Shriners to Zip Down Main Street on First Friday
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
A Mizpah Shrine Temple parade will take place in conjunction with the Kosciusko County Shrine Club as part of Warsaw’s First Friday and Downtown Days.
The parade will begin at 8:30 p.m., and will be a half-hour parade.
The parade route is at the corner of Market and Columbia Street to the corner of Market and High Street, on High Street and Center Street, and on Center Street to Columbia Street.
The Kosciusko County Shrine Topless Car Club will feature convertibles in the parade, led by Captain Roger Laird.
The Mizpah Shrine Club horse patrol also will be in the parade. The horse patrol has won many national awards in street and closed arena competitions.
The horse patrol has competed in Vancouver, British Columbia; Dallas, Texas; Orland, Fla.; and Boston, Mass., said John Bonner, Kosciusko County Shrine Club member and parade co-chair.
Last year the parade took place in downtown Warsaw when the Mizpah Shrine Center, Fort Wayne, celebrated 100 years of service.
There will be more than 200 Shriners from 22 counties in northeast Indiana who will participate in the Temple parade Aug. 5, according to John Hall, Kosciusko County Shrine Club member and parade co-chair.
Hall also serves as a board of governors member of the Shriners Hospital for Children Chicago unit.
Shriner’s philanthropy is Shriner’s Hospital For Children.
The hospital is for children in an international network of 22 hospitals dedicated to providing specialty pediatric care, innovative research and teaching programs.
There are 19 hospitals that deal with orthopedics, and three hospitals deal with burns, Hall said.
Children up to the age of 18 with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and cleft lip and palate are eligible for admission to the hospital.
All care, services and transportation is provided at no cost to the patient, their parents or legal guardian.
Jack Anglin, Clunette, will serve as the parade marshal. Anglin has been a member of Kosciusko County Shrine Club since 1954.
Bruce Howe, Kosciusko County Shrine Club member, will drive Anglin in the parade.
Kosciusko County Shrine Club was chartered in the late 1930s, and has more than 250 members.
The club meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the Shrine Building at the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds.
Locally, Kosciusko County Shrine Club is best known for taking third-graders from local schools to the Shrine Circus in Fort Wayne.
Mizpah Shrine also provides free transportation to and from the hospitals through its van program so there is no financial burden on the patients.
Mizpah is associated with orthopedic hospitals in Chicago, Ill., and a burn center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“We have approximately 100 current patients from Kosciusko County receiving treatment at Shriner’s hospitals,” Bonner said.
The van program has been supported by the K21 Foundation, Kosciusko Community Foundation and the Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust, who worked toward purchasing a van to transport local patients to the Shrine Hospital. The van will be in the parade.[[In-content Ad]]
A Mizpah Shrine Temple parade will take place in conjunction with the Kosciusko County Shrine Club as part of Warsaw’s First Friday and Downtown Days.
The parade will begin at 8:30 p.m., and will be a half-hour parade.
The parade route is at the corner of Market and Columbia Street to the corner of Market and High Street, on High Street and Center Street, and on Center Street to Columbia Street.
The Kosciusko County Shrine Topless Car Club will feature convertibles in the parade, led by Captain Roger Laird.
The Mizpah Shrine Club horse patrol also will be in the parade. The horse patrol has won many national awards in street and closed arena competitions.
The horse patrol has competed in Vancouver, British Columbia; Dallas, Texas; Orland, Fla.; and Boston, Mass., said John Bonner, Kosciusko County Shrine Club member and parade co-chair.
Last year the parade took place in downtown Warsaw when the Mizpah Shrine Center, Fort Wayne, celebrated 100 years of service.
There will be more than 200 Shriners from 22 counties in northeast Indiana who will participate in the Temple parade Aug. 5, according to John Hall, Kosciusko County Shrine Club member and parade co-chair.
Hall also serves as a board of governors member of the Shriners Hospital for Children Chicago unit.
Shriner’s philanthropy is Shriner’s Hospital For Children.
The hospital is for children in an international network of 22 hospitals dedicated to providing specialty pediatric care, innovative research and teaching programs.
There are 19 hospitals that deal with orthopedics, and three hospitals deal with burns, Hall said.
Children up to the age of 18 with orthopedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries and cleft lip and palate are eligible for admission to the hospital.
All care, services and transportation is provided at no cost to the patient, their parents or legal guardian.
Jack Anglin, Clunette, will serve as the parade marshal. Anglin has been a member of Kosciusko County Shrine Club since 1954.
Bruce Howe, Kosciusko County Shrine Club member, will drive Anglin in the parade.
Kosciusko County Shrine Club was chartered in the late 1930s, and has more than 250 members.
The club meets the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the Shrine Building at the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds.
Locally, Kosciusko County Shrine Club is best known for taking third-graders from local schools to the Shrine Circus in Fort Wayne.
Mizpah Shrine also provides free transportation to and from the hospitals through its van program so there is no financial burden on the patients.
Mizpah is associated with orthopedic hospitals in Chicago, Ill., and a burn center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“We have approximately 100 current patients from Kosciusko County receiving treatment at Shriner’s hospitals,” Bonner said.
The van program has been supported by the K21 Foundation, Kosciusko Community Foundation and the Esther Pfleiderer Charitable Trust, who worked toward purchasing a van to transport local patients to the Shrine Hospital. The van will be in the parade.[[In-content Ad]]
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