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District 5M-5 September Newsletter
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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: [email protected]
Email changes: [email protected] 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 [email protected]
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
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!
www.oronolions.org