This past Saturday, five Moultonborough Lions –John, Peter, Sally, Mark, and Jeni — attended the Lions Training Forum held at Manchester Community College. We all found it both informative and energizing. The photo was taken in one of the classrooms; it is not a line-up, but it is a bit blurry.
This must be April Fool’s month instead of Day. As I write this, the snow has just stopped and the lawns, my deck, and driveway are covered in snow. Where are the flowers?!
The April dinner meeting will be Monday, April 20 and will feature pot roast. Guest speakers will be Moultonborough Police Chief, Leonard Wetherbee, Jr. and 2nd Vice District Governor candidate, Sam Longbrook. Remember, April is new membership drive month. Please bring a potential new member to this dinner!
Susan Noyes, the Moultonborough School District (MSD) Superintendent, gave an interesting and thought-provoking talk at the March Lion’s Club meeting. She provided graphics on the declining birth and school enrollments in New Hampshire (and how schools are looking at multiple ways to still offer quality instruction including sharing courses with other schools), discussed the mission statement and goals of the MSD, and emphasized the welcome community support of the schools. The video she played gave a visual “punch” as to how much the education of children has changed over the years and graphically demonstrated how many, many “charges” have been added to what schools are expected to teach and provide children. In addition to academic subjects, areas such as health, nutrition and safety, career and college counseling, immunizations, art, music, drama, sports, etc. are expected to be included– all within the limits of the school day and year.
Members were encouraged to provide their e-mail addresses to Superintendent Noyes or Dawn Law at dlaw@sau45.org (Lion and educator at Moultonborough Academy) for electronic weekly updates from the schools, called iPaws, which contains items about the musical that will be offered at the end of this week to concerts and other school happening,s as well as information about testing and what is new and upcoming.
At the March dinner meeting, members and their green hats pose for a photo…and in Florida, Mike and Kate Lancor and Bob and Eileen Zewski celebrate in style as well.
Lion Dawn Law has created a Facebook page for our club. Check it out at:
https://www.facebook.com/moultonboroughlions
When you click LIKE, you will share information about the Moultonborough Lions to your friends. Help spread the word and increase our presence and, in turn, increase our membership.
Thanks to Dawn and the Membership Committee under Jenifer Williams’ leadership!
We were able to hold the March Business Meeting on the 2nd of March — no snow cancellations or postponements; and minutes of that meeting will be e-mailed to all members soon. There were many committee reports and interesting news about our club and State, District and Local happenings in the very near future.
We do need two additional members for the Nominating Committee (the slate needs to be available at the dinner meeting as voting will be in April). If you are willing to join JACK WEINMANN on this committee, please contact him or President John Menken as soon as possible.
This is the month when we hope Spring will appear on time and also the month when we “spring forward” and change the clocks on March 8. And, of course, it is the month in which we celebrate St. Patricks Day. Thus, the meal at the March 16 meeting will be corned beef and cabbage. Hope to see everyone there starting around 6 pm, dinner following at 7 pm.
Because of the predicted snowstorm, the business meeting will be POSTPONED until 7 pm on Monday, February 9. And the snow just continues to come down on Sundays and Mondays. The February 9 business meeting has been canceled. Items on the agenda will be brought up at the dinner meeting –– think sunshine.
Hopefully, the snow will not affect our dinner meeting which is still scheduled for Monday, February 16.
At the January 19 dinner meeting, five new members were inducted into the Moultonborough Lions club with a candlelight ceremony officiated by District Governor Toni Olden.
Pictured above with their sponsors (from left to right) are Joe Keegan with Sam Pylypczuk; Bob Conery, Lloyd Conery (sponsor) and Victoria Conery; and Peter Strople, John Menken (president and sponsor) and Judith Strople.
Below is a photo of all five of the inductees…
Two certificates for years of membership in the Moultonborough Lions Club were also awarded: one for 15 years of service to Alice Krysiak and one for 20 years to Anne Forts.
The monthly dinner meeting will be held on Monday, January 19th. In addition to good food and socialization, new members will be inducted. Plan to be there. Appetizers and social hour at 6, followed by dinner at 7:00 pm.
OPERATION KID SIGHT TRAINING
Scott Wilson starting the session
On Saturday, January 9, seven of the nine members who volunteered to be trained to use the SPOT vision screener, went to Concord, NH for a three-hour training session. We plan to have a practice session as soon as we have the screener. The first vision screening will be held at Moultonborough Academy, for all students in grades 7-12, on Thursday, January 29th.
The goal of the NH Lions Clubs is to screen at least 1,000 students in 2015 with the larger goal of having every child in the state from six months of age to 20 screened in the near future.
John Menken, Mark Cotrupi, Peter Strople, Sally Sibulkin, Pat Keegan, Joe Keegan and Don Trudeau