Author Archives: Lion Peggy Tobin

Conventions, Forums & Conferences, District News, Newsletters

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.

Conventions, Forums & Conferences, District News, Newsletters

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!!  

Club News, Newsletters

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.

District News, Newsletters

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
Newsletters

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!!

LCI, Newsletters

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.

Conventions, Forums & Conferences, District News, Newsletters

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). 

Conventions, Forums & Conferences, District News, Newsletters

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..

District News, Newsletters

Did You Know? Lions Trivia

JULY TRIVIA 

To Walk with Lions: 7 Spiritual Principles I Learned from Living with Lions Paperback – by Gareth Patterson (Author)

“To Walk with Lions” describes the seven spiritual principles of the lion:   Self-Reliance, Loyalty, Fellowship, Willingness to Care, Unconditional Love, and Courage.  Do these traits sound familiar?  There’s a reason that we are called LIONS!

What is the main purpose of the Lions Club International?  Our mission is to empower Lions clubs, volunteers and partners to improve health and wellbeing, strengthen communities, and support those in need through humanitarian service and grants that impact lives globally, and encourage peace and international understanding. And we fulfill it every day, everywhere we serve.

District News, Newsletters

Special Notices – July 2025

ALL CLUB SECRETARIES

IF YOU HAVE NOT ENTERED YOUR OFFICERS FOR THE 2025-2026 FISCAL YEAR,

PLEASE CALL LION PEGGY TOBIN AT 406-461-4206 OR EMAIL HER AT [email protected] !!  YOU WILL NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE LIONS PORTAL UNTIL THIS ISSUE IS RECTIFIED. 

For Club Treasurers

PLEASE NOTE THAT LCI DUES WILL BE INCREASING JULY 1, 2025. THE INCREASE WILL BE $2/YEAR ($1/6-MONTH BILLING CYCLE) FOR FULL MEMBERSHIPS. NOTE: New members are charged at a prorated amount depending on date joined.

District 37 Club Officer Training Videos

These videos are all accessible via the district website, www.montanalions.org under “Training/Resources”.

Short videos about how to do specific secretary or treasurer tasks:

Filing your 990-N (e-Postcard) (9 minutes)

With the release of the new LionPortal, we have added links to some of the short videos provided by LCI:

Newsletter Information

Any Lions club member can submit information associated with any type of Lions project or general club information. You can submit Club News ANYTIME! You are also welcome to email your news (hopefully with photo) to: Lion Peggy Tobin at [email protected].

Website Updates

The new “Tri-Fold Generator” is now available for clubs to create their own club brochures using a tri-fold format that your club can use to share your information to prospective new members. You will find it under Training/Resources on the website.

Free Club Websites!

The club-level website is still being offered by Montana District 37 at NO COST! If you don’t already have a domain name, Deanna can provide one for a cost of $20/year after the first year. If you are interested in getting a website for your club, please contact Peggy Tobin at [email protected] or call 406-461-4206.