an MD5M. District 5M5 hosted 7 students.

Lion Brenda showed slides of their activities and gave an overview of the program. She

reminds us to remember Youth Exchange during the Midwinter Convention Parade of

Checks.

Third, PCC Bob Jechorek announced the up-coming plans for the Midwinter Convention

including hospitality rooms and hospitality book application forms. An emphasis will be

made this year to recognize our “Everyday Heroes”. This year there will be no charge to

the club for recognizing their Everyday Hero. Furthermore a discounted dinner ticket will

be available for their Everyday Hero nomi-

nee. It is our hope that family and club members will share a memorable evening

with their honorary.

Lastly, Tom McKee from the Salvation Army announced a new kettle program beginning

November 8. They are recruiting 108 spon-sors forward for 108 kettles to be located

throughout the metropolitan area. We are asking clubs to sponsor a kettle for $1,000

and man the kettle that day. I was greatly encouraged to see 8 clubs step up immedi-

ately to sponsor a kettle. Perhaps there are smaller clubs that would like to get together

to sponsor a kettle?

I continue to speak and promote Interna-

tional President Madden’s theme entitled “In a World of Service”. One of his key pro-

grams is the Reading Action Plan (RAP). Last week, Lion Ken Pengelly, PDG Roger

Badenhop, and I met with representatives of the Hennepin County Library and their Foun-

dation. They will be identifying ways for Li-ons to promote reading programs in our

community library systems. Examples may be putting age appropriate books in the

September 2012 Volume 10 Issue 3

Governor Dave Reach “Let Me Be Brave In The Attempt”

Greetings 5M5 Lions, A few evenings ago we held the all zone meeting at David Fong’s restaurant in

Bloomington. 103 Lions were in attendance!

I was very pleased with the turnout and how well the zone chairs ran the meeting. A large

number of new lion leaders were attending their first all zone meeting. A cabinet mem-

ber overheard someone saying “I had no idea that we were going to get so much in-

formation”.

Yes, your club officers should be coming to your next club meeting with lots of notes. I

wanted to emphasize a couple of unique op-portunities available in this district that was

discussed at the all zone meeting.

First, PDG Jack Hines announced the Rogers

Lions Club is raising $35,000 to make im-provements to Camp Courage Octagon

Building, adding air conditioning units, and installing a handicap accessible fishing dock.

A flyer is included in this issue of the In-former.

Second, Youth Exchange Chairperson Lion

Brenda Reeves made an excellent presenta-tion about the students recently hosted by

hands of children, sponsoring book clubs for

Middle and High School kids, or providing large print books and magazines for visually

impaired folks. Other suggestions were reading to after school or daycare children.

I’ve included a list of suggested activities in this issue of the Informer.

I encourage the clubs individually to contact

schools to find other ways to be supportive through reading, tutoring, book donations,

or other assistance. This would also be in the spirit of the LCI Global Service Action

Campaign of “Engaging Youth” in August. Please communicate your plans in your Ac-

tivity Reports and to your zone chairs. Sec-

retaries, report your activities in your monthly reports to LCI. A RAP club banner

patch may be presented to you at the end of the year.

In a world of service… District Governor Dave Reach

NEW DISTRICT WEBSITE

INFORMATION GO TO

WWW.5m5Lions.org DO

IT RIGHT NOW!!! It is

great!

May 3/5, 2013—94th An-

nual Multiple District 5M

Convention—Mayo Civic

Center—Rochester, MN—

hosted by the Rochester

Lions

Sept 4-Crystal Club Visit Sept 5- Bloomington Club Visit

Sept 6 –Lyn Lake Club Visit

Sept 8—Orono Lions Carp Fishing Contest Sept 8- Pin Trader Swap

Sept 9-MD5M Hearing Foundation Golf Tournament, Stillwater

Sept 11-Yellow Ribbon Program Sept 13/15-USA Canada Forum, Tampa, FL

Sept 20-Mpls Southwest Club Visit Sept 22-Brooklyn Pk Lions Waffle Breakfast

Sept 24-Robbinsdale Lions Spaghetti dinner Sept 30-Bloomington Lions Spaghetti dinner

Oct 4-New Hope Lions Club Visit

Oct 6 -World Service Day Oct 10-Mpls Riverview 50th Anniversary

Oct 11-Thrivent/Hab for Hum Spag Dinner

Oct 17-Mnneapolis Lions Club Visit Oct 17-Hiawatha Club Visit

Oct 18-20 Leo Forum Camp Friendship, Annandale

Oct 20-Council of Governors, Mahnomen October 21-Maple Grove Lions Waffle Break

Oct 23-St.Louis Park Lions Club Visit Oct 27-Thanksgiving for Vision

Earle Brown Heritage Center Brooklyn Center

Oct 28-Camp Courage Halloween Party Oct 28-Mpls Ft Snelling Lions Fall Festival

Oct 29-5m5 Cabinet Mtg., Camp Edenwood

Nov 1—Rogers Club Visit

Nov 2-Mpls Ft Snelling Lions Spaghetti Din Nov 3-Brklyn Pk Lady Lions Style Show

Nov 10-Maple Grove Lions Craft Show Nov 10-CanDoCanines-Fetching Ball Event

Nov 12-All Zone Meeting

Dec 8-Salvation Army Bell Ringing

This ‘n That……………..

The deadline to submit news for the Informer will be always the 20th of the current month for the following month’s issue. Deadline for October issue is Sep-tember 20th, 2012. Send To: JanCariveau@comcast.net

Email changes: julienielsen072@gmail.com Julie is our email person for the first half of the clubs A thru L for the In-former Newsletter–

Email changes for clubs M thru Z send to JanCariveau@comcast.net

2013 Hamburg, Germany July 5-9

2014 Toronto, Ontario, Canada July 4-8

2015 Honolulu, Hawaii June 26-30

2016 Fukuoka, Japan June 24-28

2017 Chicago, Illinois June 30 - July 4

New Members and Sponsors:

Submit to me the new member

name, the sponsors name and of

course your club name—it will be

published!

Eden Prairie Lions

52 years old…..10/17/60

Mpls Riverview Lions

50 years old…..10/17/62

Mpls Lyn Lake Lions

48 years old…..10/29/64

Hamel Lions

45 years old…..10/18/77

St. Bonifacius Lions

41 years old…..9/13/71

Greetings fellow Lions,

We are now underway with our 2012-2013 Lions

year. As we look ahead

and start to plan for the events that will take place

in our clubs let us remem-ber our International

President’s theme for this year “IN A WORLD OF

SERVICE”. I am giving you an overview month by

month of the LCI calendar and perhaps some of the activities and events will help

give your clubs ideas to work with for ser-vice projects and or fundraisers. I hope you

will have the opportunity to incorporate some of the items listed below into your

events for the year and invigorate your

membership and strengthen your commit-ment to your community.

AUGUST – Engaging our Youth Global Ser-vice Action Campaign

SEPTEMBER – USA/Canada Forum; Emerg-ing Lions Leadership Institute

OCTOBER – Lions/Leo membership growth month; Peace poster kits; World Sight Day

NOVEMBER – Diabetes awareness month DECEMBER - Relieving Hunger; Interna-

tional Leo Day JANUARY – Glaucoma awareness month;

Melvin Jones’ Birthday FEBRUARY – Senior Leadership Institute

MARCH - Eye Donor Awareness; Lions Day

at the United Nations APRIL – Leo Club awareness; Earth Day

MAY – Recycle for Sight; Deadline for Inter-national Convention registration; White Cane

Week JUNE – Leo of the Year Award; Helen Keller

Day; International Convention

Yours in Service,

Lion Sonjia

First Vice District Governor

The USA-Canada Forum is an outstanding training program to develop your club’s lead-ership. When I was elected Vice President of my club many years ago, the club encouraged me to attend by paying my registration fee. I paid my transportation, hotel, and incidentals. The Forum has so many good seminars to at-tend. The highlights are the four banquets and the nationally renowned motivational speak-ers. I’ve been to several Forum’s over the years and have not been disappointed once. If you would like additional information, please visit the following website.

http://www.tampabayforum2012.org

We will have a large delegation from 5M5 and the multiple district attending. You will not be travelling alone. You will be with thousands of the best people in the world. Please con-sider being part of the fun!

USA/Canada Forum

36th Annual USA/CANADA Lions Leadership Forum

September 13-15, 2012 Tampa, Florida

The Peace Poster Contest is 25

years old this year and since 1987

more than 4 million children in over

100 countries have shared their vi-

sion of peace. Each year,Lions clubs

around the world proudly sponsor the Lions International Peace Poster

Contest in local schools and youth

groups. This Contest encourages

young people worldwide to artisti-

cally express their visions of peace.

The theme of the 2012-2013 Peace

Poster Contest is "Imagine Peace".

Please help make this year the

largest participation ever! Students,

ages 11, 12 or 13 on November 15,

are eligible to participate. Partici-pants use a variety of mediums, in-

cluding charcoal, crayon, pencil and

paint, to express the theme. The

works created are unique and ex-

press the young artists' life experi-

ences and culture. Twenty-four in-

ternational finalists are selected

each year, representing the work of

more than 350,000 young partici-

pants worldwide. Posters are

shared globally via the Internet, the

media and exhibits around the world. Each poster is judged on

originality, artistic merit and ex-

pression of the theme. Posters ad-

vance through several judging lev-

els: local, district, multiple district

and international. At the interna-

tional level, judges from the art,

peace, youth, education and media

communities select one grand prize

winner and 23 merit award win-

ners.

Lions clubs interested in sponsor-

ing the Lions International Peace

Poster Contest can order a Peace

Poster Contest kit (PPK-1) from the

Club Supplies Sales Department at

International Headquarters, or go

to lionsclubs.org click on search

‘Peace Poster’ and you can check

out information and past winners.

The cost of the kit is $9.95 plus shipping, handling and applicable

taxes. Lions clubs must purchase a

kit for each contest sponsored. Kits

are available from January 15th to

October 1st, so order yours soon

and take them to the schools as

soon as you can so they can work

this in to this year's curriculum.

If you have any questions contact any one of the Peace Poster Chairs, Sandy

Becker, Ray Moonen or Kathy & Vern Teichroew.

Irma and Bruce Kelley receive Friend of Education Award

1988 Judy Soukup 1989 Marjorie Gasch 1991 Kitty Crosby 1992 Middy Bower Harriet Tourangeau 1993 Maple Plain Lions Orono Lions 1994 Dave McKown 1995 Pamela Henjum 1996 Julie Hawes 1997 Ministerial Alliance 1998 Kathy & Bob Gillum 2000 Dalah Smith 2001 Sue Bud Alliance for Education

2002 Lori Allen Susan DeVine Jim Drew Susan Thomson 2003 Pat Swantek 2004 Dutch Fischer 2005 Megan Bennett 2006 Carol & Mark Engebretson 2007 Kathy Reis 2008 Margaret Buschbom 2009 Dick Kroeger Chrysanne Manoles 2010 Martha Lips 2011 Emil Moffa

Friend of Education Award - Past Recipients

Reading enthusiasts and volunteers extraordinaire Irma and

Bruce Kelley of Long Lake were honored guests at Schumann Elementary for the kick-off to its Summer

Reading Rocks program.

To Irma Kelley, reading with elementary stu-dents is all about adventure, imagination and

pictures. But, as a retired teacher, she can’t help herself every now and then, and tries to sneak a phonics lesson in. But Orono Schumann Elemen-

tary students are pretty wise – even at their young age. One handsome young lad, in the po-

litest of tones, once asked Kelley during a visit, “Are we done with this yet?”

Make no mistake, however, about how beloved Kelley and her husband, Bruce, are in Orono

Schools. The Long Lake couple was honored as the 2012 recipients of the Orono Education Asso-ciation Friend of Education Award. The award

was presented during the Orono Schools’ annual recognition breakfast June 8.

The couple, with the help of the Orono Lions, created the R.E.D. (Read Every Day) Lions Chal-

lenge during February, which is I Love to Read Month. This year marked the 11th year of the

program. Each first-grader who reads for 20 minutes every day during the month earns a $25 gift card to The Bookcase in Wayzata. The pro-

gram has been so successful here that other Li-ons clubs throughout the nation have replicated

it.

The Kelleys also organized Orono Reads for sec-ond-grade students who need extra support in

reading. They found adult volunteers to visit once a week to read with one or two students.

In addition, Bruce comes in once a week to work with a small challenge math group.

You don’t have to enter the school to see evi-dence of their volunteer efforts. Irma planted an

A-Z hosta garden in front of Orono Schumann Elementary. Just prior to its major renovation,

she took out all the plants and then replanted them once the renovation was complete.

The Friend of Education Award is presented to an individual or organization that has dedicated

time and talents to the district’s schools and its students. It was first presented in 1988. An Orono Education Association member must initi-

ate or endorse a nomination. The OEA Executive Board reviews nominations and decides who

My name is Sara Bushland, and I am a junior at Eden Prai-

rie High School.

My little sister, Mary Rose, 6, was born with a genetic dis-

ease called Leber’s Congenital Amourosis or LCA for

short. This genetic disease has caused this precious angel

to become what doctors consider “extremely blind,” or in

other words completely blind. When my family found out

that she was blind at the age of 3 months, our hearts broke.

How are we going to explain to a little girl why we feel joy

at the sighting of a sunset or rainbow? How are we going

to explain colors, art and beauty in terms that are void of

visual objects? As an 11-year-old child at the time, my

questions were endless and the answers were sparse. I

would ask my parents and they would come out stumped

as well.

Foundation for Retinal Research (FRR) shone some light

on the situation, and gave our family a way to attempt an-

swering the questions that ran rapid in our heads. They told

us about gene replacement therapy. With this therapy the

genetic mutation that caused the lack of vision in my sis-

ter’s eyes could be replaced. The research was there; they

were already doing trials and having success with one of

the gene mutations of this disease. Suddenly instead of

dreading the day we were going to have to explain my sis-

ter’s lack of sight to her, we were looking forward to the

day that we got to see her explore her world through the

joy of sight.

Unfortunately they are not quite as advanced with our sis-

ter’s gene, CEP 290, as they are with the gene mentioned

above. They gave us a frame of 8 to 10 years that it would

take to solve the mystery of this gene. The hope was still

there though, burning just as bright.

Five years passed and I decided to do something to speed

up the process that it takes to bring a blind child sight. Last

year, I decided to organize my own fundraiser for FRR. I

wanted this to be different from other fundraisers though.

The fundraiser turned into a completely student run event

with no one over the age of 17 organizing it, but I still

wanted it to represent so much more. I wanted it to not

only raise funds that would bring my sister sight, but to

also teach the community of Eden Prairie the difficulties

my sister faces daily. I wanted them to understand how

very strong she is. So I made the walk into a Walk in Her

Shoes Experience. This allowed participants to walk

around a course blindfolded, holding a white cane, and

having the security of a trained, sighted guide with them.

The fundraiser turned out better then my wildest dreams

and rose over $12,000 that went toward research for the

cure. The rain on the day of the event couldn’t even stop

the smile from spreading over my face.

This year we set out to do it again, but this year is even

more special because my younger brother, Matt, decided to

lend a hand and is organizing it with me. The team sat

down and our ideas couldn’t be contained, so this year the

event is bigger. We will not only have the walk and the

Walk in Her Shoes Experience, but also are including a

Brailing station and touch-and-feel station. The Mark

Miller Band will be our entertainment for the second year

in a row, and we couldn’t have asked for a more talented

band. The walk is on April 28 at Staring Lake Park.

We want more money to be raised, so that the research be-

comes that much closer to allowing my sister the opportu-

nity of sight. That is why we are reaching out to you.

Every single dollar donated or person who has an experi-

ence from the walk is allowing my sister to be one step

closer to seeing the joy explode on the faces of loved ones

when she says something funny or does something sweet.

I hope that you will help us. Mary Rose is waiting pa-

tiently to see your face.

Sara Bushland is a student at Eden Prairie High School and resident

of Eden Prairie.

Take a walk in her shoes, with a white cane

Contact: Lion Bill Moore @ 612-522-0784 or

blmoore1@comcast.net

Saturday Sept 8 Nelson Lakeside Park

1860 Symes Street Long Lake MN 55356

Fish from 7am to 1pm Registration Starts at 6:00am Shotgun starts at 7:00am

Weigh-in by 2:00pm

Awards and Drawings to follow

Prizes Adult Division Largest Carp $200.00, 2nd Largest Carp $100.00

3rd Largest Carp $75.00, 4th Largest Carp $ 50.00

Smallest Carp $50.00 Adult & Youth Division

Largest Carp $50.00 Youth Division

Rules: All Carp entered caught by hook and line. $20.00 admission for one adult or youth in adult division. $5.00 for children

under 12 years of age in the youth division.

Tournament shirt or towel with entry and a chance for many door prizes!

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