Brown County Lions Club: In the
hills o' Brown - Scenic Spot of Indiana
District 25 E-1 Chartered February 5, 1943 66 Years of Service
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District 25 E-1 Chartered February 5, 1943 66 Years of Service |
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Lion slate in the works Lion Immediate Past President Jim Oliver is chairing the nominating committee this year. This group has the job of filling all vacancies in the club leadership roster for 2009-2010. Important positions such as vice-presidencies and director positions are up. Please contact Lion Jim if you have an interest in holding office in the club. If you don’t call him, he may just call you!
Some positions filled, other still open The board appointed Lions Jerry Simo and Jim Rispoli as the new Playhouse Concessions Chairmen and Lion Tom Prichard agreed to serve as spring Breakfast Chairman. In exchange for Simo’s volunteering for the Playhouse, Lion Gloria Berryman accepted the job of 4-H Parking Chair. Still open is the Log Cabin Tour Parking chairpersonship. If your wife is a Psi Ote, you may as well accept this assignment, since you’ll be there anyway!
Parade light bulb give-away turns on members Lion Jerry Simo announced that over $750 has been pledged to the Spring Blossom Parade light bulb give-away, which will provide one free CFL bulb to each family at the parade, the first Saturday in May. REMC has also agreed to kicked in 500 CFL lightbulbs to the effort and will sell us bulbs at wholesale rates. Former BC Lion Mike Baker’s employer, General Electric, has also tentatively agreed to give us bulbs to encourage Brown County turn green.
Finance committee to meet to review grant requests Lion Finance Committee Chair Dave Miller announced that he will be calling a meeting to review and recommend grant applications for our annual distribution to the community. Chairs of fund raising committees may vote at the meeting, but all members are encouraged to attend the meeting. Contact Lion Dave if you don’t get a call about the date.
Bring your valentine to dinner The February 17 dinner meeting is a spouse’s night. Bring your sweetie to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Marsha Placke will entertain us and we’ll be inducting new member Ernie Austin into the Club.
Dining Out card chairs show how to recycle Lion Larry Weir asks the question: What to do with unsold Dining Out cards? The answer: recycle them! With about 200 Dining Out cards left unsold, Lion Larry will be donating the leftover cards to local charities for free distribution as thank yous for their volunteers. That way, the contributing merchants get the cards into hands that may use them, the local organizations have a way to thank their volunteers, and the Lions Club gets more people hooked on the cards so they’ll buy them next year.
Lions join CVB The Lions board approved $75 to get Lions events into Brown County CVB literature and onto their website. Hopefully, this will give us more exposure to both locals and visitors.
April 2012 Lion State Convention in Brown County Lion District Vice-Governor
Richard Halladay announced that Brown County is likely the host community of the
2012 Lions State Convention. In response, the Board of Directors voted
unanimously to volunteer to be the host club. There will be some planning
involved and we’ll need many hands the end of April, 2012. So, put it on your
calendar now so you won’t have any excuse not to serve Lions from all over the
state at a really big event. |
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