Sweeping Away Blindness

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1 13-D Newsletter Lions District 13 D April 2016 Ohio Lions District 13 D Sweeping Away Blindness Points of Contact: DG Bob Allgood (Lion Liz) 440 Vine Street East Liverpool, OH H: rallgood@kent.edu 1st VDG Betty Robbins 199 Stahl Avenue Cortland, OH H: bdr254@embarqmail.net 2nd VDG Wayne Christen (Lion Janet) Sidehill Road East Liverpool, OH H: C: injun349@yahoo.com CST /PCC Paul Metrovich (Lion Linda) Lakeview Circle East Liverpool, OH H: p_metrovich@yahoo.com Deadline for Newsletter Articles is the 20th of the month. Send to: Lion Patti Gauch H: C: bygoneacres@cebridge.net Dear Lions, We are nearing our 100 th anniversary of service because Lions like you have made a commitment to growing your clubs and serving your communities. Over the past year, you have strengthened your club by inviting friends and neighbors to join you in service. But inviting new members is just the beginning. The key to long-term membership growth is keeping your members happy. There's no better way than keeping your members engaged in service it's the reason we became Lions. To make sure your club experience remains satisfying, give all members opportunities to lead, share their ideas and identify service projects that are important to them. Inviting and retaining new members go hand in hand. That's why the Centennial Membership Awards recognizes clubs for inducting and retaining new members. Encourage your Lions to invite for impact today, then focus on membership satisfaction to keep members coming back year after year! Protect Our Environment in April One of the best ways to keep members satisfied is to engage them in service. This April is Protect our Environment month, so consider planning an environmental project for Earth Day on April 22, or plan projects throughout the month to help the environment in your community. From planting trees to organizing a park cleanup, there are countless ways to get involved. Start planning your project today by downloading the Protecting our Environment Planning Guide and 25 Environment Project Ideas and sharing them at your next club meeting. And consider inviting friends and neighbors to serve with you! Sincerely, Dr. Jitsuhiro Yamada Your International President Get the Keys to Membership Satisfaction Want to learn more about increasing member satisfaction in your club? Check out these great resources: The Membership Satisfaction Guide provides great ideas for meeting and exceeding the expectations of Lions by creating a satisfying club experience. The Your Club, Your Way! brochure gives you strategies for making meetings enjoyable and productive to better engage your members. Download these resources and start increasing your membership satisfaction today!

2 From Your District Governor - DG Bob Allgood Hello Lions of 13D. I would like to thank everyone for making the District Convention a success. Friday and Saturday nights entertainment was outstanding. International Director Jerome Thompson had a very good time meeting people. I again request that you continue asking one - invite to Impact not only to help grow your club stronger but also build your community stronger, for new Lion brought into your club - 50 people will be impacted. Again Cub Robbie, Lion Liz, and I would like to thank Tom and Nancy Kirkbride, East Liverpool Lions Club, the presenters for the Forums, and everyone who I may have missed. Yours in Lionism. DG Bob Allgood Greetings Fellow Lions, From Your First Vice District Governor - FVDG Betty Robbins Thank you fellow Lions for the many cards, thoughts and prayers last month when my mother passed away. Your outpouring of love and concern for me was truly remarkable! I love you all! As we know, the Centennial Service Challenge is in full swing, and we are trying to Serve 100 million people before June 30, 2018 in the categories of Youth, Vision, Hunger, and Environment. As of March 9 th, LCI has reported we have served 77 million people worldwide: 24 million in Engaging our Youth, 12 million in Sharing the Vision, 15 million in Relieving the Hunger, and 19 million in Protecting our Environment. We have almost reached the 25 million mark, which LCI was hoping to reach, for the youth category, however; we will not stop there, we have another 2 years to this Centennial Service Challenge and the Youth category and the others will continue to grow! How is your club participating in these programs and are these activities being reported to Lions International by your secretary by way of MyLCI? LCI wants us also to consider doing a Centennial Community Legacy Project that is a visible gift to the community? What can you do in your community? Can you replace your old, bent and discolored Lions signs, with new brighter ones? Or can you provide for park benches and water fountains? What else might you do to show your community what we Lions do? We need to continue to invite friends and acquaintances to join our clubs and Strengthen Our Pride. Let s make Governor Bob s year a success in membership! Yours in Lionism SVDG Betty Robbins 2

3 Greetings, Lions of 13D, From Your Second Vice District Governor - SVDG Wayne Christen Well, we are only 3 months away from becoming OH4. To commemorate the event, I purchased new license plates with "MD13OH4". (Also, at my age, it helps me remember the new name) I am looking forward to the merger and expect great things to come from it. I continue to make visitations, and am on schedule to have them completed by the end of June. I am also attending zone meetings and charter nights. Invitations from other districts have been accepted to attend their conventions. That should be very enjoyable as well as informative. Our MD13 convention this year is shaping up to be another great one. Hope to see many of you in Dublin for that. We should all be gearing up to increase our membership. Only 3 months left to get 2 new members for each club. Is your club on schedule? See you in Dublin, Yours in Lionism, SVDG Wayne Christen 3

4 DISTRICT 13-D SPRING CONFERENCE (including District OH4 club officer training) Saturday, April 30, 2016 Alliance Middle School, 3205 S. Union Avenue, Alliance, Ohio It is time to train our club officers and all Lions, Leos, and Lionesses for the Lions year. All newly elected, as well as returning, club officers and all Lions in District 13-D and the new District OH4 are encouraged to participate in this valuable training. Get your year off to a great start! Other Lions who would like to attend are invited to register for the same cost and attend. AGAIN THIS YEAR THERE WILL BE SOME NEW SESSIONS, NEW TRAINERS, AND NEW INFORMATION! EACH CLUB WITH THE INCOMING OFFICERS (PRESIDENT, SECRETARY, TREASURER, AND MEMBER- SHIP CHAIRMAN) IN ATTENDANCE WILL RECEIVE SPECIAL RECOGNITION!!! REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & OPENING: 8:30 am 9:15 am TRAINING SESSIONS: 9:15 am 12:05 pm (see tentative schedule below) LUNCH & WRAP-UP: 12:05 pm 1:00 pm REGISTRATION COST: $13.00 per member paid & postmarked by April 15 th Leos: No cost Please send your payment along with the attached registration form by April 15, Late registrations cannot be accommodated due to the school s commitment deadline for food. Cancelations cannot be refunded, but another attendee can be substituted. For questions or additional information: PCC David Gauch pzcdave@cebridge.net PCC Paul Metrovich p_metrovich@yahoo.com Room 9:15 10:05 10:15 11:05 11:15 12:05 104/Library ********** Presidents *********** Presidents & Vice Presidents 614 ******** Zone Chairmen ********* Tail Twisting 102 ********** Secretaries *********** Membership Chairmen Lions Fundamentals Lions100 Our Centennial Serving Beyond your Club 610 ********** Treasurers *********** 106 TENTATIVE SESSION SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE Public Relations Serving on the District OH4 Cabinet Learning to Use the District s Eye Screening Equipment CONTINUOUS AS NEEDED Music Room *********************** Leos ************************ 4

5 DISTRICT 13-D SPRING CONFERENCE (including District OH4 club officer training) Saturday, April 30, 2016 Alliance Middle School, 3205 S. Union Avenue, Alliance, Ohio Club Club Contact Phone No. Attendee Name Club Office (If any) Might Attend These Sessions Paid By April 15 th ($13) GRAND TOTAL $ Number of Members attending Make checks payable to: Ohio Lions District 13-D Mail registration & full payment to: For questions: PCC David Gauch PCC David Gauch Parkman Road pzcdave@cebridge.net Garrettsville, OH h: c:

6 2016 Ohio Lions State Convention Call to the Convention All Lions, Lioness, Leos and Guests, On behalf of MD-13 and District 13-H, convention co-hosts, you are cordially invited to attend the 2016 Ohio Lions State Convention. We are expecting a great turnout as MD-13 Districts A K turn 50!!! As we look forward to a change in our district designations, we want to take time to honor our many accomplishments and service activities that we have shared over the last half century. The convention will take place May 20 22, 2016 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Dublin. Our LCI guest this year is Past International President James Ervin and his wife Lion Sharon. They hail from Albany, Georgia and we will welcome them to the great state of Ohio!! Activities begin on Friday with an opening dinner. Our entertainment that night will be provided by the Past District Governor s Association, and we re sure it will be great. Right after the entertainment, we ll have our hospitality in just 2 places this year, OLERF will sponsor a room (#315) and the other spot will be in the ballroom. Saturday s activities begin at 9:00 a.m. with an opening business session followed by leadership seminars, business luncheon, afternoon business session, district caucuses and voting. Dinner will be on your own, then back to the hotel for hospitality in the ballroom. Activities are being planned for a fun night, along with celebrating our 50 th Anniversary with cake. Sunday will have our memorial service and Grand Banquet. Sound like fun?? Want to join us in helping behind the scenes to ensure this is a great event? If you d like to volunteer to help, we're using VolunteerSpot (the leading online Sign-up and reminder tool) to organize our upcoming Sign-ups for the State convention. Here's how it works in 3 easy steps: 1) On the internet, enter this link to see our Sign-up on VolunteerSpot: 2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like. 3) Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on VolunteerSpot. Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually. We hope you will come for the whole weekend and enjoy the fun and fellowship of being with your friends in service. The registration form, with hotel information, is attached and on the Ohio Lions website. We look forward to seeing you in May. PDG Deborah Luttrell MD-13 Multiple District Secretary 6

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8 PROPOSED MD13 SIGHT AND HEARING FOUNDATION The MD13 Sight and Hearing Committee developed a proposal for the formation of a MD13 Sight and Hearing Foundation and submitted the proposal to the current MD13 Council of Governors (COG) at the November, 2015 COG Meeting. At that meeting the COG passed a motion that "gives their full approval and support for the MD13 Sight & Hearing Committee to establish the MD13 Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation, an incorporated 501(c)3 charitable branch of the Sight and Hearing Committee, to meet the needs of MD13 clubs and districts in meeting the publics' needs for sight and hearing services." The next step in making this new foundation a reality is for club delegates to pass the following resolution on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at the 2016 Ohio Lions State Convention: The Lions Clubs of Ohio fully support the creation of the Ohio Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation to serve as a resource to the Lions Clubs of Ohio to help their communities by helping individuals with their vision and hearing needs through medical care, screenings, service activities, charitable donations, or other means that may arise. With a majority vote by the convention delegates this foundation will be able to use the Lions name and brand to help a club further its service to their community. Many clubs receive requests for help purchasing hearing aids, paying for vision therapy, or out-of-pocket costs for eye surgery and other vision needs but for most of Ohio's Clubs these costs are beyond their financial resources and go unmet. This proposed foundation will permit other Ohio Lions clubs to provide the same vision services already available to our District 13-D clubs and will not interfere with or change the vision services currently provided by our Melvin Jones District 13-D Lions Eye Care Foundation (ECF). Our ECF will continue to solicit support from our district clubs and provide services for the residents of our district as we have in the past and will in the future. The new proposed MD13 Foundation will provide hearing services and our ECF is considering providing those services as part of our ECF, our only district service project. Both our District Governor Bob Allgood and I, as your District 13-D representative to the MD13 Sight, Hearing & Pilot Dogs Committee, are recommending passing this resolution at the 2016 State Convention and are asking that District 13-D club delegates at the Convention vote to create the Ohio Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation. PDG John Woodside, District 13-D Representative Sight, Hearing & Pilot Dogs Committee The New Struthers Lions Club will be holding their Charter Night on Saturday, May 7th at The Struthers VFW Hall on 157 Lowellville Road in Struthers at 6:00 PM. Speaker for the event will be PID and current candidate for 3rd. International VP Steve Sherer. More information will be forthcoming in the form of invitations. For more information contact PDG Bob Whited at or olebert1@aol.com The Uniontown Lions Paul Ruley Eyeglass Recycling Center supplied 800 clean and graded reading glasses as well as 800 clean non-prescription sunglasses to Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tn for the Student Volunteers In Optometric Service To Humanity to add to their supplies for their mission trips to Merida, Mexico; Urraco, Honduras; Belmopan, Belize; Barranquilla, Colombia; Cartagena, Colombia; Esteli, Nicaragua; Izamal, Mexico; San Jose, Costa Rica; Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Las Canas, Dominican Republic. 8

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10 The Bob Evans Benefit Day is set for April 6th. at the Restaurants on the list I am sending you with this . The flyer must be presented to the store when ordering and can be a paper form, or from Facebook or text as long as the flyer format from Bob Evans is used. Last year zone 5 raised a bit over $ WE distributed the fliers through our clubs, churches, places of employment and local papers as well with free advertising just to name a few. THIS flyer can be used for eating in as well as TAKE- OUT!!! I am excited to see how many Lions and other we can reach be putting this in our March Newsletter. It should be a win for our Foundation! 10

11 GARRETTSVILLE LIONS CLUB CHARTER CELEBRATION MAY 9, 2016 CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LIONISM THE GARRETTSVILLE LIONS WILL CELEBRATE THEIR 20 TH CHARTER ANNIVERSARY ON MONDAY, MAY 9 TH, AT CAL S II LOCATED AT 8301 WINDHAM STREET, GARRETTSVILLE. THIS EVENT WILL BEGIN AT 7:00 PM AND WILL INCLUDE THE INDUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS. WE WILL ORDER OFF CAL S MENU AND SEATING IS LIMITED. PLEASE RSVP BY MAY 2 ND TO KING LION BRIAN GORBY AT OR BGORBY1@YAHOO.COM 11

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13 GIRARD LIONS CLUB ANNUAL GOLF OUTING The Girard Lions Annual Golf Outing will be held on July 24, 2016 at the Mahoning Country Club. It s a 10:30 am shot gun start. There will be four man or woman scramble. This cost is $70 and includes 18 holes of golf, hot dogs, chips and drink for lunch. A steak dinner will be served at the end of the outing and the skins game and prizes For more information, call Lion Joe Barnot at Lion Jerry Kovacs at

14 Moans & Groans Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? Why does slow down and slow up mean the same thing? Lions Kim and Greg would like to thank the Lions of 13D for their support! Obviously we have lots of shoppers and Blue Frog has lots of nice items so it was a great weekend for all of us. 14

15 CLUB ACTIVITIES Mark Your Calendar ONGOING - TUSLAW LIONS GARAGE SALE Tuslaw Lions Club Garage Sale is still in full swing every Thursday from 9:00am to Noon at Tuslaw Lions Club Park, 2515 Manchester Rd SW (Rt. 93). Their Over The Hill Gang will be handling the garage sale during the winter months. APR 1 - CANFIELD LIONS FRIDAY NIGHT FISH DINNERS This event is held at A La Carte Catering at 429 Lisbon Street, Canfield. Main Course dinners choice of Haddock (baked or fried), Macaroni & Cheese, or Haluski with Pierogi and choice of side dishes, dessert and beverage. Served from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Cost: $11.00 ea. APR 6 - POLAND LIONS CLUB MJECF FUND RAISER Bob Evans Community Fundraiser Use coupon on Pg. 10 APR 9 - CALCUTTA LIONS CLUB ANNUAL RABIES CLINIC See the flyer on Pg. 11 APR 23 - BRIMFIELD LIONS CLUB NIGHT AT THE RACES See flyer on Pg. 11 APR 23 - ROOTSTOWN LIONS CLUB SPAGHETTI DINNER See flyer on Pg. 11 APR 30 - SOUTHEAST PORTAGE COUNTY LIONS CLUB DREAM DRAWING See flyer on Pg. 12 MAY 7 - NEW STRUTHERS LIONS CLUB CHARTER NIGHT See flyer on Pg. 8 MAY 7 - BEACH CITY LIONS PANCAKE BREAKFAST Beach City Lions are having a pancake and sausage breakfast on May 7, from 8:00AM to 12:00PM at the Beach City Fire Station with coffee, orange juice, and applesauce. MAY 9 - GARRETTSVILLE LIONS CLUB 20th CHARTER NIGHT See flyer on Pg. 11 MAY15 - CALCUTTA LIONS CLUB PASTA DINNER See flyer on Pg. 12 MAY 27 - CRESTWOOD LIONS CLUB 70 S DISCO PARTY See flyer on Pg. 13 JUNE 11 - POLAND LIONS CLUB TREASURES OF THE TRUNK SALE See flyer on Pg. 13 JULY 24 - GIRARD LIONS CLUB ANNUAL GOLF OUTING See flyer on Pg. 13 DISTRICT 13D & STATE ACTIVITIES Mark Your Calendar MAY 14-13D SPRING DISTRICT SOCIAL See flyer on Pg. 12 MAY OHIO LIONS STATE CONVENTION Location: Embassy Suites in Dublin, OH More information to follow JUNE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION Location: Fukuoka, Japan More information to follow SEPT USA-CANADA LIONS LEADERSHIP FORUM The Forum this year will be held in Omaha, Nebraska. More information is on page 5 or check out the website. 15

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