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ACTIVITIES
Our current club activities are on the Announcements page
Matthews Lions at work - 2008 events:
JANUARY:
- 1/08 - Aida Arak reported that the MLC board approved a fund-raising event for Thursday, Feb 7, 2008, to held at Bob
Evans Restaurant. Bob Evans will donate to us 20% of their gross sales for all dinners sold over a 2 hour period - from 6 pm
to 8 pm on 2/7/08. The funds received from this event will be earmarked for Campaign Sight First II.
- 1/15 - Lion Johnny explained that White Cane funds are for the State of North Carolina Lions and he would like to bring
our figure up to $50.00 per member before year end. He would like to pursue locations, perhaps 2 or 3 to conduct white cane
fund raisers so that we can reach that goal. A motion was made and carried that we donate $1,000 to Campaign Site II in order
to provide a Melvin Jones Award to honor a member of the Matthews Lions Club. This money can be donated over time as money
becomes available. An award recipient will be chosen at a later date by committee.
- Also, Lion Floyd introduced Guest speaker Steve Hardig, who is a former Board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research
Foundation, Charlotte Chapter. Steve gave an informative presentation about the JDRF. The goal of this foundation is to help
fund research to cure Juvenile Diabetes, aka Type I Diabetes. Their website is: www.jdrf.org/charlotte. Lion Chad would like
for us to form a team to participate in the annual Walk for Diabetes at Carowinds.
FEBRUARY:
- 2/05 - meeting
- 2/19 - Topics: Camp Dogwood work week, etc. The Bob Evans Dinner Fundraiser successfully raised money for Campaign Sight
First II
MARCH:
- 3/04 - meeting
- 3/18 - meeting
APRIL:
MAY:
JUNE:
- 6/03 - Installation of two New Members: Louise Keene, who was sponsored by Lion Barbara Campbell, and Anne Morrison,
sponsored by Lion Carol Davenport.
- Lion Kay informed us that 205 pairs of eye glasses, one hearing aid, 35 inkjet printer cartridges, 70 lenses, 10
frames, 4 batteries and 75 eye glass cases were dropped off at Camp Dogwood this week.
- 6/17 - Awards ceremony and celebration for MLC at Dino's.
JULY:
Matthews Lions at work - 2007 events:
MAY:
- 5/18 - The re-chartered Matthews Lions Club held its installation of officers and charter members.
- President John Crane built a wheelchair ramp for a resident who was severely injured in an accident. Thanks, Lion John!
- 5/28 - Two members attended the Lions Leadership Training Session held at Gastonia Police Station.
JUNE:
- 6/28&29 - The Mint Hill club hosted their Auto Show and BBQ fundraiser with the help of several Matthews Lions.
Thanks to those of you who helped them with that endeavor. The pig was sooey good and the classic cars were cherry.
JULY:
- 7/24 - Field trip to Camp Dogwood along with the Mint Hill Club.
- 7/28 - Two members attended the District Meeting (Luncheon) at the Gastonia Courtyard Marriott.
AUGUST:
- 8/15 - Lion Floyd said that at the Senior Center Hula there was a good turn out of Matthews Lion helpers who did a great
job and made it lots of fun. Thanks!
- 8/25 - Four members attended the NCLF Humanitarian/white cane kickoff meeting and the IALC District 31C cabinet meeting
at Gastonia Police tation.
SEPTEMBER:
- Labor Day weekend - Matthews Lions greatly helped the Mint Hill club with the annual Matthews Alive! Festival.
The Vision Van provided hundreds of eye screenings and broom sales were robust.
Thanks to all who volunteered for setup, cleanup, vision van, and broom tent.
- 9/05 - we took to Camp Dogwood 76 pairs of eye glasses and 48 ink jet cartridges for recycling.
- 9/28-30 - Matthews Lions helped with the annual Mint Hill Madness, working the vision van, broom tent, set-up and break
down. Many thanks.
OCTOBER:
- Matthews Lions Club joined the Matthews Chamber of Commerce
- Our club website went online Oct. 16 and is hosted at no cost to us through LionWap.org. The present webmaster is Lion
Lori Crane, whose hard work is greatly appreciated.
- 10/06 - John Crane and Aida Arak attended the zone meeting for Zone 4, 31C, under direction of zone chair Louis
Atchinson, held at the Java Lava coffee house.
- 10/19 & 20 - District C Fall Convention. Three representatives attended the district fall convention at the Courtyard
Marriott in Gastonia.
NOVEMBER:
- 11/2&3 - White Cane drive volunteers passed out mints at Value City and collected donations for Camp Dogwood. Despite
cool temps and gusty winds, generosity was good and we more than covered our mint cost in the first two hours on Friday.
Thanks for your hard work and organizational skills, Lion Johnnie! And thanks to the members who volunteered for their time
and effort.
- 11/10 - MLC held a pancake breakfast and silent auction at LSC that was attended by around 167 people. Twenty-two
volunteers helped with the breakfast and it was a well sponsored, well organized, and smoothly run event. Final figures
aren't in yet but the venture was a big success!
- 11/18 - Johnnie Clarke organized the White Cane fundraiser at Jonathan's Restaurant. We handed out a lot of pamphlets and
mints, and response was very good.
DECEMBER:
- 11/30, 12/01-02 - Another very good White Cane mint drive at Value City. Thanks to the members who worked on this effort.
- 12/04 - The first annual MLC Christmas Party was at Dino's Restaurant. It was a fun and successful celebration of our
first year as a club.
- 12/18 - Regular meeting at LSC
More to come...
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