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RAJAH SHRINE 4 Shriners International ♋ Published February, April, June, August, October, December ♋ P.O. Box 40, Blandon, PA 19510 Telephone: 610-916-9000 Fax: 610-916-9100 www.rajahshrine.org ♋ EDITOR Sam Ellis 2409 Treeline Drive Easton, PA 18040-7925 Phone: 610-390-6188 Email: sellis4947@aol.com NOTICE TO ALL CORRESPONDENTS Maximum article size is 450 words. Copy deadline for the next issue of the Rajah News is October 10, 2016 NO EXCEPTIONS E-mail, Fax or Mail your article to Sam Ellis (Address Above) BOARD OF DIRECTORS ILLUSTRIOUS SIR LAWRENCE S. BORTZ, III POTENTATE DAVID W. EVANS CHIEF RABBAN JARED R. KICHLINE ASSISTANT RABBAN MICHAEL J. ZERBE HIGH PRIEST & PROPHET MARVIN J. MILLER ORIENTAL GUIDE RONALD F. RAPP, P.P. TREASURER JOSEPH J. HAGAN, SR. RECORDER JOSEPH J. HAGAN, SR. BOARD OF DIRECTORS INSURANCE COMMITTEE Every Thursday Evening at the Rajah Shrine Complex Doors Open at 5:00 - Bingo Starts at 6:30 • Open To The Public • Smoke Free • • Refreshments Available for Purchase • Proceeds benefit Rajah Shrine and are not deductible as charitable donations. Recorder’s Message Hello Nobles, it feels like summer is here. The temperatures are creeping up every day and the picnics have been great. The Pote’s Picnic is just around the corner and I am looking forward to a great day with plenty of food and the cold sands for our new members. Thanks to our hospital drivers. They made a total of 28 trips to the hospital during May and June. Great job Nobles. The Hospital Service Unit is looking for some Nobles that would like to drive children to the hospital. If you think you may want to do this, please call the office at 610-916-9000. September will be a busy month with MASA, “Pretzel Bowl” and the Sportsmen’s Raffle. Please mark your calendars and try to make each of these events. We are still looking for a few Nobles that would like to become bartenders and also to become part of our building/property committee. Please call the office for more information. Your current dues card looks like a gold credit card. If you don’t have one of these, your dues for 2016 have not been paid. Please check now while you are thinking about it. You may pay your dues by mailing it in, or using a credit card by calling the office. Please enjoy the rest of the summer and I hope to see all of you very soon, at one of our events. NOTICE - NOTICE - NOTICE The Rajah Shrine Administration Office Will Be Closed On: Monday, September b 5, 2016 In Observance of Labor Day. Thank you, Rajah Shrine Office CEREMONIALS Mini-Ceremonials shall be at the discretionof the Potentate. To schedule, please contact the recorder at 610-916-9000.
Rajah Chanters It certainly has been a long drought since your Rajah Chanters have won the First Place Trophy at the MASA Chanter competition, but we have a feeling that will soon end. As we prepare for this year’s competition,we are doing it with more determination than ever to WIN, WIN, WIN!!! For those of you that follow the Chanter competition, the venue has changed. We will be holding the competition this year in the Virginia Beach Convention Center on the main floor. Please note this change and if you are planning on stopping by, please bring your loudest voices and strongest cheers as we will be singing our hearts out to prove that once again the Rajah Chanters are the best of the best in the Mid- Atlantic. This change venue has been in the works for several years and with Rajah’s Past Potentate, Illustrious Sir Ron Klee serving as President of MASA this year, it was felt that the timing was right to make the change. Everyone is sure that you will enjoy the new setting and will see how much better we sound in the new arena. Director Bryan Hartman and Assistant Director Bruce Rohrbach feel that with the songs we have chosen and the new setting, we are primed and pumped to bring home the top trophy. President Les Worley would also like to remind all of the Rajah convention goers, that we will be singing in the Rajah Hospitality Room at the Sheraton Hotel during the weekend and we look forward to seeing everyone at the parade on Saturday. The Chanters will also be taking part in the MASA Memorial Service on Thursday, September 8th in the Convention Center, 2nd Floor at 1 PM. Elsewhere, we are happy to report that we have represented Rajah Shrine at several concerts recently and appeared in a few parades in the region this Spring and Summer. We have more appearances planned for this Fall and Winter and if you know of a group that would like to have some musical entertainment, just get in touch with us through the Rajah Office and we’ll be glad to work out a suitable time and date. If music is in your soul and you love to sing, this is your invitation to join us at one of our rehearsals on any Monday night in the All-Purpose Room at the Rajah Shrine Complex at 7 PM. Greg Lewis, PP Anglers We have finished our yearly fish fry and we’d like to thank everyone who attended and donated either a covered dish or dessert. Everything was delicious and we fed over 140 people again this year. A special thank you to the String Band for entertaining us during the event. If comments at Bingo and other Shrine events are any indication a good time was had by all. By the time you read this we may already have had our August dinner meeting with the Ladies. We want them to see what we do at our meetings and we have Donor Relations Chairman, John Swartz, coming to give a talk on the hospital and it’s goals. Hopefully this will be the beginning of dinners with the Ladies a couple times a year. On July 9th we began this year’s sauerkraut fund raiser. The cabbage was ready so the hard work of preparation is now upon us. We’ve had a good preliminary signup to help in the preparation and it should go well. Our early season fishing trips have been fruitful and many of us have enjoyed trips to New York, Canada and local lakes and streams. Shortly ten of us will be venturing to Sodus Bay in New York, which is one of the best bass areas in the state. In September a fishing trip to Oak Orchard Park is scheduled for salmon and there are at least three openings if any of you would like to join them. On a positive note we added two new members to the Angler’s Club at the membership picnic. We have also started our parade year by participating in the Lehighton Sesquicentennial parade. Before Preparing the fish at Angler’s Fish Fry. long we’ll be headed to Virginia for MASA and showcasing our little red boat. We have a great contingent of Anglers going and it should be a great time. Enjoy the summer and do a lot of catching while you’re fishing. Dick Snell - President PLEASE DRIVE CAREFULLY- SCHOOL IS OPEN. 5
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