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Lions Raffle
Every summer and into the fall, you will find smiling members of the Lions club offering you a chance to win $5,000. They will be wearing yellow aprons and are happy to speak to you at EM Heath’s or Aubuchon’s. The winning ticket is drawn at the annual Moultonborough Christmas Fair on the first Saturday in December.
The money earned (over the prize money) goes into the scholarship fund for local high school seniors. A little over $10,000 has been awarded in the past few years.
Below is a photo of the 2012 winner:
We will be looking for members to sign up to sell the lucky tickets come summer. You will be able to sign up for dates and times here when we get closer to the summer.
Dinner Meetings
The third Monday of the month is usually when the Moultonborough Lion’s Club holds its dinner meetings. The evening starts at six with h’ors d’oeuvres provided by the members and a cash bar; dinner begins around seven pm and is often followed by a speaker. Attending a dinner meeting is a great way to meet and social with current members.
Special dinners are held as well. Once a year, the Bingo Babes (club members supporting the Bingo games held at the club house) cook a delicious dinner and serve it.
Ed Dobson is an “honarary “Babe)
and once a year we go to another Lion’s Club and share dinner with them. The photo below is our joint dinner meeting with the Whittier Club last year.
Mini Golf Team – Caregivers Fundraiser
The Lions Club members form a team and sponsor a hole at the annual mini-golf fundraising event for Community Caregivers. Not only is this a worthy cause, it is a lot of fun. Maybe next year, we can have two teams.
Below is a photo from the 2011 event:
Granite State Fellowship Award
The second highest award in New Hampshire Lionism is the Granite State Fellowship Award. Last June (2012) this award was presented to Joseph Keegan for “excellent service to NH citizens and the NH Sight and Hearing Foundation.
Lion of the Year
The Lion of the Year award is chosen by the club president and is a great honor to those members who receive it. Just some of the criteria used in selecting candidates are: participation in activities, membership development, programs, committees, and the community, serving as an officer, dependability, sincerity of purpose, positive attitude and leadership, plus demonstrated abilities in communication and organization.
Two of the most recent recipients of this honor are Joe Keegan and Joe Quaresima shown below.
Sutherland Park Service Project
Dedicated to James Sutherland in 2000, Sutherland Park is a beautiful spot to sit and appreciate nature, take a trail walk, or launch a canoe or kayak. The Moultonborough Lions Club, along with Aubuchon’s Mark Tuckerman, chose this spot for its Adopt-a-Spot and has been weeding, planting, cutting bush, and other beautification tasks for several years with the help of local Scouts and the Moultonborough Academy Middle School students.
Come next spring we will be looking for members (and potential new members) to help us with this project. Check here for date, time, and sign up.
Melvin Jones Honorees
Lions Clubs worldwide recognize outstanding individual members by bestowing on them an award named for the founder of Lionism, Melvin Jones. This award is the highest form of recognition and embodies humanitarian ideas consistent with the nature and purpose of Lionism. The recipient of this award, chosen by past honorees is a model of exemplary service to his club and the community which it serves.
We are proud to have within our past and current membership at least eight individuals who have received the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award. Pictured below are Mike Lancor (’11), Betty Wasson, and in the group photo (from left to right): Ed Dobson, Pat Strickland, Jim Guppy, Bob Purdy, Charlie Strickland and George Costello.
