May - June 2010 Bulletin
The Lions Club of Mississauga Credit Valley
Mississauga Ontario
Club Officers
President: Niles Shaw, 1202 - 1850 Rathburn Rd East, Mississauga, L4W 2X9
Secretary: Charles Garnett, 10 - 3070 Queen Fredrica Dr., Mississauga, L4Y 3A9
Bulletin Editor: Bill Crawford, 1914 Barsuda Drive, Mississauga, L5J 1V5District Officers
District Governor:Mark Gunby, Mount Hope Lions Club
Vice District Governor: Bill Speck, Oakville Lions Club
Region Chairperson: Sam Dako, 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
May
3 Monday Board of Directors
4 Tuesday Bingo - 12.30 pm
10 Monday General Meeting - Please wear your Lions work vest for fotos to be taken
11 Tuesday Bingo - 3.30 pm
25 Tuesday Bingo - 3.30 pm
31 Monday General Meeting - Note that the May 24 meeting is replaced by the May 31 meeting
30 Sunday Dog Walk – J. Saddington Park 10 am to 12 noon
June
1 Tuesday Bingo - 12.30 pm
7 Monday Board of Directors
8 Tuesday Bingo - 3.30 pm
10 Thursday Family picnic - Mississauga Valley Community Centre and Arena Park
12 Saturday Heritage Centre BBQ
14 Monday General Meeting – BBQ to be held at our current meeting place
28 Monday General Meeting cancelled
July
1 Thursday Canada Day Celebration - Port Credit
6 Tuesday Bingo 12.30 pm
13 Tuesday Bingo 3.30 pm
17 Saturday Erin Mills Soccer Field Day BBQ – Thorncrest Park
27 Tuesday Bingo 3.30 pm
August
3 Tuesday Bingo 12.30 pm
10 Tuesday Bingo 3.30 pm
14 Saturday Erin Mills Soccer Field Day BBQ - Thorncrest Park
21 Saturday Erin Mills Soccer Field Day BBQ - Woodhurst Park
22 Saturday Erin Mills Soccer Field Day BBQ - Woodhurst Park
Note that our year end BBQ is to be held on our first June meeting at our current meeting place; the Cawthra Senior Citizens Centre. Our last meeting in June is cancelled.
RECENT ACTIVITIES
Membership
The club lost another faithful Lion when Lion Fred Gunther passed away in April. His good cheer and enthusiasm for Lionism will be greatly missed. It was marvelous to have Lion Bob back at our meetings and to have him recovering so well. Lion Royce is recovering in hospital but can now see visitors only for short visits of 10 to 15 minutes.
Please welcome Lion Margaret Hansen to our club. She was sponsored by Lion Eric. Margaret is a retired teacher who has lived in the Port Credit area for 27 years. She has two sons, Erik who is an engineer and Steven who works in kinescology. Margaret has volunteered with bereavement support groups for several years. She enjoys gardening, swimming and ceramics as hobbies. Her favorite places to vacation include Mexico and the Dominican Republic.
New Lion Sarah has a Lions family background as her father is a long time Lion. Sarah was born in Ridgway, Ontario and has lived in Hamilton before settling in Mississauga. She currently teaches grade 8 at Oscar Peterson Public School, specializing in health and physical education.
Lion Sarah enjoys roller blading and working out at the gym. Her favorite vacation spot is Myrtle Beach but would like to go to Bora bora! That sounds like a very exotic spot but I wonder if it has a Lions Club.
I hope you noted the photograph and write-up in last weeks Mississauga News on the Peel District School Board Public Speaking Challenge. Lion Sarah, a member of the organizing committee, was quoted: “ I strongly believe that public speaking is an indispensable skill that is rarely taught” and “learning to speak out, developing a voice and raising awareness are important ways to become better citizens at home, at school or in the community”. Our club couldn’t agree more as we have encouraged this very important skill with our Effective Speaking Competition for many years.
Honorary Lion Fred Ketchen was presented with the Lions International Helen Keller Award for recognition of his great contributions to the community and the Credit Valley Lions Club. A photographer from the local SNAP monthly newspaper took many photos which are in the current May issue. Attached is a copy of the SNAP article. Note that more photographs are on their website:
www.snapsouthmississauga.com
As previously noted, Camp Trillium is to have a street named “Lion Robert Emond Way” in honor of PDG Lion Bob who has been associated with the camp for about 17 years. The club is to visit the camp on June 10 for the 6.30 pm official ceremony of naming the street.
The District A711 Convention
The A711 convention was held the past weekend at the airport Holiday Inn. The Honorable David Onley, the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario opened the convention on Friday night. He gave an excellent review of Lions clubs activities based on his own personal experiences with Lions Clubs throughout Ontario. Past International Dr. Patti Hill gave several very impressive presentations on many Lions projects. I feel that she would be a very worthy candidate to be the first woman president of Lions International.
Lion Sam and Dolores did a wonderful job of organizing our hospitality room. It was quite crowded when open to guests and our hospitality was appreciated by many visiting Lions. Lion Sam Dako was elected as second vice-governor in the only contested cabinet position vote
2010 - 2011 Board of Directors
The following Board of Directors was elected for the next Lions year.
Past President Niles Shaw
President Eric Simpson
1st Vice President Helen MacPherson
Secretary/Communications Charles Garnett
Treasurer Ray Cyr
Tale Twister Merv Meleski
LionTamer Bill Auld
Directors Rob Sutherland, Ed Martin, John Cassan, ,
Sam Cadamuro, Linda Hollyoake
Past District Governors Armin Bruer, Bob Emond
Bulletin Editor Bill Crawford
Web Manager Alex Banks
DECENT DONATIONS
Credit Valley Hospital
$15,000 is to be donated to the Credit Valley Hospital as our commitment to the campaign for the purchase of a multi-phase laser for eye treatment. This will be the only such equipment in Ontario. The club is arrange a visit to the hospital to see the newly installed setup.
Camp Dorset
The club is planning to visit the camp to make a formal presentation of a plaque recognizing that Lion Vin Robinson had donated the cost of the roof replacement. We are to decide on the date at our next meeting
Flags for Children
$523 was donated to this program to supply Canadian flags to 320 students at two schools: Oscar Peterson and Dixie Public Schools. Lion Gerrie is make the presentations of the flags with certificates recognizing the Credit Valley Lions contributions. Thanks to Lions Helen and Sarah for their organizing of this project.
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Dog Walk
The Purina Dog Walk for the Lions School for Guide Dogs is to be at J.Saddington Park in Port Credit on Sunday, May 30. Lions Bill A, Sam and Niles will be the Lions assisting at the event from 10 am to 12 noon. Lions Helen and Clelia will be the expert dog walkers.
Delta Bingo
Our Bingo continues to be an excellent fund raiser. The following Bingo schedule covers the next five months
Bingo Schedule
May June July
4 Tuesday 12.30 pm 1 Tuesday 12.30 pm 6 Tuesday 12.30 pm
11 Tuesday 3.30 pm 8 Tuesday 3.30 pm 13 Tuesday 3.30 pm
25 Tuesday 3.30 pm 27 Tuesday 3.30 pm
August September
3 Tuesday 12.30 pm 7 Tuesday 12.30 pm
10 Tuesday 3.30 pm 14 Tuesday 3.30 pm
28 Tuesday 3.30 pm
75th Anniversary Celebration
A committee has been established with Lions Alex as chairman. Members are Lion Ed, (master of ceremonies), Lions Ray and Bill A. (hall and food), Lion Niles (Lion Invitations), Lion Eric (Government invitations), Lions Bob and Armin (club history), Lions Ed and Rob (sponsors and advertising), Lions John ,Rob, Ed (new pin) and Lion Alex (printing). The committee will meet shortly to recommend a banquet location to be held in our anniversary year of 2012.
Effective Speaking
Our annual effective speaking competition held in March had an unusually number of gifted contestants. The winner from our contest represented our club in the Junior category at the District A711 Effective Speaking Competition in March. We were fortunate to have two other clubs sponsor our second and third place winners.
While the junior contest was won by a talented speaker from Streetsville, our club’s competitors finished second, third and forth. However our candidate in the senior English category, Katija Bonin, won this category and will represent our club in Multiple District ‘A’ competition on May 8-9. We are pleased to have Katija give her prize winning presentation at our next meeting.
Future Projects
The club has several very important fund raising projects planned for the year but four others were cancelled. The club voted to not participate this year in the Port Credit Boat Show as Lion John will not be available to organize the event. The club also voted to discontinue our Magic Show because of the recent lack of public interest in the show. The offer to run a pancake breakfast in the Canada Day event was declined by the club. Our participation in this years Waterfront Festival to handle the parking was cancelled because the construction in the area left little room for parking.
The project cancellations means that we can more fully participate in our other fund raising activities.
Canada Day BBQ – July 1
Erin Mills Soccer BBQ – July 17, August 14, 21 and 22
Southsideshuffle – September 10 - 12
Keep the dates for these projects in mind as they will require the maximum manning possible from the club. Be sure to ask your relatives, neighbors, friends to help as these projects are a lot of fun for the volunteers while at the same time they are contributing their valuable time to the community. Contact Lion Bill Crawford with the names of any additional volunteers you come up with.
High school students would welcome the opportunity to volunteer as they require 40 hours of volunteering service in order to graduate. They can obtain up to 36 hours of volunteering hours service at our projects.
While Lion Ray has offered to be the food coordinator for the soccer BBQs, the club needs site managers for this event. Lion Dolores agreed to chair the Canada Day BBQ and will work with Lakeshore Corridor on this project.
Mississauga Heritage Books
We had three books on the history of Mississauga written by Kathleen Hicks donated to the club. One is on the history of Dixie and two are on Clarkson. The books were withdrawn form the Mississauga Library System but are in excellent condition. We will hold a silent auction on these books starting at our next meeting. Bids are to start at $2 each with increases of $1. Bids will be accepted online for one week after the meeting and will include those not attending the meeting.
Lion International News
Our Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) has awarded US$50,000 in emergency grants to assist Lions in their relief efforts in China. Lions throughout China are providing emergency relief, and Lions from many clubs in China traveled to the stricken area to provide relief supplies including tents, food and medicine. More than 2,200 are dead, more than 12,000 injured and 15,000 buildings were destroyed as a result of the April 14 earthquake in the impoverished mountain area of western China.
The devastated area borders Sichuan Province, which was hard hit by a May 2008 earthquake that killed 70,000 people. Lions from throughout China provided relief for that disaster as well, and LCIF mobilized more than US$3 million to rebuild homes, schools and infrastructure.
Ecuador has become the second nation in the Americas to halt the transmission of onchocerciasis,
The Onchocerciasis Elimination Program in the Americas is a community-based partnership that includes volunteers in the endemic countries of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela. Lions Clubs International Foundation supports the partnership effort through funding as well as grassroots volunteer efforts to provide education about the disease and distribute medication in the endem
