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Earth and Arbor Day in Cupertino!
We had a booth on 4/13/19, from 11:00 – 3:00pm. We had a few fellow lions who filled in 2 hour slots and helped set up and tear down
The event was held at Civic Center Plaza, 10350 Torre Ave. Cupertino; we were one of 77 booths with exhibitors and show rooms. Our displays and flyers attracted quite a few visitors, while kids were keen on planting a marigold seed in a paper cup filled with good soil.
Dear Fellow Lions and Friends
We spontaneously put on our 11th Blanketeering night on Thursday March 28th, 2019, at 6:30pm as always at the Odd Fellows Lodge # 70, at 20589 Homestead Road in Cupertino. Under the guidance of Lion Les and with the help of Lion Carl, fleece had been procured from Joann’s craft store. Fourteen adults and 7 kids worked for a good two hours to complete 55 blankets for the LINUS organization. Sharon Lee, our liaison to LINUS, did a small presentation to describe the purpose of the blankets; she also brought great scissors together with the other tools required for blanketeering. Lion Claire brought 4 brownies, including two of her kids, while Lion Prez Jeff was present with the 3 youngsters from his family. While the adults were mostly occupied with cutting the fringes, the little ones were busy tying the knots. In one of the breaks they were entertaining the adults and themselves with a few songs. Everybody seemed to have good fun making 55 blankets for a good cause.
We thank all lions and friends and family, as well as the kids, and of course Lion Don and the Odd Fellows for letting us use their hall which is just perfect for this event.
Cupertino, May4th, 2019 – Helen Hu, a Sophomore at Lynbrook High School, was awarded first place at the 2019 Lions Student Speaker Contest – District level on April 20th, 2019. Helen previously had won the Club level contest held by the DeAnza Lions Club, the Zone level contest as well as the region level contest.
Helen Hu was one of 4 high school students (winners of region level contests) participating in the Lions Club district level contest held at the American Legion Post on Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara.
The topic was “Freedom Of The Press – What Does It Mean?”
This is the 82nd year that the Lions Student Speaker Contest is being held.
As a winner, Helen will advance to the Area level competition, which will take place on May 11th, 2019 – Tierra Linda Middle
School 750 Dartmouth Ave., San Carlos, Ca 94070 @ 2PM
According to the rules from Lions International, the winner at each level can advance through Zone, Region, District, Area, and the Final Contests. The venue for this year’s final contest will be announced soon. The Grand Winner will be awarded a $10,000 scholarship although accumulated winnings at each level will amount to $20,000 in scholarships and some cash.
Lions Club International is the world’s largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in over 200 countries and geographic areas around the world. Since 1917, Lions clubs have aided the blind and visually impaired and made a strong commitment to community service and serving youth throughout the world.
“WHAT A GLORIOUS CELEBRATION LAST NIGHT!” – These are the words of our intrepid President, Lion Jeff, praising the 50th anniversary Charter Night of our club
Dear Lions All
Here is a link to our President’s thoughts of our Crab Feed event on February 9th, 2019!
Anatomy of a Lions Charity Crab Feed
Enjoy!
Over the pre-Thanksgiving weekend of Nov 17 – 19, the De Anza Lions once again came together with family and friends to participate in the annual food drive. Lions Jen and Claire were the main organizers, with many Lions, too many to mention individually, fulfilling major roles on all 3 days. As last year, food items were collected on Saturday and Sunday in front of 3 grocery stores in the communities, including Santa Clara, Los Gatos and San Jose, with Lion Jen monitoring the receipts at the Odd Fellows Hall so the donating people could be steered towards the items that were missing for a full list of both food baskets. Despite the unhealthy air due to massive wild fires helpers came out on both days! THANK YOU!
The distribution and delivery on Monday morning was done in record time, this year for 173 families who will now not only enjoy a scrumptious Thanksgiving meal, but will have food for the remainder of this week and beyond!
Many thanks to all participants and donors, Lions, Leos, Family and friends, as well as the Odd Fellows for letting us rent out their hall – and our gratitude to the stores, Lucky’s and Lunardi’s, for participating in our event!
During the monthly “PM” meeting Lion Prez Jeff requested a moment of silence in respect of those club relatives recently passed, and in support of the Noone and Knox families.
A warm welcome was extended to Distinguished Guest: Lion John Smith from Lions Club Chapter 4-C2 in the North Bay and Ms. Minh Ngo, Executive Director of My Red Shoes
Installation of Officers, Guest Lion John Smith presiding
President: Lion Jeff
1st Vice Pres Lion Charles, in absentia
2nd Vice Pres Lion Ray
Secretary Lion Jill, in absentia
Treasurer Lion VJ, in absentia
Directors: Lions Claire and Carl
Membershp chair vacant
LCIF Rep. vacant
The absent officers were represented by their photos, with stand-ins for the oaths.
All accepted the responsibilities of their roles as read by Lion John. It should be noted that Lion John Smith went to great trouble to bring important and useful tools to help the officers; for example – two long horns for Lion Carl, our club tail twister and lion tamer, to use to generate enthusiasm at club events, and a heavy rubber mallet for Pres, Lion Jeff to keep order, and to put square pegs in round holes as needed.
Lion Claire presented Ms Ngo with a check in the amount of $ 1,500.
Contributed by Lion Andrea
It was the De Anza Lions’ Blanketeering Night #9 and it was a happy success. The sense of community service, fun and even a little competitive spirit was in the air. We started the evening as Leslye read a little bit about Project Linus to the group, including its Mission Statement, simply stated: to provide comfort to children in need and to provide the volunteers a rewarding opportunity for the benefit of children. With that in mind, the group launched in and fulfilled the mission of the evening, completing 53 blankets in about 2 hours.
We were lucky enough to have Lions and their better halves in attendance along with other relatives, community members, Leos and Girl Scouts with some of their family members. In total there were 18 adults, 2 teens and 10 children participating. Some blanketeers chose to trim, cut and tie their blankets all on their own while others took advantage of the little ones on hand and called for their nimble-fingered assistance when it was time to tie knots. The competition seemed to pick up as each cowbell sounded signaling that another completed “blankie” had just been added to the stacks. The young-uns seemed to ramp up their tying speed in order to be the next one to ring the bell. The oldies-but-goodies did get into the spirit of the evening, however, as they too took pride in scooting up front to ring their own chimes.
Yes, it was spirited and light-hearted and important work we participated in that Blanketeering Night #9. The children learned a little bit more about sharing and caring while the adults (who are just big children at heart) did the same, satisfied that they did indeed experience a rewarding opportunity for the benefits of children in need and proud to have been a part of this bit of community service provided by the work done by our own De Anza Lions.
Contributed by Leslye Noone
