North Shreveport
Lions Club
The Yellow
Rag
|
We
meet every Thursday at the D&W Business
Center, 1434 Hawn Avenue. |
Yellow
Rag Editors
Gloria
Kennedy, Mike Middleton, Patricia Schwartz |
October 17, 2002
Opening: President
Max Lipscomb called the meeting to order.
He asked Lion Chaplain Jim Peck to give the Blessing. Lion
Harold Wright led us in the Pledge - and he did it without
error. Lion Robert Schwartz swayed the
baton for the First Verse whileLion Paul Little played the cymbals.
Visitors: The only
visitor today was our speaker and there were 23 club members in attendance.
Remarks: Lion Bryan
Self gave thanks to all members who participated in any way. He asked that the money be forwarded to him as
quickly as possible. Some discussion
ensued concerning there were no donuts for the packaging day. Members gave lots of positive comments in
attendance today--all hands involved did a great job! Other business: Lion Gene Bacon is looking for folks todo our
annual Bell Ringing for the Salvation Army.
Tailtwisting: Lion
TT Bill Archambeau got three folks for being late. With Lion Paul Little serving as the potboy, many fines were collected. The TT pulled up some carefully scripted Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire questions. He
got lots of fines and lots of humor and lots of laughter. Lion Scott Harkey skated through what would
have been very embarrassing if he'd not known the answer; it was the question
concerning "What state is named for a king?" If you don't know the answer, don't tell
anyone.
Program: Lion Ed
Ball presented our program. Mr. Richard
Stewart from the Caddo 9-1-1 Center.
Richard is the database manager at the Center. 9-1-1 calls have gone from 250 to 700 per day over the years
since it started in 1989. Non-emergency
phone calls also makeup a large part of the 9-1-1's staff. Comments from the floor arose concerning the
financing of the Center and an explanation was given and discussed. The 9-1-1 chain now has an updated 800 Mhz
trunking system to allow better communications between the various emergency
agencies responding to a major incident - this is one of the many things the
$1.00per month on residential phones and $2.00 business lines assessments. FYI - incoming phone calls using 9-1-1 are
received by the Shreveport Fire Department.
After the call-taker screens the call, they one-touch button transfer
the call to the appropriate agency: Caddo Sheriff's Office, Shreveport Police
or Fire, Caddo Fire Districts. Richard left us with some litter bags and other information
about 9-1-1------- a great, informative program!!!!!!!
Ticket Drawings:
$5.00 red ticket winners were Lions Steve Davitt and Paul Little. The blue ticket winner was (woo, woo, woo)
Lion Gloria Kennedy.
Attendance Prize:
Lion Jerry Paige would have received the attendance prize - for the
second consecutive week.
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