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BEYOND THE FUN AND LAUGHS BY: MEGHAN FEIR • PHOTOS BY: URBAN TOAD MEDIA Fancy hats. Tiny cars. Candy. What do those three things have in common? Shriners. For much of the chapter’s 126-year history, the El Zagal Shriners have been putting on parades, circuses, benefits, and various other community events to support children battling serious health conditions, proving that a lot of good can come from having a lot of fun. <strong>The</strong> history and purpose behind the lodge men goes far beyond throwing a little candy on the street. Richard Pallay III, membership chairman for the El Zagal Shrine Temple, moved to Fargo six years ago. It didn’t take long for Pallay to recognize similarities between his new 14 / THE GOOD LIFE / urbantoadmedia.com
esidence and his larger hometown of Pasadena, Calif., one familiar presence being the Shriners. Interested in what the organization was truly about, Pallay decided to visit the Shriners hospital in Minneapolis. “It was incredible,” Pallay said. “I got to meet some of the kids, and I saw the care they got and the excitement on their faces. I just fell in love with this amazing organization. I was like, ‘Yep. Done. This is what I’m all about. This is what I want to be a part of.’ If you can get down to the hospital, that’ll really help you know what we’re all about.” After completing the process to become a Master Mason, the last of the three tiers in the Masonic process, Pallay joined El Zagal and their mission to help others with the same enthusiasm that was instilled in him as a child. “I have a passion for helping kids. My dad was a youth pastor for over 24 years, so we just always did stuff in church with homeless ministries and helped children,” Pallay said. “As an adult, that passion to help was still there, and I wanted to do something and put my time to good use. It’s been an incredible journey.” While the members continually see the value in their involvement, new memberships in fraternities across the country have declined. Pallay attributes the main cause of this enrollment drop to the set-in-their-ways stereotypes so often associated with traditional, menonly organizations. “We’re always trying to help bring new people in and get out of the ‘this is how things have been done’ older way of thinking. We’re shifting our focus and thinking bigger.” As one of the oldest, private organizations in the world, the secrecy often associated with Masonic lodges has led to hesitancy in trusting the group’s actions behind closed temple doors and has even led to conspiracy theories, notions Pallay brushed off with a laugh. “I got to meet some of the kids, and I saw the care they got and the excitement on their faces. I just fell in love with this amazing organization.” — Richard Pallay III urbantoadmedia.com / THE GOOD LIFE / 15
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