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THE MONTANA FORUM SCHEDULED FOR HELENA, SEPTEMBER 27 & 28, HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Tickets: $20.00 each or 8 for $100.00
Drawing: April 25, 2020, Need not be present to win.
Proceeds from the raffle will be used by the Foundation to help provide financial assistance to citizens of Montana with sight, hearing and/or speech impairments. Ask any Lion about tickets (many have them available).
The event will be held at the Kleffner Ranch which is located 1 mile south of East Helena on Highway 518. Friday night events include a social and a live auction to benefit the Montana Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation. Please bring auction items.
Saturday includes a wide variety of educational and informative presentations including: Club and Community Needs Assessments; Goal Setting for Club Success; Fundraising and Service Project Development; informational presentations associated with the Montana Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation, MSDB Low Vision Reader Project, Plusoptix, and North American Membership Initiative (NAMI).
The Forum concludes on Saturday night with a prime rib dinner and a presentation by PCC Ben Apeland (Montana candidate for International Director).
Registration form available here.
The $45.00 registration fee includes hors d’oeuvres on Friday night, lunch snacks, and prime rib dinner on Saturday. Room reservations and Saturday morning breakfast will be the responsibility of attendees.
Several lodging options include: Wingate by Wyndham, 2007 North Oakes, 406-449-3000; wingatehelena@kdiamondhotels.com; Comfort Suites, 3180 North Washington, 406-495-0505; Hampton Inn, 725 Carter Drive, 406-443-5800; Fairfield Inn and Suites, 2150 11th Avenue, 406-449-9944.
See the Registration Form and Forum Schedule for more information and to register for the Forum, contact PDG Dan Sturdevant; Box 275, Clancy, 59634; 406-439-9297; sturdydan@gmail.com.
The District directory has been completed. Hard copies have been mailed to clubs, and a copy has been posted here on montanalions.org. This online version will be updated as new information arrives. If you see changes that should be made, simply comment on this post through the “leave a comment” link below.
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The Fort Benton Lions Club held their first annual golf tournament fundraiser on July 20th at the Signal Point Golf Club in historic Fort Benton. We raised over $1,500 for local diabetes care. 36 golfers signed up and competed for cash prizes and donated awards. No one won the $10,000 prize for a hole in one, but it was a beautiful day and all participants were excited to come back next year.
The funds raised are already being used to pay for diabetes medications at local pharmacy for low-income diabetics, create low sugar/carb “food baskets” at local grocery, and offset costs for diabetes education through the local MSU extension office. This tournament was a successful fundraiser and will no doubt grow much larger next year!
The Montana Lions Forum is in HELENA, MT. There is a SOCIAL EVENT FRIDAY EVENING with an AUCTION TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE MONTANA LIONS SIGHT & HEARING FOUNDATION.
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Lots of great opportunities to grow as a Lion! Visit the Forum webpage.Click here for information about the Forum to be held in Spokane, Washington, on September 19-21, 2019.
The transition of all service reporting to MyLion® is fast approaching—July 1, 2019. To help you feel comfortable and confident with the change, we’ve developed a training site where you can get to know the new system.
Features to explore:
Your Lion Account gives you access to the training site. If you have not created a Lion Account, you can register for the training site with your member ID and an email address or mobile phone number on record in MyLCI.
Greetings Lions of Montana:
International First Vice President Dr. Jung-Yul Choi and his wife Lion Seong-Bok Yang will visit Montana District 37 May 14-16. They wish to visit with as many Lions as possible during their stay. Our guests will arrive at the Bozeman Yellowstone International airport on May 14 at 4:50pm. A welcoming party will meet them at the airport.
Headquarters for the event will be the Element Hotel, 25 East Mendenhall, in downtown Bozeman. A meet and greet reception with hors d’oeuvres sponsored by the Montana Lions District 37 Friendship Committee will be held from 6:30pm to 8:00pm for the four Bozeman area Lions Clubs and all out of town Lions. Please RSVP to Lion Ben Apeland at benjamin@montana.com or 406-595-0102 no later than May 11th.
Friday night auction raised over $5,000 for the Montana Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation.
Saturday’s Parade of Green raised $26,289.02 for distribtion to authorized projects.
Presentations were made on behalf of many activities including:
Entertainment was provided by a local band, school choir, and a cowboy poet.
PCC Ben Apeland
Ben was officially endorsed by the District 37 Convention to be a candidate for International Director.
Prodiji Connect reader
Hey Lions! The first 25 magnifying readers for vision impaired students have been delivered and are being used! The machines are part of a lending library at the Montana School fot the Deaf and Blind where specialized equipment is made available for students.
The program is now fully funded so the goal of 100 machines has been met. More machines are in the process of being manufactured (the supplier custom crafts each machine). This is a significant success story for readers and Lions that are continuing to meet the need. Our work is not done yet.
Save the date of September 27-28 for the Forum in Helena. Information will be available as plans ate developed.
Pictures tell part of the story.
DG Dennis Kopitzke opens the convention.
Cowboy poetry and humor awoke attendees.
Great facilities were used for the convention
The Convention opened with training, tours, and other events on Friday, April 26. The evening was a fun gathering with auction benefiting the Montana Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation.
Sidney Leos plant a linden tree as part of the convention as an Arbor Day event.
Friday social and auction.
Register before the end of April and save. Click on “Sidney Convention” in banner above for the convention information package. The registration form is at the end of the document.
The district will be offering training to incoming club presidents, secretaries and treasurers. The training will take place on Friday, April 26 from 10:00 to 2:30 at the district convention in Sidney. The training will include workshops on Club Quality Initiative, duties and responsibilities of incoming club presidents, secretaries, and treasurers.
To encourage attendance: (1) district will provide lodging on Thursday and Friday (2) lunch and dinner on Friday will be provided (3) attendees will receive a $75.00 rebate on convention registration. To qualify for the incentives you must attend the entire convention.
Training will take place at Pella Lutheran Church, 418 West Main.
Please RSVP to VDG Verna Love. Contact her at vporsgroup@hotmail.com
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This newsletter has info on the upcoming convention – or use the link in the banner above to open the full convention packet.
The Montana Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation Gun Raffle!!
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A complete package of convention information is now available. It has been distributed to clubs and is also available HERE. Included in the package is venue locations, speakers, schedule, info on hotels and local attractions and the most important registration form (last page of the packet).
Register today and be part of what looks to be a great and informative convention! And thanks to the Sidney Lions for a great effort!
NOTE: the following phone numbers for lodging were corrected in the original packet:
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Great News for Lions and Involved Partners with Montana School for the Deaf and Blind! We received notice that our grant was approved. We will receive details in the coming weeks and will be getting information out as we proceed.
Jack Beckman
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Congratulations to PDG Jack Beckman, Great Falls Sunrise Lions Club, PDG Lary Garrison, PDG Monte Weisser and Montana School for the Deaf and Blind for the work they did on the vision equipment grant. LCIF has approved the grant. Great work. We Serve.
DG Dennis
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The Lions of Montana are appreciative and proud of the Reader project that PDG Beckman has put together for the children requiring help with their vision. Being the recipients of another LCIF Grant again in Montana is in my opinion, a Big Deal. Thanks to all those who helped make this possible. 🙂
The project’s not done yet and we all should energize our efforts to assist Jack to see that those in need get what he set out to accomplish.
Service at it’s best, PID Lion Dave
To the Lions of Montana District 37.
We have received word that Lion Pat Witzel, Spouse and Companion in Service of PDG Ted Witzel of the Kalispell Lions Club, passed away Sunday, January 10. Services have been scheduled for Wednesday, January 16, 11:00am, at Michelotti-Sawyers Funeral Home, 1001 Alderson Ave., Billings, Montana. PDG Ted and Lion Pat represented District A on the Multiple District 37 Council of Governors during the Lionistic year 1969-1970. Lion Pat’s obituary is available at michelottisawyers.com/patricia-ann-larson-witzel/
She will be greatly missed by the Kalispell Lions Club.
Respectfully submitted, PCC Lion Ben
Every club needs to have a plan to find new members no matter how many members they have today. We have seen clubs like Lewistown , Miles City, Absorakee and Broadview, to name a few, go from healthy, active clubs to being nonexistent. We have also seen some clubs go from well over 100 members to less than 75. I am asking and encouraging every club in District 37 to have at least one member participate to get some ideas they may find useful. Even if it is only one idea, it may be that one idea that makes a difference in your club’s future. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW IF NO-ONE FROM YOUR CLUB PARTICIPATES!!!
This webinar is planned for next Thursday, January 10th, at 5pm MST. It is a one hour presentation that will share ideas which have worked to grow a club from 8 active members to 48 members over a 36 month period. To register go to http://app.e.roar.lionsclubs.org/e/es?s=94443966&e=214949&elqTrackId=320bc4c47118450db330ff5e51511b5f&elq=f71da0716b0f4cf88413659d19666686&elqaid=6580&elqat=1
Clubs can also utilize the Membership Growth Event Toolbox found at https://www.lionsclubs.org/en/resources-for-members/resource-center/membership-growth-event
Yours in Lionism,
PDG Lary Garrison
Montana GMT
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Fellow Lions,
As you may know a new LCIF has begun a new fundraising campaign for the time frame July 2018 thru June 2021. The goal is to raise 300 Million in this campaign. Please show the LCIF 100 power point presentation to your club. Encourage your members to contribute at least $100 per year and your club to becoming a Model Club by contributing $250 per year.
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ave information and contribution forms for your use, please let me know how many to send. If you would like a presentation in person, let me know. Due to the size of Montana, I may not be the one to present, it may be the DG or one of the VDGs. If you have any questions, email me back.
PDG Monte Weisser, LCIF 100 District Chair
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DG Dennis sent the following message:
There is still time to register!
