cities: Boston, MA Chicago, IL Dayton, OH Erie, PA* Galveston, TX Greenville, SC Honolulu, HI Houston, TX Lexington, KY* Mexico City, MEX Minneapolis, MN Montreal, Quebec Pasadena, CA* Philadelphia, PA Portland, OR Sacramento, CA Salt Lake City, UT Shreveport, LA Spokane, WA Springfield, MA St. Louis, MO *This location is an outpatient, ambulatory care center. Events Shriners host the annual East-West Shrine Game, a college football all-star game. The Shriners originally hosted a golf tournament in association with singer/actor Justin Timberlake, called the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, a PGA Tour golf tournament played in Las Vegas, Nevada. The relationship between Timberlake and the Shriners ended in 2012, when the Shriners reported that Timberlake was interested in being involved with the organization only when television cameras were present. In July 2012, the PGA Tour and Shriners Hospitals for Children announced a five-year title sponsorship extension, carrying the commitment to the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open through 2017. The name was changed to The Shriners Hospitals for Children Open and is played in Las Vegas, Nevada. Once a year, the fraternity meets for the Imperial Council Session in a major North American city. Many Shrine Centers also hold a yearly Shrine Circus as a fundraiser. Controversy In 2008, an investigative committee established by the joint boards of the Shriners of North America fraternal organization and the Shriners Hospitals for Children found that Ralph Semb, chairman of the Shriners Hospitals Board of Trustees, had unilaterally tried to fire fund-raising executive, Edgar McGonigal, after McGonigal declined to hire a direct-mail company with ties to a company owned by the son of a close friend of another board member, Gene Bracewell, who is also the imperial treasurer of the fraternal organization. McGonigal said he did not hire the company because of its ties to a financial company that had performed poorly in previous dealings. The committee found that Semb and Bracewell had violated the organizations’ conflict of interest policy and their ethics code and recommended that Semb and Bracewell be reprimanded. The report included accusations of financial improprieties within the organization, including not reporting benefits Shriners leaders received as income and knowingly filing incorrect tax forms for the hospitals. Other Shriners came forward with additional complaints, including the mixing of charitable and noncharitable assets and the disappearance of money raised for the hospitals. Pop Culture In 1980, Ray Stevens recorded the country-and-western