Kalispell Lions Club News
The Kalispell Lions are proud to present two Lions with the prestigious Melvin Jones Fellowship Award.
Congratulations to Lion President Naomi Valentine and Lion Angie Olson-Sutton!!
By Lion Peggy TobinCascade Lions Club Diabetes Awareness Walk
A total of 21 adults, 8 children and 5 dogs participated in the mile-and-a-half walk around the town of Cascade. Along the route, walkers stopped at stations providing educational materials and tips on recognizing the signs of diabetes and the importance of early detection.
Organizers emphasized that education is key to identifying and managing diabetes. When all was said and done the Cascade Lions Club raised $1,300 that will go toward helping kids attend the Montana Youth Diabetes Summer Camp where they can learn more about living with the condition in a supportive environment.
2025 District 37 Post Convention Report – Endorsed Project Vendors
Over the next few months a series of convention reports will be published to share the experiences of many Lions who attended the 2025 District 37 Convention held May 2nd and 3rd in Helena MT. If you have stories or photos to share, please send them via the “Submit Club News” option on the website.
The 2025 District Convention provided an opportunity for our endorsed project representatives to have vendor tables so that attendees could learn more about their services and collect information to take back to their clubs. In addition, many of the representatives participated in the Saturday Speed Learning.
2025 District 37 Post Convention Report – Silent Auction
Over the next few months a series of convention reports will be published to share the experiences of many Lions who attended the 2025 District 37 Convention held May 2nd and 3rd in Helena MT. If you have stories or photos to share, please send them via the “Submit Club News” option on the website.
The 2025 District Convention silent auction was held Friday evening. Attending clubs provided the auction items which raised $3,840!!
Helena Fourth of July Flag Ceremony
Centennial Park in Helena Montana was the scene of the celebration of the American flag and its history. There was a large excited crowed watching as the flag was delivered by a DNRC helicopter. A Scout troop carried the flag from the helicopter to the flagpole and helped slowly to raise the flag as the history of the flag was told.
Special Notices – July 2025 UPDATE
IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR SECRETARIES
The following was posted on the Lion Portal Facebook Page on July 1st after the newsletter was published:
Grace Period Information:
There will be a grace period for the following outgoing club officers so that they can close out their year regarding reporting service activities as well as making sure that the club officers for the new year are entered for transfer of duties.
The following officers (2024 – 2025) will be allowed to login from 7/1 through 7/31 with full permissions. As of 8/1, the permissions will be ended.
The list of officers allowed this 1-month grace period include:
Club President, Secretary, Treasurer, Administrator, Service Chairperson
Leo Club Advisor, President, Secretary, Treasurer
Club Protocol Chairperson, Club IT Chairperson, Guiding Lions
July 2025 Newsletter
We are continuing to evolve the format of the newsletter notification emails. This month, instead of printing each article in the email, we are providing the beginning of each one and you can select to read more or move on.
The publication of the newsletter is at the beginning of the month, but articles are posted all during the month. A second email notification mid-way through the month will be sent if there are additional posts to share.
You can reply to this email to give us feedback on the new format. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!
Meet 2025-2026 Int’l President A.P. Singh
Lead to Serve. Serve to Lead
2025-2026 International President AP Singh
Incoming International President A.P. Singh, of Kolkata, India, is a practicing chartered accountant and has family business interests in automobile dealerships and has three children.
A Lion since 1984 and a member of the Calcutta Vikas Lions Club, IPE Singh has held many positions within the association, including district governor and council chairperson. He has served as GMT international coordinator for four years and as a member on a number of ad hoc board committees. He was chairperson for the 2017 DGE seminar in Chicago, USA, and has served as faculty at more than 50 ALLIs/RLLIs, RLLIs, FDIs and LCIP certification programs. He has also served as multi-national coordinator for Campaign SightFirst II, CA leader for Campaign 100, member of the LCIF Steering Committee and as chairperson of the National SightFirst Committee of India. Vice President Singh has participated in and presented seminars at Area Forums in all constitutional areas. He was the co-chairperson of the Organizing Committee for the ISAAME Forum in Kolkata, India.
Polaris Raffle
The annual raffle sponsored by the MT Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation culminated at the Helena Convention on Saturday night when International Director, Robert “Ski” Marcinkowski from Fairbanks, Alaska pulled out the winning raffle ticket. The winner was Lion Steve. The Raffle netted the foundation $18,400 and represented the 3rd highest profit since they started the ATV Raffle. (The highest profit was received right after COVID).
2025 District 37 Post Convention Report – Irish Theme
Over the next few months a series of convention reports will be published to share the experiences of many Lions who attended the 2025 District 37 Convention held May 2nd and 3rd in Helena MT. If you have stories or photos to share, please send them via the “Submit Club News” option on the website.
The 2025 District Convention had an Irish theme which began at the Friday evening gathering. Decorations, Irish Dance demonstrations and a lesson on how to play Hurling were all part of the fun..
