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Amir and Lulu Marafie donated the clinic’s brand-new building located in a development the Marafie Foundation USA is completing in Elk River, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.
Photo: Fred W. Pagenkopf, 32°, Valley of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Amir Marafie and his wife, Lulu, are strongly devoted to philanthropic causes, especially those, such as our Order’s RiteCare Childhood Language Program, focused on helping children.
Photo: Elizabeth A. Williams, The Scottish Rite Journal

Several of the attending Masonic dignitaries joined in cutting the ribbon
to the new Elk River RiteCare Clinic.
Photo: Fred W. Pagenkopf, 32°, Valley of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Gary A. Odegard, 33°, Acting Senior Grand Warden, Grand Lodge of Minnesota, and President of the Scottish Rite Childhood Language Clinics of Minnesota, Inc., participated in the cornerstone ceremonies on June 26, 2004, dedicating the new Elk River RiteCare Clinic.
Photo: Fred W. Pagenkopf, 32°, Valley of Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jerry B. Oliver, 33°, SGIG in Minnesota, poses with Mischelle Blenkush, Clinic Director, in front of one of several original artworks donated by the Marafies to the Elk River Clinic.
Photo: Fred W. Pagenkopf, 32°, Valley of Minneapolis, Minnesota