THE LIONS ROAR REINCARNATED

Edited by Mark Ripplinger

Photos by Don Wood & Mark Ripplinger

October 6, 2008

Lions President Mark Miller

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE (October 6th)

Fellow Lions, great meeting last week. A good day for our club, when we can hand out over $43,000 to Parkersburg, New Hartford and North Cedar! We welcome our guests from the Waterloo Lions Club and any member guest attending today’s lunch. If you are open to joining a service club, we hope you will consider the Cedar Falls Lions Club. We have a good active and fun club, that would welcome your participation.

We Serve ……… Mark Miller

TODAY’S MEETING (October 6th)

Interclub & Prospective Member Day – Mark Farley, UNI Head Football Coach, will speak to the club.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

October 13th … Kyle Patterson, Eagle Scout Candidate, will speak about the Emergency Bucket project for Price Lab School.

October 20th … TBA

October 27th … TBA

BIRTHDAYS ANNIVERSARIES

John Jones – Oct. 7th Budd & Sharon Curttright – Oct. 7th

Gary Voss – Oct. 12th

ANNOUNCEMENTS

None

LAST MEETING (September 29th)

President Mark Miller spoke to the club about our Lions Club’s fundraising efforts for tornado/flood relief for Parkersburg, New Hartford, and North Cedar. Representatives from the Parkersburg and New Hartford Lions attended as well to accept the donations and thank our club. North Cedar School Principal, Mrs. Hartman, and a student also attended the meeting. Shortly after the May 25 tornado, Lion Cliff Mortensen contacted President Miller with the idea to organize a fundraising effort throughout the State’s Lion Clubs to raise funds for tornado victims. President Miller contacted the Lions Club of Iowa for approval and request e-mails and photos of the disaster were sent to every club in Iowa. The response was excellent generating donations over $37,000, mostly from clubs in Iowa, but even a few from as far away as Texas. In addition to this fundraising, our club also decided to commit profits and donations from our annual Sturgis Falls pancake breakfast to North Cedar flood relief, specifically for the playground at North Cedar School.

Checks were presented as follows:

Parkersburg $27,418

New Hartford $ 9,490

North Cedar School $ 4,000

Each of the representatives spoke briefly about what the funds would be used for, how important the donations are, and gave their appreciation. President Miller also reported that Lions Hagarty and Mortensen played an important role in the distribution of funds to victims. In addition to this local effort, it was reported that the Lions International Foundation also donated over $170,000 for flood and tornado relief in our area. The program gave us many details related to our efforts with the recurring theme that our motto “we serve” are not just words, but describe the action of our club and Lions around the world.