at DeLaSalle High School, 1 DeLaSalle Dr. There will be drum corps and foot patrols at the Minneapolis Convention Center, oriental bands at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome, 615 Washington Ave., and pipes and drums at 1 p.m. Shrine clowns, bagpipers, drum corps and other performing groups will brandish their talents Monday, July 7. When watching the 20,000-strong flock this weekend, keep it handy.
#FEZ SHRINER FREE#
In recognition of the first 13 Masons to join the Shrine order, here’s a 13-part field guide to Shrinedom, featuring information on everything from free Downtown events to the fez-wearers’ mysterious symbols and ways. Still, by design, the Shriners have bizarre plumage and entertaining habits. It’s not just fun and games: while here, the Shriners will make a decision affecting local health-care: whether to keep open their local Shriners Hospital. When not in session, Shriners will participate in two Downtown parades, perform various antics throughout the metro area and spend loads of cash on area lodging, food and entertainment. The elite Shrine fraternity, which evolved from, and remains connected to, the mysterious and world-renowned Masons, will hold its 129th annual Imperial Council Session at the Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 2nd Ave S., Saturday-Thursday, July 5-10. Twenty thousand fez-sporting Shriners and their Ladies will invade Downtown this weekend. Lionel Rowe was unavailable for comment Wednesday.20,000 brightly colored creatures flock to Downtown this weekend. 179, chairman of the Ottawa Shrine Circus, is called to answer to counts of theft and assault. The issue will come to an Ottawa courtroom when Lionel Rowe, retiree, past-president of the Capital Shrine Club of the Tunis Shrine No. Police weren’t commenting Wednesday on why after five months they decided to lay charges over the scuffle.
Gap or not, the video and witness statements persuaded police to file charges, the league says. We hear screams from other league members - “We’re saving his life,” yells the camera-holder, in reference to Goldberg. The video ends with the older man, his face red, rising to his feet. A third man joins and puts his own choke hold, this one double-armed, on the alleged perpetrator until he releases his grip on the man with no hat.
The two meet and grapple and fall to the ground, the older man’s arm firmly around the young guy’s neck. The hat-snatch isn’t captured but you do see a now-bare-headed younger man pursuing an older chap who is gripping Exhibit A. The league was protesting the treatment of elephants and other animals in the annual circus.Īccording to the league, an assailant stole Goldberg’s eBay-purchased hat and then assaulted him with a chokehold for “more than half a minute” before he could be pried loose.Ī video shot by a league member and posted to YouTube - search “Cowardly Shriner Ambushes Protester With Choke Hold” tells a more complicated story. The charges were filed in January, Ottawa police confirm, but didn’t get much notice until the animal leaguers issued a news release Wednesday describing as heinous an attack as the beatings the group claims are given the circus animals to force them “into performing demeaning tricks.” The presence of said fez on a non-Shriner apparently triggered what the league is calling an attack on member Len Goldberg - not by a phalanx of minibike-riding men in curly-toed slippers, but, it is alleged, by one older guy in shorts and bright-patterned sport shirt. A member of a group called the Ottawa Animal Defense League had his “Shrine-style hat” - legally bought on eBay, the group insists, revealing if nothing else a premeditation to taunt - removed in an altercation outside the Shrine Circus at the RA Centre on Riverside Drive. This is the question raised since last August.
#FEZ SHRINER PATCH#
OTTAWA - It’s unwise to sew on an Airborne badge if you’ve never jumped from a plane.Īnd stupid to wear a fake Hells Angels patch to a biker bar.īut could it be an even more offensive clothing offence to a don a Shriner’s fez if you aren’t, in fact, a bonafide member of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine?
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