We are off to a pretty good start this year. Had a good Installation of Officers and a fair showing at the Super Bowl Party given the weather. All the Divan was able to attend a shortened meeting and came back knowing the direction Imperial wants to head. Let’s get into the good stuff.
As mentioned, the Divan Mid-Winter was February 8-10 in San Angelo and they will be hosting TSA June 6-8. The Counterparts Dinner was one of the best we have had in years. Fun and fellowship for all.
Other upcoming special events coming are:
O.G. Trip (will be over by printing) – as an update it looks as if we have about 22 Nobles with a few guests with us also. Going back to Margaritaville in Shreveport, Louisiana, 22-25 of February. We have a Hospital Tour lined up, golf at a nice Country Club, have the bus taking us again, should be a great time – more later.
Next is the Potentate’s Ball, March 2nd at the Temple. Looks like it will be a full house, lots of visitors RSVPed. Close to 130-140 total. I think our Potentate and his Lady have put a lot of thought and planning into this event. Hope you all can come out and support them. Starts at 6pm with reception line, food and dance to follow.
The Easter Egg Hunt is March 30 at the Hatton Road land. We will cook hamburgers/hot dogs and serve chips. This is open to all friends and family, and it’s a free event! Shout out to the Clowns, you make this one.
The Shrine Golf Tournament is May 3rd at River Creek Golf Course in Burkburnett. Call your team in as soon as possible. This is always a good/fun tournament. Would love to see 150 players this year. We have also started getting hole sponsors, $100 for a hole sponsorship, call Cathy or Gordy.
A couple of other events that have taken place is the East-West Shrine All-Star game. It was held in Frisco, Texas, at Cowboys practice field, February 1st. We had several Nobles attend and come back very excited about the event and venue. We collected $669 at the January Stated Meeting by passing the hat for a hospital donation, sent to game and ran Maskat’s name across the infield as a sponsor. Thank Mark Reed for this idea; he was spot on with this.
I do want to thank all the people that got the Ballroom ready for Super Bowl. The Divan was at Mid-Winter and couldn’t help. It was ready to go when the doors opened Sunday, looked very nice. Oh, thanks everyone for the food.
Small note from Hospitals, there will be several outreach clinics opening soon. The first is in San Angelo, Texas (yes!), Oklahoma City and Marshall, Texas. Two outreach Burn Centers, Monterrey, Mexico and Panama City, Panama.
In closing, our Shrine office is closed every Friday and Federal Holidays.
Our next Unit Council/Divan meetings are March 5th, with the Stated Meeting, March 12th. We had 43 Nobles at the February meeting, not bad at all. Let’s keep that up.
Fraternally,
Calvin Carlton
P.P. Recorder
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