Fiesta Bowl Parade Saturday

Nobles,

It’s nearly time for the Fiesta Bowl Parade and I certainly appreciate everyone who has volunteered to meet at the Temple or elsewhere and carpool to the Fiesta Bowl Parade.  Unfortunately for us, the Fiesta Bowl Parade Committee has seriously slashed the number of parking passes for El Zaribah this year, but I can tell you that this same committee is also trying their best to help El Zaribah while in the parade as well as trying to afford us more TV coverage.  We were thrown a couple of other curves for the parade that we had to deal with but most of the Nobles have chosen to take a positive approach to our roadblocks as opposed to pulling out of the parade.  We’ve learned a lot from these complications this year and I am quite sure the Divan will act on them for the following years in a positive manner.

The Divan and  the Most Worshipful Grand Master, are doing their part to help and will meet at the Temple to carpool.  We have a 12 passenger van and at this time have 5 seats available if you would like a ride.  We will depart the Temple at 8:30 AM on Saturday morning for the parade.  If you would like to ride with us, please contact me via my cell phone number below.

We’re looking at a low temperature of 48 degrees and a high temperature of 72 degrees on Saturday.

Don’t forget, at the end of the parade we will head back to El Zaribah for Sloppy Joe Sandwiches, Slaw, Beans, Chips and desserts.  Your spouses are also welcome to join the Divan Ladies, who will open the Temple at 10:00 AM with hot chocolate, coffee and snacks.  The parade begins at 11:00 am on ABC Channel 15.

Thank you again for supporting El Zaribah and the 2011 Fiesta Bowl Parade.

Fraternally,

Tom Calvin, Potentate

El Zaribah Shriners

Is It What's WRONG With These Kids? Or What's RIGHT With These Kids?

Jeffrey Gitomer

Kids!
I don't know what's wrong with these kids today!
Kids!
Who can understand anything they say?
Kids!
They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs!
Noisy, crazy, dirty, lazy, loafers!
While we're on the subject:
Kids!
You can talk and talk till your face is blue!
Kids!
But they still just do what they want to do!
Why can't they be like we were,
Perfect in every way?
What's the matter with kids today?

Those are the lyrics from the song "Kids," from the Broadway play Bye Bye Birdie, written by Lee Adams. And while you may think they were written about today's generation of kids, the song was written in 1959 - more than 50 years ago. In 1959 there was no computers, cell phones, Internet, Super Mario, cable TV, or fax machines - and of course no iPods.

Most companies have multi-generational salespeople and multi-generational customers. The more experienced salespeople and sales managers are always criticizing or blaming youth for what they are not, what they don't bring to the table, what's wrong with them, and why they're not more like "us."

It's referred to as a "generation gap." And for the most part it's self-imposed. Self-imposed generational gaps are caused by a failure to understand, embrace, and communicate. An easier way to describe it is: "It's not like what we do, therefore it's wrong." And that statement can be made from one group to another and vice-versa.

FACT: Generation gaps are timeless. They apply to EVERY generation of kids and adults for the past 200 years.

These days, people over 40 have tried to segment kids by category. Gen-this or gen-that. How about "gen-smart" or "they're a generation smarter than we are"?

How about "gen-impatient" or "they're a generation with no patience for anyone (including employers - maybe even including you) who doesn't get it"?

Montana Shriners bring Cheer

The Shriners Hospital has the power to cheer people up, regardless of the time of year, but they made the holiday season even more cheerful for a few football players by naming them to the 2012 East West Shrine Game All Star roster. The game will be played July 21, 2012 in Great Falls. It is one of the oldest high school all-star football games in the United States. Scroll down to see the roster.

Hit Of The Week: former Shrine Game All Star Matt Miller, the former Capital guy, now playing for Boise State, played a big role in the Broncos beat-down of Arizona State. He caught a touchdown, then later in the half he threw one...and his team won easily over a few guys with Montana ties themselves...56-24 the final.

Masons hold installation of officers

Masons hold installation of officers

Pull Tabs » Shrine Club of Southeastern Mass

Pull Tabs » Shrine Club of Southeastern Mass

What is you Shrine club doing to raise money for the Shriners Hospital for Children or the Transporation Fund?

Pull-Tabs for Kids

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The Shriner’s collect the pull-tabs for four reasons, first, it allows others to help without additional cost to them. Second, because it allows people to help while keeping the can which they can still turn back in to recover the full redemption fee. Third, by recycling the aluminum, the Shriner’s are being environmentally friendly (It requires approximately 15% of the energy to recycle the already refined aluminum rather than mine new aluminum). Most importantly, it also is another way to help kids receive world class-care at the Shriner’s Hospitals for Children. The Aleppo Shriner’s (our parent organization) have collected over 15 tons of pull tabs and have raised over $310,000 in a single year to provide transportation to the Shriner’s Hospitals. The Shrine Club of Southeastern Mass recently submitted over 2 1/2 tons (about 5.8 million pull-tabs) to be recycled. Because our goal is continuing we need your help by dropping off pull-tabs

LeeAnn Has held Car-Ne-Fair at the SHC-LA several times

Three Humanitarians Help Kids Read

Zahra Universe- Recording Artist, Lee Ann Butler-Owens- Lullalee Founder(reading non-profit) Sandy Masin ( Give the World your Heart- non-profit) Raise awareness for positive Teen Messages in 2012. Masin and Butler-Owens, co-authored " Journey to Lushland". A book for all to read. Zahra just released her CD Falling in Love. 

"My heartbeats and music really connected with Lee Ann and Sandy heartbeats to help launch their book for a great cause for children worldwide,” Zahra announced.” What’s better than kids falling in love with reading while counting their positive heartbeats to focus on learning? This is a song unto itself with never ending lyrics.” 
“In a world where children are faced daily with a barrage of negativity, Happy Heartbeats Counter™ Journey To Lushland encourages children the means of connection by all the positive things that they and others do each day," stated Sandy Masin, Founder of Give The World Your Heart, a 501(c)(3) non-profit company. "This creates a positive, self-satisfying atmosphere for learning and life. All you really have to do is very simple. Just take a little time, get involved, record your heartbeats into the counter and enjoy what you did that day." 
"I see counting total positive heartbeats as a fun way to maintain the trust of a child’s focus to learn with educators and parents alike" remarked Lee Ann Butler Owens, founder of Lullalee Productions and Services. "Many children just need positive influences in their lives to learn and our book Journey to Lushland delivers this important message" 
About Zahra Universe: 
With tremendous vocal and piano talent, songwriting skills, looks and determination, Zahra has her own style and place in the music world combining all of these aspects for an incredible and powerful message. To speak through her music, have fun, and get the world involved in a variety of humanitarian issues facing our world of today and tomorrow is the constant goal. 
Zahra first hit the pop-music scene with her R&B/pop club and radio hits "Drop" and "Up in da Club". Now with a twist of dance-pop flavor, Zahra bursts through the club speakers and music airways with her dance/pop singles and 3D music videos "Falling in Love" and "Dancin by the Fire" which will be followed by more hit tracks from her forthcoming album in 2012. Just like the title, this hot album is full of modern dance rhythms, explosive lyrics, strong yet sensual vocals, with a touch of mystery and exotic spice. 
About Give The World Your Heart 
Give The World Your Heart, Inc. (www.GTWYH.org), a 501(c)(3) non-profit company, founder and producers of Give The World Your Heart TV (www.GTWYH.TV) an Internet TV Channel dedicated to the community of people interested in participating in positive, healthy activities to help themselves and others improve the planet and tally their heartbeats while doing so. 
Give The World Your Heart TV viewers enjoy positive motivational programming, live webcasts, music video, documentaries and shows from participants from all over the globe, that encourage viewers to send their heartbeats in an effort to grow a new health heartbeat counting measurement called Total Gratitude Heartbeat Counter. 
Recently announced a new Diabetics study for participation in our DEEPEST activities and count heartbeats for the world heartbeat counter will Feel Better, reduce HbA1C levels, show more daily glucose levels in normal range and report feeling better both physically and emotionally. See replay of press release found here. 
Give The World Your Heart key focus is on positive programs for kids including wellness and lowering obesity. 
Lullalee Productions and Services 
Lullalee/PS 501(c)3 operating in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, has a six year history of community service delivering art and literacy programs and special events that have touched the lives of thousands of children and their families. Lullalee has donated over $700,000.00 in books and services to children nationwide.

Raiderettes at Shriners Hospitals for Children

By Rebecca Corman

Posted Dec 20, 2011Nine Raiderettes spent time with the kids at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Sacramento, Calif.

Nine Raiderettes visited Shriners Hospital for Children.Photo by Tony Gonzales

Recently, Raiderettes Annie, Bess, Chanel, Diana, Kathleen, Lytisha, Mallorie, Sarah Marie, and Tori, visited Shriners Hospitals for Children® — Northern California in Sacramento, Calif. Football’s Fabulous Females performed for the patients and their families, visited the ICU, posed for photos, and spent time in the activities room with the kids. The nine Raiderettes brought positive energy and smiles to the hospital.

According to Catherine Curran, Director, Public Relations at Shriners Hospitals for Children, “Shriners Hospitals for Children — Northern California provides expert care to children with orthopaedic conditions, spinal cord injuries, burns, cleft lip & palate and scars from any cause. It is one of 22 medical centers in the Shriners system, and it is the only Shriners Hospital that provides care in all disciplines and houses a scientific research program.  The Northern California Shriners Hospitals for Children opened in Sacramento in April 1997 and since then more than 45,000 children have benefited from the hospital’s life-saving, life-changing care.”

The Raiderettes wanted to spend time with the patients and bring some holiday spirit. “We’re here at Shriners Hospital in Sacramento bringing the kids some good feelings and visiting all of them, taking pictures, and dancing with them,” said Raiderette Bess. “It’s been a lot of fun and it’s really making us feel great seeing their eyes light up and seeing them having fun. They are so full of energy and so full of life. It’s so awesome to be here.”

Football’s Fabulous Females started out their visit by performing two routines in the activities center where the patients normally go to play and get away from the monotony of their hospital rooms. “It’s kind of a safe area for the patients,” said Activities Coordinator Kristin Barna about the activities center. “They don’t have to worry about doing therapy while they’re here or having a nursing procedure. And it’s also a spot where they get to choose what they do because when you’re in the hospital, you don’t control why you’re here or what happens to you so when they come to our area, they get to choose the things they like to do and participate in. So that’s really important.”

A large group of kids and their parents came to the activities center to watch and meet the Raiderettes. “This is probably one of the largest groups I have seen down here in quite some time,” said Christine Johnson, another Activities Coordinator at Shriners. “I think there’s a few kids today that I saw smile for the first time since they’ve been here, which is really rewarding, especially some of these kids whose injuries are pretty recent and seeing them really open up and light up has been awesome.”

	Raiderette Annie puts a smile on the young patient's face. Photo by Tony Gonzales

Following their performance, the Raiderettes posed for photos before splitting into two groups. One group stayed downstairs to play games and dance with the patients, while the other group went upstairs to the ICU to meet patients who were unable to leave their rooms. “There were a lot of really, really amazing kids we got to meet,” said Raiderette Mallorie. “We spent a lot of one-on-one time with them and then a few of us went up to the ICU to meet some kids that weren’t able to come down. We met the biggest Raiders fan ever. He had a Raiders Snuggie, a Raiders pillow pet, every kind of Raiders hat, everything. It was adorable. On his wall, it was just his birthday, so he had lots of fun stuff in there. And even though he wasn’t able to talk to us, he was smiling the whole time. Parents were really excited to see us here. We’re so happy to be here.”

Having the Raiderettes at Shriners was not only fun for everyone involved, but also important for the patients. “It means a whole lot for the kids to have something different in their day to feel like they’re still connected to the community, that they’re not just isolated in the hospital,” said Barna. “We just have some huge Raiders fans, one kid upstairs particularly. So for him, during his healing process, to have such a positive thing and a big experience in his hospitalization, it’s just something he’ll always look back on and hopefully it’ll bring a positive light to his hospitalization.”

The Raiderettes were happy that they were able to make an impact on some of the patients and their families. “It’s a wonderful feeling because a lot of the kids don’t get to get out and for us to bring some new surroundings for them is a joy,” said Raiderette Tori. “To see how happy they are – we had one little one following us everywhere. It’s fun to be here with them. It was a great day.”