Students raise funds for Shriners Hospital for Children; More than $4,000 donated to scoliosis treatment and tools

Students raise funds for Shriners Hospital for Children; More than $4,000 donated to scoliosis treatment and tools: LONG BEACH — It was a day of fun and educational games, but the heart of Math Day at Long Beach Elementary was a contribution that will truly count. On Tuesday, May 9, a check for $4,164 was presented to the Portland Shriners Hospital for Children, the culmination of a fund-raising effort by

Walk Run 2 Heal ,Kids

Ninja for Shriners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6I1xZ1MA-Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6I1xZ1MA-Y

" I was born a magician."

It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you of the passing our Brother Lee Grabel.
As well as to inform you of the Memorial Luncheon for Brother Grabel

It will be held on August 15 at 1 p.m. at Round Hill Country Club in Alamo.

Here is a Brief Biography of our ShowBiz Brother

http://www.leegrabelmagic.com/biography.html

Virginia - Arielle Saige Rosmarino

Imperial Potentate 19xx

HAROLD LLOYD AND WIFE MILDRED DAVIS WITH THEIR BUICK 

Can you name the year Harold Lloyd was Potentate of Al Malaikah Shrine 

or Imperial Potentate?

"Texas Rising"

Hey Nobles,

Congrats to Noble Barry Berg for producing another epic TV mini-series called "Texas Rising." It's how the Texas Rangers started. Bro. Berg also produced "Hatfields and McCoys" which was nominated for an Emmy. By the looks of this one he will surely get another Emmy nod.

TP

 [smplodge] "Texas Rising" - Rolling Stone Feature

Just a little something I thought I’d pass along as things start to ramp up for "Texas Rising",  the 10 hour mini-series I produced in Mexico. It will be on the History Channel starting the end of May. 

Be sure to watch the video below with Kris singing.

http://rol.st/1EveTBp

Best,

Barry Berg

My Masonic Ring

Here is a video by Brother Howie Damron that can be used to help explain Masonery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oFeKJKoaKc

CD Sales at Concert Will Support Shriners Hospitals

This year THE WHO!" and "Kid Rock" have again made a significant commitment to supporting Shriners Hospitals for Children! At each of their shows during this upcoming 2015 concert tour.
Shrine volunteers selling their new CD – and will donate the money to charity.

 The Tours proposes to guarantee a donation of $1,000 per night to Shriners Hospitals for
Children, provided that Shriners field an adequate number of volunteers to conduct the sales at
each venue. Shrine temples located in the various cities where concerts will be held are being
contacted and are being asked to provide approximately 50 volunteers at each show.

The success of this fund-raiser relies totally on the presence and volume of volunteers. There are approximately 31 dates on each of the tours, which represents a minimum of $61,000 to Shriners Hospitals for Children. With 50 Shrine Volunteers at each concert we should be able to double or triple that amount.
THE WHO! concert tour starts at the Amalie Arena Wed. 4/15/15 n Tampa, Fl. The Kid Rock tour starts in Hartford,Ct. at the Xfinity Theatre Wed. 6/24/15. Check with your Shrine center or SHC to find who is the lead so you can volunteer. The concerts dates are listed on each of the groups web site.

 Those involved with this project are confident that this program will generate enough
revenue for Kid Rock to donate funds not only to Shriners Hospitals, but also to his other favorite charities, especially Wounded Warriors and the Who to donate to Teenage Cancer America(which is Roger Daltrey's charity)

50% of ALL PROFITS after expenses (which include, cost of goods, the guitar, my costs-hotels, airfare, etc.) will go to SHC. 

Max Homa makes cut at Shriners Open

Max Homa makes cut at Shriners Open

Ben Lane

Concert CD Sales- Support Shriners Hospitals

Musician Announces Concert CD Sales  Will Support Shriners Hospitals

 Musician Kid Rock has made a significant commitment to supporting Shriners Hospitals
for Children! At each of his shows during this upcoming concert tour, Kid Rock will have
Shrine volunteers selling his new CD for $10 – and will donate ALL of the money and his artist
royalty to charity.
 Kid Rock proposes to guarantee a donation of $1,000 per night to Shriners Hospitals for
Children, provided that Shriners field an adequate number of volunteers to conduct the sales at
each venue. Shrine temples located in the various cities where concerts will be held are being
contacted and are being asked to provide approximately 20 volunteers at each show.  The success of this fund-raiser relies totally on the presence and volume of volunteers. There are 31
dates on Kid Rock’s tour, which represents a minimum commitment of $31,000 to Shriners
Hospitals for Children.
 Those involved with this project are confident that this program will generate enough
revenue for Kid Rock to donate funds not only to Shriners Hospitals, but also to his other favorite charities, especially Wounded Warriors.

Gene Autrey at SHC, Erie, PA

Phoenixmasonry Masonic Museum and Library - USA

Illustrious Brother Gene Autrey visits the Children at the Shriners Hospital in Erie, PA circa 1957

Leonard Slye "The King of the Cowboys"

http://masonicheritage.org/exhibits/rogers.htm

Roy Rogers, "The King of the Cowboys"

Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 5, 1911. After a successful career in radio, film and television with a devoted following, he was dubbed by Republic Studios in 1943 as “The King of the Cowboys”. He defined what every boy and girl imagined a cowboy should be: the white Stetson with its silver hatband, hand-tooled boots and his majestic steed Trigger gave him the airs of an armored American knight of the prairies and rugged mountains.  He fought for the good guy-- a straight-shooter that never lied or swore, and stood proudly next to his sweetheart, Dale Evans, the “Queen of the West”.  His numerous albums, movies and TV shows endeared him to a generation of children, who admired him and who wanted to imitate him. As evidence of this devotion, in 1950 there were more than two thousand Roy Rogers fan clubs internationally. This fact was not lost on Bro. Roy, and he filled his role with dignity and aplomb.

He gave us standards to live by that helped teach us the difference between right and wrong. 
His willingness to stand up for the things he believed in inspired us. And his religious faith and his concern for the less fortunate helped mold our character. Roy lived his life off camera with the same decency and humility that he projected on television and on the silver screen. He was the hero who never let us down. Despite all the success that came to him, Roy never seemed to lose his way. And he never forgot that his fans were the ones who made it possible for a poor boy from Ohio to attain a level of success greater than anything he could ever have imagined. His decency and strength of character come from a simpler time in America. Yet it was anything but an easy time.

Laurence Zwisohn, Happy Trails: The Life of Roy Rogers

Brother Rogers was made a Mason in Hollywood Lodge No. 355 in Los Angeles on April 15, 1946 and was raised as a Master Mason on June 27 the same year.  Roy’s love of children and his personal experience with their sometimes unfortunate circumstances endeared him to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (A.A.O.N.M.S., or colloquially, “The Shrine”), which he joined in 1950 in Al Malaikah Shrine Temple alongside the famous clown, Red Skelton, and actor William Powell, Jr. 

Roy also held membership in the Los Angeles Scottish Rite beginning in 1950, being knighted a Knight Commander Court of Honour in 1975 and coroneted a 33rd Degree Inspector General Honorary in 1979. He later transferred his membership to Long Beach Scottish Rite in 1988.  He was also a Companion of the Royal Arch, a Royal and Select Master (Cryptic Rite) and a Knight Templar (1983).

Through assistance by the George Washington Masonic Memorial, Roy Rogers Jr. (aka Dusty) was put into contact with the Henry Wilson Coil Library and Museum of Freemasonry.  The Roy Rogers Museum in Missouri had closed and these precious artifacts illustrating his Masonic career needed a home.  Thus, in early 2010, we acquired his belongings.  Not only are his personal Masonic effects included in the collections, but also items of earlier Masonic histories belonging to others that were gifted to him.

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Famous Masons

Brother Little Jimmy Dickens

James Cecil Dickens was born December 19, 1920 in Bolt, West Virginia. He is better known as "Little Jimmy Dickens" and is an American country music singer famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size, 4'11", and his rhinestone-studded outfits. 

He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 64 years and is a member of the County Music Hall of Fame. Dickens began his musical career in the late 1930s, performing on a local radio station while attending West Virginia University.

 He soon quit school to pursue a full-time music career, and travelled the country performing on various local radio stations under the name "Jimmy the Kid." The mid-1940s found Dickens working as a solo act for large stations in the Midwest. He moved from WING in Dayton, Ohio, to WLW in Cincinnati, and until 1948 he worked for WKNX in Saginaw, Michigan. 

At the latter station he met country giant Roy Acuff (also a Mason), who invited him to make a guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry when Roy Acuff introduced him to Art Satherly at Columbia Records and officials from the Grand Ole Opry. Dickens signed with Columbia in September and joined the Opry in August. Around this time he began using the nickname, Little Jimmy Dickens, inspired by his short stature. Dickens recorded many novelty songs for Columbia, including "Country Boy," "A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed" and "I'm Little But I'm Loud." His song "Take an Old Cold Tater (And Wait)" inspired Hank Williams to nickname him "Tater". 

Later, telling Jimmy he needed a hit, Williams penned "Hey Good Lookin'" specifically for Dickens in only 20 minutes while on a Grand Ole Opry tour bus. A week later Williams cut the song himself, jokingly telling him, "That song's too good for you!"

In 1950, he formed the Country Boys with musicians Jabbo Arrington, Grady Martin, Bob Moore and Thumbs Carllile. It was during this time that he discovered future Hall of Famer Marty Robbins at a Phoenix, Arizona television station while on tour with Grand Ole Opry road show.

 In 1957, Dickens left the Grand Ole Opry to tour with the Philip Morris Country Music Show. In 1962, Dickens released "The Violet and the Rose," his first top ten single in 12 years. 

During 1964, he became the first country artist to circle the globe while on tour, and also made numerous TV appearances including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In 1965 he released his biggest hit, "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" reaching No. 1 on the country chart and No. 15 fifteen on the pop chart. In the late 1960s, he left Columbia for Decca Records, before moving again to United Artists in 1971. That same year he married his wife, Mona, and in 1975, he returned to the Grand Ole Opry. 

In 1983, Dickens was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CD “Christmas Time’s A Comin’” performing "Jingle Bells" with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM/UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.

 Recently, Dickens has made appearances in a number of music videos by fellow country musician and West Virginia native Brad Paisley (also a Mason). He has also been featured on several of Paisley's albums in bonus comedy tracks along with other Opry mainstays such as George Jones and Bill Anderson. They are collectively referred to as the Kung-Pao Buckaroos. With the passing of Hank Locklin in March 2009, Dickens became the oldest living member of the Grand Ole Opry at the age of 90. He still makes regular appearances as a host at the Opry, often with the self-deprecating joke that he is also known as "Willie Nelson after taxes".

Brother Little Jimmy Dickens belongs to Hiram Lodge #4, Franklin, Tennessee and in fact he signed Brother Brad Paisley’s petition and sponsored him into his Lodge!

Jimmy Rogers 
The Father of Country Music
Initiated into Spinks Lodge No. 507 in Meridian Mississippi while still a young Railroad Brakeman he had a short but productive career considering the then state of communications technology. After recording 111 songs he died from tuberculosis at the age of 36. First person to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961. 33rd Degree A.A.S.R., Noble in Alzafar Shrine, San Antonio, Texas

Mouth to Ear by Brother Ernest Borgnine

By Brother Ernest Borgnine, 33˚
Member of Abingdon Lodge #48 Virginia USA

In 1946, I travelled with a friend down to a little town called Abingdon, Virginia, to see what the Barter Theatre had to offer. It offered nothing except hard work and board. My friend, not accepting the work they offered him, stayed one day - I stayed five years. In that time I grew to love the town and all it offered. The people, in particular, were simply marvellous.
Occasionally I would be assigned to go down to the printing shop and get posters made for the upcoming shows at the Barter Theatre. One day, in talking to the owner of the print shop, one Elmo Vaughan, I found that he belonged to the local Masonic Lodge, No. 48, in Abingdon. My father was also a Mason and had advanced to the Thirty-second Degree in Scottish Rite Masonry, and I told this to Elmo. He was pleased, and sensing his pleasure, I asked him if maybe I could join. He said nothing, continuing his work, and a short while later, I took my posters and left.
The next time I saw Elmo, I asked him again about joining the Masonic Order - again he said nothing - and again my work took me away. We became good friends and finally one day I passed by and again I asked if I could join the Masons. Instantly, he whipped out an application and I hurriedly filled it out. I didn't learn 'til later, that in those days, you had to ask three times.
I was thrilled! Not only was I going to be the first actor ever in Lodge No. 48, but I could just imagine my father's surprise when I would spring the old greetings on him! I wanted only to surprise my Dad - and was I surprised, when after I was made an Entered Apprentice, I found I had to remember everything that happened to me at that event and come back and answer questions about it!
I was assigned to a dear old man of about 92 years of age who, I felt, must have been there when the Lodge first started. He was really of the old school - and he started me out with the foot-to-foot, knee-to-knee and mouth-to-ear routine of teaching.
Besides doing my work for the Barter Theatre and a little acting to boot, I was also going to that dear Brother for my work in Masonry. I would tramp all over those lovely hills and work on my "Whence came you's" and one day - oh, one fine day - I stood foot-to-foot with my Brother and answered every question perfectly! I was ecstatic! I was overjoyed and couldn't wait to get to Lodge to show my ability as an Entered Apprentice.
After I quieted down, that dear Brother said, "You've done fine, but aren't you really only half started?" I couldn't believe him! I knew my work; what else was there? He said "Wouldn't it be better if you knew all the questions too?"
I couldn't believe my ears! All that hard work and only half done? He gently sat me down foot-to-foot, knee-to-knee and mouth-to-ear and taught me all the questions. That didn't come easy, because I was almost doing the work by rote, but with careful listening and by really applying myself, I was soon able to deliver all the questions and answers perfectly! The night that I stood in front of the Lodge and was asked if I were ready to answer the questions of an Entered Apprentice, I respectfully asked if I could do both - questions and answers. I was granted that wish and later found that I was the second man in my Lodge to have ever done so! I am truly proud of that, never having demitted, I am still a member in good standing in Abingdon Lodge No. 48.
I tell this story not for the merit it might gain me, but to tell you that learning the Entered Apprentice obligation taught me a great lesson in acting as well: that before I ever attempt to do a part I should work, rehearse, feel, almost live that part to know what I am talking about!
As I've advanced in Masonry, I have found we are an elite group of people who believe in God, country, family and neighbours. We work hard to help our fellowman; and through our charitable work, such as support for the Childhood Language Disorders Centers, we have made it possible to help many children grow Into good American citizens. We should always be proud of the Order we belong to. Where in all the world do you find so many great men and Brothers who have helped the whole wide world? But - we are hiding our light under a bushel basket!
Recently I attended a dinner for a friend, and I ran across a Brother who identified himself in a hushed voice. I asked why he spoke in a whisper when talking about Masonry, and suddenly I realized he wasn't the only one who had ever done that. I speak out loud about Masonry to everyone! I'm proud of the fact that I belong to an organization that made me a better American, Christian, husband and neighbour; and all it took was a little self-determination by going foot-to-foot, knee-to-knee, and mouth-to-ear! 

Giant Hot Dog to Benefit Shriners Hospital for Children

Guinness World Records will certify record at Thursday afternoon affair.

Sacramento, CA (PRWEB) May 30, 2012

The official Guinness world record for selling the most expensive hot dog in the world is about to be broken.

Tomorrow, May 31st at 1:30pm, Mike Brown, the owner of Capitol Dawg in Sacramento, will break the Guinness official world record at his restaurant, located at 1226 20th Street by selling the "California Capitol City Dawg" for a reasonable $145.49. Mr. Brown is giving back to the community, as proceeds from each hot dog sold will benefit Shriners Hospital for children Northern California.

A Guinness World Records adjudicator will be at the event to verify the record and issue a GWR certificate. The current Guinness official record for the world's most expensive hot dog is $100.00, held by a Canadian hot dog stand. The event is being supported by Retail Radio, the source for multi-sensory branding opportunities.

The Capitol Dawg new menu item will feature an 18" ¾ lb. premium all beef frank specially made in Chicago; moose cheese from Sweden (considered one of the most expensive and rare in the world); white truffle butter (spread and grilled) on a specially made focaccia roll; whole grain mustard from France; and a New Hampshire all natural bacon that is marinated in maple syrup.

"This truly gourmet hot dog is done right and priced right!" said Brown. "I put a lot of time and thought into the recipe, and with the help of others created what I think is the most original and one of a kind hot dogs in the world. No tricks or foolish toppings here, just superior quality and an extraordinary combination of flavors."

"I invite the community to come out and support this unique opportunity to see a Guinness world record be broken!" stated Mr. Brown. "I am very proud to bring the record back to the USA and to the City of Sacramento. Coming off a great American holiday, and heading into our nations summertime hot dog season, I can't think of a more appropriate time to win this challenge."

To RSVP for the event, and see the record broken in person, contact Mr. Brown for reservations and interviews. He can be reached at 916-521-8888.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/30/prweb9558419.DTL#ixzz1wSxydxVE

Classic theater’s space-lift

‘New’ City Center

By BARBARA HOFFMAN

For years, airlines have bragged about increased legroom -- and now City Center can, too.

The neo-Moorish auditorium on West 55th Street was built by the Shriners in 1923 and dedicated 20 years later, by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, as “the people’s theater” -- home to first-rate dance and theater, rotten sightlines and worse-than-economy-class seating.

But that was so $56.6 million ago.

Tomorrow night, Mayor Bloomberg will bring the baton down on the gala opening of a newly renovated jewel. Not only have the hall’s best features been restored and repainted, but even audience members in the balcony will finally be able to sit back and see the stage.

CHAIR-ITABLE MAKEOVER: A renovation has given City Center on West 55th Street fewer -- but wider -- seats and better sightlines.

“One of the things we wanted to accomplish with this renovation was to create a physical space that’s on par with the level of artistry you see on our stage, and I believe we’ve succeeded in that,” said Arlene Shuler, City Center’s president and CEO.

“Now, not only can you see the best in dance and musical theater at City Center, but you can do so in comfort -- in a beautiful theater with 21st-century amenities.”

On West 55th Street, midway between Sixth and Seventh avenues, City Center wasn’t easy to find. It had no marquee, and, given the building’s landmark status, didn’t seem likely to get one. Finally, the firm renovating the building discovered a loophole: a tiny notation in the 1923 structure’s blueprint citing “anchors for a future marquise [sic].”

“We assumed they weren’t planning to hang French nobility,” quipped Duncan Hazard, a partner at Ennead Architects. The new marquee goes up today.

But the most dramatic improvement, as those who’ve suffered through the otherwise glorious “Encores!” series and “Fall for Dance Festival” will tell you, is the seats: There are now 500 fewer of them -- but the new ones are up to 5 inches wider than the ones they’ve replaced.

barbara.hoffman@nypost.com

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/classic_theater_space_lift_sPGe028Xyl66MG5kFCyUSP#ixzz1boYOCZsK