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DG Ron Smircich
November 2017
Editor: Ron Smircich
As we approach the holiday seasons, we should all think of how we can best fulfill the Lions
motto “We Serve”. Throughout our District, most of our clubs are planning ways to meet the
humanitarian needs of deserving citizens in their community. These include food baskets for
low income families, contributions to the food banks and the backpack programs. Several clubs
plan special events for needy children. One of the major service focus areas of LCI is to reduce
hunger in Children, so all clubs are encouraged to reach out into their communities to find out
where the needs exist and to do their best in serving those needs.
As a reminder, Lions Clubs International has identified five major service focus areas for the
next five years-Hunger, Vision, Diabetes, Pediatric Cancer, and the Environment. Each commu-
nity may have different needs in each of these areas, so please contact your community leaders
and make them aware of your willingness to serve whenever possible.
I have completed most of my visitations. It is a pleasure to report to Lions Clubs International
that all of our clubs are healthy and continuing to perform the mission to serve the community.
Many Lions dedicate many hours of service and are commended for it. I ask club leaders to
provide me with the names of deserving Lions, those who dedicate hours and hours of their
time to serve, so they can be recognized.
Please remember the District environmental project on November 4 in Puyallup. The details
are included in this newsletter. We have a stellar record of participation in this annual project,
so please come out and be a part of it.
All Lions are invited to march with us at the
annual Auburn Veteran’s Parade
Assembly time 10:00AM. Stop by our booth for
instructions
Our 20 passenger trailer will be available for riding also.
Lions
Project
New
Hope NW
November 11
District C Lions will be working at the Meeker
Creek location,9AM to 12 AM.
Please report by 8:50 AM
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
District Environmental Project– Nov 4 Puyallup
C3 Zone Meeting– Nov 6 (Federal Way)
C5 Zone Meeting– Nov 6 (Eatonville)
C2 Zone Meeting—Nov 16 (Union)
C4 Zone Meeting—December 1 (Bremerton)
District Cabinet Meeting—November 13 (Dupont)
LIONS YOUTH EXCHANGE
New training about Lions Youth Exchange has been added to the 19C web site. Just
go across the headings to “Information” and then on the drop down menu click on
“Training Programs”. The first item listed is “Youth Exchange Training Powerpoint file.”
Just click on that and open the 8 minute Power Point to learn the basics of Youth Ex-
change.
For further information contact PDG George Robison at
[email protected] or by phone at 253-853-2721.
Silverdale Dandy Lions along with Rotary of Silverdale will be having a Christmas Tree
Celebration Nov 25, starting at approximately 2PM with tractor rides through Old Town Sil-
verdale beginning at Oxford Suites. While it’s ok to get off the ride along the way to have a
hot beverage and get warmed by a fire, take part in a scavenger hunt of Old Town business-
es. Getting back to Silverdale Antique via tractor ride for more activities; crafts, snacks, hot
beverages, and more. Santa arrives via Fire Engine approx. 6 PM to light our wonderful
Christmas Tree, he also will be available to hear what you’d like to receive for Christmas. If
you’d like to have a table at this event. Please contact Carla at [email protected] for an
application. Or come enjoy the activities. Happy Holidays.
Club News
Club News
Hoodsport Lions annual free BBQ dinner for veterans in the Shelton-Hoodsport area.
Nov 12,2017 Hoodsport fire Hall
12:00AM-3:00PM
Speaker Jim Simms A -Purple Heart recipient and President of the Purple Heart Foundation
Color Guard Ceremony by Shelton High School ROTC
Recognition of each Branches of Service members
Hoodsport Lions are honored to be able to show our appreciation of the service men and women who have
fought to preserve the gift of Freedom to America.
The Yelm lions will be
serving up Hotdogs, Baked Pota-
toes, Nachos, Chili and chips at the
Holiday Bazar at Rosemont
Retirement Center in Yelm on November 17th and
18th. There will be several vendors with craft and oth-
er items for the holidays.
Several years ago, the Mineral Lake Lions Club took on the responsibility of being the care-
takers of the smallest post office in the United States, Situated along the road that circles Mineral Lake,
the post office was established by early settlers in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The post
office served the citizens of Mineral for many years, eventually being replaced by a larger building in the
town. The small building is a historic landmark, and through the efforts of the Mineral Lake Lions club,
it preserves a small part of Mineral’s history.
Tenino Lions Club When Zone C 6 Chair visited the Tenino Lions Club
in September he advised the Club that he had suffered a heart attack in Au-
gust. As a result, he was unable to finish certain winter preparations at his
home. In response, the Tenino Lions Club gathered a group of six Lions that cut,
split and stacked firewood at the Zone Chairs. They donated a total of 18 hours
to assist a fellow lion.
Tenino Lions Club has opened its annual holiday house. The holiday house is
open Friday and Saturdays, 10-4. Located on Sussex (the main street in Tenino),
it has every type of holiday décor imaginable, reasonable prices, and warm wel-
comes from the volunteers.
Club News
What’s happening in Federal Way?
By Dorothy Burt
Chair C-3
Under the guidance of Membership Chair PDG Bill Ellis, the Club is re-evaluating the nineteen activities that have become fixtures in our Annual Event Calendar. We are working toward a standard that no activity will go forward without two co-chairs, a Project Plan and a Post-Action report. You may think these are standard, but we all tend to loosen the reins and keep following the trodden path.
This fresh look was initiated by Chair Ellis as part of a discussion of why we need more members.
The answer is either we have too many projects OR too few members.
In our meetings so far we have found that some people feel they don’t need a co-chair; that the activity is THEIR pro-ject.
Clearly some activities are more important to the Club than others. For example we would defend the Dictionary Project to the death. We are even willing to abandon our rule that every project must generate the funds to support it. That rule has a long tradition in our Club, but is too rigid for all circumstances.
Other projects are obsolete. We formerly supported the fire department effort to bring Christmas to needy families. Local children are now receiving this service through Federal Way Cares For Kids an all-community effort.
Other Clubs will have variations of these and other issues. The question hangs before all of us.
DO WE NEED FEWER PROJECTS OR MORE MEMBERS? Some of us are filling in with joint projects with other Clubs, a useful de-vice, but not an answer. My answer has to be more members. What am I doing about it?
The Federal
Way Lions as-
sist the Historical
Society of Federal
Way by being Do-
cents and talking
about the history
of a couple of old
cabins. The John
Barker cabin, the oldest structure in federal way is located
with the Denny Real estate office on 348th near the West
Hylebos Wetlands park. It is open monthly for tours
through October . The pictures shows Lion David Lee giving
a talk on the cabin and its history . The Federal Way Lions
assist the Historical Society of Federal Way by being Do-
cents and talking about the history of a couple of old cab-
ins. There are several Lions who volunteer . The pictures
shows David Lee giving a talk on the cabin and its history.
Club News
PZC Jim Lamb, President of the Bremerton Central Lions Club was named Multiple District 19 Zone Chairperson of the year at
therMD 19 annual convention. Pictured with Jim are PCC Enoch Rowland, International Director Jennifer Ware, and CC John Whit-
man. There are 70 Zone Chair positions in MD19.
The Bremerton Central Lions
completed the installation of
their legacy projectr at the
Lions Park in Bremerton. The
project is a net climber for
children on the park play-
ground
Club News
Lakewood First Lions volunteered 45 plus hours selling and pack-
ing 80 cartons of apples to support the LCI
diabetes initiative. We raised $1,600 on ap-
ples sales to support the Camp Leo diabetes
youth camp.
Lions Project New Hope NW
Lions Project New Hope conducted its first retreat for single combat veterans in Brin-
non on Oct 22-23. This year, the organization has additionally conducted two family
veteran’s retreats, and one singe veteran women’s retreat. A First Responder’s retreat
is being planned for this Lions year.
Eatonville Lions had a great Halloween party as part of the community business trick
or treating. Hot dogs, drinks and plenty of games with little prizes kept families busy.
The Puyallup South Hill Club will start selling Christmas Trees Black Friday Nov 24th and will
sell daily until all are sold. We will have Doug Fir, Grand, Nobles and Nordmans. The hours will be Mon -
Friday Noon until 9 PM , Saturday and Sunday 9 AM to 9 PM. If anyone would like to help Please contact
Ron Hirning 253-576-0819 or Fred DeRome 53-383-4544
We will also have Christmas Wreaths
Our location is Sunrise Village 15405 Meridian in Puyallup 98374
Focus on Service
The Lacey Sunrise Lions Club puts up overt 500 flags on all National Holidays. It usually takes 5
teams of 3 to 4 people about an hour and a half to put them up and about the same to take them down. So about 45 total volunteer hours each holiday. The Lacey Police Dept. has allocated space for flag storage in the South Station on Ruddell Rd. We receive help in replacing damaged flags from Woodmen of America, a non-profit group, occasionally from the VFW, and from individual or business flag sponsorship. The city of Lacey assist the program by initially putting up the flag holders on street light poles. Damaged flags are giv-en to the Boy Scout Troops we sponsor and they are disposed of in accordance with proper flag protocol. We receive lots of horn honks and waves as we put them up and everyone seems to appreciate the flags being displayed. For a long time, the city was unaware of who was really carrying out this pro-gram. Then on 9-11, when the planes attacked, someone at City Hall said we should put the flags up around town as a show of unity. So they called the City Shops who said “We don’t do that.” After a little research, they discovered it was the Lacey Sunrise Lions. We rushed to wrap a black ribbon on each flag stick and place the flags up around town. Since then, we have been recognized by the Lacey City Council, a proclamation issued and they have been extremely supportive.
District Membership
PZC Bob Johnson
My Fellow Lions,
We are in for another great year in Membership in 19C. The last three years have been plusses; 14-15
plus 11, 15 – 16 –plus 8 and 16 – 17 – plus 44. The big growth came we added two new clubs. Let’s do
that again. This year we will do better. It is important that all clubs and all members get involved in re-
cruiting new members.
In July 16 – we started at a -95 and finished at +44. In July 17, we started at -35; which is the lowest it
has been at the beginning for a long, long, long time. Do the math and the work and we could be a plus
100. Why not add some clubs, club branches and our regular membership yearly traditions. This could
happen! Think Big like our International President!!
We know have 46 clubs in our district. Out of those 46 clubs, 9 are a plus; 16 are even and 7 are a MI- 1.
That means at this early juncture in our Lions year, 70% of the clubs are near a plus. That is excellent.
Congratulations to Maple Valley, Mt Rainier, Olympia Host, Port Orchard, Silverdale Dandy, Silverdale
Sunrise, Tenino, Tumwater and Yelm for their plus numbers.
I fully believe and do whatever I can to have our District be a plus, for the 4th year in a row. Let’s be at
least a plus 50. No other District in our MD can make that claim.
A dream starts somewhere, you Lions catch on fire and make this dream come true.
YOU MUST BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob Johnson - GMT
From the LCI International President,
Naresh Aggarwal:
“My dream is to have Lions Clubs In-
ternational grow to a total of 1.5 mil-
lion members by the end of this Lions
Year.”
District Membership
Earn a Commemorative Centennial Coin!!
The top five Lions who recruit new members in Dis-
trict C will receive a commemorative coin at the an-
nual convention. The new members must be en-
tered into MyLCI by April 15, 2018.
District C New Members– October 2017
Eatonville Lions Club Olympia Host Lions Club
Samual Atkins Wayne Laakso
Jamie Baublits Cheryl Quinn
Robert Milby Maple Valley Centennial
Gary Baublits Chris DeLeon
Dnielle Milby Lindsay Kokich
Lacey Sunrise Lions Club Orting Lions Club
Isabella Colvin Steve Koleszar
Joshua Renschker
What Would Help Your Lions Club Be in the Public's Eyes?
By Brieanne Berg, PR District 19C
This will help anyone whether they are the public relations chair, just starting out
or there is a need. Start by utilizing some resources that are available through
Lions Clubs International (LCI) or through other Lions that have been approved
by LCI.
First you need to know what it is you plan to write about. If it is the structure of an
article, make it practical and effective. Use of the following resources:
Lions Public Relations Handbook Guide
http://www.lionsclubs.org/resources/EN/pdfs/pr710.pdf
This tri-fold will give a format for press releases, media answers, presentations,
questions, history, facts, video's and more.
If you have a club tri-fold, a specific subject like the Peace Poster Contest, or LCI's
History, here are the addresses to obtain those brochures:
Be A Lion Brochures - Six examples on LCI website:
http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/member-center/resources/publications/resources-pub-pr.php
Peace Poster Contest Brochure
http://www.lionsclubs.org/resources/EN/pdfs/pr775.pdf
Lions Clubs International History
http://www.lionsclubs.org/resources/EN/pdfs/pr800.pdf
Second, use the 5 W's when writing an article: who, what, where, when and why. I will
expand on this next time. In the meantime, use resources and have fun with your articles!
One of the goals of LCI Forward
“Become the best-known brand for voluntary service across the world. “
Set Your Sails for Bremerton!!
District 19C Annual Convention
•April 27-28, 2018
Win Big!!! Support the
District Convention
50-50 raffle
Tickets on sale from:
September 2017 to April 28, 2018
$5 tickets are sold by 2nd VDG Pat Burch
Drawing at the Convention banquet on April 28, 2018
You do not need to be present to win
Tickets may only be
purchased by Lions Club
members.
For sale by the Silverdale Dandy Lions Club
Storage Trailer includes 4 jacks, 13’ long, 6’ high, 6’ wide (inside=
10.5x5x5.25) Lions sign, almost new tires.
Less than 100 miles by previous owner, 5 miles by Dandys. Asking $750.
Curly fryers $300 each or 2/$500
One is stand alone, both with baskets
Curly fry cutter comes with table= $50
2 grills with accessories $175 each or both for $300
Please help us out, we have no place to store this wonderful trailer,
It’s dry inside, well built, can’t go wrong.
Please contact:
KL Carla Larson
Silverdale Sunrise Club
Halloween Run
1Mi. 5K and Kids Dsshes
Saturday October 28th
Bremerton Washington
Kitsap County Fairgrounds
Contact: [email protected]
The Lions Journey
A new Lion member is guided by an experienced Lion so the new Lion
• Feels welcome in the club
• Becomes familiar with the organization (Orientation)
• Becomes involved in club activities and club growth
• Becomes involved in service and leadership
Please send the names of all Lions
who have completed any phase of the
Lions Journey to DG Ron Smircich at :
The Kent Lions is offering a free parade float to any interested Lions club. They need an answer by the end of November
Contact Gary at [email protected]
District C Extension Plan By IP
Remember:
All training is District C is open to all Lions
members
Please go to the District Website to obtain
the links for all “Go to Meeting “
Training sessions.
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