The World's Shortest Shrine Parade

Come join us in the parking lot at Shriners Hospitals for Children for the World's Shortest Parade honoring Shriners International Awareness Day. Bring your lawnchairs, but you might not need them for that long!

WHO:             Patients, staff and

family of Shriners Hospitals for Children, Moolah

Shriners, and Shriners

International Officer Gary Bergenske




WHAT:           Shriners International Awareness Day



                       



WHEN:           Thursday, June 6




9 a.m. – Proclamations from Mayor Francis Slay and St.

Louis County Commissioner Charley Dooley




10 a.m. – flag ceremony & patriotic songs by the

Moolah Chanters




10:30 a.m – The World’s Shortest Parade… around the

hospital’s circle drive (less than 1/10th of a mile); parade featuring

all the popular Shriners parading units such as the little cars, marching

troupes, bands, horses, and clowns!









WHY:             
Celebrating the 141st anniversary of the

founding of Shriners International, a fraternal organization of nearly 300,000

men who are dedicated to supporting their sole philanthropy, Shriners Hospitals

for Children. More than 7,000 men in

eastern Missouri and southern Illinois are Shriners, dedicated to helping

children in their communities and supporting the hospital here in St. Louis.









The Shriners are so much more than men who

wear silly hats and drive little cars - although that's part of what makes them

so special. While these men love to have fun and aren't afraid to look silly in

order to entertain children of all ages, they have a mission they take very

seriously: they love this hospital and the children we help so much, that we

see grown men cry on nearly a daily basis. Love makes the difference at Shriners Hospitals for

Children - and it starts with Shriners who founded us. Their love of helping

children drives the medical breakthroughs our doctors achieve - from finding

the genetic cause of inherited bone diseases, to finding cures to rare bone

conditions that had previously been untreatable. Love is what makes our

hospital feel like a home and it's what cares for them throughout their entire

childhood. The Shriners make that happen with their sacrifices

and his generous gifts of love to this philanthropy - they make it possible for

the physicians and staff of this hospital to give thousands of kids their

childhoods back.