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Kansas Lions District 17-A Newsletter District Governor (DG) Lion Deb Weaverling Editor Lion Michele Reese Website kslionsdistrict17a.0rg

Busy Lions doing Busy Things

August was a busy month with our first state council meeting, our first district cabinet meet-ing, a once in my lifetime solar eclipse, and meeting more wonderful LIONS. At the State Council meeting it was decid-ed to take another Internation-al Band to the International Convention in Las Vegas, NV in 2018. The Kansas Lions Band Foundation elected to provide $400 to help defray the cost for up to 60 students. In 2019, all three District Con-ventions will be held together at Mid Winter Rally. This is a

big change from “how we have always done it”. A new standard operations proce-dure was passed regarding having two to three signatures on all club bank accounts and two persons must have the clubs website/internet user name/passwords. This new SOP is due to the loss of LI-ONS in District N which caused the District to recon-struct bank accounts, pay-ments made, and their web-site.

Our first District Cabinet meet-ing was filled with excitement and information. There were 46 LIONS in attendance. The funeral for our Past Interna-tional President (PIP) Bill Wunder kept some LIONS away, as it should have. The Regional Chairs, Zone Chairs, and DG Team all received a nice bag, name badge, pins, and information to set them forward as they begin their official visits and zone meet-ings in the District. Many re-ports were provided and notes taken. I want to thank LIONS

Laurel Warren, Joe Wilken, Michelle Wilken, and Rodney George for helping set up the food and clean up for this meeting. Our next cabinet meeting will be Saturday, No-vember 4th in Wamego KS at the Trinity Baptist Church.

My club visits for the month of August began with Concordia and then Marysville. The Concordia Lions Club honored me with a wonderful and sur-prising reception, thank you Lion Devine Montoya. This club thrives on the excitement and motivation that exudes from their leadership, espe-cially their President/new Zone Chair Camey Thurner. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting PDG Gene Johnson, he was such a gentleman.

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Upcoming Dates and Deadlines

• September 21-23, Lions USA Canada Forum, Portland, Oregon

• October 27-29, 10 a.m. 2nd State Council Meeting, Best Western Hotel, McPherson

• November 4, 11 a.m. 2nd District Cabinet Meeting, Trinity Baptist Church, Wamego

• January 26-28, Kansas Lions Mid-Winter Rally, Four Seasons, Manhattan

DG’s Column cont’d 1VDG Burns 2VDG Hentges Environmental Photos Kansas City Chiefs All-stars Walk Event Lions MSU at State Fair AuBurn Pharmacy Caps Lions Clubs Anniversaries District Clubs Activities Be a Foundation Director Diabetes Camps Orphan Trains Concordia New Lions Membership

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Inside this issue:

From DG Deb Weaverling

September 2017 Volume 1 Issue 3

Kansas L ions Dist r ic t 17 -A

Monthly News

2017 -2018

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After the meeting Ron and I toured the National Orphan Train Complex/Museum. It was amazing and sad at the same time. I highly recom-mend visiting if you are in or around the Concordia area. Thank you to LION Sue Sut-ton who took the time to take Ron and I on the tour and she even took us to their Legacy Project (at my re-quest). Their Legacy Project is planting the avenue of trees in their local cemetery.

Marysville was on our agen-da the same day in the even-ing. Prior to the meeting PID Bill Phillipi took Ron and I on a tour of the town. Marysville is known for the Pony Express Statue that sits in the middle of town and their black squirrels. Yep, black squirrels. I did not see any real ones but saw many statues of black squirrels all decorated in majestic style throughout the town. There are 21 black squirrel statues. The meeting began with information about the club and projects that are planned for the year. Thank you PID Bill for the tour of your won-derful town.

The Holton Lions Club is another great club who thrives on their commitment to their community. Their dedication to making Holton a great place to live is a perfect ex-ample of what LIONS do; We Serve. Led by their President/Big Lion Bob McNicholas who is a ball of fire and expects nothing but the best from his LIONS. His leadership team and his LIONS contribute to the suc-cess of their club and all that they do for the City of Holton.

The Kansas City Downtown Lions Club

meets at the Kansas State School for the Blind. This club was chartered in 2010 because of the need, thanks to Lions PDG David and 2VDG Diane Hentges. Their commitment to LCIF is a great example for all clubs to follow. They are committed to give to those less fortunate in the world. Their Big Lion Ben Blagg is a PMJF, works for the City as a 311 operator, and is funny beyond belief. He is blind but you wouldn’t know it to talk to him one on one. He is a breath of fresh air for our LI-ONS and for this club. Thank you Lion Ben for a great meeting.

The Delphos Lions Club is the epitome of Melvin Jones Fellows. Their display of plaques is impressive as you enter their Lions Building. The 1st Saturday of the

month they provide breakfast for their commu-nity and friends, this month they served 80 individuals and $327 was raised from dona-tions. This club pur-chased a threshold ramp for a

physically and mentally impaired individual who may soon be a Delphos LION. Their dedication of flags to our military is very impres-sive and is located as you enter the town with an electronic board that announces events. Delphos is known for the town where Grace Bedell, the 11-year-old girl who wrote the letter to President Lincoln suggesting he grow a beard and that maybe he would get elected….and he did. This was her claim to fame. A granite monument was dedicated in 1966 to Grace and sits in the town square. Another factoid about

Delphos is Milborn Stone, known as Doc Adams from Gunsmoke. He and his wife were married in Delphos, the church still stands today.

The Topeka Sunflower Lions Club meeting

was another opportunity to meet new LI-ONS. This club has many LIONS who are active in our District and State events. Their dedication to LIONISM is to be ad-mired and is very much appreciated. Lion Vern Failor is their President/Big Lion, he runs a tight ship. His enthusiasm is appar-ent as he directs his LIONS to serve, to give, and they respond with a resounding YES. Their 2016-17 band student was pre-sent and she provided a snapshot of her experience as a Kansas State Band stu-dent for the last four years and most enthu-siastically her experience at the Internation-al Convention in Chicago. She thanked the club for their continued support for her to attend State Band Camps and an Interna-tional Convention. Thank you Lion Vern for your dedication to our Districts Health Pro-gram for so many years.

From DG Deb Weaverling continued...

The Topeka Sunflower Lions Club enjoyed a visit from DG Deb Weaverling and

Lion Ron Weaverling in August.

DG Deb Weaverling and Lion Ron were warmly welcomed by the Chapman

Lions Club, too, on August 21.

Concordia Lions Club shared their hometown with DG Deb Weav-

erling and Lion Ron, August 3rd. Continued on page 7

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WHERE THERE’S A NEED, THERE’S A LION

In over 200 countries, in schools and sen-ior centers, in regions battered by natural disaster, in hospitals and clinics, Lions and Leos are doing community volunteer work—helping, leading, planning and sup-porting. Because we're local, we can serve the unique needs of the communities we live in. And because we're global, we can address challenges that reach beyond bor-ders.

The new global service framework gives Lions and Leos new ways to serve, but clubs will also continue to serve their local communities just as they always have: by identifying and addressing unmet needs, whatever they may be.

Be sure to take advantage of LCI re-sources that can enhance your efforts and energize your service projects. No matter how you choose to serve, your contribu-tions matter.

Diabetes is our enhanced area of service this year as well as Vision, Hunger, Pediat-ric Cancer and Environment.

Diabetes contributes to more than 5 million deaths a year, making it the eighth-leading cause of death in the world. And the num-bers are rising. Lions and Leos are con-fronting this global health emergency by raising awareness of diabetes through Strides events, expanding access to care through screening and treatment pro-grams, and improving quality of life through diabetes camps and community recreation-al programs. We believe we can help pre-

vent and con-trol this global epidemic by uniting Lions and Leos around this cause.

I visited four clubs during the month of August: The first club was the Milford club.

President and PCC Beverly Greenwood me and JD Dailey, one of our club’s direc-tors. They had just inducted a new member the previous month and will induct another new member at their next meeting. They talked about the projects coming up includ-ing a Diabetes walk and suggested a scav-enger hike highlighting some details about the community, a bouncy house and serv-ing hot dogs and potato chips, a family outdoor movie, etc. Three member of the club will be working together with school’s PTO to come up with other ideas where they could spend the donated money from the Ft. Riley Spouses group. A highway

I am excited to be serving our district as 2nd Vice-District Governor. Thank you for your vote of confidence. There are so many great happenings involv-ing Kansas Lions.

"We Serve" has never been more im-portant to our local communities. Lions in Kansas respond to major disasters or to an individual's problem like the need for eyeglasses. It is important that we continue to recruit our friends

and neighbors to continue to do our service to communities.

I joined Lions 26 years ago because it did give me an opportunity to serve others. Being a member of a strong service oriented organization also in-troduced me to some great friends. I learned that the "Power of We" can accomplish alot. It is awe inspiring to know that there are 1.4 million Lions throughout the world working together to make things better for their commu-nities.

Being a Lion, also provides oppor-tunites for one to learn; to learn of needs and services in our own com-munities; to develop as a leader by accepting a position as a club officer, attend the quality trainings offered in our district, our state, and by Lions International. I had the opportunity to attend GPLI last summer and highly

recommend it. The leadership training can be used in our daily life and work life.

This Lions year can and will be great. Power of We will surge throughout our district and state. Let's continue our celebration of a 100 years of service.

From 2nd VDG Diane Hentges

From 1st VDG John Burns

2VDG Diane Hentges

1VDG John Burns

District 17-A Cabinet Meetings

November 4, 2017 February 3, 2018

June 9, 2018

Trinity Baptist Church 16655 US Hwy 24

Wamego, KS 66547 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

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Now is the time to get your entries into the 2017-2018 environmental photo contest for Kansas Lions and Leos. All photos depicting a nature theme—plants, animals, weather events, etcf—are welcome.

Photos should be original and unal-tered. They should showcase the Kansas environment served by Li-ons and Leos. The photos must be printed on high-quality photo paper and measure 8” x 10”. All photog-raphers accept responsibility for the cost of taking and processing their photos. Clubs are invited to submit one photo each to the district by January 1, 2018. The entries will be voted on at the Kansas Lions Mid-Winter Rally in Manhattan, January 26-28.

Contest photos become the proper-

ty of Kansas Lions and they re-serve the right to disqualify entries that do not meet contest criteria or that may be viewed as inappropri-ate or objectionable.

An award will be presented to the winning photographer and the pho-to will be featured in the Kansas Lions News. At all levels of compe-tition, photos will be judge impartially based on origi-nality, artistic merit, and technical quality.

Questions may be di-rected by email to any of the following:

District K, Louise Green-berg at gberg@ruraltel.net

District A, Ken Leander at leanderl@hometelco.net

District N, Rasitha Phillips at in-drajit610@hotmail.com

State Chair, Marla Larison at li-onmarlalarison@gmail.com

Lions Clubs International will be making rules available in Novem-ber for a new international contest focusing on service projects.

Again this year, the Kansas City Chiefs professional football organization is offering discounted tickets to some of its games at Arrowhead Stadium. In fact, the ticket prices this year are low-er than in 2016. With each ticket pur-chased, $10 will come back to the Li-on’s Club as fundraising income.

The following games are still available for ticket purchase:

Monday, October 2—Redskins

Sunday, November 26—Bills

Sunday, December 10—Raiders

Saturday, December 16—Chargers

Sunday, December 24—Dolphins

Tickets are $30 each and the ear-lier they are ordered, the better seats will be had (lower and upper

level availa-ble). Send a check

for $30 per ticket, payable to Lion Michele Hufferd, 107 S. Julie

Street, Louisburg, Kansas 66053. Make sure you indicate which game you want seats for, the number of tick-ets needed, your Lions Club name, and a complete email address AND telephone number, in the event there may be questions.

The Chiefs organization is no longer providing hard tickets. They are now sent to Michele electronically and she will forward the tickets to you by email

once they are purchased. Tickets may not be actually printed until 30 days prior to the selected game date. This is to avoid fraud and lost tickets.

It’s time to cheer on our local pro-fessional football team...make a family or friends date to do so and order your tickets NOW!

It’s Time for the Lions Environmental Photo Contest

Annual Lions Kansas City Chiefs Football Tickets Help Clubs

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DG Deb Weaverling’s

September Club Visits

September 6, Zone 3 Mtg at Basehor

September 7, Junction City Sundown-

ers Lions Club

September 9, Kansas State Fair Vol-

unteering with the MSU

September 13, Goff Lions Club

September 14, Minneapolis Noon Li-

ons Club & Woodbine Lions Club

September 16, Tonganoxie Lions Club

Charter Night

September 18, Brookville Ell Saline

Lions Club

The Kansas City Kansas Downtown Lions Club is asking District 17-A Lions Clubs to join them in supporting the Kansas State School for the Blind through the All-Stars Walk on Friday, September 22, at the school. Opportunities include sponsor-ships at several levels as well as being a walker, a donor matching walker laps, and/or donating goods or services for a raffle drawing.

Registration for the event is $20 per walk-er which includes a complimentary t-shirt and a raffle ticket. There are two options for walking. Registration for Option 1 is from 9-9:30 a.m. with walking from 9:30-10:30 a.m.; registration for Option 2 is 11-11:30 a.m. and walking from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. All activities are on the school’s track and field located at 1100

State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. Online registration is at www.kssb.net and all proceeds benefit the KC Blind All-Stars Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organiza-tion that supports the Kansas State School for the Blind. Its mission is to create op-portunities for blind and visually-impaired youth across the state by providing pro-grams in technology, education, employ-ment, entrepreneurialism, athletics and other extra-curricular activities.

Checks payable to KC Blind All-Stars Foundation may be sent to Marva Thomp-son,Kansas State School for the Blind, 1100 State Street, Kansas City, KS 66102. Please direct questions to Marites Altuna, maltuna@kssb.org/913-645-5645 or Jon Harding, jharding@kssb.org/913-645-5456.

Meet Your Club’s Vision Challenge at All-Stars Walk Event

Visit the Lions MSU at the State Fair

The Kansas Lions Sight Foundation will again sponsor their Mobile Screening Unit at the 2017 Kansas State Fair, September 8-17, in the North Sunflower Building on the fairgrounds at Hutchinson. The hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and the screenings are free of charge.

Lions representing clubs across Kansas will volunteer to screen adults and chil-dren for vision, hearing, blood sugar, and blood pressure, and recommend indi-viduals with spe-cific needs for professional care depending on the results of their screenings. In addition to the Lions there will be professional nurses and their students from Hutchinson Com-munity College, Newman University, and Salina Technical College, to assist with the screenings.

Last year the project screened 3,920 indi-viduals – nearly 300 per day of the Fair – of that number, 535 vision screenings took place and 69 individuals were re-ferred for professional evaluation; 389

were screened for visual acuity and 188 were referred for professional evaluation; 1,152 were screened for hearing with 343 individuals referred for professional evalu-ation; 1,492 were screened for blood pressure with 164 referred for further medical evaluation; 1,376 were screened for blood sugar and 183 were referred to their physician; and, 1,329 children were

screened for vision concerns with 222 referred for profes-sional evalua-tion.When the cur-rent Kansas Lions Mobile Screening Unit (MSU) was put into service with funding assis-tance from the Blue Cross Blue

Shield of Kansas Foundation it was to help Kansas residents stay healthy by having free access to blood sugar, blood pressure, vision, and hearing screening. Countless Kansans have benefitted from this service through the Kansas Lions.

2017 Kansas State Fair

September 8-17 in Hutchinson, Kansas

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1st VDG Burns continued...

cleanup was set for August 19th.

My next club visit was to the Salina Sun-flower club. President Brian Hill and Secre-tary/Treasurer James Hopwood welcomed Becky and me. They had a good attend-ance. PDG Ernest Eikleberry was in attend-ance as well as Past Deputy District Gover-nor Ray Salmon. They had another guest speaker, Kyler Cox speaking about 4H club and their activities at the fair. They are sponsoring the Mobile Screening Unit for next month. They also have a unique fund-raiser; they count U-Hall and Penske trucks and trailers for 4 days each month along the highway and get paid for it.

Next was the Everest Club. We were wel-comed by President Tracy Merz, Secretary PDG Al Kimmi and Treasurer Leila

McConnaughey. They had a good attend-ance for the meeting. Projects and activi-ties include a Scholarship for a Everest Senior, they are planning an eye screening, a blood drive, and pancake breakfast and will be participating in the peace poster contest with a local elementary student. A very delicious dinner was served. They contributed a special donation to LCIF.

My next visit was to the Baldwin City Lions club. James Payne is the President and Erik Bailey is Secretary with William Cooper as Treasurer. I am looking forward to visiting their club. I have visited them before and found that they have many pro-jects to serve their community.

My scheduled visits for September are:

Assaria Sept 2

Washington Sept 5

Tescott Sept 11

Belleville Sept 15

Atchison Sept 18

Miltonvale Sept 25

Make Note

District 17-A Website

http://kslionsdistrict17a.org/

Facebook Page

Lions Club District 17-A

The Delphos Lions Club seeks participation by other District 17-A Lions Clubs in collecting prescription caps that can be turned in for cash. The program is called the AuBurn Pharmacy Caps to Cash fundraiser.

Your Club can help by collecting the caps and getting them to Lion Jack Larson. The program provides .25 cents for each cap collected. The caps must have the AuBurn Pharmacy logo from the three sided prescrip-tion bottles ONLY (see photo). The funds from caps collected by your club will be sent to your club when the Delphos Lions Club receives the funds.

The next collection and submission for the AuBurn

Pharmacy caps is Sep-tember 1 through Novem-ber 30. There will be an-other collection and sub-mission that begins on De-cember 1 runs through February 28, 2018. For more information contact Lion Jack Larson at jlar-sonsc@gmail.com or call his cell phone at 785- 392-4303.

Delphos Lions Club Collecting AuBurn Pharmacy Caps

PID Ernie Young (left of the

US flag) was the guest

speaker at the Olathe Lions

Club 70th Anniversary Cele-

bration in August. While

there, he presented Clarence

Boyer (middle, second pho-

to) with the Presidential

Appreciation Award for his

66-year service as a Lion in

Emporia, Bonner Springs

and now with Olathe.

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The next day Ron and I traveled to Sabe-tha Kansas, yet another opportunity to en-joy the landscape of our beautiful state. The corn seems ready for harvest and the soybeans will soon follow. The Sabetha Lions Club leadership are LIONS who were born in the late 70’s to early 80’s. This club works together to complete their collection of papers for recycling and delivering meals to citizens of their community through Meals on Wheels. The meeting was their annual Steak Dinner in honor of the DG and their families. The steaks and pork chops were served with many potluck items that were very delicious, the peach pie and Pepper Cheese Zucchini was my favorite. It was so nice to have little children and it is a great way to include their little ones. Thank you Lion President/Big Lion Kyle.

The Chapman Lions Club has 29 LIONS.

Their meeting was a time to review their upcoming Labor Day events making sure everyone was ready. Lion President/Big Lion Harold Bray delegated the duties for his LIONS and finalized the planning of their big event. The community garden project is where they plant vegeta-bles for those in need. The club partners with Butterfield Trail Apart-ments and Chapman Middle School to accomplish this project; gardens are planted and then harvested when the vegetables are ready. The vegetables go back to the com-

munity. Four new members completed their application and will be inducted in the near future.

Finally, Lion Margy and I trav-eled to Silver Lake, KS to visit the Silver Lake Lions Club. They are preparing for their annual City Wide Garage Sale to be held on September 8th and 9th. This is a highly visit-ed event from people in the surrounding area. This club takes care of their City Park in partnership with their City. They have a chili feed in the fall, to be announced soon. Lion and Zone Chair Mike Mitchell is the President of this club. He and his very dedicat-ed LIONS are the reason this

club continues to be active and doing good for their community.

Thank you LIONS for a great August. We have 1,851 LIONS, 83 clubs and are at -2 in membership as of August 25th, +2 in membership for the year. LIONS, you’re an integral part of how great our District is in our State, keep up the great work! Re-member the message from our Internation-al President, Dr. Naresh Aggarwal: The Power of We (partner with other organiza-tions, more hands = more individuals we serve), The Power of Action (JUST DO IT!), and The Power of Service (WE Serve). Nameste!

District 17-A will again

Participate in collecting personal care

items for Kansas school children

Please collect and donate: bars of soap,

laundry detergent, toothpaste, toothbrush-

es, deodorant, lotion, feminine care prod-

ucts, & shampoos. Bring to our quarterly

meetings.

For more information and to see the complete

listing visit www.givingthebasics.org

For questions, contact

Lion Margy Sundstrom

Margaret1226@gmail.com

Cell 940-390-7430

From DG Deb Weaverling continued from page 2...

DG Deb Weaverling and Lion Ron traveled to visit the Del-

phos Lions Club on August 14.

The Sabetha Lions Club welcomed DG Deb Weaverling and Lion

Ron on August 18

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(Listed in order by earliest date)

• (No Date Provided) Easton Lions Annual Mountain Oyster Fry, $1 each or 6 for $5. For information contact Treasurer Lion Margeruite Turner, margeruitet88@yahoo.com.

• September 16, Tonganoxie Lions Club Charter Night, 5 p.m. Social Hour & 6 p.m. Dinner, Tonganoxie United Methodist Church (Hughes Hall), 328 E. 4th Street; cost $15 per person, pork chop or chicken (choose when RSVP), salad, green beans, corn, rosemary red potatoes, and drink. RSVP by September 12 with Margy Sundstrom, mar-garet1226@gmail.com or 940-390-7430.

• September 22, Bonner Springs Lions Club & Optimist Club Golf Tournament, Sunflower Hills Golf Course in Bonner Springs; Team Registration at 12 noon—shotgun start at 1 p.m., Putting Contest at 12 noon. Cost is $80 per person/$320 per four person team (includes green & cart fees, prizes, tee package, dinner & beverages after the round; $5 entry for Putting Contest. Corporate Hole sponsorship is $150. Prizes: 1st Flight, 1st Place-$300 per team; 2nd Flight, 1st Place-$200 per team; Putting Contest, 1st Place-50/50 Split. Entry deadline is September 15th. Monies must accompany registration. Return entry to Patrick Berning, 1313 N. 131st Ter., Kansas City, KS 66109, ladeedi@reagan.com or 816-810-6490; Questions to Fred Stanbrough, 816-830-1473 or freds@kcbank.com and Rick Masterson, 913-441-2165 or mastersonkj8888@gmail.com.

• September 23, Oskaloosa Lions Club Annual Golf Tournament, Four Man Scramble, 8 a.m.; lunch served at end of play. Village Greens Golf Course in Ozawkie. Hole sponsorships are $50. Team and individual awards; traveling

1st place trophy. Cost is $50 per person including refreshments, lunch, 18 holes of golf and cart; mulligans $5 each (limit 2 per per-son). Questions, contact Linda Wonnell, 785-331-5661 or ldwon-nell159@yahoo.com.

• September 23, 12 noon to 2 p.m., Auburn Lions Club Free Secure Shred Day for local residents with cooperation of the Au-burn Landmark National Bank, 1741 N. Washington. Services pro-vided by Document Resource, a Division of Underground Vaults & Storage, Topeka. Supported in part by donations from FreeState

Electric Cooperative, Auburn Animal Clinic, and Landmark National Bank.

• September 25, Auburn Lions Club Diabetes Awareness & Information Fair, 6:30-8 p.m., Auburn Civic Center, 1020 N. Washington. Free informational handouts, food samples, door prizes, representatives to answer questions related to Diabetes care, Diabetes Camp, cooking for the Diabetic, and much more. Special thanks to the following: Jenny Craig Centre, Topeka Hy-Vee, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas, Stormont-Vail Diabetes Learning Center, Diabetic Nurse Linda Becker, APRN-C, Shawnee County Extention Office, American Diabetes Association, Auburn Elementary School Nurse Anne Schmiedeler, Diabetes Camp Camper Zed Stewart, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, and Lions Clubs International.

• October 5, Topeka Sunflower Lions Annual Steak Fry & Auction, 6:30 p.m., Shelter House #6 at Lake Shawnee; KC Strip, baked potato and fixins’ (bring your own table service & steak knife) for $13 each. RSVP to Bobby Duvall, 785-608-1311 or email terrybobd@aol.com by October 2.

• October 9, Manhattan Sunflower Lions Club 50th Anniversary Celebration, with guest speaker Past International Director Ed McCormick. Event to be held at Four Points By Sher-aton, 530 Richards Drive; doors open at 5:30 and dinner served at 6:30 p.m.; cost is $25 per person with choice of Classic Pot Roast or Chicken Marsala (specify when RSVP by October 2). Mail checks payable to Manhattan Sunflower Lions Club, c/o Lion Bill Stenfors, 109 E. J. Frick Dr., Manhattan, KS 66503; questions to 785-410-0928 or bstenfors@hotmail.com.

• October 14, Topeka Sunflower Lions Fall Pancake Feed & Silent Auction, 7-11 a.m., Highland Park United Methodist Church, 2914 SE Michigan; all you can eat pancakes & sausage or biscuits & gravy and beverage for $5.

(left) Zone Chair

Lion Rick Dobson,

inducted five new

and returning

members into the

Oskaloosa Lions

Club. New mem-

bers and their

sponsors are

(right) Louisburg

Lions Club “Fill the

Bus” with school

supplies for USD

416 schools on

August 6. Several

District 17A clubs

sponsored school

supplies collec-

tions prior to

school starting.

Upcoming District 17-A Events Sponsored by Local Clubs

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Become a Kansas Lions Foundation Director Candidate

District 17-A Diabetes Camp Scholarships Help Kids

What’s re-quired? What do I need to do? Read on, the answers are below.

By-Laws of the Kansas Lions

Foundation, Article II, Section 2, Num-ber and Qualifications of Directors, states “The Board of Directors shall consist of three Lions from each Sub-District in Lions Multiple District 17, Kansas. Members of the Board of Di-rectors shall be members in good standing of a Lions Club in the State of Kansas.”

Section 3, Election and Term of Office, states “One director will be elected per year and shall each serve a three-year term. The Directors shall be elected at their District Convention. No Director will serve more than two consecutive terms or a maximum of six consecutive years on the Kansas Lions Foundation Board of Directors. However, after being off the board of directors of the Kansas Lions foundation for a period of one term a Lion would be eligible for reelection to that position.”

District 17-A By-Laws, Article VI, Sec-tion 1: Nominations says, “Candidates for director of any recognized MD-17 Foundation must file application with a

Nominating Committee Member, in writing, no less than thirty (30) days prior to the District’s Annual Conven-tion. If no applications are received, the presiding officer shall call for nomi-nations from the floor.”

If you have questions or need more

information, please contact PDG Al

Kimmi, Nominations Chairman, 785-

548-5744 or email aikim-

mi@rainbowtel.net.

The17-A Health/Diabetes Pro-gram would like to send 10 youth to a diabetes camp this year. The Camps are operated by the American

Diabetes Association (ADA). There are two camps that we send youth to; Camp Planet D in Tonganoxie and Camp Discovery in Junction City. The ages for a youth to attend are 7–14 years. Each of these camps cost a family $450 for each youth they send. A family will need to pay $112.50 at the time of registration with the ADA. That will leave a scholarship cost per youth of $337.50. In the past, District 17-A has been able to cover this scholar-ship cost in full.

We will ask the youth that went last year to go again. Some have aged out so are not eligible to return. Therefore we need your help in find-ing more youth to attend these camps. Your part is to go to your school nurse and give my contact

information to them (see attached info). If they have an age-appropriate youth ask them to give my information to the parent and ask the parent to contact me. I will explain the scholarship to the parent and send the scholar-ship application to them.

Along with this Initiative, we will be needing to fund these scholar-ships. We ask each club to help in the scholarship program by donating to the district diabetes fund. To donate, make your check to District 17-A and on the memo line write (diabetes camp) then send the check to Lion Vern

Failor, (see address below) he will record the information and forward the check to the District Treasurer.

District 17-A Health and/or

Diabetes Chairman

Lion Vern Failor

5201 SW 27th St

Topeka, Kansas 66614

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Concordia Lions Proud of Their Work with Orphan Train

Congratulations to These New Lions, Sponsors and Clubs

Have You Planned Your Club Membership Drive Yet?

The Concordia Lions Club regularly supports the ef-forts of their local Orphan Train Complex Museum and Research Center. They provide financial support and maintain the grounds for the public who visit.

The Orphan Train move-ment began in 1854 to 1929 with an estimated 250,000 or-phaned, abandoned, and home-less chil-dren. These

children were sent to rural communities across our country, 48 states and parts of Canada. The rest of the story can be obtained by going to the website: www.orphantraindepot.org. The hours of operation is Tuesday – Saturday 10:00 am to 4:00 p.m. The com-plex is closed on Sunday’s and holidays. If you want to take a group and tour the complex call (785) 243-4471.

Next time you are near or in Concordia why not take time to visit this state treasure. The National Orphan Train Complex/Museum and Research Center is lo-cated at 300 Washington Street, Concordia.

The following members have been added to District 17-A since August 1. They are

listed here with their sponsors, if one is noted. We welcome these new Lions with a might big ROAR!

Chapman Lions

Club:

Tommy Davis & Ta-

na Churan-Davis, sponsor Jan McCor-mick

Jon & Connie Wooldridge, sponsor Raymond Cruse

Clay Center Lions Club:

Christian Gilbert

Joel Mason, sponsor Dustin Mullin

Leavenworth Lions Club:

Earl & Sandra Doyle, sponsor Dionne

Smith

Louisburg Lions Club:

Rusty & Polly Meigs, sponsor Leroy John-ston

Olathe Lions Club:

Carrie Harlen, sponsor Samantha Hamby

This year District 17-A is working to set up two new clubs, in-

crease women in Li-ons, and increase each club by one new

member.

The Tonganoxie Lions Club achieved club

status in July and will charter on September 16 — congratulations

to this Club and all of its Lions!

The District is working to re-establish the KU Campus Club that folded last year.

There are currently 83 Clubs in District 17-A with plans underway to add a specialty

club and a regular club. Stay tuned for more details as progress is made.

Five clubs have added new members this

year already, with Wakefield Lions taking the lead with five new members out of the

19, thus far. Oskaloosa Lions have strengthened their club with three new

members. We currently stand at 1,847 members down slightly due to two deaths and drops.

Each club is encouraged to hold a mem-bership recruitment event before 2018 and

look for ways to keep an active, healthy membership in order to reduce drops.

If you are looking for ideas or answers to

your questions, contact PDG Carleen Ra-jala, Global Membership Coordinator, at 913-481-7328 or lionscarleen@gmail.com.