District Governor Lewis Tom Bauder

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1 Lions Club International, District 4-A1 Vol. 56 Issue 5, May 6, 2014 Mission Statement of lions Club International: to create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary service through community involvement and international cooperation BE A CHAMPION District Governor Lewis Tom Bauder Here we are at the end of another year. Your first Vice District Governor is preparing to go to Canada and to be sworn in as your Governor. We certainly wish him and Barbara, the best in the coming term. While thinking about the coming times, each club, which means you as members, need to work on getting new members, so District 4-A1 will continue to be the best District in MD4. Each person that you meet is a potential member, JUST ASK. The District Convention was a success. Thank you to all who helped made this a success. The next District meeting will be at the Linden Club House, I hope to see you there. I would like to thank my Cabinet, the PDGs, my committee chairs, and especially, CS Sue for all the work that you do for District 4-A1. The Governor gets to sit at the head table, and has the ride of their life, but it is all those others who give of their time that make this possible. Please continue with your service and thank you again. DG letter p. 1 DGE letter p. 2!st VDGE letter p. 3 Convention Business Meeting p. 4 Convention: Student Speaker s p. 5 Convention: Governor s Banquet p. 6 Convention: Award Breakfast p. 7 Convention: Highlights p. 8 Are you Doing Business with a Lions Business? p. 9 District Meeting forms p Camp Pacifica News p.12 Student Speaker s Foundation p.13 All Star Football p.14 Leos Looking over Indian Artifacts p.15 District Calendar p.16

2 Page 2 District Governor Elect Kent Christensen My how the time has flown by. Here we are counting down the days before I leave for Toronto Canada and the International Convention. We have just completed the District Convention. I hope all who attended had a chance to talk with the ID John Harper from Wyoming and 1VDG Mary Rynearson from 4-L6 (Imperial County). I want you to reserve the date for next year s convention. It will be at the same location as this year, the Marriott San Ramon. The dates are April 16-19, I have some ideas to add to the excitement next year. I am planning on a great convention for next year. Mark your calendars to remember the date. I have been diligently working on my Cabinet. Although it is not complete yet I have most positions filled. Of particular importance are the following: Ken Harrison Cabinet Secretary kharrison@mercedbreakfastlions.org Don Weber Bulletin Contest dweber130@gmail.com Chris Baker Top Club chrisbaker@digitalmirrors.com Please start now to forward you bulletins and activity reports to them. Again I want to encourage everyone to attend the officer training to be held in Linden on the 9 th and 10 th of May. There will be a presentation by my guest DGE Larry Marcum and PDG Don Allen regarding the difference between a Guide Dog and an LPPCI Dog. Again this is Officer and member training. Get your clubs off to a good start and get those top club points. District Meetings will be as follows next year, barring any major problems: August 15 & 16, 2014 Turlock Medic Alert November 14 & 15, 2014 Mountain Region March 6 & 7, 2015 San Joaquin Region May 1 & 2, 2015 Yosemite Region Camp Pacifica Mark your calendars know to keep those date open. Cabinet Secretary Ken Harrison will be contacting club secretaries to start confirming the dates for the Governor Visitations. Please respond quickly to him and mark your date down be sure to let incoming President know. We would like to include them in the directory that is being worked on. Be sure to send any dates for events during the year to him so they may be included in the calendar. If you know your dates now please send them in. It is also very important to finish your PU 101. This is where the information for the directories comes from. It would help if secretaries would update member information to include addresses and telephone numbers. Please update your member information. Thank you for the honor of serving the lions of District 4-A1. DGE Kent B. Christensen

3 Page 3 Message from 2 nd Vice District Governor Ron Raines April 30, 2014 I shall begin by thanking all of you, proud Lions of District 4-A1 for an outstanding district convention in San Ramon! Our guest 2 nd VDG Macy Mak-Chan from San Francisco Chinatown Lions could not stop complementing our district for our wonderful convention and broad stream of district activities. I hope you had a chance to meet and hear her brief speech on Sunday morning. She is quite a firecracker, if I may say. Her husband Lion Michael took over a thousand pictures of the convention and put the best online for us all to enjoy and have. Go to our district website and look for the link. Hospitality rooms is a tradition at convention, and my wife, Lion Barbara, did a fantastic job for us Friday night. Thanks to her and our clubs, Greenhills and Le Grand, for supporting and assisting us. Of course the other hospitality rooms were outstanding! I hope you did not miss the wonderful food and drink. We voted to choose a convention site for 2016, and I am pleased to thank you for selecting Doubletree by Hilton in Rohnert Park. I will be working hard on this for the next two years. No, that is not Orianne in the photo with our convention guests Macy and Michael. That is her sister Olani, who is being raised by PDG Don Allen. Orianne was on vacation at the Puppy Spa, but she has returned home from her three-week stay at the CCI campus in Santa Rosa. Congratulations to Governor-elect Kent Christensen! His family presented him with his first Melvin Jones Fellowship on Sunday morning. It was an emotional high for us all to share and enjoy. My wife and I have traveled with the Christensen s on many club visitations this past year, and look forward to joining them on their grand tour as the visiting governor s team. We have become close friends with Kent and Barbara, and are confident this will be an extraordinary year for our district under their leadership. more photos at

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8 Page 8 Top Club A Division: San Andreas 49er Breakfast Lions Top Club B Division: Sonora Lions Club Top Club C Division: Jackson Lions Club Clubs Gift to District Governor Tom Bauder was a Lions Eye Foundation Helen Keller District Governor Elect Kent Christensen was presented a LCIF Merlin Jones Fellow from his family. District 4-A1 Lion of Year for 2014 are: PDG Tom Penhallegon and Wendy Dart Parker s Prom received more than $1500 in pledges from Clubs, PDGs, DGE, and 1stVDGE, so now they can hold their Prom celebration this year. The District 4-1 Convention had 41 clubs attend. 181 members and guests registered, which 6 were first timers. There were 37 who attended First Niters, 99 at Saturday Breakfast, 135 at the Student Speaker s Lunch, 114 at the Governor s Banquet, and 117 at the Awards Breakfast. Dr. Howard Abrams Humanitarian Award went to Jackson Lions PDG George Fields All Star Football Award went to Linden Lions PDG Dan Agari representing California Lions Foundation presented a check for $43, to Camp Pacifica. Thank you to Lion Jerry Cooper for providing Convention Photos.

9 Page 9. Are you Doing Business with a Lions Business? Lions Are: - Accounting - Admin & Clerical - Banking & Finance - Business Opportunities - Customer Service - Engineering - Executive - Franchise - Government -Health Care - Hospitality -Human Resources -Information Technology -Internships & College - Manufacturing - Nonprofit -Part Time - Retail -Sales & Marketing -Science & Biotech -Transportation - And More Your Business Listing in the District 4-A1 Directory is only: Business Card..$25 - Half Page.$50 - Full Page.$100 Name Add Size Contact Information

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11 Page 11 District Reports Continued: Camp Pacifica Lion Dee Heller or Jill Loving; PDG Russ Custer or PDG Steve Granlees (2 PEOPLE ONLY PLEASE) All Star Football Lion Elizabeth Gibbs Olson LCIF - 1VDG Kent Christensen Relay for Life Lion Ramona Green Awards not given at Convention Thanks and comments from visiting dignitaries; ½ raffle Adjourn THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING AND HAVE A SAFE TRIP HOME. CS SUE CARNER Please remember 2 raffle prizes per club. Club fundraisers/activities: If your club has a fundraiser between this meeting and the next meeting in August, please bring enough fliers to put in the club mail box (65). If you want to inform just your region, bring enough for those clubs (mailbox is divided into regions). Region Chairs and Zone Chairs are responsible for emptying their respective areas at the end of the meeting and getting material to the clubs. (Time for another visit.) Lodging Information: Clarion Inn & Suites, 4219 E. Waterloo Rd, Stockton, CA 95215; Phone: (209) ; x 102; Fax (209) , Champ Patel, CHA, Contact; 1 queen bed, nonsmoking $70.00; double queens, nonsmoking $ Questions: RC Eileen Guadagnolo-Vaccarezza, 7790 N Duncan Rd, Linden, CA 95236; R (209) ; C (209) , e.guadag@gmail.com PLEASE NOTE DECREASE IN FEES SINCE LAST PUBLICATION. WE HOPE YOU ENJOY & ATTEND: (APPROVED BY DG TOM AND RC EILEEN) NAME CLUB Friday dinner $10.00 with no host bar Saturday Registration & Breakfast - $9.00 Friday /Saturday Pkg $26.00 Saturday Registration, Breakfast/Lunch - $16.00 PLEASE PAY IN ADVANCE AND REGISTER ASAP: MAKE CHECKS PAID OUT TO HER AND SEND IT TO HER AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. TOTAL:

12 Page 12 LIONS IT IS AN EXCITING TIME AT CAMP PACIFICA, MANY NEW PROJECTS STARTING AND HAS BEEN COMPLEATED. P.D.G. RUSS CUSTER PRES. DEE HELLER LION KEN HARRISON HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW POWER POINT PROGRAM TO INTRODUCE LIONS MEMBERS TO CAMP PACIFICA IT SHOWS THE CAMP AS IT LOOKED WHEN WE BOUGHT IT, ALL THE PROJECTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE AND HOW THEY HAVE IMPROVED IT AND HOW IT LOOKS TODAY. IF YOU HAVE NEVER OR NOT BEEN TO CAMP PACIFICA IN A WHILE THIS TWENTY MINUTE POWER POINT PROGRAM IS FOR YOU. RUSS - DEE -KEN WILL NARRATE THIS POWER POINT PROGRAM AT YOUR CLUB. PLEASE CALL P.D.G. RUSS CUSTER (209) I GUARENTEE YOU, IT WILL BE A LEARNING EXPERANCE. KIM'S OFFICE IN THE MAIN HOUSE IS FINISHED AND LOOKS VERY NICE. SHE HAS BROUGHT IN SEVERAL LARGE RENTALS 140+ FOR A WEEK 200+ FOR 3 DAYS, 100+ FROM U.C. DAVIS, AND MORE TO COME. WE WILL BE PUTTING A MUCH LAGER CONCRETE AREA BETWEEN THE MAIN HOUSE AND THE DINNING HALL, TO ACCOMMODATE LARGER GROUPS. THE FRONT AUTOMATIC GATE IS COMPLETED, WITH AUTO TIMERS FOR THE LIGHTS AND KEY PAD ENTERY. PLEASE CALL ROLAND OR KIM (209) OR BEFORE YOUR TRIP TO GET THE CODE NUMBER. THE NEW RIDING ARENA PROJECT IS UNDER WAY AND SOON WILL BE TAKING SHAPE --- THANKS TO P.D.G. NORMAN CLARK AND THE DOS PALOS LIONS FOR THE DONATION OF THE STEEL PIPING. THE CAMP ALSO HAS A NEW VOLLY BALL COURT(PICTURE), WILL BE PUTTING THE FINAL TOUCHES ON IT THIS MONTH. THE MERCED LEOS AND OMEGA CLUBS HAD AN OUTSTANDING TIME AT CAMP PACIFICA LAST WEEK. THEY ENJOYED THE NEWLY FOUND INDIAN GRINDING ROCK, AND DISCOVERED SOME INDIAN ARTIFACTS TO BE ON DISPLAY AT CAMP PACIFICA. WE ARE LOOKING FOR OLD PICTURES OF CAMP PACIFICA TO IMPROVE OUR HISTORY OF THE CAMP THRU PICTURES. IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR PICTURE WE WILL COPY IT AND SEND IT BACK TO YOU. PLEASE CALL P.D.G. RUSS CUSTER (209) THE CAMP REALLY LOOKS GREAT THANKS TO ROLAND AND KIM PLEASE COME AND SEE THIS BEAUTIFUL CAMP AS LIONS OF DIST.4-A1 THAT YOU ALL OWN. P.D.G. RUSS CUSTER I.P.P. BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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14 Page 13 LIONS OF DISTRICT 4-A1 ATTENDED ONE OF OUR GREATER SPEACH CONTESTS, AT OUR CONVENTION. THE ROOM WAS FILLED TO CAPASITY. THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER SEATS AT THE CONVENTION IS THE STUDENT SPEAKERS CONTEST, YET ONLY $ OF OUR $7, SHARE HAS BEEN GIVEN BY ALL OF THE CLUBS OF DISTRICT 4-A1. PLEASE HELP THE FOUNDATION TO CONTINUE THIS CONTEST FOR OUR FUTURE LEADERS OF THIS "GOD GIVEN" GREATEST NATION ON EARTH. THE FOUNDATION GIVES OVER $100, IN SCHOLARSHIPS EACH YEAR. DONATIONS ARE DEDUCTUBLE EACH CLUB CAN HELP BY PURCHASINGTHE FOLLOWING: 4 1/2" EMBROIDERY PATCH FOR BANNER OR VEST $ HARRY J. ASLAN FELLOW PLAQUE $ DWIGHT D. STANFORD FELLOW PLAQUE $ OR TWO ANNUAL PAYMENTS OF $ DONALD E. SNYDER FELLOW PLAQUE $ OR TWO ANNUAL PAYMENTS OF $ FRED W. SMITH FELLOW PLAQUE $ OR FIVE ANNUAL EQUAL PAYMENTS OF $ WILL YOU HELP THE STUDENT SPEAKERS FOUNDATION??? THANK YOU P.D.G. RUSS CUSTER FOUNDATION TRUSTEE

15 Page 14 CALLING ALL LIONS ALL STAR FOOTBALL FANS! The Lions All Star Football game is 41 years old this year! Congratulations and thank you Lions All Star Football Fans for making this game successful! Lions All Star Football Game will be played on June 14, 2014, easy date to remember ! North and South teams should be finalized and posted on our website soon! This year's game will be played at Tracy High School in Wayne Schneider Stadium in Tracy, Ca on Game Time 7:00 PM/Pre Game 6:00 PM, the Banner Procession will be at half time, please bring your banners and be proud of your clubs!! Of course, what fund this game are the ads you so graciously sell! Thank you so much! The prices are the same as last year $50.00 for a business card size ad, $ for double business card, etc. Thank you for your support, Eg Olson, Chairman Lions All Star Football Game and Lions All Star Football Game Committee

16 P.15 May 9-10: May 15: May 17: June 5-8: June 14: June 26: June 28: July 4-8: July 12: Aug 1-3: Aug 2: District Meeting in San Joaquin Region PU101 forms must be completed at International Lions Club. Camp Pacifica Sporting Clay Shoot at Rooster Ranch, Newman Council of Governors Meeting, Pasadena, CA All Star Football Game Pig in the Park, Ballico Murphys-Angles Car Show International Convention, Toronto, Canada Newsletter Deadline for July Newsletter Council of Governors Meeting, Santa Maria, CA Sonora Lions Pride Stride, Columbia College Aug : District Meeting Stanislaus Region, Medic Alert Sept. 7-15: USA/Canada Forum in San Juan Puerto Rico