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District 1H Roaring Pride

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District Officers

DG John Allsworth

1st VDG Tony Holland

2nd VDG (0pen)

Cabinet Secretary Jan Entwistle

Cabinet Treasurer Judy Tapper

Zone Chairpersons:

Cheryl Russell

Dave Griffin

Dave Russell

Kathy Wyatt

Bill Jeffries

Mike Ward

Lee Unger

Leslie Jefferson

Rich Gordon

Greg Lara

IPDG Ray Parrish

Roaring Pride District 1H Lions August 2018

Volume 1, Issue 2

CC Harris, DG Ray, IPCC Graney (No ribbon on Ray’s badge he must

be a PDG by now)

For Cabinet members our

district Cabinet meetings will be as follows:

August 30, 6:00 pm eat and 6:30 PM meeting

begins at Knoxville Bar & Grill, Nov. 29, Jan 31,

and May 30. With the last 3 dates the times and locations are yet to be de-

termined.

Candy Day Packets to each Club Secretary.


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The Mackinaw Lions Club will have our 2018 Golf Outting on August 18 at 1:00 PM to include a din-ner after the event. Save the date, and we will provide more information soon.


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Congratula�ons to Mike Finnegan (le�) and Lion Bob Meaker (right) Mike was awarded the Lion Joe Colgan Community Champion award for his many years volunteering in the community in par�cular his dedica�on to programs for the youth. Lion Meaker was awarded the Lion John Wake PDG Lions Roar award. Meaker has been a member of the Lions since 1950 and has been ac�ve in many projects over the years. He s�ll regularly a�ends mee�ngs and helps with pro-jects. — with Michael Finnegan


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We're excited to be helping with the Burlington Kennel Club Dog Show at WIU Campus Recrea�on this week-end. See you there!


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June 21, 22, and 23 were busy days for the Princeville Lions Club. These were Heritage Days, the town’s

annual celebra�on, and the Princeville Lions Club has the food tent. For once, it was cooler than normal;

but, as usual the weather played an important part – it rained and was damp. On the good side, Friday

was not only cooler than normal, but was also dry. We had a good crowd. Everyone was glad to be out a�er being cooped up with the damp and rainy weather. The pictures shown here give you an idea what Friday was like. We had sandwiches (bu�erfly

porkchops, pulled pork, hamburgers, hot dogs, brats, and porkburgers; also, on Friday, there were chicken kebobs, and on Saturday, there were rib-eyes. We

worked hard, but had fun


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con�ned

Wai�ng for

the thunder-

ing herd to

arrive

Under grand-

stands at

Rock Island

County Fair

C0al Valley Lions wai�ng for the thundering herds to arrive at the gates to the Rock

Island County fair


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The Avon Lions Club had a very full agenda for their June meeting. In addition to normal business items, the were some highlight moments. One of the highlights of the meeting had Kali Postin practicing for the Fulton County Fair Queen Contest by taking random questions from club members. While some of the questions were light and fairly easy to an-swer, some were probing and took some thought to answer. Kali did a great job of maturely answering every question and always with a big smile. Club members are proud to be her sponsor for the contest. Another highlight was when Lion Al Henning, representing Lions Clubs International Foundation presented a Melvin Jones Fellowship to Lion Kyle Underwood. The Fellowship was provided by the club members to thank and honor Lion Kyle for his service and for accepting the chairmanship of the club's major fund raising event; providing food service for the Fat Steer Show. The third highlight was the swearing in of 2018 - 2019 officers by President Lion Dave Tolley as follows: Li-ons Dave Schmalshof - President, Kirk Hunter - Vice President, Al Henning - Secretary, Dick Brown - Treas-urer, Trevor Sloan - Tail Twister, Dave Serven - Lion Tamer, Russ Dahms - Chaplin, Brian Backstrom - Membership Chairman and Glenn Potter and Bob Underwood - Directors.

In the photo, Lion Al Henning (right) presents a Melvin Jones Fellowship to Lion Kyle Underwood

A�achments area

Lion Al Henning, repre-sen�ng Lions Clubs

At their July mee�g the Avon Lions approved the dona�on of $1000 to the

Avon Summer Program to replace the current sign. The other major item of

business was awarding a Melvin Jones Fellow to Lion Dave Tolley for his several years of leadership as club

president., On Tuesday, July 17, Avon Lions Barbara Baker, Joe Hendel, Al Henning and club president Dave

Schmalshof traveled to Camp Lions at Lake Bloomington to provide a�er dinner sno cone treats to the 46 camp-

ers and 14 camp counselors

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District 1H Lions

RP Editor

131 W. 14th Street

Coal Valley, IL

61240

Phone: 309-799-5675

Cell: 309-235-3174

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Did you know that, we had to wait un�l 1987 before women became members of Lions. In 1987 was wri�en a new chapter in the history of Lions. Women now got an opportunity to become members of Lion Clubs. Of course, over the years, women have been working side by side with men, o�en through women’s clubs and in connec�on with the men’s clubs ac�vi�es. The 1987 Conven�on in Taipei, Taiwan, under the leadership of a Swede, Sten Åkestam, as this year was the Interna�onal President of Lions, became the largest conven�on held with approximately 35,000 par�cipants. A decision was made of great importance. At the mee�ng, the delegates decided to amend the statutes and deleted the word ”man” in the statutes. Thus, even women can now become Lions and reach the high office within the organiza�on, which has been proved nowadays, when Gudrun Yngvado�r from Iceland has been elected the 2018-2019 Interna-�onal President. Not only is she a woman, she also comes from a small country with only a popula�on in size with a city like my hometown Malmö.

Did you know, that the white s�ck – now an interna�onally recognized blindness symbol – was invented by a Lions member from Peoria, Illinois, USA. It was George A Bonham as in 1930, when he was president of his club, observed how difficult the visually impaired had to cross the busy streets. The driver of the cars did not see the difference between blind and sighted. The s�cks did not differ from other s�cks. Bonham’s idea was that the s�cks of the blind should be painted white and provided with a red ribbon so that others could see that the own-

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