- Courtesy Grand Masonic Lodge of North Dakota
- Oct 13, 2023 Updated Nov 20, 2023
The Grand Masonic Lodge of North Dakota recently awarded $50,000.00 to the Robert E. Asker Scottish Rite Speech Therapy Center for Children in Bismarck. A similar grant of $50,000.00 was also awarded to the Scottish Rite Children’s Language Disorder Center in Fargo, according to Winton Wold, Chairman of the North Dakota Masonic Foundation.
The Center provides professional speech therapy service to children between the ages of two and seven, free of charge, for families that do not have adequate insurance coverage or the financial resources to pay for therapy services.
Therapy is provided, regardless of race, color, religion, creed, or gender, to children who face a communication challenge. Addressing communication challenges early will help the young children learn and get along with their peers when then start school.
Professional master’s degree holding speech language therapists staff both Centers and provide the most modern, up to date therapy available. The Centers in Bismarck and Fargo are parts of the more than 125 Scottish Rite Centers across the United States and Canada.
The North Dakota Centers have been operating for more than thirty years and have provided speech/language therapy to more than one thousand children.
“This gift is a part of the Mason’s Community Charitable Grant program”, according to Winton Wold, chairman of the North Dakota Masonic Foundation. Winton also recognized the 41 Masonic Lodges across the state as being highly instrumental in the development of the Masonic Foundations program of charitable giving.
For more information please contact:
Winton Wold – 701-770-5707 or,
Danny Haugen – 800-358-3306
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – The crew at the Bismarck Aero Center is usually busy doing maintenance to get airplanes ready to fly. But, on Sunday, it was a little different from their usual routine. They had their doors open to the public for their annual fly-in.
The fly-in has been going on for twelve years and is usually held the second weekend in September.
The community is able to come and enjoy a pancake breakfast in the hangar and then move outside to see some aircraft and airport vehicles that are on display. This year, the Aero Center invited the Mustangs and Fords of the Dakotas Car Club to display vehicles at the fly-in.
“It brings people out to the airport. We like to see all these kids out here, it exposes them to the fraternity of Masons and Shrine. It also exposes them to aviation and obviously to the car collector industry. It does a lot of things for a lot of different groups,” said Bob Simmers, a promoter of the Fly-In.
Proceeds are going to support the Scottish Rite Speech Therapy Center for Children. It is a non-profit that screens young kids for speech problems. The Aero Center is looking forward to next year’s fly-in.
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