PELC Paw Prints

March 2014  

What's Happening

Nominees for PELC Club Officers for 2014-2015

 

• President - Lion T. J. Johnson • First Vice-President - Lion George Harrington • Second Vice-President - Lion Mike Rogers • Third Vice-President – Lion Bobby Buison • Secretary - Lion Cyndie Bunker • Treasurer - Lion Danny Fletcher • Lion Tamer – Lion Trevor Laswell • Public Relations Director - Lions Tom Seibert, Marvin Surles • Scholarship Committee Chairman - Lions Arthur Young, Cyndie Bunker • Program Director – Lion Charles Kutschke • Collin College Liaison - Lion Dora Harrington • Tail Twisters - Lions Dora Harrington, Jay Lewis • One Year Directors - Lions Ken Gleason, Marvin Surles, Larry Moeller • Two Year Directors – Lions Ben Sheppard, Pattie Humphress, John West • Historian - Lions Arthur Young Jack Durnin • Media Directors - Lions Tom McCallister, Tom Richardson • Vision Service Coordinator - Lion Tom Richardson • Immediate Past President - Lion Tom McCallister

Board of Directors  

• President - Lion T.J. Johnson (votes in case of a tie) • First Vice-President - Lion George Harrington • Second Vice-President - Lion Mike Rogers • Third Vice-President – Lion Bobby Buison • Secretary - Lion Cyndie Bunker • Treasurer - Lion Danny Fletcher • Lion Tamer - Lion Trevor Laswell • Tail Twisters - Lion Dora Harrington, Jay Lewis • One Year Directors - Lions Ken Gleason, Marvin Surles, Larry Moeller • Two Year Directors - Lions Ben Sheppard, Pattie Humphress, John West • Immediate Past President – Lion Tom McCallister

 

YOUR LIONS AT WORK Nomination – Election Process

At our March 1st membership meeting the previously displayed slate of officers will be presented to our PELC membership. A team of great PELC Lions worked diligently to put this group of potential officers together for the next Lions year serving from July 1st, 2014 through June 30th, 2015. Your thanks and questions can be directed to Lions Tom Seibert (chairman), Don Johnson, Cyndie Bunker, Marvin Surles and John West. During the March 1st meeting the nomination committee will make available to the membership floor nominations for any of the officers positions. If there are additional nominations coming from the floor the committee will then add them to the ballet. The nomination process will close at the end of the meeting. Following the meeting the slate of officers with the floor nominations will be emailed to all of the membership through our club secretary, Lion Cyndie. Fourteen days later at our March 15th membership meeting the members present will vote first for the contested positions and then finally for the total slate of officers. That completes the process. This member-approved slate is to be submitted to our District and LCI by April 15th. Then it is up to all of us to gather around these dedicated Lions to support them in the upcoming challenges for next year. For more information on this topic go to LCI website and type in the search box “Elections” then choose a topic of interest.

 Getting to Know US

As part of our efforts to find out more about how we feel about our club, about how well we do our job and do we really like being a part of this organization you graciously participated in a LCI/PELC club survey. Our own Lion Ben Sheppard took on the responsibility to gather and decipher the information and presented his findings at our last meeting. This survey asked each of us to answer questions considering several issues:

• Volunteer activity importance • Satisfaction with your Lions Club • Meeting satisfaction • Evaluation of your Lions Club • Lions wishes/frustrations

The results from the survey was grouped into five categories:

• Service mindedness • Good communications • Strong membership • Member retention • Effective club leadership

The tabulated results used the LCI standard template. The results were very positive with an overall 97% positive feedback. There were no overall negative results. There was an even mix of 3% positive/negative results.  

   

Two areas for improvement were defined: • Find ways to involve children and

family members (56% felt it important, 35% felt this did not describe our club.

• I would appreciate having a mentor to help explain things to me (32% felt it important, 36% felt they did not need a mentor.

At this presentation the membership was called to action and several suggestions were presented. Family involvement;

1. Participation in our District Youth Contest

2. Face Literary Initiative 3. Breakfast with the Lions 4. Lions World Lunch Day

 “There is no thing such as fun for the whole family.” Jerry Seinfeld    

WHAT’S HAPPENING  PELC New Member Orientation:

1. Develop “Who we are” Lions knowledge meetings

2. Monthly highlight presentation at meeting and/or newsletter

3. Develop mentoring program. If you are interested in forming a committee to work on any of these programs or if you have an idea that we should consider doing in regards to these results take the time and bring it to our attention. Maybe together we can find another way “TO SERVE”. As President I want to personally thank Lion Ben Sheppard and the membership committee for the work that went into this survey. I also want to extend to you my thanks for your participation.

What is a Lion?

Over the past few months we have been analyzing what it takes to be a Lion. We have discussed Ethics, LCI Ethical Standards, and Purposes and described the basic responsibilities of your club officers. In this newsletter you will find an explanation of the election process as the club goes through the selection of officers for the year 2014-15. As we add new members it is important to orientate them in the process of being a Lion. This is called “MENTORING”. There are several ways to accomplish this task. The first way is to have that responsibility fall on the sponsoring member. Another is to designate a club member or group of members that responsibility. We could also hold special meetings to cover this topic for all members to attend. We will and have started in this newsletter to bring this information to all of our members by highlighting various mentoring orientation issues each month. So why do we want to mentor our lions? Well the purpose of mentoring is as follows; We all know as Lions “WE SERVE”. By having a mentoring program we serve the community by helping our fellow Lions, on an individual one on one basis, to understand who we are and what we do to assure that your club continues to have quality members, prepared to take the lead in meeting the communities needs. We need to take away the confusion of only having a vague idea of

our organizations goals, programs, history and traditions. As new members they need to feel like they belong. As a club we want the new member to be motivated and committed in helping the organization to reach its goals. A new member belonging to an organization and having no idea of its goals, programs, traditions and history would feel like they didn’t belong or maybe like an outsider looking in. They likely would be wondering why they joined at all. The intention in these next few months is to help eliminate this type of confusion and bring to light what and who we are and shed some light on where we are going. For more information on this subject go to the LCI website and in the search box type in “orientation” and select from numerous topic on this subject.

Things to Do

LCI Netcasts and Webinars Netcasts and webinars are virtual training vehicles where participants use the Internet to connect with other group members and with the instructors. These courses are found on the LCI web site for your consideration. It helps to be informed and prepared when "WE SERVE".

Webinars 3/7,12 - What's Next (President) 4/4 – 9 Is it Your Dream (DG) 5/9 – 14 Conflict Resolution

Denim and Diamonds 3/29

“Let the Glamour Begin”. Lion Sight and Tissue Foundation presents a night of great food, dancing and fellowship with their annual Denim and Diamonds gala at the Hitt Auditorium, Methodist Hospital, 1441 North Beckley Avenue Dallas, TX. The glamour begins at 6:30 pm dinner and dancing until the evening ends at 9:00 pm. Tickets are available for $50.00 and don’t forget the silent auction too. For sponsorships and more information visit http://dandd.lstf.org/ or contact: Lion Michelle Metzger michellem@metzgerassociates.com or by phone 214-682-7559 text/cell.

“Simplicity is very difficult to achieve”. Mickey Drexler

YOUR LIONS AT WORK Lions World Lunch Day

This is Family and Friends Month and LCI President Lion Barry Palmer has declared April 4th, 2014 as a day to celebrate with family and friends. This is a 24-hour international event that brings families and friends of Lions together to share how your club is making a difference in the community. We will be joining other district Lions at 12 pm noon at Frankie’s Mexican Cuisine, 2701 Custer Pkwy, Richardson, TX. Come join the official District 2-X1 registered event for a fun day of food, and fellowship. Be a part of something really big. As the clubs around the world host lunches the relay will move from time zone to time zone as Lions pass the event around the world, forming the Lions World Lunch Relay. Share a meal; celebrate your clubs success, the value of service and the rewards of being a Lion. Contact PDG Carolyn Dorman for details and reservations. Email cdorman35@gmail.com or phone 972-897-9188.

Special Guest at Our Last Meeting

Lion Tom Seibert and Family

 Standing is Lion Tom Seibert, seated (left to right) daughter in law Jenny, granddaughter Ella Mae, daughter Ashley, granddaughters Katrina and Megan, sons Walter and Gilbert. They all joined us for breakfast and we enjoyed their visit.

Lion Danny Fletcher and

Granddaughter Lion Danny Fletcher is here showing off his granddaughter Alyssa Striker at our last

meeting. Seems as though she had a few Girl Scout Cookies left to sell. We Lions have always had a sweet tooth and a special place for little girls so we didn’t go home empty handed.  

   

Toys for Tots Award Lions Dora Harrington and Danny Fletcher received a Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding support from the United States Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign manager David Marks (center).

     

 Lions Dora and Danny went way beyond the call of duty on several snowy, icy winter nights last December to help in the campaign. We Lions will use your example ‘TO SERVE”.

 

HELP WANTED Don't Forget

Recycle used eyeglasses and cases with Lion Tom Richardson - 214-830-8127 Visit our website at :

http://planolions.org/ District 2-X1:

http://www.lions2-x1.org/

Parade Committee

Parade Chairman Lion George Harrington is looking for a few great Lions to take on specific responsibilities in the planning and implementation of our Independence and Christmas Parades next year. The planning is to get started “NOW”. It’s only a few short months before the Independence Parade so if you are thinking about getting involved in one of our biggest events each year stop thinking and jump in. It’s your time “TO SERVE”. ------------- Our Next Big Thing -------------

Magic Show 3/16 Our next Magic Show is scheduled for Sunday, March 16th at the Courtyard Theatre, 1509 Avenue H Plano, TX. There will be two shows, 3:00 and 5:00 pm. Come and greet our visitors and tell them about PELC and Lionism. Show them how “WE SERVE”. Sign up sheets will be available the 1st membership meeting in March.

PELC Golf Classic 4/14/2014

Shine up your clubs, clean them shoes and pick out your best golfing outfit because on April 14, 2014 we are all meeting at the Los Rios Golf Course to kick off our first annual Plano Early Lions Club Golf Classic. For information and registration go to our website:

http://planolions.org/golf/ We need volunteers so don’t be shy, let Lions Danny Fletcher or Marvin Surles know you want to get involved.

Hams, Hams and More Hams

See Lions Richard and Verna and order you Smoked Easter Hams today, only $45.00 each. The deadline is April 11th 2014. Also sign up to help in the smoking process and have great time in Lion fellowship.

 

Birthdays We wish a Happy Birthday to this group of great Lions. We are sure glad you're still kicking around for the celebration. We won't mention ages but we can be assured that they are all still young at heart.

3/6 Charles Shidlofsky 3/8 Drew Babb

3/10 Tom Seibert 3/11 Myrtle Hightower

MARCH HOLIDAYS 3/5 Ash Wednesday

3/9 Daylight Savings Time Begins

3/17 Saint Patrick’s Day

3/20 Spring Begins

 

HELP WANTED