Scotts Valley Lions 42nd Annual Crab Cioppino Dinner/Dance - March 3rd.
$45.00 for all you can eat crab cioppino, dancing…and the raffle!
Don’t miss this highly anticipated event! See attached flyer for details.
Contact Lion Lisa Bustichi (831-461-9348) for tickets!
February 11, 2012
10:00 am-2:00 pm
San Martin Lions Hall
$10 Donation
MayFest
May 16, 2012 7:00 pm
Beverly-Burbank Lions Club
99 N. Bascom Ave., San Jose
Music and Finest German Cuisine by Lion Gunther
$25 per person, $45 per couple
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is ‘What are you doing for others?’” This Monday, January 16th, Dr. King’s legacy of service is being celebrated during a national Day of Service.
Scales of Justice Lions Club is holding a One Warm Coat drive from Monday, January 16 to January 31. We invite you to serve with Scales
of Justice Lions by donating a usable, clean, warm coat! Coats for men, women and children will be donated to Sacred Heart Community Service and InnVision for distribution to those in need. Won’t you join us on MLK Day and serve your community by making it warmer…one coat at a time?
Call Lion Linda or PDG Joe Pugliese or e-mail sojlions@gmail.com for pickup. A drop off bin is located in the lobby at Community Towers, 111 N. Market St. (across from courthouse), San Jose. Click here for map.
Clean out your closet and help us help others. Tax receipts available. Scales of Justice Lions Club members have donated 20 coats so far.
Last week I noted how Lions Clubs were founded in 1917 by a Chicago businessman named Melvin Jones. As promised, here’s how Helen Keller became forever linked to Lions. For those who don’t recognize the name (those younger than 50 perhaps?), she was born in 1880 and was stricken with scarlet fever at 19 months old. It left her deaf and blind. After 8 years of silence and darkness, the Perkins Institute provided her with a teacher, Annie Sullivan, who refused to give up on Helen. Helen’s eventual triumph, over seemingly insurmountable obstacles, is an inspiration to this day. You can learn more about her at; http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkeller.htm or through Google.
Ms. Keller’s accomplishments were amazing and, in 1925, the Lions invited her to be keynote speaker at their annual convention. During her speech, she challenged Lions to become “Knights of the Blind” and to direct their efforts toward aiding the blind. Since then, Lions have worked tirelessly toward the prevention of blindness and to aid the blind and visually impaired. Countless people who couldn’t afford them have been provided with eye examinations and glasses. Our club, San Jose Host Lions, provides vision screening for San Jose Unified School District first graders and a pair of glasses for each student whose family cannot afford them.
Lions provide surgeries to correct vision problems and to restore sight. We conduct projects to eradicate health conditions that contribute to blindness and have built facilities to serve the blind including one right here in San Jose; the Silicon Valley Blind Center. Every day, in over 90 countries throughout the world, Lions are helping blind and vision impaired people.
Next week; Lions become “International” and more on sight preservation.
To learn more about Lions visit www.lionsclub.org and if you would like to attend a local meeting, or speak to a San Jose Host Lion, please contact Gayle Kludt at kludtgayle70@gmail.com.
Joe Adamson
Issue 1-2
February 8, 7:00 pm
Beverly-Burbank Lions Club
99 N. Bascom Ave.
$25 per person, $45 per couple
Sunday, February 19
4:30-7:30 pm
Santa Clara Valley Lions Blind Center
Adults $20 Kids 5-12 $10
Click here to reserve and pay by credit card
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Each year San Jose Hosts provides vision screening for kindergarteners in the San Jose Unified School District. This fall we provided for testing of 1045 students at 11 schools. 209 of these students were referred to eye care specialists because of a possible vision problem.
Cupertino Host Lions Club 60th Anniversary Party will be held on February 25 at the Flames Restaurant, downtown San Jose. Details will follow, but don’t let that deter you from getting your reservations NOW. Cupertino Host Lions contacts:
Aris Harutyunyan 408 666-4379, Chairman
Howard Jensen 408 255-9463
Wayne Nishiura 408 996-3765
Jim Isaacson 408-278-7077
Chuck Hart 408-371-1272
Fabulous Cioppino, Fabulous Fun
