Sahib Shriners The A.A.O.N.M.S. Reporter Volume 30, Number 2 Sarasota, Florida February 2011 February 5 Potentate Ball, 6:00 p.m. Shrine Club Directory, 12 6 King Pin Pancake Breakfast, 8:00 a.m., 40 Shrine Club News, 12 Shriners 8 Birthday/Anniversary Dinner Dance, 6:00 p.m., 6 Shrine Unit News, 18 Having 10 Canada Day Luncheon, 12:45 p.m. Thursday Luncheons, 34 12 Club/Unit Head Meeting, 9:00 a.m. Masonic Digest, 43 Fun & Stated Meeting, 11:30 a.m., 6 Ladies Calendar, 51 Banjo Band Concert, 7:00 p.m., 21 Officers, Appointees and Unit Leaders, 52 Helping 13 Valentine’s Eve Dinner, 5:00 p.m., 23 Index of Advertisers & Shriners Info, 53 23 Kids Richie Merritt & the Marcels, 7:30 p.m., Sahib Shriners Calendar, 54 25 Pipes & Drums Pub Night, 6:00 p.m., 28 27 Motor Corps Spaghetti Dinner, 3:30 p.m., 26 March 10 Imperial Potentate’s Official Visit, 11:00 a.m. Gulf Coast Jewelry Buyers %X\HUV6HOOHUV%URNHUV 'LDPRQGVRI'LVWLQFWLRQ5ROH[ )LQH6ZLVV:DWFKHV 9LQWDJH $QWLTXH-HZHOU\5DUH )LQH*HPV Discreet & Confidential WE ARE CURRENTLY BUYING 'LDPRQGDQG*ROG-HZHOU\ *ROG6LOYHU&RLQV%XOOLRQ LQFOXGLQJ )XOORU3DUWLDO(VWDWHV FREE ESTIMATES / NO OBLIGATION +RQHVW\,QWHJULW\([SHULHQFH 7XHVGD\)ULGD\ 0RQGD\ 6DWXUGD\ DPSP %\DSSRLQWPHQW 6RXWK3DOP$YHQXH )D[ $OL&KRNUJOREDOO\NQRZQDVD 6DUDVRWD)/ GLDPRQGZKROHVDOHUDQGLPSRUWHUKDV OLYHGDQGZRUNHGORFDOO\VLQFH '2:172:16$5$627$ Sahib Shrine Salads House Salad $2.50 Restaurant & Lounge Caesar Salad $2.00 FEBRUARY 2011 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 $13.95 Onion Ring Basket $4.95 With Baked Potato, Soup or Salad Bar Chicken Tenders $7.95 **Appetizers and Sandwiches available** french fries & honey mustard sauce Reservations Please: 366-4449 Chicken Quesadillas $7.95 HILLBILLY BUFFET-THURSDAY’S Cheese Quesadillas $6.95 Serving 5:00 to 7:00 PM Combos $8.50 PER PERSON Low Calorie Plate $6.95 02/03 Beef Stroganoff 8 oz ground beef patty with cottage 02/10 Chicken & Dumplings cheese and fresh fruit 02/17 Sweet & Sour Pork with Pineapple Soup and 1/2 Sandwich $4.75 02/24 BBQ Pork Cup of soup of day and ½ sandwich tuna salad, chicken salad, sliced ham Includes: Fried green tomatoes, fried fish, or sliced turkey potatoes, beans, coleslaw, gravy, biscuits, rolls, Western Omelet $5.95 dessert, coffee and tea with fresh fruit Friday Evening 5 PM till 7:30 PM All Dinner entrees are served with your choice of Sandwiches potato or rice, chef choice of vegetable, and soup 8 oz Burger on a Kaiser roll $6.95 or Salad Bar lettuce, tomato, onion with French fries Boneless Chicken Breast Marsala $12.95 Cheeseburger $7.25 Twin Tenderloins $14.95 Pan fried with Monterey Jack cheese, Turkey-Ham Club with fries $7.95 mushrooms, tomato Ham and Cheese sandwich $4.95 New York Sirloin Steak $13.95 with chips 6 oz. Maine Lobster Tail $16.95 Chicken Salad Sandwich $4.95 With drawn butter with chips Fish and Chips $8.95 Tuna Salad Sandwich $4.95 Alaskan Pollack - all you can eat Grouper Sandwich $8.95 with chips Lettuce, Tomato, Tartar, French Fries Liverwurst & Onion $4.75 Reuben Sandwich $8.95 ¼ Lb. Hot Dog with fries $3.95 Corned Beef, Sauerkraut, Swiss cheese BLT with chips $4.50 Soup and Salad Bar only $8.95 Grilled Cheese & Tomato $3.95 **ASK ABOUT THE CHEF’S SPECIAL** Soda $1.00 Coffee/Tea $1.00 Soup of the Day “Dinner Reservations Encouraged” 941-366-4449 Cup $2.50 Bowl $3.75 Page 4 SAHIB REPORTER February 2011 The Chaplain’s corner Reporter by the Rev. Noble Don Kerr, Chaplain ebruary is a month for many create indifference. Every once in The Official Monthly Publication of Fremembrances. There is the a while a good old-fashioned reli- Sahib Shriners birthday of Abraham Lincoln and gious re-awakening stirs us out of A.A.O.N.M.S. George Washington’s birthday. our complacency. Conscience needs 600 N. Beneva Road There is Valentine’s Day and to be called to duty. Some say our Sarasota, FL 34232 Groundhog Day. It is also Black moral fabric is quivering. Our roots Phone: (941) 366-4449 History month. Aside from all that, are not as strong. Rationality and FAX: (941) 366-8578 it is the shortest month of the year decency are at the mercy of the Email: [email protected] as well as the beginning of Lent. rebel and the disenfranchised. Web: http://sahibshrine.org Celebrations and remembrances In answer to that, what is wrong Editor-in-Chief are always good for the soul. with some kind of spiritual re- Gary Schweinshaupt It seems sometimes as if patrio- awakening? What is so out of date Phone: (941) 356-5381 tism has lost its appeal. The good for people to believe in some basic Email: [email protected] old American spirit is seen as be- religious principles? Why not ex- Staff Writer ing too old-fashioned. Maybe it’s ert a little more honest obedience Malcolm Van Dyke II possible to become too super-pa- on our part and a little more sin- Phone: (941) 955-6483. Email: [email protected] triotic but, at times we need to be cere effort on our part to exercise Staff Photographers inspired with some solid, genuine an influence beyond our imagina- Malcolm Van Dyke II – Sarasota Co. national loyalty. What’s wrong tion? The time has come for all to Phone: (941) 955-6483. with being a loyal American? Why say a good word in the name of Email: [email protected] shouldn’t we lift up our heads and God, remembering one of the com- Terry Meadows – Sahib Events hands in gratitude and pride? mandments which says, “Thou Email: [email protected] Much the same thing could be shalt not take the name of the Lord Robert J. Springer – Manatee Co. said in the name of religion, which thy God in vain.” That surely is Phone: (941) 795-1142 sometimes grows stale and un- one of the basic tenets of our Ma- Email: [email protected] imaginative. Its familiarity can sonic creed. Staff Assistant 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. he 2010 Reporter Profit and tive advertisers a Reporter and the DEADLINE All materials for publication must be submit- TLoss Statement is a little bet- Reporter brochure (available in the ted to the Sahib Shriners office no later than ter than last year. We had an office and on the Website <http:// the first Thursday of the month for publication $2,236 increase in outside adver- sahibshrine.org/reporter/>.) in the following month. tising. Our total loss for the Re- I lamented that our membership Text and images produced using comput- porter for this year was $16,429 had dropped below 1,700 in 2008, ers may be submitted via email or on a PC- ($2,505 less than 2009.) Our costs this year we ended up with 1,553! compatible floppy diskette or CD. Text should of production remained constant. Our losses from The Black Camel be submitted in ASCII format or in a com- monly-used word processor format. Photos, Our postage went down $1,197, I were less that in 2009. floppy diskettes or CDs from units or clubs will don’t understand that one, but be returned to writer. won’t look a gift horse in the mouth! Bahia Shriners Paper Crusade Sahib Shriners disclaim any liability from Our Boosters contributed $1,490 Bahia Shriners collected $438,000 any loss or damages resulting from articles, in 2010 ($1,050 less than 2009)— during their 2010 hospital days opinions, statements or representations thanks everyone for helping us effort. Their top unit collected expressed or implied in this publication. fight this cost battle. There were $139,000 and their top club col- All rights reserved. No part of this publication also other advertising benefactors lected $39,000—Wow! That one may be reproduced or transmitted in any form that helped keep our losses down, club's total was more than the to- without permission in writing from the publisher, except by other Shriner publications. Requests thanks to them as well. tal collected by all at Sahib in 2010. for reproduction should be addressed to Sahib I don’t think any units or clubs They have 2,267 members, Sahib Shriners. Copyright © 2011. received commissions by getting ads has 1,602 (just 665 members dif- SHRINE HOSPITAL INFORMATION for the Reporter (don’t forget, there ference.) For information or assistance in contacting can be a 25% commission for first In their magazine, Bahia states, the Shriners Hospitals for Children or a Shrine year ads to your unit or club.) “The Paper Crusade is a year Burns Institute call: We don’t expect members to go around program with a two-fold National: (800) 237-5055 out and solicit advertising, just stay purpose: (1) To inform the public Florida: (888) 665-KIDS alert for possibilities.