Lions Pride Bulletin - Mona

My fellow Li-ons, Leos, well wish-

ers and friends, it is indeed my great plea-sure to greet you and bring you this mes-sage as we complete the first half of the li-onistic year. I extend gratitude to the club members for the con-fidence they have ex-pressed in electing and

installing me as President for the current year.

The Lions Club of Mona has embarked on its 18th year of voluntary service to our community and the world. We have had our fair share of challenges over the recent past and it is clear that many of these chal-lenges will continue. However we still believe that as a club, we are seized with the urgency to build our membership and rekindle the energies necessary to carry out our various tasks.

We realized from very early that this year, perhaps like none other, would be a challenging one as we continue our mission of service to the less fortunate in our soci-ety. Through diligent planning and use of the guidance

provided by our District Governor through his goals, we will be equal to the task. To measure up though, we will have to face some tough challenges. These in-clude challenges of membership renewal, growth and motivation as well as the raising of funds in a tight economic situation.

I feel particularly energized by the support provided by a very dedicated and committed team of Lions to-wards our service projects as well as the positive re-solve of our Membership Chair in the orientation and pinning of four members into our pride here at Mona. These young and vibrant new members have been properly oriented in the business of lionism and from all accounts are eager to embark on their own careers in volunteerism.

Finally, to you our friends and community members we truly enjoy fellowshipping with you. As we reach out to you we invite you to visit our club meetings on 3rd and 4th Mondays. These are held at 6:00 p.m. at the Lions Resource Centre, 15 Ring Road, UWI, Mona campus. I urge you my fellow Lions to take heart and let us redouble our efforts to seek out new ways to be effective as we embrace the theme and challenge of our District Governor because “We still believe”.

Lion Marlize McCartney

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LIONS PRIDE – BULLETIN – MONA

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE JULY – DECEMBER 2012

Vol. XIX No. 1

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Vol. XIX LIONS PRIDE – BULLETIN – MONA No. 1

Welcome to the first edition of the Lions

Pride for fiscal year 2012 – 2013. The Publications and Circulations Committee takes great pride in contributing to the enviable record of publications like these in the

Mona Lions Club.

Through this medium we seek to showcase and record for posterity, the many goals we have achieved since the beginning of the fiscal year. We want to keep you informed, entertained and focussed. Kudos to the members who ensured that our objectives were met which resulted in our many achievements.

We added to the pride at Mona at our inaugural Speakers’ Forum staged on Monday October 22, 2012. The moment was very significant for our Club as these new members entered our den officially during Membership Growth month. Welcome Lions Garth, Roslyn, Chadwick and Sanya. We trust that your sojourn with us will be mutually beneficial. For those of us who have been here longer I want to thank you for staying the course, for despite our many challenges and distractions “We still Believe” “In a World of Service”.

Lion Dave Scarlett MJF, PCST

Contents President’s Message

EditorialMona welcomes the D.G.

Review of projects & activitiesInaugural speakers forumMid-Year Conference 2012

Birthday & Anniversary recognitionsAutism Awareness

Leo Corner

Mona WelcoMes District Governor lion clauDius “tony” BuncaMper

We welcome Lion Dis-trict Governor Lion

Anthony Buncamper, MJF on the occasion of his visit to au-dit the Lions and Leo clubs of Mona. Lion Tony, one of our truly distinguished Lions, has come to the office of District Governor with a tremendous

record of commitment and dedication to lionism and service to humanity. A member of the Lions Club of St. Maarten, Region 2 and District 60B; he has served in every important office of his club and his District, rising to the office of Vice District Governor in 2010 and now District Governor.

His chosen theme: “We still believe” and District song:

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“Follow the Lions and Leos Down the Road” have ar-ticulated and pointed the way for Lions and Leos in the District 60B to be united and committed in serving their communities. He has challenged us to demon-strate our commitment by placing emphasis on: • Service programmes and projects• Membership (recommitment & development of

quality members)• Club Business Processes, Practices and Decision

making• Leadership and Team work• Supporters, Sponsors and Fundraising• Accountability• Recognition

Lion Tony is recognized as the first Leo in our District to have attained the position of District Governor.

Lion District Governor, we welcome and congratulate you on your achievements and pledge our support to your programmes.

MONA LIONS MEMBERSHIP MANUAL – Chock Full of Information!

The Lions Club of Mona owes its thanks to its Mem-bership Committee which has circulated a compi-

lation of reference documents to assist all club mem-bers in quick searches for information.

• Included in the 2012 -13 Membership Manual is information on the world wide organization Lions International, Lions Code of Ethics and Objects, our club’s performance targets, mission and vision statements, Leos (Omega and Alpha groups), Lions

trivia and a membership directory for us to “keep in touch”.

• The manual is evidence of the committee’s hard work. High-fives for the tremendous effort you have put in!

JAMAICA 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

Mona Lions joined the Mona Heights Citizens’

Association in their celebration of the 50th An-niversary of Jamaica’s independence. At the annual ceremony held on Independence Day, August 6th, Lion Dave Scarlett, MJF, Chairman for Communications & Publications, spoke briefly on the lions club and brought greetings. Later club members formed a Guard of Honour as they joined the audience for the flag rais-ing ceremony and the singing of the National Anthem.

MONA CLEBRATES Ja’s Golden Jubilee with 50th Anniversary Scholarship.

The Lions Club of Mona celebrated Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary of Independence with the award of a

scholarship to a first year tertiary student at the Edna Manley College for the per-forming Arts. The recipient is Ms. Os-hama Thomas.

THANKSGIVING AND DEDICATION SERVICE

Headed by Lion President, nine Lions, 3 Leos and 4 guests attended the club’s annual thanksgiving

and dedication church service at the Universal Centre of Truth for Better Living Minister. Dr. Sheila McKei-then delivered message of love and service to human-ity.

MONA PARTICIPATES!

The Lions and Leo Clubs of Mona participated in the Incoming Club officers’ Orientation Workshop

held July 22, 2012 at the Belair High School, Mandev-ille, Jamaica. The Lions and Leo Presidents headed

the Mona team which also included the Lion Secre-tary, Membership Director and committee chairmen. Mona’s Lions Dave Scarlett, MJF, District Activities chair and Milton Pinnock, MJF, PDG conducted group workshops.

MORE PUNCH FOR SOCIAL MEETINGS

Mona Lions are demonstrating more involvement in Social meetings. For the new lionistic year,

Lions in their House teams have combined with the Membership Committee to host Social meetings on 3rd Mondays. The underlying objective is to engender more excitement, involvement and enriching the mem-


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bership experience. In the process, we hope to foster leadership development and strengthen the confidence of our members. Go teams Chicago, Jones and Keller!

INTERCLUBBING STRENGTHENS LIONISM

Since the start of the lionistic year (July 2012), Lion Membership chair (Keith P. ) has been leading Mo-

na’s visibility among sister clubs. An ardent exponent of interclubbing, Lion Keith is firmly of the view that ties and cooperation are strengthened for the good of lionism. To date Mona has interclubbed with Kingston, Portmore and Spanish Town Lions. Mona Lions have

also attended meetings of Zone 4B and Region 1.

FOCUS ON HEALTH SERVICES

The Lions Club of Mona has taken on the challenge to provide high quality health services through

hands on projects at a series of health forums. So far Mona has participated in five (5) Health fairs. Our ma-jor participation was the hosting of the World Sight Day Health Fair when we partnered with the Jamaica Soci-ety for the Blind. Five Mona Lions, 4 Leos and 3 guests conducted vision screening, Body Mass Index (BMI) and Blood sugar tests for several community members.

SPECIAL NEEDS PERSON ASSISTEDThe club took the lead role in securing a wheel chair for a double amputee in July.

INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING CORNER

Mona’s irrepressible Lion Keith Archer, 1st VP and

his wife, Lady Lion Beverley met with President Jacob Zuma of South Africa (at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel) during the presi-dent’s official visit to celebrate


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Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary of Independence.

FUNNY ONELINERS AND JOKES

• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?• Why is the man who invests all your money called

a broker?• Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren’t

they all just stale bread to begin with?• Why is a person who plays the piano called a pia-

nist but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

• Why are wise man and wise guy opposites?• Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite

things?• If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked,

doesn’t it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models de-posed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners de-pressed?

• If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?

• Do Lipton Tea employees take coffee breaks?• Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post

Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they just put their pictures on the post-age stamp so the mailmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?

• f it’s true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are others here for?

• No one ever says, “It’s only a game” when their team is winning.

REVIEW MID-YEAR CONFERENCE 2012

Mid Year Conference 2012 – 2013 was held November 14 – 18, 2013 and was hosted by the Lions and Leo Clubs of Jamaica. Mona Lions had three (3) members serving on the Planning Committee and other Lions and Leos from our family who assisted with the scheduled activities. Our own Leon Dave Scarlett had the task of planning the Talent Show and the Costume Party. Both activities achieved varying degrees of success and the Planning Team received high commendations for the new inno-vations. Interestingly Mona earned first and third places for best costume. Lion Debrah Rigg, IPP, and Leo Addo Cherrington, President of our omega tier walked off with the aforementioned prizes. Some of our new Lions were also able to participate in different activities over the four day event.

PRESENTATION FROM MRS. KALETTE ARCHER-JACKSON


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And a child shall lead them...Lion President, on behalf of my mother, Mrs. Kalette Archer-Jackson, I take great pleasure in handing over these items of medical supplies. To you madam Chair-man, in charge of the Geriatrics programme, I hope that these items will bring comfort to someone in need.

BIRTHDAYSJuly 01 – Desmond EllisJuly 03 – Debrah RiggJuly 14 - Marva GreenAugust 07 – Dr. Leslie SimpsonSeptember 10 – Bertrand SmithSeptember 17 – Monica Palmer-DouglasSeptember 30 – Chadwick LawrenceOctober 8 – Richard BramwellOctober 10 – Claudette GrantOctober 11 – Keith Peart October 18 – Winston AndersonOctober 28 – Milton PinnockNovember 2 – Marlize McCartneyNovember 3 – Margo WadeDecember 18 – Winston Smith

ANNIVERSARIES July 22 – Robin RattrayJuly 28 – Monica Palmer-DouglasJuly 30 – Barrington BucknorJuly 31 – Marlize McCartneyAugust 1 – Patricia RamikieAugust 6 – Leslie SimpsonAugust 16 - Winston Anderson September 7 – Cynthia & Keith PeartSeptember 21 – Desmond EllisNovember 22 - Anthony BushayDecember 9 – Winston Smith

December 11 – Valerie BuckleDecember 22 – Marie McCallaDecember 30 – Marva Green

Condolences – Lions Marlize, Anthony and Richard who all lost both lost loved ones during the first half of the fiscal year.

Congratulations to Lion Richard who became a father during the period.

1. Mona grows Membership – New Members

The membership of the Lions Club of Mona has grown to 39 with the recent induction of four (4) members: Li-ons Chadwick Lawrence, Sanya Steen, Roslyn Stewart and Garth Taylor. These members were inducted at our inaugural Speakers’ Forum & induction ceremony held October 22, 2012.

Lion Chadwick is a civil engineer and project manager; Lion Sanya is an agronomist and plant physiologist; Lion Roslyn is a Nurses’ assistant and Lion Garth is an attorney-at-law. We welcome these young and vibrant Lions. They will now settle into their assigned commit-tees and House teams, further contributing to humanity through lionism.


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The Lions Club of Mona hosted its inaugural Speakers’ Forum on Monday, October 22, 2012 at its den, UWI Mona Lions Centre for Students with Special Needs.

The Speakers’ Forum series seek to engage speakers from the public and private sectors (including the pro-fessional voluntary service sectors and NGOs) who will speak on topics of local, national and/or global inter-est and importance. It is expected that such discourses will stir further discussion and debate, deepen the un-derstanding of issues and engender enlightened action. These we hope will redound to the benefit of our club members and our fellow Jamaicans.

Guest Speaker at our inaugural event was Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan, not-ed Child-care research-er and specialist and Chairman of the Early

Childhood Commission. Professor Samms-Vaughan spoke on the topic of “Autism” which is a neurobio-logical disorder. It affects physical, social and language skills and is generally manifested in infants by age 18 months. This condition is seen world-wide and research continues to determine more precisely the pre-dispos-ing factors and treatment. Since 2011 Mona Lions Club has been giving very strong support through projects undertaken at the Adonijah Group of schools. The insti-tution provides autism intervention services. The forum was well supported by representatives from four sister clubs and members of the UWI community, notably the JN UWI team, headed by Senior Branch Manager Ms. Jacqueline Robotham. The expose on Autism was an “eye-opener” to the over 60 Lions and guests who at-

tended the forum.

AUTISM – A GROWING CONCERN!

Autism is a neurobiological disorder that affects physical, social and language skills. It is a com-

mon developmental disorder starting at the infant stage; it occurs globally and is growing exponentially. The University of the West Indies (in conjunction with the University of Texas) has been undertaking a fair amount of research in the subject of autism.

General global statistics show that boys are more af-fected than girls with 1:50 boys and 1:250 girls being born with the condition. In Jamaica current statistics reveal that 1:88 children suffer from autism, a very un-comfortable situation!

It is still not a hundred percent clear as to the definitive causes of autism. However there are some indications that there may be some correlation with genetics and


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environmental factors. There are also some indications that older maternal and paternal ages are linked to au-tism. Two out of every 3 autistic children are intellectu-ally impaired.

In general autistic children have larger heads than the average child. Identified impairments include: i). com-munication (difficulty with speech and delay in re-sponse – this is usually detected at around 18 months). ii). social interaction deficit, eg. not responding to their names, repetitive behavior and iii). hyper-sensitivity to senses.

The above mentioned situations can be mitigated by early intervention through behavior therapy, simple stimulation, speech and occupational therapy. Behavior therapy programs are being developed but resources are severely limited. There are only six (6) trained speech therapists in Jamaica and most are located in Kingston versus the spread of autistic children across the country.

Parents with autistic children are severely challenged because of the demand placed on them by their chil-dren resulting in their suffering from both physical and social stress. These parents therefore need strong par-ent-support groups. The YMCA and Children Hospital currently have support groups. Diagnosis of the autistic condition is earliest confirmed around 18 months.

LEO CORNERCamp Projects 21 Report given by

Leo Addo Cherrington President Mona Leo Club

The name of the camp is project 321, it is an ini-tiative of the member of Parliament for the con-

stituency of East rural St. Andrew. The objective of the

camp was to assist students preparing for the next sit-ting of the CXC Mathematics and the G-sat, the camp lasted for a duration of three weeks weeks; July 1st - July 22, 2012. The duties of the volunteers which I was classified as was to assist in the campers doing their homework in the afternoon after classes in the day. Throughout the day volunteer would also assist in en-suring that all campers are gathered at the central lo-cation for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Volunteers also ensured discipline was maintained and that all campers adhered to the camp rules, we were also responsible for the coordination of sporting/drama and fun activities to create an ambiance of not just work but also creativ-ity and play. It was a very fun-filled and interesting 3 weeks and inspite of the various challenges, it was a rewarding experience.


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