PM Minutes: November 2, 2016

PM Lions Minutes:  November 2, 2016

Esteemed Guests: Lion DG Barbara Chamberlain, Lion Kevin Johnson, Lion David Martin, Lion Sue Szucs, Lion Melinda Blaza, Paris Deangelo, Sydnie, multiple children under 10, Ellen, Barb, Sophia..

De Anza Lions: Scott, Jill, Jeff, Steve, Linda, Al, Dan, Yvonne, John, Vijay, Anne, Eli, Mort, Claire, Ron, Ray, Jenni, Carl, Jen, Phil, Amy, Charles, Scott H., John, Kent.

Meeting Begins at 6:43. Pledge led by our many children and Sophia Ice signed the pledge.

Tailtwister:  Happy dollars for forklift certs, butternut squash, for being her at the fun meeting, good grades, Thanksgiving, Halloween, for guests and Lion family, Go Cubbies (mid-game 7 and winning!), Fimbys are here and connecting with Hughes, one dollar for the Indians, being back at Tony and Alba’s, upbeat president, just being happy, most improved for Spanish words, happy dollar for kindness award.

Sydnie Ludlum presents Pennies for Patients: leukemia support introduced by Sydnie Ludlum and the pennies box is passed around.

Angelina Kalia’s Walkathon: presented that she raised 230.00 in her walk-a-thon.  Congrats!

DG Barbara, and the other  welcomed by Jeff Ludlum:

  • Zone 1 Kevin Johnson is here to introduce DG Barbara.  Driving a diabetes support celebration and the reveal of the baseline plan of the disaster recovery project.  Currently, Kevin is helping support Loma Prieta disaster victims (Bulletin Board for Community next step).  Lions are up there helping out as much as possible.  He sent out a spreadsheet that could compile our emergency response skills and talents within this club.  The more people in our district that are trained, the better our community will be off, when we have quick first responders.

  • Lion Melinda Blaza: introducing DG Barbara Chamberlain, who she has known for quite some time.

  • DG Barbara: She talked to especially our littles, using the stuffed red lion, who has some problems bumping into things.  The lion’s friend, suggested that he see the Lions for a pair of glasses. The lion thanks everyone for all the people who provide glasses for so many people. Important idea is our vision-local community service project.  But, things often derail our vision, but that doesn’t mean we don’t respond, like the fires in Big Sur.  And as each of us our “busily hurrying toward our goal, stop and help people along the way that need it.”Pins for Al and Vijay for their milestone Lion membership.At Palmer Chiropractic is the zone meeting, with new plans that are for buying glasses, disaster relief training/first responders club.  Lion Barbara sells directories and pins.  Negative free zone is what her pin means.  Looking for ideas for a big district celebration-send ideas to DG Barb.

  • Lion Sue Szucs:  thank you for donating to our food drive, Sue!  Committee member for LCIF.  In addition to glasses, and disaster relief, LCIF is taking on measles and the deaths that occur because of the ongoing effects of this disease.  However, we are much lower in donations than we usually are for LCIF.  $1,000-will get the club a Melvin Jones award, but any amount helps. Sue has a “football” pool if you want to donate 10 dollars a square to be in a raffle for a Melvin’s Jones. Al pointed out that we do donate 3,000.00? per year to LCIF but enjoy the football pool for a Melvin Jones.

  • Lion Linda Pugleisi from Scales of Justice Lions :and presenting annual eyes for eyes fundraiser.  Selling pies for a fundraiser that come frozen and are $15. Order now! Or email Linda.

Membership Satisfaction Award:  We were awarded this patch to put on our banner.

Food Drive Updates:  Lion John and Lion Yvonne have orchestrated the Thanksgiving food drive in two weeks.  Special thanks to Claire for her efforts in finding people to fill the slots for this event.  1, 745.00 dollars donated by Yvonne’s Car Club initially and that was just the first donation!  Yvonne has also been collecting non-perishable of food.  Lots of canned vegetables and boxes of macncheese.  She will update us on the numbers next week.  Ron wants to thank both Lion Dan and Yvonne, and car club that they give us every year!  WE appreciate it so much!  Hoping to be done early on Sunday and wrap it up at the groceries a little early..

Crab Feed Update: collected 4,000.00 dollars for donations/raffle?  We have only 250 spots on each seating this year.  Lion Linda’s group has already paid and gotten their tickets in the mail.

Bike Ride Update:  permits are preliminarily approved, Lion Sundar is putting together a website that plans to be online January 1st, anybody who knows how to write (i.e. teachers in the team) can volunteer to write a webpage, let Ron know.   We have insurance for the permits…

The party may be on December 10 for Christmas Party.  Are the bluebells in?  Look for confirmation of that date.

Public Service Announcement: Daylight savings ends this Sunday.

Eli Erickson thanked everyone for his walkathon donation money-$200.00

Meeting adjourned at 7:43.