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April Viewpoint

Our Spring Pancake Breakfast is coming up on Saturday, April 9th at Cascade Presbyterian Church in Everett. Will you be there to support us in this project? Have you volunteered your service by participating in one or all of the following areas: planning, selling tickets, obtaining/delivering donations, publicizing, preparing items for raffle/sale, setting up before the event, working the event, or cleaning up afterward? Thank you for your effort. Many hands make light work. If you find it difficult to participate in the way you’d like, find another way to help or find someone who can take your place. There are ways to help besides waiting tables or working in the kitchen.

This should be a great event. The ad in the “Busy B” looked very good. Please spread the word among family, friends and acquaintances. We do pancake breakfasts well and should be proud to support this event.

Yours in Lionism,

Lion Carol

LCI Mission Statement

“To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation.”

LCI…Community & International Support

South Everett Lions has done a wonderful job supporting our community’s youth and citizens. We can be proud of our four scholarships awarded at two high schools, our support of sight and hearing, and aid to food banks and homeless shelters, to name a few. I have long been proud of this commitment.

However, our support of projects outside of our own community has been hit and miss in most years. It has been a tradition, as I understand it, to emphasize local support, and I don’t take issue with that stand. Perhaps we might consider expanding our support on an annually budgeted basis. Recently, including in this year’s budget, we’ve supported Leader Dogs, which is commendable. In the past, we’ve budgeted for LCIF and/or Lions Quest, but not this year.

LCIF annually gives away as many as 500 grants enabling Lions to provide humanitarian service to their or another community. Projects include developing children’s hospices, care centers for the elderly and vocational programs for the disabled. LCIF also supports many long-term projects such as: Lions Quest, a school-based life skills program for students; SightFirst, a blindness prevention and sight restoring program that helps people in our own country (diabetic eye disease and glaucoma) as well as river blindness, etc. in developing countries; Lions Affordable Hearing Aid Program, providing low-cost hearing aids for low income people in the US and in developing nations; and the more recently added Tsunami Relief, begun after the December South Asia disaster. This year we supported this particular effort very well, even though not budgeted.

I bring this up as food for thought for your consideration in planning next year’s budget. Do we want to pick LCIF in general to support in our budget? I’m well aware that our limited resources con stretch only so far. More discussion on this later.

Dates for Your Calendar

April 2nd- Mukilteo Lions Italian Dinner, 5-8 PM, adults $12./seniors $10./kids 5 & under $5., Rosehill Comm. Ctr, 304 Lincoln, Mukilteo
April 6th- Regular Meeting
April 8th – Pancake Breakfast Set Up, 6 PM (Please help out.)
April 9th- SPRING PANCAKE BREAKFAST, 8 AM-noon, BE THERE!
April 20th- Regular Meeting
May 5th- Zone Meeting #4 at Skykomish
May 14th- Roar-Everett Central’s 85th Anniv. 6 PM, Quality Inn, Everett, $30.00. Roar at Everett Central’s 85th Anniversary Eight people have so far signed up for Everett Central’s 85th Anniversary celebration dinner on May 14th. Looks like we’ll have a table of ten or more! If we make payment to our treasurer, Harold, he can make out one check from our club for the entire amount. So make your checks out to S. Everet Lions ($30.00 each) hand them over to Harold, decide whether you want chicken or prime rib, remember what your highest office in Lions was and when (they asked), and we’ll forward the info to them. Should be fun!

2005-2006 Slate of Officers for SEL

The third reading of next year’s officers will take place at our next meeting. Last chance for input! Pres: Carol Foort; 1 VP: Dixon Marshall; 2 VP: Tom Knowlton; Sec: Rosemary Stallings; Treas: Harold Suchan; Tailtwister: Sabrina Walker; Lion Tamer: Bill Motteler; Directors: Rick Foort, Elta Morgan, Len Olsen.

Finally…May there always be work for your hands;

May your purse always hold a coin or two;

May the sun always shine on your windowpane;

May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain

Another Irish Blessing