Family Life Week Program

Family Life Program

Renew your family ties at Old Stone Church November 23rd

From the early years, Freemasons, and especially the 32° Freemasons, have worked toward building a moral and ethical society based upon the ideals of equality, freedom of conscience, and brotherhood. Charity and the importance of the family as a lifeline of human growth and survival, long have been guiding factors in our lives.

Valley of Cleveland brethren will have an opportunity to reaffirm these values developed through the years at a “Family Life Program” church service at Old Stone Church in Downtown Cleveland on Sunday, November 23.

The 10:30 a.m. service is open to all Masons and their families. The impressive Thanksgiving service will include participation of three officers from the Valley of Cleveland, music by the world famous Old Stone Church Choir, the inspiring sound of the magnificent Pipe Organ, and a meditation based upon Thanksgiving and Family Values by Dr. Dean Myers, Interim Pastor of Old Stone Church.

Following the service, a reception for members of Old Stone Church and the Scottish Rite guests will be held in the church social room.

Free parking is available at the lots indicated on the map on this page. Be sure to have one of the ushers validate your parking ticket before the service begins.

This year’s Valley of Cleveland Family Life Week Church Worship Service is the 15th annual event. The service is an annual event of the Valley of Cleveland event calendar. Plan to be with your brethren at Old Stone Church on Sunday morning, November 23, 2003, the day after of the Fall Reunion.

Valley of Cleveland Family Life Committee presents....

Magician/Comedian to star at
Children’s Holiday Party Dec. 7

Eric Brouman brings award winning show to valley

The 32° Freemasons, Valley of Cleveland, takes pleasure in inviting you and your children, and / or grandchildren, to a holiday party Sunday, December 7th, in the Cleveland Masonic Center DeMolay Room. Doors for the show open at 3:00 p.m. for visits and pictures with Santa with a Magic Show beginning at 3:30 p.m.

Discover the Magic of Eric Brouman at the Valley of Cleveland Holiday Party. Eric, an award winning magician and comedian, will turn you into celebrities right before your eyes. He will transform some member of the audience into Elvis, Michael Jackson, Madonna, or Shania Twain. He has toured the country performing his unique brand of comedy magic for national television, cruise ships, theaters, theme parks and colleges, as well as fortune 500 companies.

His show is a concert headliner by itself. He has worked with such notables as Jerry Seinfeld, Gloria Estaban, Barry Manilow and many others. NBC Television describes him as a true original, and is immensely entertaining.

Eric’s performances are fresh, exciting and on the cutting edge of creative entertainment, involving improvisation and hilarious interactive and audience participation. He has a down-to-earth style and easy manner that results in a quick rapport with his audience.
Always inventive, and often outrageous, he combines his extraordinary skills as a magician with original customized comedy that keeps him busy performing more than 300 shows each year. His fresh style incorporating magic, comedy and music has earned him prestigious awards in creativity and showmanship.

Besides being a truly terrific entertainer, Anne Gordon, of the Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, says, he is unpredictable, witty and very smart. His humor is based on honesty. He is edgy, but never mean-spirited. And Eric is incredibly fast on his feet, so his show will always be full of surprises.

Discover the magic of this award-winning entertainer. Eric Brouman is a master at making you laugh, and wonder....how did he do it.... that will make Sunday, December 7, 2003, an unforgettable day.

Admission to the show is a can of food, a paper product, or a child’s toy, that will be added to the Scottish Rite Family Life Program’s charitable donations made to needy brethren in northeastern Ohio.

Refreshments will be served in the Masonic Center Gold Room immediately following the show.

Don’t forget to bring your camera or video recorder to take memorable pictures of your children or grandchildren with Santa. He will be available before the show, passing out candy to the kiddies and after the show in the Gold Room Dining Room during refreshments.

See you there.

Admission Is Child’s Toy or Canned Goods!

	CHILDREN’S FAMILY PICNIC AUGUST 17, 2003
The boys and girls at the picnic pose for the Scottish Rite News photographer at the Valley of Cleveland annual Summer Picnic at the Shrine Pavilion, August 17th. The children enjoyed games and contests prior to the potluck supper served to their families and friends.
There was plenty of food to go around as the picnickers found at the Valley of Cleveland Summer Picnic. Over 250 brethren and their families attended the annual event. Watch for next year’s summer picnic date in the Scottish Rite News in May.		Dawn Spisak is holding a kite for husband Michael as he ran across the field to get it up into the sky. After several tries, the couple gave up.....not enough wind for the kite or for Michael.
Cooking the hamburgs and hot dogs at the annual Valley Summer Picnic were from left: Fred Buswell, Chairman of the picnic committee, Ross R. Black, II, (center) who upon his arrival pitched right in to make sure that everyone at the picnic received hot dogs and hamburgs, and Patrick Mann, (right) a member of the committee. Thanks for helping out Ross. Fred and Pat really appreciated it.		Passing the ball in a kids game contest is Devon Hilliard. The object of the game was to not have the ball when time ran out. Devon was one of the last to go out and won a medal for his team. Great job!
The children participated in a contest to see how many times the beach ball was hit to keep it in the air. The most the group could get was 27 times, far short of the record they established in 2001, when they hit the ball 45 times. Better luck next year.		Debbie Bollinger and daughter Marissa watch the kids game action at the summer picnic held August 17th at the Al Koran Shrine Pavilion in Broadview Heights.