April - March - 2011 Bulletin
Lions Club of Mississauga Credit Valley
Club Officers
President Eric Simpson 425 the Thicket, Mississauga L5G 4P6
Secretary Charles Garnett 10-3070 Queen Fredrica Dr, Mississauga L4Y 3A9
Bulletin Editor Bill Crawford 1914 Barsuda Drive, Mississauga L5J 1V5
District Officers
District Governor Bill Speck Oakville Lions Club
1st Vice District Governor Illka Ahola Suomi Lions Club
2nd Vice District Governor Sam Dako Mississauga Central Lions Club
Region Chairperson Jeff Friedman Mississauga Central Lions Club
Meeting Information
2nd and 4th Mondays, 6.30 pm / Dinner at 7 pm Mississauga Seniors Centre, 1389 Cawthra Road
FUTURE ACTIVITES
March
7 Monday General Meeting – Effective Speaking
8 Tuesday Bingo - 3.30 pm
13 Sunday Poker Tournament
14 Monday General Meeting - Peter Hammond and Meadowvale Club visit
21 Monday 75th Anniversary - Meeting in Library at Seniors Centre 7:00 PM
22 Tuesday Bingo - 3.30 pm
27 Sunday Lion Lorne’s Bowling Tournament
April
4 Monday Board Meeting
5 Tuesday Bingo - 12.30 pm
7 Thursday Visit to Lakeshore Lions Club
12 Tuesday Bingo - 3.30 pm
15 – 17 Friday to Sunday District A711 Convention
25 Monday General Meeting – Possible presentation by Councilor Jim Tovey
May
2 Monday Board Meeting
3 Tuesday Bingo 12.30 pm
9 Monday General Meeting- Visit to Peel Children’s Safety Village
10 Tuesday Bingo 3.30 pm
24 Tuesday Bingo 3.30 pm
27-29 Friday to Sunday Multiple District “A” Convention
30 Monday General meeting
RECENT ACTIVITIES
Recent Donations
Square One Mall Walkers $ 200
Applewood Centre for Adult Learning $ 500
Trillium Hospital $ 2500
Splints for needy person $ 110
Membership
As Lion Helen is recovering, please continue to email Lion Charles by the Thursday before club meetings to let him know whether you are attending or not.
Lion Helen is still recovering in a hospital isolation room. Lion Royce is recovering from his broken wrist at his son’s home.
The club rooster has now been distributed to all members. Many thanks to Lion Alex for preparing such a colourful and informative book.
Plans for the club’s 75th anniversary dinner at the Markland Golf club are well underway. To help with the club subsidy, Lion Merv donated several of his hand-crafted woodwork articles for a raffle. To also help with the dinner costs, our club meeting caterer, Patty’s Food Caterers has generously donated a prize of a steak and lobster dinner for 6 at the winner’s home. Tickets are $5 each with the draw on May 9, 2011. We have now raised a total of $1195 with the draws.
A meeting to discuss the progress of plans for the dinner is on Monday, March 21 in the Cawthra Senior Centre library.
Fund Raising Projects
The board of directors is continuing to look for ideas to have a winter fund raiser. Thanks to Lion Rob, we now have the Texas Holdem poker tournament to raise revenue during this period. Please bring up any other ideas you may have to the club.
The Erin Mills Soccer Association will be having their regular BBQs this summer on July 16, and August 13, 20 and 21.
It is now official that Camp Dorset won the vote at the Pepsi Challenge Website. The $100,000 grant will enable the camp to purchase 10 of the dialysis machines need to replace the former machines. Many thanks to all of you who voted for the camp and to Lion Rob for all his efforts.
Club Website
Lion Alex continues to keep our website up-to-date. Be sure to check the website for the latest club news and important dates for our activities
Nevada Lottery
Our Nevada draws continue to do well and are on budget to raise $3500 for the year. The latest collection was $895 for our activities account.
Eye Glasses
600 pairs of eye glasses were packed at our January 24th meeting
Effective Speaking
We had 12 excellent elementary students competing in our club’s effective speaking competition. The winner was Kalli Bonin from Tomkin Road Middle School. She is the sister of Katija Bonin who won our contest while in elementary school and also won the District A711 senior high school competition last year. You may remember Katija’s giving her winning speech as a guest at our club last year.
Second place went to rcey Cantlon from St Luke while third place went to Daniel Colace also from St Luke. Eric Wen from the Mississauga Central Lions Club offered to have his club sponsor Darcey in the A711 competition to be held on March 26. Our club will of course sponsor Kalli in that competition.
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Peel Safety Village
We will be visiting the Safety village on our regular meeting night of Monday, May 9. As noted previously, the estimated cost to repair the brickwork on our Lighthouse is $2400. This repair is due to start this spring.
Bingo
Our Bingo activity continues to be a successful fund raiser for the club. Lion Treasurer Ray estimates that we should raise over $40,000 this year - Please note the schedule in this bulletin for the next three months and on our website for the year.
Poker Tournament
Our Texas Holdem poker tournament is Sunday, March 13 with the proceeds to go to Camp Dorset. Lion Rob reports that early indications are that we should have a good turnout for the tournament being held at the Markland Golf and Country Club. Lion Rob has arranged to have six Lions to help run the tournament. We should raise between $1000 to $1500 for this event
Bowling Tournament
Lion Niles reports that we now have at least six clubs committed to our Lion Lorne’s 5 Pin Bowling Tournament on Sunday March 27th. Our club is sending two teams. The tournament is to be held at the Streetsville Bowl, 128 Queen St. S, Streetsville from 9am to 1 pm.
District A711 Convention
A hospitality room has been booked for the A711 convention to be held this year at the Meadowvale Delta Hotel from Friday April 15 to Sunday April 17. We will have four delegates allowed so please let Lion Chief Eric know if you can be one.
Lakeshore Lions Visitation
The club has a visitation to the Lakeshore Lions on Thursday, April 7th. We will have tours of the new arena complex at 6.00pm and 6.30pm. The tour will include the Toronto Maple Leafs training centre
