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Desktop Edition 3443 South Galena St., Denver, Colorado

Membership Report Creations: 6

Restorations: 1 Demits: 2 Expired: 6

Total Membership (including Associates) as of

10/31/2016: 1237

November 14

Family Night & Hospital Report

The Luna Family will be with us. Their 10 year old daughter Annie has been in our Shrine Hospital program for the past 5 years.

Please RSVP for Dinner on website or call the office.

From the Leadership Team at El Jebel

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Today is November 1st, it is hard to believe that summer has come and gone and it will be the New Year in just 60 days.

Our last parades of the year are coming up. We have the Veteran’s Day Parade in downtown Denver on November 12th. We will stage at 13th and Fox at 8:30AM. See the pa-rade corner for more details. The second parade that day will be at the Bass Pro Shop in Northfield at 4:00PM. They are bringing Santa Claus in and would like our help. If you can make it please notify Perry Mittler. These two functions are on the same day as the Reunion at the Consistory, we will be spread rather thin so please help if possible.

The Denver Consistory is holding their Reunion November 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th. El Jebel Shrine is providing the cast members for the 4th Degree. This will be held on November 10th at 8:00AM. If you need more information on the Reunion check the Consistory web site calendar.

El Jebel will hold our election of Officers for 2017 on December 12th. This is our regular meeting night. We will have a program for the Ladies while we have the election. If you are joining us for dinner, please R.S.V.P. We must have a solid head count so our caterer will be able to prepare the correct number of meals. To R.S.V.P. either call the office or sign up on line.

In addition to the two parades in November we will have our normal Stated Meeting. This will be a Family Night with our Hospital Report. We will have a representative from the Salt Lake City Hospital as our guest speaker. This will be an informative meeting. If you are joining us for dinner, please R.S.V.P. We must have a solid head count so our caterer will prepare the correct number of meals. To R.S.V.P. either call the office or sign up on line.

We had a couple of events in October, the stated meeting and the fall ceremonial. The Stated Meeting was October 10th. We presented several 50 year certificates. This was a well-deserved honor for these Nobles. We also presented Jewels of El Jebel to several hard-working Nobles that have put in many hours supporting El Jebel Shrine. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication for our Shrine. In addition, we had our Fall Ceremonial October 15th. We created six new Nobles that Saturday. This was our first Ceremonial in our new location. We had several Units present to show the new guys some of our vehicles/ Inner Bodies. All in all, things went very well.

The build out of the building is moving along slowly, but moving forward. We have re-located the Shrine offices to their permanent location in the north end of the building on the first floor. The renovation of the restrooms on the second floor has been completed so they are back in business. We still have some cabinets to install and a little plumbing to complete. The good news is that we will have the sound system in operation for the stated meeting.

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El Jebel Shrine Stated Meeting October 10, 2016

The October stated Meeting was preceded

by a dinner for all nobles and their families at

6:00 pm. The caterer informed us that he had left

a tray of Meat Loaf at his restaurant and it was

too late to go get it. Needless to say about 26

Nobles and ladies did not have any Meat Loaf.

Bethel 18, Job’s daughters did an excellent job of

providing service to us. The Pledge of Allegiance

to the Flag of our Nation was led by Larry Clark,

Potentate followed by our National Anthem sung

by the Chanters.

The Potentate introduced all the Past Po-

tentates who were in attendance; Illustrious Don

Sichterman, Jack Patton, Steve Tucker, Dick Wil-

liams, Tony Dattilo and Ed Rendon.

Illustrious Sir Tony Dattilo presented a

check to the Potentate on behalf of the El Jebel

Pipe Band. He explained how an outside lodge

in Wheatland, Wyoming invited the Pipe Band to

play. The Wheatland Lodge had some 600 ma-

sons in attendance and it was a beautiful setting,

flags from each of the Military Services were on

display, and those flags were flown at half mass

to honor the police officers who had fallen. The

Wyoming Grand Line was also in attendance. The

Pipe Band played twenty minutes, the masons in

attendance passed the hat around to cover gas

expense for the band and were quite insistent

they take it. They agreed with the understanding

they will be donating it to the Shrine Hospital.

1st Ceremonial Master Bob Salazar updated

the Nobles on the Ceremonial scheduled for Octo-

ber 15th, 7:00 am they begin setup, 8:00 am will

start with breakfast burritos, followed by the cere-

monial at 9:00 am and finishing with some sand-

wiches. Bob announced that we had 7 new No-

bles. Bob also announced that there would be no

parade; however units are encouraged to bring

their vehicle and promote their parade unit.

Illustrious Potentate presented the Jewel of

El Jebel to Loren Kohler, Nomar Tejera, Donald

Myers and Ryan Puckett, Jewel of Honor to Lloyd

Newland and Chris Weymouth, Gold Ribbons to

Noble Bob Stretch & Gary Gosage. He presented

50 Year recognition awards to Illustrious Sir Rich-

ard Williams, PP, Claude Akridge, Louis Mozer and

Edward Richards.

It was announced that the Children’s

Christmas party will be held at the Highlands Ma-

sonic Lodge on Federal Blvd on December 4 being

at 1:00 pm. Our Illustrious Sir Tony Dattilo will

again serve as our Santa Claus.

Chief Rabban Rich Silver announced that

the Installation of Officers for 2017 will be held on

January 7, at the Hilton Garden Inn, Denver Tech

Center. Cost will be $35 a person. Festivities will

begin at 5:30 pm. Notices will be coming out and

requests the nobility to sign up early.

Illustrious Potentate announced that on

February 4th & 5th we will be making our Grand

Junction trip. There will be a special Scottish Rite

presentation that evening.

It was announced the Annual National

Western Stock Show will be held on January 13;

tickets will be available soon.

At this time the Potentate invited all non-

nobles to be excused to their special meeting and

the stated meeting was opened in due form by

the Potentate at 7:30 pm.

Rich Silver presented the 2017 Budget.

Copies were distributed to all nobles. He went

over the line item budget. Illustrious Sir Dick Wil-

liams raised a point of order and said that accord-

ing to Imperial bylaws section 334.4 section E we

cannot vote on the budget, it would be needed to

be done at a stated meeting in December or at

the Annual Meeting. We will vote on the budget

in December.

Chief Rabban reported that the final num-

bers were not in but an estimated guess would be

that we made between 40 – 45K on Sportsman

raffle.

It was announced that the DARAJA unit

received an award from Broomfield Parade.

Potentate Larry Clark encourages all No-

bles to come out Saturday, November 12 for the

Veterans Day Parade. The Scottish Rite reunion

will also be going on that weekend. More infor-

mation will be coming out about the parade when

available. At our December meeting we will have

the election of 2017 officers and budget vote.

Thanks were given to the Chanters for bringing

their sound system for us to use at the meeting.

Our Building is slowly coming around, the hang-

up is with our plumbing contractor who comes in

after the restroom are tiled and cabinets are in.

Our offices have moved into their new facilities.

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MARK YOUR CALENDER *El Jebel Installation–Hilton 2017 Garden Inn– Saturday, January 7 *Western Colorado Shrine Club Installation – Wine Country Inn – Saturday & Sunday February 4th & 5th Full Details to follow at a later time.

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Arab Patrol Chuck Schumacher

Band

Steve Munsinger Hank Hahne

Keystone Kops

Janet Silver Pat Graves Mike Katich Nick Katich

Penny Wheeler

Jeffco Shrine Club Gary Jewell

Loveland Shrine Club

Pauline Lavengood Marie McCloughan

Thad McDonald

Legion of Honor Wally Reid Russ Gray

Neva Frohlick

Provost Guard Mary Evans

Ben Hartman Mary Trevathan

Boots Lewis

RV Roamers Diane Crook Pat Graves Jim Ashley

Sandy Hogan Ben Hartman

Rich Talkington Larry Crook Jean Ashley

Radops

Richard Anderton Judy Asay Wally Hill

Sue Wright

Sports Joel Roche

T-Nobles

Richard Wenzel

Calendar of Events

November 12 Veteran’s Day Parade 10-12 Consistory Reunion 14 Family Night—Hospital Report 19 Operation FreeBird

December 4 Children’s Christmas Party 12 Stated Meeting/Elections

El Jebel Shrine e-mails

Recorder—recorder@eljebel.org

Circus—fundraising@eljebel.org

Susan Boles—office@eljebel.org

Red Fez articles—office@eljebel.org

Accounting—director@eljebel.org

Calendar—office@eljebel.org

Points—points@eljebel.org

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THE RED FEZ

Desktop Edition 201611

Larry Clark

Illustrious Potentate

ELECTED DIVAN Richard Silver Chief Rabban John Zeaphey Assistant Rabban Ric Dena High Priest & Prophet Joe Castellano Oriental Guide Bill Schwartz Treasurer Jay Bobick Recorder

APPOINTED DIVAN Bob Salazar 1st Ceremonial Master Loren Kohler 2nd Ceremonial Master Perry Mittler Marshal James Dawkins Captain of the Guard Dave Krogh Outer Guard Ron Dunsmore Director Jim Oliver Chaplain

LIVING PAST POTENTATES Lee E. Schlessman (1970)

Robert G. Van Male (1988) Thomas D. Palmer (1989)

Jack D. Patten (1990) Steve Tucker Jr. (1991)

Richard E. Williams (1993) Amer Plaisted (1994)

Dr. David Powell (1997) Jim Lear (1998)

Michael G. Severe (1999) Jim Fitzpatrick (2000)

Ron Cosens (2003) Richard Karns (2004-2005)

Clint Dexter (2006) Tony Dattilo (2007) Fred Taylor (2008) Jim Stewart (2009) Ed Rendon (2010)

Dennis Proctor (2011) Jim Long (2012)

Matthew Raia (2013)

Phil Hause (2014) Michael Trevathan (2015)

PUBLICATION STAFF

Susan Boles - Editor 455-3470 John Zeaphey - Associate Editor– Desktop —Website Ron Dunsmore - Photographer Tony Dattilo, PP - Feature Writer Advisory Committee - Tony Dattilo, PP

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will be mailed to you for an annual fee of $15.00

There was a friend whose heart was good.

He walked with men and understood.

His was a voice that spoke with cheer, And felt like music on the ear.

His was a smile men loved to see; His was a hand that asked no fee For friendliness or kindness done. And now that he has jour-neyed on, His is a fame that never ends---He leaves behind uncounted friends.

Passed thru the Unseen Portals

In Memoriam

“Our beloved Brethren live on in new and more glorious life and service. We carry their influence in our lives and their memories in our hearts. They are not forgotten.”

Jack V. Branson

John T. Howard

David M. Naiman

Troy R. Pollard

Robert W. Shackleton

Robert L. Ullery, Sr. P.P.

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Caring Ladies - By Lindy Wazny

Fall seemed to arrive on 12 October. We met at Perkins with twelve present including Illustrious Sir Larry Clark and his wife Carol. There was only one past president in attend-ance.

Next month Illustrious Sir Larry will install our new officers. We will meet at the Chalet in Wheat Ridge.

Clowns - By "Cuddles" Swede Nelson

Three kinds of clowns have been dis-cussed, and now a separate group is going to be discussed. It is the "Jester." The confus-ing question is: Is a jester a clown or not? I hope to answer that for you.

First, a peek at the history of jesters: they have been identified as early as 100 BC. They were especially well known in China, but they flourished in Europe in medieval times. Even Shakespeare wrote about them. How-ever, they began to die out in the 18th centu-ry in England. One man, Samuel Johnson (1691-1773) is recorded "as the last paid English jester."

Describing their work: the jester (also called a joker) makes people laugh; a clown is being laughed at. Another difference: the jester is a POSITION. A clown doesn't need permis-sion to be a clown. Being a clown is an OC-CUPATION or a SELF-IDENTIFYING label and occasionally an INSULT ("What a bunch of court jesters!" doesn't have the same ring to it) as one historian states. Relating to the jesting job as positions, their work was called jesting "duties."

By making people laugh, they were irrever-ent, self-indulgent, witty, clever, roguish, goad to the wise and challenge to the virtu-ous. They were a juggler, confidant, scape-goat, prophet and counselor all in one. A court jester was a universal phenomenon in China, India, Russia, Africa and America (recall, if you will, clowns were largely in Eu-rope with some in Russia.)

It is of interest to note that jesters have al-ways been men. The original clowns in cir-cuses and Hobo clowns, were also men; how-ever, in recent decades, there are great num-bers of women involved in clowning. The Col-orado Clown Association has a very high per-centage of women performing as clowns for their many events.

El Jebel Computer Club - By George Van Trump

The Oct 12 meeting was started with lunch at Kennedy Golf Club. Following lunch, the group convened to El Jebel for the business meeting and a program with 9 members and guests present. The pledge was given; the treasurer’s report was read and approved. A discussion was held about the photo shoot at the upcoming Children’s Christmas party. Jim Taylor briefed the group on the construction status of the new El Jebel building.

After the business meeting, Ken Behrens gave a talk on Virtual Machines, showing vid-eos on the machines and its applications.

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, Nov 8 with lunch at 11:30 a.m. at Olive Gar-den restaurant, 2390 S. Havana, Aurora. The meeting will follow at the new El Jebel build-ing. Club officers will be nominated and elected. Bill Greene will give a talk on “Cinnamon” operating system and it ad-vantages.

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All Shriners are invited to attend and join our Club; dues are just $12.00 per year; 1st year’s dues are free for new members. Wives and guests are always welcome.

If you have any questions, please contact George Van Trump at 303-232-3542 or at Jo42George@outlook.com.

Directors Staff - By Don Douglass

Things for all Nobles and Ladies,

At the retirement community that I live in, there are four elevators and each one con-tains the same quote of the day. Sometimes they make sense and other times they do not. I will try to pick out a couple during the month that I think you might enjoy and pass it along to you.

Quote – “And all at once summer collapsed into fall.” – Oscar Wilde

Quote – “Life is an endless process of Self-discovery.” – James Gardner

Quote- “True beauty lies not upon gilded ve-neers, but found in the soul within.” – E. A. Bucchianeri

Quote- “Be the hero of your own life story.” – Gerard Butler

Stated Shrine Meetings -

Please see the Red Fez for details, and future happenings

Director’s Staff Monthly Business Meeting –

Please see the Monthly Business meeting minutes to know the location of our next eat-ing and business meeting location(s).

Work nights -

Our Director will notify us, as to where and when we need to meet for a work night.

Parades

Our last parade for 2016 is the Veteran’s Day Parade on November 05, 2016. Please attend if possible.

Also, please do not forget that we have oper-ation freebird scheduled on November 19, 2016, please plan on attending.

Nobles and Ladies, let’s keep everyone that is under the weather, as well as, our men and women fighting to protect our freedom, and those members of law enforcement, fire fight-

ers, and paramedics in our thoughts and prayers.

Drovers - Noble Wayland L. Britt, Report-ing

Enjoyed the new temple. Looking forward to Veterans Day parade. We are hoping to get some horses that parade. We are looking for some new members for our Drover group. Remember, there is no need to own a horse. We have a wagon that can carry unhorsed drovers while we ride horseback with the wagon. Oh no, Holiday Season again!!! Otis, our trail boss is planning a Christmas Party this year. We hope to see all the Drovers and their families at the event.

See you cowboys on the Trail.

Englewood Shrine Club - by Don Phelps

Our pajama party is over. If you weren't there, you missed a great evening. We got another surprise for November. We are going to the Mystery Dinner Theater on November 12th. We would like for you to join us, but you will have to make your own reservations with the theater, just call 303-455-7848 and tell them that you want to sit with the Eng-lewood Shrine Club. The theater is located at 2406 Federal Blvd. Denver 80211. The play is 'The Curse of Pirate Island". The doors open at 6:00 and the mystery characters enter at 6:30. The cost is $45 per person.

Our Christmas party will be on December 10th. It will be at the Eckley ranch. The cost is $25 with drinks included. I will have more information in the December Red Fez.

The Club is no longer participating with the Nile in the Bus to Black Hawk, due to of lack of interest.

Jeffco Shrine Club - By Jimm Cram During our luncheon on September 28th, the decision was made to accept the invitation from the Optars to attend their Christmas Party on December 6th at the Homestead Golf Course. Details of this festivity will be mailed out by November. We also discussed aspects of the possibility of merging with another Shrine Interbody. Finally, President Herb held the nomination and election of officers for 2017. New officers will be named and in-stalled in January. Herb Schillereff reported a very rewarding and interesting Honor Flight tour to Washing-ton D.C. in September. Veterans very much appreciate seeing and learning about the War Memorials. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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is especially significant - the changing of the guard and presentation of the memorial wreath are profoundly moving. Four mem-bers of the Club have had the privilege of tak-ing an Honor Flight: Chapin Blake, Lewis Maxson, Jim Cram, and now Herb. It is in-teresting to note that the General Eisenhower Memorial is under construction and will be dedicated on June 6th, 2019, the 75th Anni-versary of D-Day. A Get Well Wish is extended to several of our members. Glenn Moore is now recovering from a severe reaction to an epidural shot to relieve back pain. The iodine in the medica-tion put Glenn into a coma for two days. He was in the hospital for 5 days and in rehabili-tation for 21 days. He is now home and ex-pects to attend our Wednesday luncheons soon. Jack Russell reports that the ulcer on his foot is much improved and the visiting nurse now comes only three times each week. Gary Jewell experienced severe pain in his left arm and elbow and was admitted to the hos-pital for two nights for evaluation. They cor-rected his blood count and he is back to a normal schedule. Keystone Kops - By Larry N. Clark

The Kop’s parade season is winding down. We’ve had a very busy, fun filled time this year. There have been Kops in parades, picnics, social functions, Ceremonials, and of course Keystone Kops meetings.

The Kops held their election of Officers for 2017 at our October meeting. The 2016 Officers did so well that we decided to keep them over for 2017. The only men that tried to protest were the 2016 Officers but they were over ruled and will be in office next year.

We did recruit a new member at the Ceremonial, Aaron welcome to the Kops. His first line signer, Skip Bush, attended the Cer-emonial along with Mike Katich to cheer him on and to collect his Kop’s petition.

The Kops are planning on being at both parades in November. The Veterans Day pa-rade will stage at 8:30AM at 13th and Fox. The Bass Pro Xmas parade at Northfield will be at 4:00PM. Check the parade corner for more details. The uniform is our normal Kops parade uniform. If you don’t have a Kops suit yet, Aaron, bring your Fez and we will get you a ride in the parades.

See you at the meeting November 11th. This is a different meeting date, as we had to

change due to several scheduling conflicts with our regular meeting night.

Legion of Honor - by Don Phelps

The Legion of Honor started their fall ses-sion on September 27th with seven people for lunch and nine people at the meeting. All of-ficers were present. We discussed the sale of our trailer and several other topics. A nomi-nating committee was appointed to develop a slate of officers for 2017. We also voted to install our officers at the Potentate's installa-tion in January. If you would like more infor-mation about this unit contact our Command-er Dave King at 303-570-2651. At the El Jeb-el Shrine meeting October 10th, Past Com-mander Bob Stretch received his Gold collar and 2nd. Lt. Commander/ Past Commander Ed Richards received his 50-year pin.

Loveland Shrine Club - by Bob Cooper

In our circle of roses this month are Earle and Margaret Zander celebrating their 69th anniversary! That's a LOTTA love; congrats and enjoy your day, Zanders!

At our October meeting, reports were read and approved; there is good news that Jim Smith's pacemaker is doing fine. The let-ter from Imperial was discussed and all our financial reports (however small) were all filed on time and we are square.

It's good to be street legal.........

It has been found that El Jebel's records of our meeting place and dates has been out of date for a few years; our prez Bill will pub-lish a correction in the Fez soon for all to see.

As always, call Thad @ 970-669-3069 or Bill @ 970-347-7480 for correct reservation info.

Agenda for the meeting this month will include election of officers, and suspension of members who are in dues arrears. Also, ideas for activities in the upcoming year will be dis-cussed.

About the time this Fez reaches you, the election should be finished and this every-four-year-bout with brain damage will be put to rest; good luck to us all, lots at stake.

Gotta leave now, am nursing the worst cold I ever had.

----"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking"------ --John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006---

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The Loveland Shrine Club Of El Jebel

Meetings with dinner are the second Wednesday of every month, except June, Ju-ly, and August. Social time starting at 6:00 P.M. Call to order and dinner served at 6:30. Please call Thad McDonald for a dinner reser-vation.

We meet at Longs Peak Masonic Lodge, 4350 South County Road 15-H, Campion, Colorado 80537.

The Loveland Shrine Club of El Jebel is a so-cial club for all Shriners, their ladies, widows, and friends. Longs Peak Lodge is in the com-munity of Campion, between Berthoud and Loveland, and serve as a connection to El Jebel for Shriners in the Northern Colorado region of Longmont, Berthoud, Loveland, Greeley, and Fort Collins. We are a friendly group and extend a warm invitation for you to join us.

Please contact:

President and Secretary, Bill Hutchison. 970-347-7480. Billhutchison_lsc@aim.com.

Treasurer, Thad McDonald. 970-669-3069.

Medical Staff—by Tom Shotts

Our last Outreach Clinic at PSL/Rocky Mountain Children’s Hospital was Friday, Sep-tember 2, 2016. At that Clinic we saw 42 kids of which 2 went to Salt Lake City. Our schedule is changing; the Outreach Clinics will now be quarterly rather than every other month. Our next clinic will be December 2, 2016.

On Saturday November 5th we will be at-tending, as an exhibitor, the “Colorado Assoc. of School Nurses” Conference in Loveland. We have purchased space, obtained a case of brochures from Tampa and will run a DVD on a loop on a laptop. Our purpose is to make theses Nurses, who see more kids than we could ever come in contact with, aware of the Shrine Hospitals. We want them to be aware of the availability, services, and the toll free number. We will have several members there to make actual contact with these Nurses and be able to answer any questions they may have.

Until next month, best wishes and good health.

NORTHEAST Colorado Shrine Club

Charlie Johnson – Reporter

It is certainly natural when Masons meet to discuss current news. Well, I have noticed as we progress into the ‘twilight time’ for this year’s election cycle, that Masons resist put-ting forth an opinion on the candidates. At least in our Masonic meetings and gather-ings, and that is how it should be and for good reason…to avoid any controversy to di-vide our association as Brothers. Most ob-serve this time honored tradition and if not, there is usually a friendly voice whispering ‘good counsel’ at an appropriate moment. For those who embrace Facebook, it is anoth-er story. I know it is your right to say what-ever you want and that your status as an American citizen protects that right but…When I read a controversial post condemning my political views or my idea of a candidate, it stings. My positive thoughts about the ‘poster’ are tainted, especially when I have sit in Lodge with that person and value the same philosophy concerning my life experi-ences. IT ISN’T A DEAL BREAKER by any means because our Masonic bond is stronger than any of the many things that divide us. Try to keep that in mind as you interact in the public venue.

Our recent business meeting was com-pleted in an efficient manner as we heard re-ports from representatives of local Lodges, York Rite and Scottish Rite bodies sharing their upcoming activities. We listened to the minutes, paid all our bills, and we shared some discussion on items of local interest. It was soon time for all to go to work so we de-parted with Peace and Harmony prevailing.

As most of you know, our club meets for breakfast each month and we often bring our Masonic friends to join us. So, our standing invitation is offered to all Masons to meet with us on the second Monday of the month at 6:00 a.m. at the Sinclair Overland Trail Café at the Atwood Exit #115 off I-76. We guarantee a hearty breakfast with lots of friendly Shriners.

Northern Seven Shrine Club

By George Van Trump

The Oct 14 meeting was held at the McCoy’s Restaurant, Denver, CO, with 9 members and guests present; several mem-bers had other arrangements. The meeting was started with the Pledge and a prayer.

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The Treasurer’s report was read and ap-proved. Sickness among the Club members was reviewed. It was noted that Jean Taylor had passed away and that Phyllis Campbell will have a knee replacement soon. Jim Oliver, our divan rep, spoke about the happening at El Jebel.

The next meeting will be held at 11:30 am on Friday, Nov 11 at McCoy’s Restaurant, 4855 Federal Blvd, Denver. Reservations are required by calling at Wes Campbell 303 423-7264 or Don Burback at 303-452-2137. All are invited to attend this meeting including wives and guests. Shriners are encouraged to join. Dues are $15.00 per year; the 1st year’s dues are free for new members. The dues for 2017 are due.

If you have any questions, please contact George Van Trump at 303-232-3542 or at JoGeorge@q.com.

OPTARS—By J & J Taylor

Our October meeting on the 4th was held in the new Shrine Center. We had a dilemma to start with---our presentation room was locked! So after hunting around we ended up on 3rd floor, where the Band practices. But since it was so cold, we migrated to the break room, where our 13 members and guests en-joyed the pizza that Morenos brought (there were also other items brought by them and Taylors---HOT coffee, ICED tea, ICE Cream, and wine…..) What a meal!

President Jim opened the meeting with intro-duction of 3 guests. There was a review of the Red Rocks photo-shoot held in August; these pictures will be shown and critiqued at the November Optarama, after Ed Hamm ar-ranges them. The slate of new officers was presented and elected (they will be installed in 2017).

The program for the night was “What To Do With Your Photos”, by Ed Hamm. Ed had a very organized talk, with “show and tells”. Since we didn’t have a screen, he showed his slide show on his computer, and hooked it up to Jim’s computer so everyone could view it (see picture). It was very enlightening on what can be done to store pictures.

Our next meeting will be at Davie’s (26th and Kipling), on November 1st, with the Optarama show on their big screen TV. Then on December 6th we have our Christmas din-ner, with entertainment, at Homestead Grill, in Lakewood.

We invite others to join us---just let our Treasurer, George Moreno, know, so he can make the reservations for you (303-455-4174).

Pipe Band—By Kent Burns

Can you believe that here it is already No-vember, and/or we still have temperatures in the sixties and seventies? (‘Course this was written the last week of October, so there is a small chance the weatherman will make a liar out of me for that proclamation). We should enjoy all of this balmy weather because soon the inevitable white stuff will drift down from the sky and somehow that beautiful blanket must be removed from all flat surfaces upon which we must walk or drive. I trust all of you are ready to start shoveling, although I would wager few, if any, are looking forward to it. However, I have a personal anecdote which should at least bring a smile to your face if not actually easing the pain of the shovel.

At the behest of the lady who so desperate-ly tries to keep me in line (especially when she fears that the activity in which I am en-gaged at some point in time may result in a trip to the emergency room), we found an al-

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most-new (in this case with less than three hours of operation) snow blower. It should be noted that the new nomenclature for these devices is “snow thrower” – guess that is now PC as it more accurately describes their ac-tion. So with the help of a good friend with a pickup we brought our newest member of the garage-family to its new home. I thought that it would be wiser to familiarize myself with the intricacies and eccentricities of the new or-ange addition (our snow thrower is orange, not the usual red) in temperatures above the twenty degrees most likely encountered when it was actually first needed. So I picked a nice warm day, checked the oil, added new gas, and thought I would test the “starts on one pull” propaganda handed me by the previous owner. Now I don’t know how your lawn mower works, but with mine, you have to have the dead-man engaged to start the en-gine. This usually means the smaller handle that must be compressed against the main handle or some similar fail-safe device de-signed to prevent the user from causing major damage to his body, the window near which he is trying to start the thing, or anyone in the immediate area. But more importantly, I usu-ally need something to hold onto when pulling the lanyard to keep somewhat vertical and stable. So I latched onto the main handle, got a good grip on the pull-rope (thinking as I did so that there was no dead-man), and pre-pared to prove the “starts on one pull” idea as so much advertising fluff.

As an aside, I must add that someone in the know told me one very good way to keep your diesel injectors clean and well lubricated is to add one gallon of two-cycle motor oil to each forty-gallon diesel fill-up. Walmart is a good place to buy such “additive” and I had recent-ly done so, storing this brand-new gallon of blue-colored not-exactly-cheap oil in the same garage in which I was now about to start my newly-acquired snow thrower. (Anyone get-ting the picture yet?)

Back to the snow-thrower: Guess what? The darned thing actually did start on the first pull! That was a shock. But not as great as the shock that I was inadvertently engaging the drive clutch while holding onto the handle for support. So the stupid thing was now try-ing to drag me across the garage. (Notice that I said the inanimate machine with no brain was the stupid one in this duo, not the human whose brain was in neutral, which is where the transmission should have been.) I was now trying – in vain – to keep this thing from slowly traversing the garage as it made a straight-as-an-arrow approach to the most

expensive thing around – my Excursion. I fi-nally managed to think that maybe, just may-be, if I released the clutch, this Christine wan-nabe might actually stop its relentless journey to the newly replaced grill of the Excursion. So I did. The engine was still running, but its forward progress had stopped. Then I saw this blue flood slowly spreading out from the front of the monster that had so-far gotten the better of me. My first thought was that somehow someone had forgotten to tighten the plug on the transmission and it was now leaking a little fluid. So I tried to turn the thing off by pulling the key. The key is a red-handled thing sticking out of part of the ma-chine near another red-handled thing that is actually the throttle-setting. So when I pulled on the first-available red handle, it simply came off in my hand (it being the aforemen-tioned throttle) and the engine kept right on running and the puddle kept right on getting bigger and I kept right on thinking the trans-mission was leaking all that fluid all over the garage floor, and was now actually flowing down the driveway. Realizing that the first red handle was not the correct one, I grabbed the second one which finally and thankfully stopped the incessant engine. I was now able to go to the front of this orange monster and found that the transmission was not leaking, but the ravenous thrower had munched the brand-new one-gallon jug of two-cycle motor oil and the whole gallon is slowly making its way down the drive. The only thing handy was a show shovel (how appropriate) so I grabbed that and shoved the oil off onto the landscape rocks so it wouldn’t ruin the con-crete drive.

About this time, the aforementioned lady came sauntering out to congratulate me on getting our new “toy” started, only to see the disaster it had created. I said “it” because I in no way want to acknowledge any culpability in this little (mis)-adventure. I asked for cat litter which she ran to the basement and brought back. Thought the best thing to do was to let the cat litter soak up as much oil as possible, then clean it up later. The dishwash-ing soap Dawn is touted as a grease-cutter and was actually used to help clean up the slightly-larger Exxon oil spill, including clean-ing all the birds. So off to Walmart to get a big bottle of Dawn.

A bottle of Dawn, a new scrub brush, sore knees, and dish-pan hands later, and all I have to show for that five minutes of fun is a clean, yet still-black section of concrete gar-age floor and driveway. And the orange mon-ster sits there with its yawning maw as

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though it is laughing at the havoc it wrought! Anyone know how to clean up an oil spill?

October was a pretty slow month for the Band with only one performance, thus the snow thrower story to fill in. Due to members being other-wise engaged, we even canceled some practices. November promises to be a bit busier (which will make readers happy in that they will not be confronted with another inane personal story). Starting with a perfor-mance for the Aspen Crossing Elementary fundraiser for the Rocky Mountain Honor Flight on Friday, the Band then has several performances on Veterans Day, concluding with the Veterans Day Passport to Hope Gala at Wings Over the Rockies. The next day, Saturday, we have a concert with the Rocky Mountain Brassworks in the Lakewood Event Center. This is our “play-with-brass fix” since our joint performances with the AFA cadets are few and far between, the next (and only one) being in Aspen next January.

For those of you still with me here’s wishing all a very happy Thanksgiving. May you and yours enjoy the feast of the day, and the warmth and comfort of hearth and home.

El Jebel Provost Guard—By PPM Ed Rich-ards

Well I am back again, but a little late as usual. We have already had our Shrine Octo-ber meeting, which was a family get together. It turned our really well especially for me, as I received my 50-year pin and Certificate. We are going to have our Provost meeting this month on the 16th of October at our usual meeting place, Malone’s Restaurant at 5PM. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention CSSA! We had one couple that went to the Convention and that would be our Director Ron Dunsmore and his Lady Patty. Ron got to shoot with an-other Temple and brought back an Award for shotgun, the picture will be enclosed in this article.

Congratulations Ron, on not only representing El Jebel, but especially our Provost Guard. I am sorry that I haven’t done the Red Fez arti-cle in the past several months, but I was hos-pitalized and in rehab for two months, so hopefully I will get another one out before the end of the year. Nothing much to report so I will sign off for now, and to all of you keep well. LIVE, LAUGH AND LOVE.

T- Nobles - by Chris Weymouth

We had a nice gathering at McCoy’s Restau-rant, our regular hangout, on October 11. It was really nice to have Carmelita (Ryan Puck-ett’s wife) and Canyon (Ryan’s son) in attend-ance. Travis McLain missed the meeting due to illness. We sure hope he is feeling better.

We extend our condolences to Harry Gorham and his family on the loss of his daughter-in-law, due to a lengthy battle with Alzheimers.

Thanks to the number of T-Nobles who were able to be at the Ceremonial on the 15th. Don Myers and Bobby Juchem brought their cars for the new Shriners to see. We met eight re-ally nice men and their families whom we would love to have as T-Nobles. Please call me at 559-960-2339 for further information.

Everybody did a great job at the Ceremoni-al, especially our own Bobby Juchem.

I enjoyed the morning, until it was time to leave for a Rainbow Official Visit scheduled in Golden. Unfortunately, I missed their lunch, due to being detained in the Shrine elevator with a painter for almost an hour. Luckily it wasn’t a full elevator or we could have been pretty miserable. During our unscheduled captivation, I learned a few tricks about paint-ing that I didn’t already know and he learned about Shriners and Shriners Hospitals. We both learned that the phone in the elevator works to reach the Fire Department. After al-most an hour, we were rescued. (I was so excited that I forgot to use my phone to cap-ture a “Kodak moment.”) Luckily, I was only a little bit late for the Rainbow OV in Golden.

We are looking forward to the Veterans’ Day Parade on the morning of November 12th, as

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well as the Bass Pro Parade that afternoon. If any of the new members or other members of the Shrine would like to parade with us for ei-ther/or both parades, please notify me and we will try to get a loaner car for you to try out.

We hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiv-ing!

Western Colorado Shrine Club Jerald Conyers, Red Fez Repoter Meeting was called to order on October 11, 2016 at 11:45 AM by our 1st VP Steve Gan-skow, the invocation was given by Noble Rob-ert Magos, the Pledge of Allegiance was led by Noble Roger Phillips. Guests and Board mem-bers were welcomed. The minutes from the last meeting were approved as published and mailed to board members. The board dis-cussed the time and place for the election of officers and it was determined that it would be held after the Veterans Day Parade on the 12th of November at 4:00 PM at the Masonic Center in Grand Junction, CO, as was men-tioned, we are having a Veterans Day Parade in Grand Junction, CO on November 12th, 2016 with lineup at 1:00 PM and parade at 2:00 PM this will be our last parade unless we get invited to the Parade of Lights in Decem-ber in Grand Junction and Fruita, Colora-do. Noble Doug Gaumer is arranging a Christ-mas Party at the Grand Vista Hotel for Decem-ber 2, 2016 at 5:30 PM with cash bar and a sit down meal at 6:00 PM. He gave all members present a meal menu and we are going to make a decision as to the meal we want at the next meeting on November 8th, 2016. Our hospital coordinator, Gary Brown stated he had a very slow month with no kids going to the hospital this month. After we had so many members that the Black Camel took while we were dark we only had one sickness and distress. Divan Outer Guard Davis Krogh's son had a very bad accident. He fell 20 feet off a building while working and is in the hospital in Denver and will be for quite a while. Our prayer goes out for his quick re-covery. Being as we had no other business the meeting was adjourned at 12:30 PM. The fol-lowing is the Tri-County report from Noble Steve Thomas.

We have come outta the September dark and at our meeting Oct 22nd at Starvin' Arv-in's by the railroad tracks in beautiful down-town Delta (that's Colorado and not Utah) we discussed the WCSC circus being turned around and starting May 24 and 25th in Grand Junction, one-night show Fri. 26 and the two shows Saturday in Montrose.

We had a new couple visit us and I think they

may even come back. Dudley and Jean Davis who have come back to Colorado from Las Ve-gas. He is checking with El Jebel for changing temples. We'll have our Nov. meeting on Sun-day November 20th at Remington's at the Bridges golf course. This is because Montrose Lodge 63 is doing a 3rd Degree on the 19th that will take most of the day and our 4th Sat-urday date of the 26th finds a lot of folks gone outta town. Dec.17th we meet at Zack's in Hotchkiss at 1pm.

Jacki Thomas won the door prize and she will see what she can dream up to replace it. David Krogh won the 50/50 cash and is going to invest it in gold.

Dune Buggy Patrol - by Don Weiser

October was a slow month for the Dune Bug-gy Patrol, as we’ve had no parades. October 12th was our monthly meeting, held at Casa Vallarta restaurant. There were 8 members, 4 Lady Bugs, and 1 Divan repre-sentative present. Following social hour and great Mexican dinner, we opened our meeting. Major topic was the sale of Bob Elsloo’s car to Nomar Tejera. Repairs to this car have been undertaken and hopefully will be completed in November. Our October Social was held on October 29th, at BJ’s in Aurora. A great time was had by all with 19 present. A big Thank You goes out to Jay for setting this event up. We would like to wish Jay Bobick a speedy recovery from his recent hospital stay. November events: November 9th, Dune Buggy Meeting at Malone’s restaurant, 14455 W. 64th, Arvada. Social hour 6 pm, meeting 7pm. November 12th, Veteran’s Day Parade, 7am breakfast at Dozen’s, 236 W. 13th, Den-ver. Parade lineup at 8:30 am. Following the parade we will go to lunch at the Blue Bonnet restaurant, and then proceed to Northfield for their Bass Pro Holiday Santa Parade at 4 pm. Here’s hoping for great, sunny weather! November 14th is El Jebel Shrine family night featuring a Hospital report. November 19th is Operation Free Bird. Let’s all get out and help. November Birthdays: Bob Davis November 3, Donna Edwards November 4, Jon Sellars November 8, Mary Trevathan November 12. Lastly, let’s not forget Thanksgiving Day. Here’s wishing everyone a great Holiday. Let’s not forget to give Thanks for all the Blessings we have received this year!

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DONATIONS SOUGHT FOR NEW SHRINE MEMORIAL & SERENITY GARDEN Hello, my name is Julian Dawkins. I am currently working on my Eagle Scout Project, creating the Memorial & Serenity Garden for the new Shriner’s Office Building. This new garden will include the previous bricks from the old building and as a fundraiser for the new garden, orders are being taken for new bricks. These bricks may be purchased in honor of someone, in memory of a loved one, or with a donation a brick would be added with your name. These bricks serve as an easy and convenient way to donate and serve the El Jebel Shrine. All proceeds will go towards the Memorial Garden Eagle Scout project. The bricks being sold come in five different levels:

Diamond - $1,500 and up Emerald - $1,000

Gold - $500 Silver - $300

Bronze - $100 The Diamond Level features a 12”x12” black polished granite brick with 4 lines of engraving. The Emerald Level features an 8”x8” imperial beige brick with 3 lines of engraving. The Gold Level features an 8”x8” antique red brick with 3 lines of engraving. The Silver Level features a 4”x8” imperial beige brick with 2 lines of engraving. The Bronze Level features a 4”x8” antique red brick with 2 lines of engraving An optional 3rd line is available for the Silver and Bronze Level for an extra $15. If you would wish to make a donation rather than purchasing a brick, please contact me. It will be greatly appreciated. Please email me at julesjjd@gmail.com or call me at 303-906-2512 ASAP. Order forms are available in the Shrine Office. Please contact the office at 303-455-3470 or e-mail at office@eljebel.org

I have a Mills 1930’s Castle Front .05 cent machine in good condition. $2900.00,

I also have a Mills Castle Front to be restored .10 cent machine as is, $1700.00.

Perry Mittler

Perrymittler@gmail.com

303 437-0287, pictures available upon request.

For Sale call Sam Wittner Home 303-986-5416 - cell—303-915-0905

FOR SALE 20ft pontoon boat aqua, Pattio 40hp motor, new carpet and upholstery, trailer, $3500.00 firm. Marv 303-419-3910

Side by Side—Black Powder Shotgun $600.00 - 303-941-6251

1 slightly used Classic, call Sam Witt-ner at 303-915-0905 he can send pictures and answer any questions.

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RV Roamers

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Sandblasters The Sandblasters of El Jebel had a great golf year. We are look-ing for more golfers to join us. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for course or times to play. If you are reading this article, we want to golf with you!

Our Holiday celebration is coming up soon at Del Fresco’s in Centennial and planning is well un-derway for the Mid-Winter golf trip. We are going to the San Marcos Golf Resort in Chandler AZ February 22 to March 1. Please let me or Presi-dent Rich Silver know if you are in-terested. We have space available for immediate commitments!

Come out and play with us! Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~A.A. Milne

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Ceremonial—October 15, 2016

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From the

Leadership Team

at El Jebel

SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN Welle, Dick Donation Squire, Anne Shackleton,Bob Cosens, Ron & Judy Shackleton,Bob Cosens, Ron & Judy Babish,Paul Cosens, Ron & Judy Taylor,Jean Cosens, Ron & Judy Lambert, Brad Pipe Band El Jebel Donation Mayer, Les & Sharon Taylor, Jean Mayer, Les & Sharon Vesely, Roger OPERATING FUND Anderson, Nan Riasanovsky, Alexander Akridge, Claude & Shirley Babish, Paul Hess, Duane & Eileen Naiman, David

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