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LionsTale May 16, 2006
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Our next meeting will be June 6, 2006. Laura Jennings, Hospice Care Community Relations Coordinator, will talk to us about what they do, and the expansion projects they have on the drawing board. The Golf Outing will be June 13, and our final regular meeting of our Lion year will be June 20. The new officers will be installed on that date.
TaleTwister's Jackpot
$525
At our last meeting, Pres. CHUCK had misplaced his agender, and so he sort of opened the meeting in the middle with a couple of announcements, then worked his way back to the song (led by OTTO FESTGE), the invocation by PHIL INGWELL, and the Pledge, and then the introduction of guests. Stefan Kohler, our speaker of a few weeks ago, and of Epicenter Biotechnologies, was the guest of OTTO FESTGE, and Bryant Meroder, Director of Sustain Dane, was the guest of SPARKY WATTS.
CHUCK read a part of the obituary of Sister Emmarie T. Blum, a Dominican who spent her life in teaching and volunteer service to her community. She had low vision, and had learned of Lions’ work for sight, and in her will left a quarter of her modest estate to Madison Central Lions. We received about $200 from memorial gifts from her funeral, and will shortly receive about $1,000 from the estate. This is an impressive tribute to Lions service from one who spent her own life in service to others.
He reported that our food stand project at the Kohl Center for UW basketball games raised about $1700 (see results, with much better results when we were moved to a better stand. Those participating had a lot of fun, and we were able to work with Lions from other Clubs, particularly the new UW Lions Club. CHUCK also gave information on the Lions’ Pride campaign. This project of the Wis Lions Foundation is aimed at raising $25 million for an endowment for Lions Camp at Rosholt, to insure its future operation. One suggestion is for individual Lions to pledge a gift of $1,000, which can be spread over 5 years at $200 per year [that's about 55 cents a day!]. Our Club Board is considering a substantial gift as well. The Foundation is actively seeking lead gifts from corporations and major donors. Our Camp is worthy of our support - if you haven’t seen it recently you should go, to see what we do for campers. At the Lions Day open house (July 23) you can tour the camp, have a barbeque chicken lunch, and recharge your Lion batteries.
MICHELLE VETTERKIND conducted the Lion Birthday celebration, marking years of service for our Lions who joined in April and May. Celebrants present were TOM STEVENS, SPARKY WATTS, JERRY MILLER (who has 17 years in our Club and 9 more in his previous club), PHIL STOWITTS, STEVE BRIGGS, BOB BOHN, DAN STOUDT and TERRY SCHAR. Drawing winners of the gifts were PHIL STOWITTS, STEVE BRIGGS, MICHELLE VETTERKIND, LINDA BERGREN, DALE MUELLER, MELISSA NOVINSKI, CHUCK BASFORD and THAYER BURNHAM.. We attempted to sing “Happy Birthday” to our Lions, but that one needs a lot more practice, even with OTTO.
Skill and luck - LINDA BERGREN won $15.00 at the State Bowling Tournament, and DON NEVIA-SER won the TailTwister’s weekly drawing, but pulled the Jack of Spades. Still no winner of the pot.
SPARKY WATTS and JIM BRADLEY were introduced as our program, and they told us a lot about being friendly to the environment, or, as SPARKY put it, “leaving a small footprint on the Earth.” He pointed out that everyone makes many small decisions, such as recycling, energy consumption and food choices, all of which affect the earth’s environment. One measure of these decisions was a continuum - Responsibility on one end, and “the hell with it” on the other. He spoke of the Sustain Dane organization, which has a number of projects such as Rain Barrel (designed to catch roof runoff and put it to later use, rather than let it wash contaminants into the lakes), told us of many books available on “green” subjects, and gave some examples - the Ford factory with its roof covered with green plants to absorb rain, recycling, which everyone can do, and the use of bio-diesel fuel (basically, used cooking oil) for vehicles rather than oil. JIM BRADLEY then told us of the many “green” features of the new Home Savings branch building. It has a “rain garden” to catch parking lot and roof runoff, lots of natural light, and many recycled materials in floors, desks, counters and insulation. Ventilation is designed to conserve heating and cooling, and 75% of construction waste, plus the old asphalt from the parking lot, was recycled. A great demonstration of environmentally friendly decisions that benefitted both the business and the environment.
PHIL INGWELL is home from the hospital, recuperating well, but taking it easy. Hard to do, for him.
DALE and Gwen MUELLER just celebrated 50 years of marriage - Congratulations!
 Suspicions Confirmed!. |
 Editor returns |
 OTTO bemused |
 Birthday group. |
 Stefan and OTTO |
 Bryant and SPARKY |
 SPARKY |
 JIM |
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