A.M. meeting minutes for 12/17/2020

Lions Present at Zoom Video Conference: Lion’s Ray, Ron, Al, Steve, Phil, Joan, Dagi, Leslye, Linda, Kent, Eli, Mort, Don, and Herb.

Dates to Remember –

– Charity Crab Feed 2021 (might be modified due to
Covid).
– Annual Golf Tournament June 26, 2021
– Ride4Diabetes will be scheduled in 2021

Food Drive – Lion Al said he delivered his food gift cards to the Rosemary Elementary School, Lion Prez Jeff delivered his gift cards to Trace Elementary on Tuesday, Ron delivered his gift cards to Hughes Elementary on Wednesday, and Lion Ray is delivering his cards to the YWCA (Battered Women) and Fremont Union High school today.

Lion Eli said that the custodian at Hughes Elementary “Cliff” that we worked with over the past years when we delivered the food boxes to them passed away last week. Lion John Smith asked if this was a new model for our food drive. Lion Al said it was discussed at the Board meeting last night and that they thought that we might combine the two models in the future.

Eye Glass Collection – Lion Phil talked about eye glass collection from the Kaiser Optical center in Mountain View and asked how we wanted to handle it with the Covid situation and if one of the other Lions Clubs should be handling this site. Lion Ray said he would contact them and discuss it with them.

Camp Via West Garden/Train – Lion Joan is going up to the camp almost daily. She brought up a dual thermometer and placed one in the garden area and one in the green house. The lowest temperature in the garden area was 30 degrees and the highest temperature in the green house was 93 degrees. Lion Joan talked about somehow doing a temperature control in the green house. Lion Steve said he would look into it.

Lion Steve said he and Ellen went up to the camp yesterday and worked on the train installation and sent out several pictures to the club to see the progress. After the new year he will be setting up a work party to install the main boards for the track.

Speaker Packet Contest – Lion Ray said he gave the Student Speaker packet to Lion Suda. Lion Ray said Lion Suda and Lion Liang are taking the reins and plans on talking with a number of schools and Leo Clubs. The subject for this speaker contest is
“Virtual Learning”. The District has not made a final decision yet if the contest is going to be virtual or in person depending on the Covid rules at that time. Lion Ray said that the club contest needs to be done sometime between March 1st and March 15th

Good of the Order –

Congratulations again to Lion Eli Eliason who was voted into the San Francisco State college “Hall of Fame” home of the Golden Gators for his playing skills and all his contributions to the college. Congratulations Lion Eli.

Lion Steve and his wife Ellen are celebrating their 54th Anniversary today December 17th. Congratulations and many more to come.
Lion John Smith talked about his current Lions club that volunteers to help in the eye glass program where they help clean the donated glasses in the Vallejo facility and hopes that when the Covid virus settles down that our club might participate in this effort.

Lion Al mentioned that he has $15,000 worth of donations going out to the organizations that we support in the next month. He had one issue with the Lions Club in Kandahar, India that had not cashed our last donation check, so Lion Prez Jeff is going to contact them to find out what the issue is before we issue them another donation check.

Lion Ron Ahearn