Lions International

From the Governor's Desk... March 2010

Last Updated on Friday, 26 February 2010 10:55 Written by Administrator Friday, 26 February 2010 10:51

We have completed 2/3 of our 2009-2010 Lions year, but we still have so much to accomplish before June 30th. We have meet many goals, but still have to complete so many projects in the last four months that remain in this year.

We are going to have our 3rd Cabinet Meeting at the First Baptist Church in Asheboro on April 18, 2010 at 2:30. This is a very important meeting, since we will elect our new District Governor, and 1st Vice District Governor for 2010-2011. We still need a candidate for 2nd Vice District Governor for 2010-2011. This was suppose to be done at our Mid Winter Convention. but the cabinet meeting was cancelled because of the snow storm. The voting has to be done by delegates, and requires a secret ballot. If you were a certified delegate from your lions Club for the Mid Winter convention, you will be the voting delegate for this Cabinet Meeting. Please make every effort to be at this meeting so we can take care of getting these Lions elected to their offices. We will also be voting on a Lion to be our representative on the NCLF Board of Directors for the next 2 years. At this meeting we will be voting on the Melvin Jones and Jack Stickley Fellowship award winners from the district. Each Lion Club may nominate one person from their Lion Club for these two awards. Your Lions Club must have met the district goals of $3.00 per member for the Melvin Jones and $1.00 per member for the Jack Stickley to be eligible to nominate someone for these awards. These funds must be sent to Cabinet Sec/Tres John Wall by March 31, 2010 for them to qualify.

Another deadline is approaching for our White cane Drive. We need to have 75% of our district goal of $97,000 into the NCLF office by March 31, 2010. I would like for every Lions Club to send in as much of your White Cane Drive money as you can at this time to the NCLF, so we can meet this goal. If you already have these funds, please do not wait to a later date to send the funds in for the White cane Drive. Lets continue to show our support for our district White Can chairman, 2nd VD Governor Mike Hopkins.

The NCLF budget hearings will be held at Camp Dogwood on April 9-10, 2010. Every Lion is invited to come and see how the NCLF budget is arrived at, and to see how every penny you raise is put to the best use. After the budget hearings, there will be the annual Camp Dogwood Volunteer cleanup on April 11-15. Contact Sandy Lazenby at 1-800-662-7401, ext. 229 to get your name on the list to volunteer for one day or the hole time. You get free room and meals for helping with the cleanup. You will get to work with a lot of hard working Lions from across the state.

The 75th Anniversary of the NCLF will be celebrated at the North Raleigh Hilton at a banquet on May 1, 2010. This is the time for the for the NCLF Board meeting and the annual meeting of the NCLF, where we will be electing the officers for the 2010-2011 year. Our own, Lion PDG Stewart Wooten, will be elected 1st Vice President of the NCLF. Call the NCLF office for reservations.

Please continue to sell the Camp Dogwood tickets. We need to continue to support our district and state Camp Dogwood chairman, Lion Ted Womack.  We are number one in the state at this time. Lion Ted has done an outstanding job of visiting the Lions Clubs in our district. We will be drawing for the car at the Lions State Convention in Asheville on May 30th. Our state convention is May 27-30, 2010 at the Crown Plazaa in Asheville. Plan to attend a great convention. Registration forms will be in our news letter.

Due to health problems, Lion Mike Howard has had to resign as the State Coordinator of the Vision Van. Until a permanent replacement can be hired, we will be using Lions Gene Hassell, and PDG John Miller as drivers of the Vision Van. Continue to schedule the Vision Van, and every effort will be made to make the dates that are scheduled.

Please remember that our 31-D District Awards and Installation Banquet will be June 11, 2010 at the Airport Marriott. Remember that if you paid for the District Governors Banquet at the Mid Winter Convention, you have already paid for the awards and installation banquet. This is the only way we would not loose the money that was paid for the meals for the District Governors Banquet. Anyone that was not registered for the DG Banquet will have to register for the Awards and Installation Banquet. We will have registration forms in next months news letter. We have some very special awards to present at the banquet.

David R Osborne Sr.