North Shreveport
Lions Club
The Yellow
Rag
|
We meet every
Thursday at the D&W Business Center,
1434 Hawn Avenue. |
Yellow
Rag Editor
Mike Middleton |
Opening: Lion Ed Ball
opened the meeting and assigned Lion Jim Peck to
give a prayer and thanks to GOD for
his many blessings and the wonderful weather…Lion Bill
Spickerman led the group with the Pledge of Allegiance. Lion Russ Peterson directed
the band, Lions Robbie Raiford (piano) and Paul Little
(cymbals), and the Lions and guests in the First Verse.
Visitors: Mr. Garry Lipscomb was the only visitor
(other than the speaking folks). In attendance were 27 members.
Remarks: The Prez gave a lot of
business notes:
·
January
22nd – Cubsight screening at the Providence House Day Care (Lion
Robert Schwartz)
·
February
2nd – District 8-L Mid-winter conference in Jonesboro.
·
March
7th – Irish Auction at the University Club – Din-din at 6:30 p.m.
and the auction at 7:00 p.m. – we need lots of prizes to be donated and lots of
guests (Lion Jennie Moore is chairing).
·
April
25th – Rose Day (Lion Stuart Reeks is the chair)
·
The
“Book” sales are going well… Sell more books and get the money or books to Lion
Craig Kennedy by the 2nd week of February.
·
Anyone
who has not contributed to the Lion Charlyne Langton flower fund is
asked to get the money to Lion Ed Ball
·
Lion Hubert Gleason has some more nuts and candy for sale as a “fire
sale”.. Good prices and he said the project has gone well.
·
Lion Robert Schwartz is assembling a committee to address acquisition and
retaining of Lions members
Tailtwisting: Lion TT Bill Archambeau had Lion Gabby Garbarino handling the pot. The session began with birthday songs to: Lion Jimmie Giles (December) and Lions Oscar Smith and Mike Middleton for January. Several late fines were attained for late members – Lions Oscar Smith, Pete Copes, and Bud Byrd. Other fines were for Board Members absent from yesterday’s board meeting…Lion Stuart Reeks paid his bounty for winning last week’s attendance prize…President Ball fined for starting the meeting 3 minutes late…Lion Bill Spickerman fined for lack of assertiveness on the Pledge… However, Lion Paul Little received an accolade for excellent cymbals – no fine. … then the trivia ensued with some fairly hard questions – even when someone got the answer correct they were often fined for taking too long or being too quick to answer. All said and done – a great TT session by a great TT. THANKS !!!
Program: Lion Ed Ball invited folks from McDaniel Financial (for
Seniors). First, guest John Evans
introduced Mr. Ernest McDaniel. Mr. McDaniel gave
an overview of nearly 100 years of the stock market. Discussion ensued with members as to the causal and effects of the
market. Also present was Ms. Fran Evans with the same company… Contact information: www.mcdanielfinancialplanning.com
or phone 318.798.9022. Their address is
2001 East 70th Street, Shreveport, Zip 71105. If you had been at the meeting, you would
have received a parting gift from our speakers.
Next week’s program will be folks talking about community
support – please be here.
Ticket Drawings: The red ticket winners were: Lions Kevin Anderson and Bill Archambeau.
BLUE TICKET: Lion Charlie Smith won the chance but not the pot.
Attendance Prize: Lion Brett Matison
was not present to collect the
money.
MAJOR PROJECTS:
Louisiana Lions Childrens’ Camp, LSU Eye Foundation, Northwest Louisiana Eye
Bank, Louisiana Association for the Blind, Northwood High School Leo Club,
Scholarships for Northwood and Green Oaks High Schools
FUNDRAISERS: Chicken Charbroil – October; Candy &
Nuts – November;
Irish Auction – March; Rose Sale – May