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From the Governor's Desk... February 2010

Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 13:59 Written by Administrator Tuesday, 02 February 2010 13:51

Dear Fellow 31-D Lions, I was hoping to be writing to you about our great 21st annual District 31-D Mid-Winter Convention. BUT, Mother Nature had other plans for the weekend of January 29-30, 2010. Snow started falling on Friday afternoon and continued until Saturday morning. We got over 6 inches of snow at the Airport Marriott in Greensboro. We had the Friday Night Fun Night as planned and decided to go ahead with the Tail Twister Breakfast as planned, since most of the people that were going to be at that event were already there at the hotel. After much discussion we decided that we should cancel the District Governor's Banquet for the safety of all of our Lions. This was not a hard decision to make due to the seriousness of the conditions.

The cancellation of the banquet has caused us to have to reschedule some events. As you will see in the notice from our District Camp Dogwood Chairman, Lion Ted Womack, we will be taking up Camp Dogwood tickets until February 12, 2010 for the drawing for the two $200 Wal-Mart gift certificates that would have been given away at the banquet on Saturday night. Please get your tickets to the designated persons or contact Lion Ted or myself to be sure that your tickets are in the barrel for the drawing. We want to make sure everyone has a chance for this drawing.

Another product of the cancellation of the banquet was that we were able to work with the Airport Marriott to reschedule the banquet to another date, and not loose the money that our Lions had paided for the banquet. This will not be the District Governor Banquet, but will be our Awards and Installation Banquet for this year. This banquet will be June 11, 2010. There will be more information about this in the future. We can not give any of the money back to the people that were registered, because we had to honor our contract with the Marriott for the number of meals that we told them we would be serving on Saturday night. The good news is that if you have paided for the District Governors Banquet, you have already paid for the Awards and Installation Banquet on June 11, 2010. We know this is not the best for some people, but this is the best we could do under the contract we had with the Marriott. Thank you for your support of this decision.

One more thing that will have to be rescheduled, will be the voting on the District Governor Elect and the 1st Vice District Governor that will be serving for the 2010-2011 Lions year. We still need a candidate for the 2nd Vice District Governor position for the 2010-2011 Lions year. This will be done at the next Cabinet meeting which will be held on April 18, 2010 at the First Baptist Church in Asheboro. If you were elected as a delegate from your Lions Club for the Mid-Winter Convention Cabinet Meeting, you will be the voting delegate for this meeting. According to Lions International Constitution and By-Laws, we have to vote by secret ballot for these positions with elected delegates. We will also be voting on a Lion to serve a two year term on the NCLF Board of Directors. This Lion will replace Lion Fred Francis, who has done a great job on the board for the last two years.

I would like to give you some good news about the parts of the Mid-Winter Convention we were able to hold. We were very fortunate to have a great visit with our International Director from Puerto Rico, Lion Eugenio Roman Jr. and his lovely wife Lion Ibis Guzman. We were able to take a tour of Camp Dogwood on Friday morning and of the Industries for the Blind in Winston-Salem on Friday afternoon. We got back to the Marriott at the same time the snow started to fall. International Director Roman and his wife enjoyed the Friday Night Fun night entertainment that Mid-Winter Chairman, 1st Vice District Governor Bill Womack, had for us. He and his committee did a great job putting together this convention. We had a great Tail Twister Breakfast on Saturday morning, with lots of great door prizes. Lion John Howell, PDG did a great job as auctioneer for this event. We will have a report at a later time as to how much money was raised for the Jack Stickley Fellowships and the Clinical Eye Research projects. A special thanks goes to the Lions and Lions Clubs that provided auction items for the Silent Auction and the regular Auction on Saturday morning. Thanks to all of the Lions Clubs and other sponsors that bought ads in the convention program. I am sure we will get a more detailed report about the convention from 1st VDG Lion Bill Womack. If all had gone as planned, we would have had 156 at the Friday NIGHT Fun Night, 79 at the Tail Twister Breakfast, and 179 at the District Governor's Banquet. We had a grand total of 273 Lions registered for the convention. This is a great showing for our district, and I greatly appreciate your support.

David R Osborne Sr.
District Governor

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