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HIKE Choir helping Daughters of the Nile in the Pumpkin Patch, Oct 2011
HIKE Choir winners. Supreme Session 2011
HIKE Choir gives concert: Sign-language performances benefit hearing impaired
By Sara Waite Journal-Advocate managing editor Journal Advocate
Posted:06/06/2011 10:37:06 AM MDT
STERLING -- Members of the Sterling Masons got a special treat Sunday with a performance of the Denver HIKE Choir. The HIKE (Hearing Im paired Kids Endowm ent) Fund, Inc. is a not-for-profit charity based in Nebraska and registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt charity. The choir perform s to raise money for the fund. The performances given by the Denver HIKE Choir are a little different from a typical choir concert. The girls in the choir don`t make a sound -- instead, they perform sign language to recorded music.
Sunday afternoon, the choir gave a perform ance for a group at the Sterling Mas onic Center after traveling to Sterling to present a scholarship to a local family, who have a child in need of a hearing aid. The purpos e of the HIKE Fund is to provide hearing devices for children with hearing los s from newborn through age 20, whose parents are financially unable to meet this need.
Such hearing devices are frequently not covered by health insurance.
To join the HIKE Choir or one of the other four choirs in the state that benefit the HIKE Fund, you must be a member of Job`s Daughters , an organization for young women ages 10 to 20 who have a Masonic heritage. The organization is grouped into Bethels .
The five members of the HIKE Choir who performed in Sterling are Chloe Flynn, Dixie Leff, Veronica Shaw,
Marie Wattles and Ashley Bennet. All are members of Bethel 33.
Sara Waite: (970) 526-9310; swaite@journal-advocate.com
HIKE Presentation in Salida, CO on April 23, 2011
December 2009, the three Masonic bodies from the Sterling area, requested a performance from the Colorado HIKE Choir to be given during their installation. We provided 14 girls for the performance. They made a donation to HIKE of $50 for each girl that attended. Many of them had not seen the choir perform previously and the choir received an enthusiastic reception from everyone there. $700 was earned by the HIKE Choir!
On January 9, 2010. Loyalty Chapter OES asked the HIKE Choir to provide the entertainment for their Grand Visit. The theme for their term was Hawaiian, so the Choir dressed in costume to match the occasion. One of the Choir members ended the performance with a beautiful hula dance. Needless to say, they all received a round of thundering applause.
