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Fez Sez June 2013

Al Azhar Units Al Azhar Shrine Clubs Athletic Club (Rutters) contact the Ramses for dates

Air Corps 7:30 p.m. 2nd Wednesday

Clown Unit 7:30 p.m. 1st Thursday

Directors Staff 7:30 p.m. 4th Thursday

Greeters As called

Legion of Honor 10:00 a.m. 2nd Saturday

Mounted Patrol 6:00 p.m. Wednesday

Oriental Band 7:30 p.m. Thursday

Provost Corps 9:00 a.m. 4th Saturday

Sabre Patrol (Call Swordmaster for date)

Shrine Patrol 7:00 p.m. Mondays

Tin Lizzie Corps 7:30 p.m. 3rd Tuesday

Vintage Cars 7:30 p.m. 3rd Tuesday

Alpine Shrine Club 1st Tuesday

Big Country Shrine Club 4th Tuesday

Calgary Shrine Club 2nd Friday

Foothills Shrine Club 4th Wednesday

Lethbridge Shrine Club 1st Wednesday

Medicine Hat Shrine Club 3rd Wednesday

Red Deer Shrine Club 3rd Wednesday

Wild Rose Shrine Club 1st Wednesday

THE PATROL

We at the Shrine Patrol (nicknamed the Segway Patrol),

express a warm welcome to our 10 new Nobles of the

Mystic Shrine, we hope that you and your family will

enjoy all the activities that Al Azhar has planned for the

year.

We are beginning parade season and the Patrol received

many compliments about our Segways’ during the High

River Parade on Victoria Day and we are looking forward

to participating in the Calgary Stampede Parade on July

5th and many other parades.

The PNSA is being held in sunny Lethbridge on July 25th

to 27th and the patrol will be cooking our famous

mouthwatering breakfast on Saturday morning and also

doing a demonstration on Friday, we encourage you all

to attend and enjoy the festivities.

The patrol is growing, we have 2 new members and 1

returning member so far this year and I extend a warm

welcome to Noble Ron Johnson and Noble Ramsey

Haymour and welcome back to the patrol Noble Wayne

Capper. And if you would like to join the Patrol and

learn to ride a Segway, we practice on most Mondays at

the Shrine Centre, starting around 7:00 our drill - master

Andy Pokolinski is a good teacher. Wishing you all good health and be safe. Noble David Hochman, Captain for 2013

LEGION OF HONOUR

Good day to all Nobles and Ladies from the members of

the Legion of Honor. At the end of 2012, we said “thank

you” to our Commander Noble Ace McGuire and

Adjutant Noble Charlie Frew who did an outstanding job.

We welcomed back our Quartermaster Noble John

Horrick and Treasurer Noble Henry Retzlaff and our new

Commander Noble Omar Giroux. We were very happy to

add our new Adjutant Noble Doug Clark and the Deputy

Commdander Noble James Spillott.

Our first meeting had a good turnout of members and

our Potentate and Recorder were also in attendance..

We welcomed back Noble Terry Dean to the unit and he

received a warm welcome.

We are now embarked on the new year with our parade

attendance to the following; High River, Okotoks, PNSA,

Banff, Canmore, and, ending with, Cochrane.

Pictured above is our “Flagmobil”. That’s Noble Andy

Sands baby. He takes care of the maintenance, upkeep

and transport to parades with his Second-n-Command

Noble Morris Esber. It is a very appreciated parade

entry as we carry the flags of Canada, USA, Mexico and

Panama. We will be adding to this the flags of

Philippines, Puerto Rico and the European Union.

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LEGION OF HONOUR (cont’d)

in the world and so is our flag collection.

We do very good work in our philanthropy and the

people appreciate it very much. Notice the cheers we

receive on our parades and that’s very encouraging.

Next month we host the International Legion of Honour

at the PNSA. It will be a time to renew old acquaintances

and make new friends so we hope to see our members

attending this event and partake in the parade.

To all, have a good summer and see you on parade

Noble Omar Giroux

Commander

TIN LIZZIES Hello Nobles,

Welcome to parade season 2013. We already have two

successful parades under our belts and are looking

forward to the rest of the year.

Thank you for supporting our last meat sale. If you

missed out we will be having another just in time for

your summer barbecues in July. The order by date will

be July 9th, with the delivery date being July 16th.

We would like to congratulate Potentate Gord on his

ceremonial. If any nobles would like to come to one of

our meetings, or take a Tin for a spin, we meet the third

Tuesday of the month (except for July and August) in the

Temple starting at 7:30pm.

I hope you have all registered for PNSA at the end of

July. I’m looking forward to seeing you in Lethbridge; the

place to be seen in 2013!

See you on the parade route,

Rob Sceviour

Commander 2013

AIR CORPS

By the time you read this installment of the FEZ SEZ the

summer parade season will be in full swing. The Air Corp

will be at many parades as well at a few unique events.

July 1st Airdrie, July 5th Stampede Parade, July 9th Hull

House breakfast, July 10th Kids Day at the grandstand

stampede park, July 13 and 14 Airdrie Air Show (note if

your unit would like to join us give me a call), July 24-28

PNSA Lethbridge ( I still need volunteer drivers to man

the transportation vans!!!!!) and that is just July. August

sees us going to Strathmore on August 3rd and Nanton

on August 5th winding up in Cochrane on Labor Day

September 2nd.

The Air Corps Prop Club Dinner will be held Saturday

October 19th at the Calgary Tower, Tickets are $85.00

per person and will include parking at the palliser

square. All Shriners that participate will be installed in

the Royal Order of the Prop (good fun). Tickets may be

purchased from any Air Corp member or by calling me at

403-283-1714.

Fraternally

Ron Down Captain

SUPPORT YOUR CRAFT LODGE

THAT’S WHERE SHRINERS ARE BORN

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ORIENTAL BAND Band members have had a busy start to 2013 with

involvement in many activities. We have been fortunate

to recruit two new members and it goes without saying

their Ladies too. I would like to take another

opportunity to welcome Noble Jim Dawson and Lady

Angel, along with Noble Wayne Barney and Lady Laurel,

welcome to the Oriental Band. We still meet for practice

(believe it or not) on the 1st , 2nd and 4th Thursday of the

month and the interested or just plain curious are more

than welcome to come and join in, no previous musical

experience is required, just a wish to laugh and enjoy

the company of others.

Another happy event was the marriage of Noble Guy

Cochrane to Lady Lynn on May 19th, I guess that is why

he missed the Parade on the 20th, congratulations to you

both and best wishes from all Band members for a long

and happy life together.

The Spring Ceremonial was engagingly different in its

new venue of the Fez Dome, the Band attended and

played to its usual high standard with a little help from

two young friends. We were fortunate to be able to

present to the Potentate at the banquette a cheque

from our fund raising events for $69,000 as a donation

to the Hospitals, The Transportation Fund and the Shrine

Centre. I would like to extend a big thank you to all who

contributed their time and energy in achieving this

figure.

We are into Parade season and work has been

progressing on upgrading and ensuring we improve the

safety features of the trailer. We have installed an

exhaust vent to take the truck fumes to the back of the

trailer; we have also installed new tires. New signage is

in the works and along with a lick of paint here and ------

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there we should look really sharp on parade.

The next couple of months look busy with parades every

other week. High River was our first and the weather

this year was better with no snow to contend with. We

will next be at Black Diamond, then Okotoks, Canmore,

and Bowness. This should be a good preparation for

PNSA in Lethbridge starting on the 24th of July. I hope all

of you that can, will attend. A big thank you is due to Art

Laing our Musical Director for bringing the truck and

trailer to the parades in Guy’s absence, and also to Dick

Luton for stepping in as the parade driver.

George Lister - Sultan Oriental Band

YOUR AD COULD BE HERE Shrine Centre advertising

for printing in our newsletters.

Cost is as follows:

Business Card - $40.00 1/4 Page - $60.00

1/2 Page - $100.00 Full Page - $200.00

Articles are to be sent by e-mail to:

[email protected],

or sent in on a disk to our mailing address. For more information call the Shrine Centre at

(403) 239-0030 PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS

WITHOUT THEM WE COULD NOT PUBLISH

THIS MAGAZINE

Editor’s Note:

Your editor tries to get as many pictures as possible

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GREETERS Our big event is our Summer BBQ on July 17, 2013 on the lower patio at the Al Azhar Shrine Centre in the sunlight overlooking the lake and the fountain. Why don't you all come and join us. Dress casual or western. Everyone is welcome. RSVP to Gordon Berard - 403-620-8030 [email protected]. Looks like we will be assisting the Potentate to transport the Imperial Potentate and delegation from the Calgary Airport to Lethbridge for the PNSA. If you are free, do come and help us on July 24, 2013. Call Rich Odland - 403-255-0310 or email at [email protected]. For your information the Greeters Unit is a long-standing group (max 25 members). We enjoy a cross-section of many who also belong to other units. There always has been many past potentates and divan members. In times past we did more official "Greeting", now we function to assist the Potentate and host very good and unique social functions. Come on July 17, 2013 and meet this friendly group. Rich Odland, President Greeters Unit

RED DEER The Red Deer Tin Lizzie unit has been very busy participating in local events. Below are some pictures of

their move-out to Caroline, Mirror and Rocky parades.

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Nobles of the Tin’s; Thx to all who made their way to the Rocky Rodeo last Saturday, a great parade and a great

gathering at Noble & Lady Mel & Shirley Tessmer’s digs after. Thx Lady Shirley for your kind hospitality and ,of

course, the awesome potato salad! Thx to Lady Merrill Kean for handling the fotos, ‘twas a great time; kids loved us

and this is, indeed, Shrinedom at its finest!

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WILD ROSE For the Wild Rose Shrine Club the first half of this year is truly coming up roses, as the saying goes. Our executive is

doing an outstanding job: organized a profitable casino, spring breakfast, a busy parade season and more social

events as summer arrives. The spring breakfast was well attended as Noble Peter Proudlock rounded up his cooks

and served all who did come: families and Divan members. Thank you again vice president Peter. The High River

parade was the first of the parades scheduled for the summer. Having Past Potentate Larry McCook back to

transport and maintain the wee buses and we are pleased to report the first parade went without a hitch - both

buses performed beyond expectations. Our treasurer and driver recruiter Dale Hackinen has enlisted drivers for all

the scheduled parades over the summer - thank you Noble Dale. As to parades, we welcome Nobles and families to

attend our July 1st Airdrie Parade. Airdrie is now home to fifty thousand residents and our parade is now one of the

biggest in Alberta. Look forward to the other units that will be here.

Another rosey story - we welcome new members joining our unit, Nobles Matt Tuggle and Gary Long brother of

Allan Long. Happy to have both Nobles aboard.

Our President Ken Campbell is challenging our Nobility to take the trophy away as we enter the third annual Larry

Gauthier Golf Tournament being held in July. All nobles are welcome to join fun and fellowship. Each year we are

seeing more ladies taking part so …look out Noble Ken.

We are having a tremendous year within the Wild Rose as we work for our children so they can overcome

disabilities and hardships, always our goal, and we have fun along the way. However we have also been deeply

saddened as our Lady June Buchanan passed away in the later part of April.

June was the wife of Noble Dick Buchanan a past president of our club and a builder within our unit and our Airdrie

community. The name Lady June is most appropriate as June was truly a lady, wonderful wife, mother,

grandmother and friend to all especially those in need or in difficulty, rather it be family or friend. We the nobility of

the Wild Rose Shrine Club extend our sincere sympathies to Noble Dick and family. As a footnote, Dick underwent

major heart surgery recently and I am pleased to report he is home and doing well, and receiving great support and

assistance as he so rightfully deserved.

Have a great summer, see you on parade.

Your scribe

Noble Norm Brain

MOUNTED PATROL

The Mounted Patrol has been very busy in preparation for their participation in this year’s Calgary

Stampede Parade on July 5. The Mounted Patrol is anticipating up to 20 riders in this year’s parade.

Noble Jim Cascadden of the Mounted Patrol has arranged for a team of horses and a wagon to transport

the Divan members and others in this year’s parade. Many thanks from the Divan for this initiative!

The Mounted Patrol hosted another very successful “Father’s Day Family Picnic” at the Mounted Patrol

grounds on June 16th. The weather was great and everyone had a wonderful time eating steaks and

visiting.

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Book early because there are limited seats (Trip organized by Collette Vacations)

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Spring Ceremonial 2013 Memories

Pictures by Eric Skagen and Lorraine Weller

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PETITION FOR INITIATION AND MEMBERSHIP

AL AZHAR TEMPLE

TO THE POTENTATE, OFFICERS AND NOBLES OF AL AZHAR TEMPLE, SITUATED IN THE OASIS OF CALGARY, DESERT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA

I, the undersigned, hereby declare that I am a Master Mason in good standing in __________________Lodge

#_________located at ______________________________________________ ________________________________________ City Province Which is a Lodge recognized by or in amity with the Conference of Grand Masters of North America. Furthermore, I have resided at my current address for not less than 6 months, as required by the Bylaws of The Imperial Council. I respectfully pray that I may be made a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and become a member of your temple. If I be found worthy, and my request granted, I promise to conform to the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws of The Imperial Council and the Bylaws and Ceremonies of your temple Birthplace ________________________________________________ Date of Birth ___________________________________ Were you ever a DeMolay? ______ If so, what was the Chapter name and Location ________________________________ Profession or occupation ___________________________________________________________________________________ Have you previously applied for admission to any temple of the Order? _____________________________________________ If so, what temple? ______________________________ When? __________________________________________________ Residence Address __________________________ _______________________________________________________ Street City

_______________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Province Postal Code

Business Address __________________________ _______________________________________________________ Street City

___________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Province Postal Code

Business Phone _____________________________ Hat Size ________________________________________

Mail Address__________________________________________________________________________________________

Home Phone ______________________________________

E-mail Address ________________________________________________________________________________________

Wife’s name __________________________________________________________________________________________

Date _______________20_________ Signature _____________________________________________________________

Print Full Name Here __________________________________________________________________________________ Name in Full, initials not sufficient

Recommended and Vouched for on the Honor of Noble _________________________________#_______________

Noble _________________________________#_______________

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