Mocksville
Lions Club
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March 4, 2004
Volume 10, Number 14
WE SERVE“There is no lovelier way to thank God for your sight than by lending a helping hand to someone in the dark.” -- Helen Keller
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MISSION STATEMENT OF MOCKSVILLE LIONS -The LIONS Club of Mocksville is a service organization providing resources to the visually and hearing impaired in Davie County, North Carolina.
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Idea: Just Ask! As basic as it sounds, this is really the key to all membership recruitment efforts. If you do not ask a prospective member if she is interested in LIONS, you are not letting the prospect make the decision – you are making it for her. -- The LION, February 2004
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WE GOT WORK TO DO! – YES. There is more to consider about White Cane. Through February 2004 Mocksville Club has served: 18 children for vision care 15 adults for vision care 9 adults for hearing care
We have contributed $2,828.50 to White Cane. NCLF pays half of costs of above services. So far, then, NCLF is paying more than we have contributed. NCLF says that funds might be exhausted by April or May. Our club and 45 other clubs in our District and 384 Clubs in our State need to put out more effort in White Cane fundraising to prevent the foundation and our Club from drawing from reserves. When we do this, then we can ROAR!
P.S. Would each LION consider a personal contribution? Lion G.K.
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March 4 Pam Houch, Audiologist
March 5-7 State LIONS Convention
March 12 School Health Fair
March 18 LION Bill Hamlin, Dobson LIONS
William C. Woollard Partnership
March 26 Mocksville LIONS First of Monthly Glucose Screening Clinics
April 5-9 Volunteer Week (Work) – Camp Dogwood
April 16-17 NCLF Budget Hearings
May 8 Mocksville LIONS Music Convention – Calling ALL LIONS!
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT WORK
1. Club supports Diabetic Retinopathy Prevention Act of 2003
2. Request for hearing aid to be evaluated by LION J.W.
3. A V.I.P. received a talking clock
4. Approved payment of contact lens for one adult
5. Approved new hearing aid evaluation and hearing aid for one adult (previously given assistance)
6. Approved exam and glasses for two school children
7. Approved exam and glasses for two adults
8. Discussed LIONS cookie sales project – LIONS N.C. and K.C. evaluating possibility of market for special
cookies – fundraiser
9. LIONS B.F. and J.W. will help at first LIONS Glucose Screening
10. Further discussion about contribution to A Storehouse for Jesus new building project
11. Board passed that Club President present scholarships to high school and community college each year
FROM THE GOVERNOR’S NEWSLETTER – FEBRUARY 2004 FROM NC LIONS FOUNDATION
District 31-D membership 1242 NC LIONS Clubs 385
Needed to maintain District 1250 NC LIONS Membership 9780
See “hand out” at February 2004 NCLF Board of Director’s Meeting.MELVIN JONES FELLOWSHIP – On February 19, 2004, the Mocksville LIONS Club presented the Melvin Jones Fellowship to LION Jonathan Wishon, the eleventh Club member to be so honored. Presenting the award, LION Club President, Ron Gantt, spoke of LION Jonathan’s work with the Club before he became a member, helping to establish the Music Convention, and of his dedication to reviving the Club after he joined. LION Jonathan is the club’s youngest recipient of the award and the fellow who has been a member for less time than other recipients.
JACK STICKLEY FELLOWSHIP – On February 19, 2004, the Mocksville LIONS Club presented the Jack Stickley Fellowship to LION Charles Crenshaw, the fifteenth Club member to receive the award. LION President Ron Gantt spoke of the wisdom, leadership, and participation of LION Charles, who has worked diligently for the visually impaired, especially the VIP school children. LION Charles has been a LION four years, being in the Club less time than former recipients.
MOCKSVILLE LIONS GLUCOSE SCREENING CLINIC – On February 5, 2004, the Board of Directors approved the founding of a Diabetic Screening Clinic open to anyone. The clinic will be held the last Friday of each month beginning March 26. Clinic hours are 9:00am to 12noon. A Storehouse of Jesus is providing space for the clinic. A qualified laboratory technician has volunteered to perform the tests. A LION Club member will be needed to help as host/hostess and secretary. If we have persons helping who are qualified to measure blood pressure, we will add it to the service.
DIABETIC EYE CARE CLINIC – A Storehouse for Jesus has approved the founding of a Diabetic Eye Care Clinic as part of the Free Medical/Dental/Pharmacy Clinic Missions. This was presented to the Storehouse by the LIONS. Our Club has approved helping in this endeavor. Four optometrists and one ophthalmologist have volunteered to serve in the Eye Clinic. Opening date in March or April 2004 is considered.
SUMMER SPORTS & EYE CARE – “Each year, approximately 100,000 sports-related eye injuries occur. One-third of these are to children under the age of 16. The sports most commonly associated with eye injuries at any age are baseball, basketball, football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis, squash and racquetball. In children’s baseball leagues and amateur hockey leagues in which protective eyewear have been mandated, eye injuries have been reduced by 90%. Experts recommend that young athletes wear polycarbonate lenses which are found in many types of protective eyewear. They are 20 times stronger than regular lenses. These lenses are made to withstand a projectile or ball traveling at 90 mph. Your Eye Care Professional can help you find a pair that’s right for you.” -- Advisor (Acuvue Eye Health)
HAPPY LION CLUB MEMBERSHIP ANNIVERSARY Bill Fender 1975
George Kimberly 1972
All three of these gentlemen are past presidents! Steve Laymon 1985A JOKE (?) “Doctor, will I be able to read with these new glasses?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Good, I never could read before!”QUOTATIONS FOR COGITATION
“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than the quality of our service and relationships to mankind.” -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
‘TIS THE SEASON
“ They said you have to use your five best players, but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.”
“ Team was important. We didn’t care who the starting five was.” -- Coach Red Auerbach“ We cover the full court for 40 minutes, and that brings about and creates frustrations in ourselves and in other people at times.” -- Coach John Thompson
“ Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
-- Coach John Wooden“ If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven’t done much today.” -- Coach Mike Krzyzewski
A LION’S PRAYER – Lord, take our minds and think through them; take our lips and speak through them; take our hearts and set them on fire with the desire to continue to help the visually challenged and the hearing impaired; in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
-- LION Lucille Phifer
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