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OUR MISSION: Provide community services & assistance for Freeport IL citizens with vision/hearing problems since April 1936. Membership Information Contact - Joe Serafini @ (815) 275-8737 or Terry Anderson @ (815) 566-7977
Friday, January 31, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Sunday, January 26, 2014
"STREET CHILDREN"
Freeport Lions Club recently received an email from our twin club, Kathmandu-Gliese Lions Club in Kathmandu, Nepal, thanking us for publicizing their social efforts to improve the quality of life for students, homeless people, the sick, and those with vision and hearing problems. Again, we are proud to support our twin club as they launch a social video highlighting poverty and homelessness.
We hope readers will follow the link to that video at the end of this blog, and will become so moved that they too will be involved in their community efforts to serve, to help, to volunteer, to donate.
Unfortunately, social injustice is a common thread weaving all human societies together. We see poverty and homelessness in many cities and rural areas throughout the United States of America. We are often reminded of it through our own experiences as well as though television commercials that ask for donations.
Our country began a "War on Poverty" campaign 50 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty. Some politicians these days would deemed this "war" a failure, but we Lions know better when we see our efforts, and those of other organizations, improving or restoring basic qualities of life, and actually bringing smiles, honor, respect and self-worth to many faces, not just in the USA, but around the world.
- R. Montgomery, 1st VP, Freeport IL Lions Club
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Dear Lion Richard,
Thank you so much for your kind email and share your club newsletter. It is so nice and I liked many quotes of letter. It is my great fortune to learn biography of Lion Dennis. I think it is great step to share biography of Lions Members in Club Newsletter. It is very new concept for me and I am so much impressed from it.
By the way, You know that, we had just launched social music video and We are trying to Support and Help Street Children for making betterment towards the society through this video. Lets not Ignore that, they are also part of our society. So feel your responsibility and take steps for changing community and society in positive impact.
I hope, you like it and share with your club members. It is our small effort to encourage and motivate to people and community of the nation through this video Globally. If possible you can published it in your upcoming newsletter.
Please click this link and view our social video. http://youtu.be/82B0b181RSg
Thank you so much.
Best Regards,
Lion Sunit Shrestha
International Relationship Chairperson
Lions Club of Kathmandu Gliese
We hope readers will follow the link to that video at the end of this blog, and will become so moved that they too will be involved in their community efforts to serve, to help, to volunteer, to donate.
Unfortunately, social injustice is a common thread weaving all human societies together. We see poverty and homelessness in many cities and rural areas throughout the United States of America. We are often reminded of it through our own experiences as well as though television commercials that ask for donations.
Our country began a "War on Poverty" campaign 50 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty. Some politicians these days would deemed this "war" a failure, but we Lions know better when we see our efforts, and those of other organizations, improving or restoring basic qualities of life, and actually bringing smiles, honor, respect and self-worth to many faces, not just in the USA, but around the world.
- R. Montgomery, 1st VP, Freeport IL Lions Club
******
Dear Lion Richard,
Thank you so much for your kind email and share your club newsletter. It is so nice and I liked many quotes of letter. It is my great fortune to learn biography of Lion Dennis. I think it is great step to share biography of Lions Members in Club Newsletter. It is very new concept for me and I am so much impressed from it.
By the way, You know that, we had just launched social music video and We are trying to Support and Help Street Children for making betterment towards the society through this video. Lets not Ignore that, they are also part of our society. So feel your responsibility and take steps for changing community and society in positive impact.
I hope, you like it and share with your club members. It is our small effort to encourage and motivate to people and community of the nation through this video Globally. If possible you can published it in your upcoming newsletter.
Please click this link and view our social video. http://youtu.be/82B0b181RSg
Thank you so much.
Best Regards,
Lion Sunit Shrestha
International Relationship Chairperson
Lions Club of Kathmandu Gliese
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
LION TALK JANUARY 2014
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
2013 CLUB CHRISTMAS PARTY
Freeport Lions Club members and guests gathered for good fellowship, food and fun on December 10, 2013. A magic show was provided by professional magician, Cy Crothers, and his charming, witty assistant, Anita Crothers. Our thanks to Lion Roland Caruso and his wife Anita for arranging the entertainment.
After some card tricks, Cy attempted to hypnotize the entire audience by having them stare into a spinning spiral, but all it did was make the entire room wobbly for everyone in the audience.
After that several volunteers came forward to assist as "subjects" with a variety of mysteries such as number transfer, ink inside a magazine page, ashes traveling through a person's hand, escaping from strangulation, and ropes untying themselves and passing through a cylinder.
Following is a collage of photos from the evening's magical moments. What a great way for Lions to unwind from another year of raising funds for the visually and audibly impaired!
After some card tricks, Cy attempted to hypnotize the entire audience by having them stare into a spinning spiral, but all it did was make the entire room wobbly for everyone in the audience.
After that several volunteers came forward to assist as "subjects" with a variety of mysteries such as number transfer, ink inside a magazine page, ashes traveling through a person's hand, escaping from strangulation, and ropes untying themselves and passing through a cylinder.
Following is a collage of photos from the evening's magical moments. What a great way for Lions to unwind from another year of raising funds for the visually and audibly impaired!
START 2014 WITH GOOD NEWS
As I write this short blog from my Florida vacation spot, my fellow Freeport Illinois Lions prepare for their first meeting of the new year tonight and another winter snowstorm. Although separated temporarily by 1300 miles and 30 degree temperature differences (today anyway), we are never far apart from sharing our goals of preventing blindness and improving quality of life without prejudice.
When my January 2014 monthly Lion Magazine arrived, I read the article about former President and Lion Jimmy Carter's victory over river blindness. Through the large efforts of Lions Club International Foundation and The Carter Center, in 2013 the country of Columbia became "the first country in the world to be verified by the World Health Organization to have eliminated river blindness." GREAT JOB! You can read the online version of this and other articles at the Lions International website: http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/news-and-events/lion-magazine/index.php
Last summer I had the privilege of attending a local community health fair and setting up our Club's display on a card table for local patrons to browse and stimulate conversation. I was surprised at the number of people who asked, "What do Lions do?", and were either too shy to ask someone before or never had an opportunity to find out. Would you be surprised by this too?
It is important for Lions, individually and as a group, to not only serve the needs of the public but to also share the success stories of what we do. One simple thing we could do is show people a copy of Lions Magazine and point to any of a number of published success stories. The next time that person sees a member wearing their yellow vest asking for donations, they will have a better grasp of the big picture outside their own community. Perhaps they will tell someone else.
In this month's message from Lions International President Barry Palmer, he reminded us: "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much," insisted the great Helen Keller.
It doesn't matter how far apart Lions live, work and play, nor in what part of the world we live. We all share a common goal in our hearts.
Happy New Year.
Lion Rich Montgomery
Freeport IL Lions Club
January 14, 2014
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