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President: Jerry Tecca Bulletin Editor: John Budzak Jr.
Volume 63 Issue 5 November 2016
Puyallup Lions Club
2nd & 4th Wednesdays
6:30 PM
Mrs Turners Restaurant
Puyalluplions.com
Email: [email protected]
President: Jerry Tecca
VP Kent Sharpe
Secretary John Budzak Jr
Treasurer Dave Hilderbrant
Tail Twister Neil Gruchalla
Lion Tamer Vacant
1 yr Board Terri Soliz
2 yr Board Anne Rhyner
Membership Brian O’Bannon
IPKL Vacant
PR John Budzak Jr
Inside This Issue:
Page 2 Pictures Month
Page 3 International
Page 3 Membership
Page 3 Project Spotlight
Page 4 News and Notes
Page 4 Upcoming Events
Page 5 Lions Information
Page 5 Potpourri
Page 6 Program Info
Page 6 Misc. Info
Page 6 Calendar
Making a Difference
“What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make” Jane Goodall
These words are the reality of being a member of the Lions Club. We truly make a difference in our communities and the world we live in but how much of a difference? To that person we provide a cornea to we have made a profound difference. To that hungry person we gave a meal to, the person we bought glasses for, the park equipment we pur-chase or the college scholarship we provide. All of these are profound impacts on people lives and it makes a differ-ence.
But can we make an even larger difference? What can we do to make our community a better place to live in? Hon-estly at our current membership numbers and participation rates we are doing about all that we can do. We are help-ing so many people and doing great work but we need an infusion of more members to do even more. If we want to remain the status quo we can, for a few years, until we get to old to continue but I feel we still have such a future ahead of us to match the legacy of those that have gone before. We have made a great difference in Puyallup as our legacy proves and I think we have a golden future ahead of us.
We need to continue to move forward and make a differ-ence in our community, no matter how small it is.
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito” An African Prov-erb
Pictures of the Month
Upper Left: Governor Jan
and her friend at our
meeting.
Upper Right: The gang at
our last feed. Lions Kent,
Dave, Neil and Jerry.
Lower Left: Lion Neil at
the DGAM meeting in
Sumner
Lower Right: Lions Neil
and Brian receiving
length of service chev-
rons from DG Jan
International Corner
Be a Lion
Where there is a need there is a Lion. When it comes to meeting challenges, our response is simple: WE SERVE. In over 200 countries, in hospitals and senior centers, in regions battered by natural disasters, in schools and eyeglass recycling centers, Lions are doing com-munity volunteer work, helping, leading planning and sup-porting. Because we’re local, we can serve the unique needs of the communities we live in. And because we’re global, we can address challenges that go beyond borders.
Sight Programs, we want everyone to see a better tomor-row. That’s why we support sight programs and services including vision screenings, eye banks and eyeglass recy-cling. Provide eye care services to those at risk of losing sight. We raise donations through campaigns like SightFirst and Campaign SightFirst II.
Disaster Relief, we are among the first to respond when disaster strikes. Our Disaster Preparedness and Relief Pro-grams enable Lions to help local communities and contrib-ute to Lions relief efforts in other countries in the event of a natural, man-made or healthcare emergency.
Do you know someone who would like to give back to their community? Do you know someone who has one or two hours of spare time a month? Do you know some-one with new ideas on how we can help those in the community and have the drive to want to see them implemented? If the answer is yes maybe they should be-come a Lions Club member.
Rather than inviting them to come to a meeting ask them to come and work on a pro-ject with us. Let them see what we do in the communi-ty. Invite them to go and look at our web page and see the history of the club as well as what Lions Clubs In-ternational does. Get them interested in what we do by examples rather than just coming to a meeting.
The way we can get people to join us is to ask them to come and check us out. We all need to find that one or two community minded peo-ple to check us out. We cur-rently have twenty-two members and there is no reason we cannot grow to thirty-three by the end of the year. Let’s all ask one.
Project Spotlight
The Christmas tree sale is our longest running project that we do at this time. We have been holding this project sine the first few years we were in existence. At first we would mark each individual tree with a price based on type and height. It was a nightmare due to people not agreeing with the chairs decision and marking them either higher or low-er. Finally the trees were marked at one price for ease of the sale and to make us a true value in the community. Our fair pricing for a good quality tree brings people back to our sale year after year and we normally sell out quickly. This years sale starts on November 26th with the unloading of the truck.
Membership
Meeting Cancellations: The meetings of November 23rd and Decem-ber 28th are being cancelled due to the holi-days. We will resume our normal schedule of meetings in January.
Lion Andrea Black’s son Drew tore his pecto-ral muscle ending his football season early. He is healing rapidly and will be ready for the next season of football.
Lion Brian O’Bannon’s fiancée Natalie has a job teaching Kindergarten at a Montessori School. This is her first teaching job after graduating.
District Governor Jan presented several lon-gevity chevrons to some of our members at her official visit. Unfortunately only Lions Bri-an and Neil were in attendance. The follow-ing Lions were awarded chevrons. Lion Jud Carr 40 years, Lions Helen Vajgert and
Andrea Black 20 years, Lion Neil Gruchalla 15 years due to a break in service and Lion Brian O’Bannon 10years. Congratulations to all of these Lions.
Tacoma Downtown Lions will be celebrating their 95th charter night in November. Con-gratulations on this great accomplishment.
Lion Steve “Jank” Jankelson will once again be participating in the “Big Climb” . He is cur-rently putting together his team to make the climb and accomplish fundraising. For more information contact Lion Jank.
Time to start thinking about next years offic-ers. It is time to look into what you want to do next year to make our club run efficiently. Start thinking about what position you would like to fill. More information next month.
News and Notes
Senior Breakfast: The Senior Breakfast will
be on November 12th at the Activity Center.
We will only be doing this project through the
end of the year but we need to end it on s
strong note, Help is needed in the kitchen to
make it work.
Feed-In Will be on November 21, 2016 at
the Armory. We will be serving a Thanksgiv-
ing themed dinner. Watch for a sign up sheet
to be sent out via email soon.
Chili Cook-off and Homebrew Tasting will be
held on November 12th at the American Le-
gion Hall in Puyallup. We need people to
make chili, corn bread and to provide raffle
prizes. Also we will need members to help
dish out the chili, collect the funds and bar-
tend. Tickets are available for $10.00 per per-
son. Contact Lion Neil for tickets at
Tree Sale will have the lot set-up on Friday
November 25th at 9am with unloading of
trees on Saturday the 26th at 9am. All help is
needed to unload the trees so if you have any
young people you know to come down and
help please bring them down. Sign up sheets
available as well for the project.
Upcoming Events
We have made a difference in Puyallup over the years serving Puyallup for the last almost sixty-three years. Highlighted below are just a few of the signature projects that we have accomplished during this time. Some are large and some are small or continuous, all made a difference.
Since it’s inception we have fed the areas needy once a month averaging approxi-mately 500 meals a year for thirty years.
We have provided scholarships to stu-dents on a continual basis since the early 70’s
We provide glasses each year to the needy
We provided emergency medical equip-ment to the hospital ER to remove debris from peoples eyes
We built a restroom and concession stand for the local sports stadium. Also we built two baseball fields at one time.
A member spearheaded the Project Life-line initiative in it’s early development to enable seniors to stay in their homes.
We helped to clean up homes after a dev-astating flood of the Puyallup river.
Countless members picked up eyes and delivered corneas to and from the eye bank for transplant.
Fun Facts About November:
In the United States and Canada Novem-ber is National Beard Month or No Shave November. In Australia they grow mus-taches in November instead of full beards
The Erie Canal was formally opened No-vember 4th, 1825
On November 18th, 1963 the Bell Tele-phone Company introduced to the public the first push button phone.
On November 26th, 1922 Archaeologist Howards Carter discovered King Tutanka-men’s Tomb.
Commander Richard E Byrd and his flight crew became the first to fly over the South Pole on November 29th, 1929
Sir Winston Churchill born November 30, 1874
Parker Brothers introduced the game Mo-nopoly on November 5, 1935 at the height of the depression.
Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg address on November 19th, 1863.
John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Tex-as on November 22, 1963.
The United States and Panama sign a trea-ty that provided for the building of the Panama Canal on November 18, 1903
The Suez canal opened on November 17, 1869
In Finland the month of November is called ’marraskuu’ which translates as the month of the dead.
Mark Twain born November 30, 1835
Lions Information
Potpourri
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 Dave
Hilderbrant
Birthday
3 4 5
6 7 8 9 Regular/
Board Mtg
10 11 12 Senior
Breakfast
Chili Cook off
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 Feed-In 22 23 No
Meeting
24
Thanksgiving
25
Tree Sale Set-
up
26 Tree Sale
Begins
27 Tree Sale 28 Tree Sale 29 Terri Soliz
Birthday
30 Tree Sale
November2016
Programs
11/9
Board Meeting/ final dis-cussion chili project
11/23
No Meeting due to Thanksgiving
Christmas Tree Sale
The Christmas tree sale starts this month and help is needed to work it. We really need as many peo-ple, kids, friends, people that need community ser-vice hours to unload the truck on Saturday Morn-ing November 26th at 9am. The more strong will-ing people that we have there the better.
