News

DG Ron Smircich

rsmircich@msn.com

May 2018

Editor: Ron Smircich

“The Power of Service”

Our 70th Annual District C convention was a great success, Many of the convention

highlights are included in this newsletter. Our guest speakers, who provided a wealth

of information, were greatly appreciated by Lion attendees. Bremerton Mayor Greg

Wheeler opened our Saturday afternoon session with kind words about Lions. Capt.

Schrader, the commanding officer of Naval Base Kitsap gave us an extremely thorough

and interesting insight into the role of his command. Charlotte Sanders, from the Uni-

versity of Washington, gave us an in depth education on the problem of homelessness

in our state. Past International Director Ed Farrington gave us a motivational speech

on the role of Lions in meeting the humanitarian needs throughout the world. We also

had a vriety of interesting and well attended seminars. One unexpected highlight was

the sailing of the USS Bremerton submarine past the convention center on its way to be

decommissioned.

I thank the Bremerton Central Lions Club for all the work they performed as the host

club. I also thank the convention committee, PDG Marilynn Danby, Margie Torbron,

PDG John Bergvall, 1VDGE Pat Burch and DGE Sharon Sikes. I also thank those who

attended.

A Welcome to our newly elected District Officers for

2018-2019

DGE Sharon Sikes

1VDGE Pat Burch

2VDGE Dona Murr

The USS Bremerton sailed

past the convention cen-

ter.

District News

PDG Jan Weatherly, GMT Bob

Johnson and DG Ron Smircich

were given a 30 minute inter-

view by radio host Dick Pust to

discuss Lions and promote

membership . The interview

will air at 9AM on May 6 on

KXXO radio at 96.1 FM.

The interview can also be

heard on the website:

www.mixx96.com

Lions Promotion on the Radio

1st Vice District Governor-Sharon Sikes

2nd Vice District Governor- Pat Burch

Leadership Chair (GLT)–PDG Al Hedstrom

Membership Chair (GMT)– PZC Bob Johnson

Service Chair (GST) PZC Patti Lovell

Extension chair-PDG Jan Weatherly

Retention chair-PDG Ida Malone

Zone Chair (C1) PZC Luis Montes-Gonzalez

Zone Chair (C2) PZC Bill Zidel

Zone Chair (C3) Dorothy Burt

Zone Chair (C4) PZC Ginger Shields

Zone chair (C5) PZC Darrell Behounek

Zone Chair (C6) Chris Beck

Upcoming District Events

C5 Zone social –May 5 (Mt. Rainier)

C3 Zone Social –June 9

C4 Zone Social– June 9

Banner Passing - July 23

District Roster Ad Space Going Quickly: Great News! There is still space available in our 2018-19 District Roster to place an advertisement. It is an outstanding way to publicize a club event, promote your business, promote your club or yourself. Following are the ad sizes available: Business Card $50 ½ Page $100 Full Page $150 ($200 for color) Contact 2nd VDG Pat Burch today @ 2vdg@md19clions.org to reserve your spot. Ad copy and payment are due NLT May 15th. (Ad copy should be Camera Ready in .jpeg format. For returning advertisers, we can use your copy from last year if there are no changes.)

District 19C 70th Annual Convention

At Fun Night, DG Ron demonstrated some simple self-defense

moves. 2VDG Pat Burch bravely volunteered to be his attacker

Lion Barbara Wasser of the Ta-

coma Downtown Club is pre-

sented a plaque for being se-

lected the District 19C Lion of

the Year.

Zone persons of the year were presented with the District Governor’s Appreciation

Medal with certificates. Persons awarded at the convention were PZC Bob Kelley,

PZC J.J. Budzak, and Lion Barbara Wasser. Bremerton Mayor Greg Wheeler and

Capt. Alan Schrader, Commander of the Naval Base Kitsap are also in the picture.

Fun Night costumes featured “People

in Service”. Above are PID Ed and

ElaineFarrington and VCC John and Sharon

Kirry.

District 19C 70th Annual Convention

PZC Bob Johnson poses with PID Ed Far-

rington and DG Ron after being awarded

the International President’s Leadership

Medal

PDG’s Jan Weatherly, John Bergvall, Marilynn Danby, and Al Hedstrom were each

awarded the LCI International President’s Certificate of Appreciation

2VDG Pat Burch and 1VDG Sharon Sikes

were each awarded outstanding Lions

Leadership Plaques

Lion Jim Snyder was awarded the

District Governor’s Appreciation

Medal and certificates for his role

as the District Youth Poster Chair.

Other Convention Awards

(Pictures not available)

Zone Chair commendation Medals:

ZC Bill Zidel

ZC Luis Montes-Gonzales

ZC Ginger Shields

ZC Darrell Behounk

District Cabinet Chair Medal

PDG Dave Risley

PZC Bpb Johnson

PDG Al Hedstrom

Cabinet Treasurer Commendation Medal

Gail Slosson

District Governor Appreciation Medals:

PZC Karl Ostheller

Margie Torbron

PZC Patrick Taylor

Jim Reddick

District 19C 70th Annual Convention

The Seminars

The noon guest

speaker, Capt.

Alan Schrader,

Commanding

Officer, Naval

Base Kitsap

Bremerton City

Mayor Greg Wheeler

welcomed the Lions

to the City of Bremer-

ton

Charlotte Sanders was a guest speaker to both the

Friday seminar and Friday dinner. She spoke on

homelessness in the community

District 19C 70th Annual Convention

A Good Time was had by all!!

Club News

Bremerton Central

DG Ron spoke at the Port Orchard Rotary Club about Lions Project New Hope to promote theBremerton Central club ’s

June 29 golf tournament. He was accompanied by Past Pres. Lon Howard and 1VP Bob Theal.

Thank you Bremerton Central Lions. DG Ron visited the club on May 2 and presented

each participating member of the Bremerton club with a District Governor’s Certificate of Ap-

preciation for their role in making the 70th annual District C convention a great success.

Club News

Lacey Sunrise Lions Club

Focus on Service

Earth Day 2018 District C Lions were involved in several projects on Earth Day, April 21

Lions at the Silver Creek project in

Puyallup

The Lacey Lamplighters, Mid-Day and Sunrise joined

together to support the Wonderwood Park in Lacey

Members of the Olympia Host and Olympia West clubs hold

the Earth Month flag at Priest Point Park.

DG Ron holds the Earth Month flag for young volunteers

District Membership

MD 19 Youth Exchange

Hosts are needed for this summer for several youths visiting from Europe. Two applications are in hand and at least four more are expected. In hand are applications from a girl and a boy from Germany. We have received inquiries from Finland and Italy. At this time, we are looking for hosts throughout MD19 so that the youths can visit both in Canada and the U.S. If you would like to receive information about the program and the youths, contact PDG George Robison at georgerobison@centurytel.net or 253-853-2721.

By PZC Bob Johnson, GMT

New District C Members in April 2018

Auburn Noon Lakewood First

Samuel Betz Hailer Wheeler

Dupont Mineral Lake

Carolyn Miller Terry Boyet

Eatonville Donna Hyatt

James Ball Dawn Sally

Enumclaw Janet Stillman

Duncan Debond Puyallup Valley

Federal Way Eric Boyette

Carol Otto Roy Community

Lacey Mid Day Pam Moynes

David Dobbs Tenino

Judith Dobbs William Donahue

Zone News

Zone C5 Social

Zone C4

District News

Attention all Lions.

Players are needed to sign up for the Project New Hope

Golf Tournament sponsored by the Bremerton Central Lions

Club News

Club Events