includes sales tax and gratuity Purchase Ticket Reservations in Advance a Must! Nobles – Jacket & Tie (Fez) Ladies – Commensurate attire Music by “Mellotones” No Ticket Sales after the Preceding Thursday Box Office: 366-4449, ext. 320 Proceeds are for the Benefit of Sahib Shriner’s Activities, Payments are not Deductible as Charitable Contributions. SAHIB SHRINE Official Call Contributions Made to Shriners Hospitals FEBRUARY 2016 Total Year To Date STATED MEETING Shriners Hospital ........................ 12,860.00 $ 35,425.41 THURSDAY NOON Shriners Hospital - IMO .......... 100.00 5,990.00 FEBRUARY 4, 2016 Total .......................................... $ 12,960.00 $ 41,415.41 • 11:00 a.m. Fun and Fellowship Contributions Made to Sahib Shrine • 11:30 Band entertains • 12:00 Noon Lunch Donations to Sahib ....................... 42,740.63 $ 96,218.43 • 12:45 p.m. Meeting Opens Donations To Sahib – IMO ............ 433.00 10,850.10 • Balloting Total ............................................ 43,173.63 $ 107,068.53 • 2016 Dues card and Fez required • No short pants SAHIB SHRINE HOSPITAL December Transportation Report Official Call Ken Clark, Hospital Chairman MARCH 2016 15 - Patient visits to Shriners Hospital for Children in Tampa 2 - Patient visit to other Shriners Hospitals for Children STATED MEETING THURSDAY NOON Participating Drivers & Assisting Nobles: MARCH 10, 2016 Bill Balkwill Fred Ellis Paul Pante Ernie Sturges Dana Callanan Joel Furman Dorwin Pulford Fritz Wise • 11:00 a.m. Fun and Fellowship Ron Conner Dennis Judd Al Racette Paul Zeissler • 11:30 Band entertains Don Cowie Bob Martin Dick Schmidt • 12:00 Noon Lunch Ed Cramer Jim Pinson Joe Smedley • 12:45 p.m. Meeting Opens • Balloting All nobles who are interested in taking part in the hospital transportation program • 2016 Dues card and Fez required are urged to contact Hospital Chairman Ken Clark, at (941) 313-9905. • No short pants Change is inevitable, Growth is optional! February 2016 SAHIB REPORTER Page 7 Recorder’s notes by Ed Firquin, [email protected] he year is off to a wonderful start with social the present moment, neither the past nor the future Tactivities scheduled for members with the grand have claim over his thoughts and mind. He follows occasion being the annual Potentate’s Ball. There will the dictates of his own conscience, and is not subject be many more as the months come and go. Check your to external influences. He is guided by both Faith pocket calendar and “The Reporter” to stay abreast of and Reason. He is not a slave to his passions, but is all that will be happening here at Sahib. passionate about living a life with purpose. He seeks Emeritus Recorder Bill Batten sent the following to to heal the divisions that separate men, and to sow me, although, he did not know the author or how he the seeds of tolerance in their hearts.
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