Troop Activities
Our Barn party Sept 13th was a Success with
music and dancing. The Troop presented a donation to the Potentate for his project. Dan Hess was voted trooper of the
year.
On Sept 18th we traveled to Lebanon, Ohio for the Great Lakes Shrine
Convention and competed in Drill and Parade competition. We finished 1st in both Drill and Parade.
We want to welcome 2 new members to our group as
Lancers. They are William (Bill) Abbey and Peter Pucillo.
All the PVC fencing around the property has now been completed.
The place looks great, our Temple should be prowd.
We have stalls available for lease at the present time. (630) 690-8592
NOTE: In 2002 while the troop
was at the International in Van Couver, B.C., we had just finished breakfust as a group and were heading to our cars.
A woman in her late thirties was coming in the resturant and was kindly holding the door as we exited. She reached out
and with a big smile on her face extended her hand to us. She remarked that as a child, she had been a patient
of the Shrine Hospitals and she never forgot the kindness shown to her. She just wanted to say thank you!
Again in December 2005 while ringing bells for the Salvation Army
a young man thanked me for helping him. When he was very young and his Father was in the Army he went to one our Hospitals.
He could not say enough about what we had done for him and his fater who could not afford this type of help on his Army pay.
