President

Mark Conrad

2013 - 2014

By-LionsSecretary

John Cole

“Liberty Intelligence, Our Nation’s Safety”

January/February

2014

Katya

Greetings Keyser Lions!

Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a joyous holiday season and that 2014 will be a Healthy and HappyNew Year for us all.

Our second meeting of November took place on the 21st at University Place. Our very special guest was Dis-trict Governor George Quinn. After an introduction by First Vice District Governor Doug Long, DG GeorgeQuinn updated us on what is going on throughout District 29-I and beyond.

Our first and only meeting of December was our Annual Christmas Dinner on the 5th. Everyone enjoyed a deli-cious meal and good fellowship. After dinner a certain “Jolly Old Elf” made an appearance, as well. You can seepictures from this event on the Keyser Lions Facebook page.

There will be no meeting on January 2nd. Our first and only meeting of January will be on the 16th at 6:30 pmat University Place. We will be hosting a Zone II meeting. Zone Chair Lion Rob Bright will update us on eventsacross the Zone and District. Representatives from other clubs will give updates about their club’s activities. Wewill also have a short presentation about the successful use of the new eye screening equipment in the MineralCounty Schools. Let’s make sure our club is well-represented at this meeting. There will also be a Board Meetingprior to this meeting at 6 pm.

Plans have not been finalized for our first meeting in February. At our second meeting on February 20th ourguest speaker will be Christy Conley from the Center for Organ Recovery and Education. She will talk to usabout the importance of organ donation. Thanks to Lion Howard Boggs for suggesting this topic and making theinitial contact with Christy to make this presentation possible.

Here are a few other upcoming events you might be interested in:

WV Lions Leadership School will take place January 24-26th at the Days Inn Flatwoods. Registration is $110 ifpostmarked by December 15th and $135 after that. Hotel rates are $89.10 per night plus tax. The 2013-201429-I Cabinet is offering (6) six scholarships to the 2014 Leadership School in the amount of $100.00 for first timeattendees only. If you are interested, please send your request to Secretary Nichelle Hosby at 301 E. 5th Ave.,Ranson, WV 25438. It would be good if we could have one or two representatives from our club attend thisevent.

The West Virginia Lions State Convention will be taking place in April at the Stonewall Jackson Resort

The Lions International Convention will take place July 4-8th in Toronto. For the Convention Schedule, Conven-tion Registration, Delegation Hotel Assignments and much more, see the website at:www.lionsclubs.org/EN/news-and-events/international-convention/index.php.

Hope to see you at some of these events.

BY-LIONS

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION

KEYSER LIONS CLUB

26726-9028

2013 2014

President – Mark Conrad Secretary – John Cole

1st Vice President – Scott Gahr Treasurer – Pat Bane

2nd Vice President – Joe Bane Tail Twister – Duwaine Nichols

3rd Vice President – Dave Boden Lion Tamer – Bill Bane

Directors – Joe Dignan, Ken Hollen, Dallas Adams, and Howard Boggs

Membership Director – Howard Boggs

Ex-Officio Member – Greg Lynch – Immediate Past President

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Membership: Dallas Adams

Attendance & Greeters: Ken Hollen – Chairman, Don Hott, Dallas Adams

Sight: Mark Conrad – Chairman, Dallas Adams – Vice Chairman, Pat Bane,

Terry Mangold, Ken Hollen

Finance & Budget: Pat Bane – Chairman

Activities & Special Events: Overall Chairman – Duwain Nicholas

Christmas Dinner – Pat Bane, Scott Gahr

Picnic – Mike Bane, John Cole

Mints – Larry Bolyard

Broom and Candle Sales – Howard Boggs

Goldsworthy Scholars – Jim Goldsworthy, Bob Melody

Chicken BBQ – John Cole, Scott Gahr, Bob Melody, Joe Bane

Dinner Menu: John Cole – Chairman, Pat Bane, Joe Bane

Service Projects: Pat Bane, Dallas Adams, John Cole, Jared Adams, Eric Iser

Bereavement: Howard Boggs – Chairman, Dallas Adams

Social, Citizenship & Public Services: Bob Melody – Chairman, Larry Bolyard, Jim McCune,

Ken Hollen

Public Relations:Reeves Taylor – Chairman, Mark Conrad – Editor,

John Cole – Newspaper/Publicity Chairman, Howard Boggs – Photographer

MEETINGS: 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS @ 6:30 P.M.

POTOMAC STATE COLLEGE • UNIVERSITY PLACE DORMITORY • KEYSER, WV