Nobles,

Here is an opportunity for you to become a Volunteer Driver at the LA Hospital. Volunteer Coordinator Jeff May has asked me to help recruit some new drivers to work on either Saturday or Sunday. I know that many of you have commitments during the week, but some may have free time on the weekends. I would love to see more El Bekal Shrine Drivers at the Hospital. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact me or Jeff to get started.    Fraternally,   Tom Burnett

714-658-9873   thomas.j.burnett@gmail.com

Below is the full text of Jeff May's Recruitment Letter:

March 31, 2010

Dear Driver,

I hope that this letter finds you doing well and enjoying the spring weather! I wanted to update you on a new opportunity that we have at Shriners Hospital for Children-Los Angeles. As a driver, you know the value that your job brings to the hospital. You are the first impression to the patients and their families, their host, and the person who usually spends the most time with the patients. We couldn’t do it without you! 

We are going to begin expanding the transportation services to the weekends, as well as the week-days. We are hoping to schedule two drivers per day with the Saturday shifts from 7am-1pm and the Sunday shifts from noon-5pm.

The primary reason I’m writing you is to have you help me get the word out to the Shrine Centers and your fellow-Shriners about this new opportunity. We will provide all training and screening. Anyone who is interested should contact me. However, I also want to open this opportunity up to any of the current drivers who would also like to serve one day on one weekend a month.

The Shriners are the heartbeat of this service we provide to our patients. For this opportunity, we are also open to people outside of the Shrine organization including Daughters of the Nile or Ladies of the Oriental Shrine becoming volunteers. Please help me by using your networks to get the word out.

Don’t hesitate to contact me if I can provide any more information. You can either email jmay@shrinenet.org or call at 213-368-3376.

Best regards,

Jeff May

Volunteer Coordinator

As of August 2009 our web address has changed from " www.elbekal.com " to " www.elbekalshrine.com ".  This change has also been reflected in all our publications.  Please make a note of this and notify everyone that you know accesses the web site for the Shrine ElBekalan or any of the Club or Unit bulletins.  We want to thank all of you for making the new web site a success.  The new web site is now getting an average of 500-600 hits per month minimum!  This is a major improvement over the 320 hits the old web site was getting in an entire year :)  The message is loud and clear.  You all like the new site better and find it useful.  Our web team will work very hard to make the web site even more user-friendly and filled with lots of fun content, photos and videos to view.