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Shriners to open hospital in Tijuana
http://www.sandiegored.com/noticias/20891/Shriners-to-open-h...
Por: Omar Millán
30 Noviembre 2011
TIJUANA – A Shriners Children’s Hospital is coming to this city.
The facility will begin operating in February with 20 beds in one floor of the new building of the Children’s Hospital of the Californias in Otay
Mesa, said Luis Alonso Suárez , the director of the Shriners club in Tijuana.
Over time, the organization will construct its own hospital on the same grounds, he added.
He said it made sense to open a facility in Tijuana given that 80 per cent of the patients treated at the Shriners Children’s Hospital in Sacramento
are from Baja California. Not all are from the state, rather they travel to Baja California from other parts of Mexico and then head to Northern
California, he explained.
The hospital in Sacramento has treated around 2,500 youngsters from Baja California since 1965, when a Shriners club opened in Tijuana. Its members
began helping patients’ families to obtain a humanitarian visa to travel across the border and helped with transportation, Suárez said.
He said that 92 per cent of those patients required surgery or treatment for congenital or hereditary conditions and the rest were burn victims.
The Shriners have 22 children’s hospitals in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Tijuana facility will be the organization’s second in Mexico,
with the first located in the nation’s capital.
The hospitals serve children up to age 18 who need specialized medical care and rehabilitation services for congenital conditions, orthopedic
ailments, burns and other health problems.
Every child is treated free of charge by the philanthropic organization, which began in 1870 in New York and today has clubs in the Americas, Europe
and Southeast Asia.
When the hospital opens in February, it will only provide care for children with congenital conditions. Other services will be added over time.
The Shriners will build the hospital with support from the private sector in Tijuana as well as the Mexican government, Suárez said.
More information is available in Spanish at this site:
http://www.shrinerstijuana.org
Or, on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/shriners.tijuana
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Club-Shriners-De-Tijuana-AC/12...
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Phil S
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Shriners!! An organization with "secrets" (not my quote) certainly do share their wealth well. The stories are unending for what they do. I deeply
respect the Shriners!!!!
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Phil: It is not a Secret Society ,!!! I am glad to hear that you have respect.
You must be a FreeMason in good standing to become a Member. After Joining you can get into one of the Clubs, I am a Khiva Muleshinner hear in
Amarillo. We do lots of cooking for different people all over the Panhandle. The Temple here is 3 stories.
We did 11 parades nearly every year and it is fun to wantch the kids and their parents when they recoginise the Shriers and their Floats and especilly
the Mules and Clown.
I would urge anyone 18 years and over to learn as much as they can about Masonry.
I joined 51 years ago in Los Angeles, It was the best thing I have ever done with my Life. It truly makes good men Better Men.
We will now have 23 Hosptials around the States and Canada and mexico. The kids are the Winners!!
We just had a young football player that was injured and could not move or Speak.
It was decided to send him to the Shriners hospital in Sacramento as they specialize in that type of Injury.
Twin Engine AirPlane to Sacto was $19,000 all paid for by our Donations.
Skeet
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Hey Skeet. Wondered if you'd respond. I was careful not to use the word Society. It's an organization with 'secrets' for sure. No one can deny
they have 'secrets'. Especially anyone who has read some of Dan Browns books.
Like 'The Lost Symbol' that I just finished reading while here in Cabo.
I have an acquaintance in Scottsdale who is a 33 degree Mason. Finest person you could ever meet. My mom's nephew is a 32nd degree Mason.
Never felt the need to join after a few years of DeMoley while in high school.
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This is great news!
Were not a secret society, rather we are simply a society with secrets...
So Mote it Be.
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If these folks are going to do good and ease the pain of many, it may not be relevant to engage in a contest about authenticity.
I have had a number of friends in Freemasonry. The Shriners are actually an offshoot from there. In fact, if memory serves me, one cannot become a
Shriner unless they have been a Mason.
That said, I must admit to a long term skepticism of Freemasonry, even as I have had several friends who were Masons.
"Members of the Shrine for North America adhere to the same principles as Freemasonry, but in contrast to the more conservative work of their Masonic
brothers, they are distinguished from them by having a more enjoyable, upbeat philosophy of life in the interest of philanthropy. This philosophy has
been described as "pleasure without intemperance, hospitality without rudeness, and jollity without coarseness."
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One of my very good friends who had retired to San Bruno and was enjoying the simple life, came out of retirment to head up this project since he used
to do most of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery for Children's anyway, he was a natural choice for the new hospital. He has put together a great team
and they are in the final stages of getting going.
The interesting part is that because of all the red tape and prohibitive expenses associated with running a hospital in the United States, the
Children's hospital found that they could treat at least 5 to 6 times more children south of the border than they could north. Land costs,
operational costs, lack of lawsuits and malpractice adjudications, OSHA Regs, etc., etc., have driven those costs so high that it became impractical
to continue with the US model of treatment.
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Thank all of You and your words of Wisdom.
Shriners in Texas are a large Fraternity in Texas. We had some bad damage to the hospital in Galveston,but now have the Burn unit back up and running.
My Mother who passed away at 94 years had been a member of the order of Eastern Star for 78 years, her Mother and my GrandMother was also a member,
They went into the Chapter at Hylton Texas, a masonic Lodge that is still active.
When I move to Loreto and the Loreto people asked me to buy their property and sell it to the Americans and Canadians i became involed with the
masonic Lodge at Constitution and the 32nd Degree Temple at La Paz. Baja Sur is very active with several Lodges.
There is no Religion or Politics involved in the Masonic Lodge. The Shrine which restricts its membership to members of the masonic Lodge is much
different and yes more relaxed than a Lodge. No Liquor is allowed at a Masonic Lodge.
Does my Heart good to see the new Hospital going in in TJ. We have had some Major Expense just transporting the Kids from the Western part of Mexico,
If anyone knows of any child that needs Help, Please contact a Shriner.
And if you are in Texas or nearby we have The Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Waco Texas and then we have many "Lanuage Disorder Centers
all over the Country. There is a good one in Lubbock.
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OMG. Skeet. I bet you & I are the only ones that know where Hylton is! Or that the Lodge is two story wood structure. And that it is the only
commercial building still standing there. And that all the other wooden buildings were pulled or hauld to Blackwell when the train tracks missed
Hylton & went to Blackwell. My mother was born in Hylton (house no longer standing) in 1905 there. Her dad & his brother had a bank there
around that time. Her maiden name was Henslee. His middle name was Blackwell ???? My brother & I drove to Hylton last year, and also Blackwell.
While in Blackwell getting info on the bank, we met a son of the person who bought the bank from my g.f. Turns out he is the Masonic whatever person
in charge at the Masonic Lodge in Hylton.
The world gets smaller, doesn't it?
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WOW! Does get smaller!
If you are ever in Hylton again and would like to go inside the Lodge, let me know and I can tell you where they Hide the key.My Mother's family where
the Lewellens of Winters and Blackwell and the George's of Decker.
I was born about 8 miles south of Sweetwater and many years ago worked as a Cowboy on the Charles Cave Ranch and on my Uncle Vernon Haggerton's
ranch{now covered by the Lake. When working for my Uncle I would ride my Horse the 4 miles into Blackwell and go to Church at the little Baptist
Church , which is still standing.
Small World indeed!
I was influenced in my early life by all of the members of the Masonic Order, was 30 years old when my Partner in Hollywood, a Mason< took me into
Truth Lodge of Wilshire Blvd. Hoot Gibson was a Member.
Also at that time John Wayne was very active in the Shrine as Will Rodgers had been active in the Masonic Lodge. There are many well know Masons from
George Washington, Kipling and Mozart.
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And it gets better. The Henslee I mentioned (my granddad) was born just out of a small town N.E. of Dallas called Farmersville. , The property was a
pretty good sized ranch, but is now also 'under water' because of a Bureau of Reclamation project. Guess we have some'gettin together' to do down the
road.
[Edited on 12-4-2011 by Phil S]
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