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Lions Ledger

 

Elizabethtown Lions Club

 

“We  Serve

 

January 2006

 

                                            

     The entire staff here at the offices of the Lions Ledger extends to all youse Lions and your famblys, our best wishes for a healthy, peaceful, and happy New Year.  (That slight vibration you just felt under your feet was my former English teacher, Maud Turnbuckle,  rolling over in her grave.  She always taught us that "youse" should be capitalized, and "famblys" was spelled with two y's.)

 

President’s Message

     Happy New Year!  As you write out your New Year Resolutions for 2006, don't forget the Lions!  What if every Lion set a goal to invite a prospective Lion to a meeting in 2006, or if every Lion committed to give just two more hours of service to Lions this year?  I think we would agree that it would make 2006 one of      the best years in Lions history.

     We ended 2005 with a great time at the Family Christmas Party.  There was great music, fellowship and food which over 90 people enjoyed.  We even had a visit from Santa, which led to a few humorous moments with our young guest.

            Our first meeting in 2006 is a Quad-Club meeting.  Details are listed later in this newsletter.  Please call or email me no later than January 5 if you plan to attend so I can report a meal count to the host club.  You may reach me at 967-0126 or 299-7794, or email me at

lionpreschris@yahoo.com    Thanks!!!        

                                                                                         Lion Chris

                                                                 

Great Party!

            Congratulations, and "Thank you," go out to Lion Jerry Lorson for arranging all the details of the terrific Family Christmas Party held December 13.  The large group of Lions and their families in attendance had a very enjoyable evening.  Nice work, Lion Jerry!  And, oh by the way, Lion Bob, if you happen to be in contact with Santa any time soon, please tell him that we really appreciated his taking time from his busy schedule to bring presents to the young children who were at our Party. 

 

Greeters for January

            We won't need greeters for our first meeting this month, but for our second meeting, on

January 24, Lions Jerry Lorson and Dan Connolly will meet you as you enter the room.

 

Programs for January

            THURSDAY, January 12, 6:30 p.m., at Mary Mother of the Church,

Catholic Church, 530 St. Marys Drive, Mount Joy – This is the annual Quad-Club meeting, with the Marietta Club serving as the host Club.  Please take note that this is an "off night" for us – it's a Thursday, and also notice it is a new meeting place. We will car pool from the Lutheran Church parking lot at 6:00 p.m. for those members who wish to do that.  (Directions:  Route 230 to Florin, turn right at the light in Florin, the church is approximately one mile,

on the left.)

            Dinner will feature baked ham and stuffed chicken breast and the cost for E-town Lions will be our customary $8.00 at the door that evening.  The program is one you will find interesting and informative.  As you know, diabetes is one of the leading causes of blindness.  The speaker at this meeting will inform us about this disease and, more importantly, what we can do to guard against it, and how to deal with it if we have it.  This should be beneficial to all Lions.

 

     Tuesday, January 24, 6:15 p.m. at the Fire Hall – At last, we are back on our normal schedule!  We'll have the usual delicious meal, followed by            a presentation by the K-nine officer from the Elizabethtown Police, who will have his specially trained police dog with him for demonstrations. You won't want to miss this one!

 

Back by Popular Demand!

          Well, OK, that may be a bit of a reach, but in last month's newsletter we had to work to just fit all the news into the available space so there was no room for jokes.  You missed them, didn't you?  So this month we can give you two month's worth of chuckles.  Here we go …

 

*  Did you hear about the optometrist who fell into a lens grinder and made a spectacle of himself?

 

*  Without geometry life is pointless.

 

*  What's the difference between one yard and two yards?  A fence.

 

*  There were two ships.  One had red paint, one had blue paint.  They collided.  At last report the survivors

                were marooned.

 

*  My dog is so lazy that he waits for another dog to bark and then just nods his head.

 

*  I went to see Pavarotti once and I'll tell you this much – he doesn't like it when you join in!

 

*  Ruth rode upon my motor bike,

     Directly back of me.

     I hit a bump at 95,

     And rode on Ruthlessly.

 

*  I asked my Mom if I was a gifted child.  She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me!

 

            OK, had enough?  What's that?  Too much!  Oh, sorry.  Hopefully next month's newsletter will have more news and less space for what (at least to the editor) passes as humor.