Hendersonville Shrine Club Annual Breakfast Children Open

Hendersonville Shrine Club Annual Breakfast Children Open

A publication of Oasis Shriners, Charlotte, NC September 2021 Volume 86 Number 9 DESERT DUST Shriners International Charlotte, NC 28262 NC Charlotte, 604 Doug Mayes Place Mayes Doug 604 PAGE 2 Oriental Band was in the house to boot! Lady Kelly any expense liabilities. I thank all that contributed Your and I continue to be thankful and astonished at the and supported this effort. I would especially like support provided by the Greensboro Shrine Club. to thank Noble Hood and Lady Carole Dulin, and Not only did they host our ceremony, their Ladies our Marshall Noble Jimmy Owen for the countless Potentate Auxiliary is also the highest donor to date in bidding hours put into this project. for the king quilt for Lady Kelly’s project! We Are All One in 2021 The Fall Ceremonial and parade is on the weekend and Our Shrine Kids are Lady Kelly and I were honored to attend the 49th of November 6th. Get your 70’s theme attire number One! Annual Shrine 100 race on August 13th. The event, ready! We hope you will start planning now. Keep held since 1972, is sponsored by the Gaston reading your Desert Dust for more details. Hello to everyone from County Shrine Club and has raised well over 2.3 Oasis Headquarters. Our million dollars for our Shriners Hospitals. It takes a I want to thank the Nobles and Ladies of Oasis year keeps getting more great deal of work, a lot of talent and coordination Shriners once again for their dedication and and more exciting as the days go by. As I have and a special dedication to hold this event. Many unselfish work for the Shrine and for our Shriners continued my visits throughout Oasis territory, I am thanks go to the hard-working Nobles and Ladies Hospitals for Children. I am so proud to be the excited to see so much positive activity in many of the Gaston County Shrine Club for putting on this Potentate of such an excellent group of people of our Clubs and Units as they get together for special event. who help on a daily basis make Oasis Shriners live Fellowship and Fundraising. up to its reputation as the largest and best Shrine Moving toward the future, we are looking forward Center in the world. You have helped to set the bar Our Black-Tie Ceremony, held in Greensboro, was to our 2nd annual Oasis Golf Tournament October for other Shrine Centers, and I know it makes an a great success no matter how you measure it. We 1st and our Shrine Circuses on October 6th at the impact worldwide. You folks are the best. had 176 in attendance including the Grand Master Hickory Ball Park, and the 8th and 9th at Cabarrus of Masons in North Carolina, MWB David Wicker Arena. Please sign up to play in our tournament I would like to remind and share with you again plus six Past Grand Masters. We were also excited and or be a sponsor. It is not too late to purchase how important it is that we all support these to have Noble Brother Deforest Maness who Circus ticket options that can be used or donated upcoming Oasis Shriners fraternal fundraisers that turned 100 years old, and we welcomed twelve to local families that may not be able to afford are the responsibility of the Nobility to help provide new Nobles including Grand Marshal Gilbert Bailey. them. Both events support the Oasis Temple and working income. Please read the ads and articles This ceremony had two Class Honorees, both of allow us to keep Oasis current membership dues inside this Desert Dust to learn more. whom are very well deserving of this recognition- of $47 remaining one of the lowest within Shriners -Nobles Butch Stalker and Tim Nelson. The International; to host our Ceremonies; and to Your Divan, Lady Kelly and I look forward to seeing Greensboro Shrine Club went over and beyond to maintain our Shrine Center building and grounds. you and your family at our next events. make this a special evening to be remembered. Thanks go to the many Nobles and Ladies led by It is with regret we must inform you our first Oasis In closing, remember that “Life is a Journey…enjoy Noble President Ben Hamilton and Lady Emily. The Rodeo has been cancelled due to lack of Gold and the Ride” in 2021! Club looked elegant, dinner was fabulous, and the Silver company sponsors. We will not be held to Illustrious Sir Tommy Helms and Lady Kelly In 2019 Victory Junction served eight campers through Oasis during the summer program. In 2021 they served two campers and their families through our summer program. This summer, the Victory Junction Camp served shy of eight years old and B was turning Walking into the Body Shop (camp med over 900 children and their families through two, it seemed not a little appropriate that center) and having nurses make eye contact, modified summer programming with safe, we should be ending our camp journey in a listen carefully and make notes as we rattled transformational and empowering experiences to family weekend with them, now 17 and 11. off med lists and symptoms to watch for, a record number of families this summer seeing Dr. Chad in his t-shirt and shorts, and We had been living with the understanding watching the love with which the counselors We love sharing our stories, so please enjoy this that Morgan had epilepsy for a year and a received and poured out upon each camper excerpt from one mother's memories of Camp: half at that first camp. The traumatic memory was a balm and, over the years, healing to of hearing plate, fork, and spoon clattering to this mom’s and dad’s souls. We may help "Our daughter should have aged out of camp last the floor from the kitchen table and turning others understand behaviors or seizures or year. Instead, a global pandemic shut everything to find my 6-year-old daughter fallen and needs everywhere else when necessary, but down and, given the ongoing concerns this year, crumpled beside her chair unresponsive was at camp, Morgan has always gotten to be VJC turned summer camp into family weekends. still fresh.. It was terrifying to think of leaving Morgan with no explanations or questions her with anyone, let alone strangers, when asked and, as one counselor told us this Since our first experience with Victory Junction she would venture off to camp without us a past weekend, 'Morgan is a bit of a celebrity had been a family camp when Morgan was just few months later. around here!' Continued on page 4 PAGE 3 and the crew who decorated and to Noble Bobby As many of you have heard, we are experiencing Your Tatham, Richard Murphy, and Jim Colman for an increase in COVID-19 and Delta variant cases one of the best meals I have ever eaten. I will not in North Carolina. As a precaution, we are asking comment on Noble Jim Colman’s shorts! anyone who would like to seek office in the Divan Recorder to submit their notice by emailing the Ill. Sir Tommy Greetings to All Nobles, Remember SASA in Myrtle Beach, each Noble Helms at [email protected] and Noble Ladies and Friends, who is attending MUST register themselves and Recorder John Cable at recorder@oasisshriners. As always, I want to their Ladies. This is a SASA rule and not an Oasis org no later than Monday November 1, 2021. personally thank each of rule. SASA came up with this due to not having Currently the scheduled date for Oasis elections you for being a part of the manpower to input each name manually. I is Saturday December 3, 2021 at the Oasis Shrine Oasis and what all of you believe this will be a thing of the future. Again, let Center with time TBD. This will ensure that if are doing to make our me remind everyone that Oasis will reimburse all we had to make any last-minute adjustments to Oasis Shrine Headquarters greater than any other members who arrive in Myrtle Beach and parade. comply with national, state, Local or Grand Lodge in the world. You must parade to get reimbursed. requirements, all can be notified. We are very hopeful that we will not be in the same position as What a great night in Greensboro on July 31st. Oasis’s first ever Rodeo event that was scheduled last year, but are taking all options into account, There were more than 180 people filling the Walter for Waynesville, NC in October has been canceled. just in case. Please see the most recent by-law “Sticky” Burch ballroom for a night paid honor to We are not able to put the rodeo on this year due change from Imperial shown below that requires our 2020 and 2021 Grand Masters and brought to time restraints. However, we still have two Oasis Noble to have attended classes to run for some several good Masons into our Shrine Fraternity. I sponsored events that are coming up soon. offices. have never seen that many past Potentates, past Grand Masters, past Grand Line Officers, and First, is the Oasis 2nd annual golf tournament on MEMORANDUM current Grand Line Officers in one place before. It Friday October 1st. Please contact Noble Marshal, TO: Temple Divan Leaders was extremely moving and very humbling all at the Jimmy Owen for more information about how you FROM: John C.

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