Regular Meeting of the Kendall Lions Club - September 20th, 2007

 

Meeting was called to order by Lion President Skip Scroger at 7pm.

 

Pledge:                                    led by Lion Paul Dittman                                               America:                                led by Lion Cliff Provost

Invocation:                             led by Lion Craig Lape

Songs:                                     led by Lion Bob Ryan                          

Guests:                                   Frank Lauta introduced our guests for the evening-Heidi                                                            Drought from Park Ridge Hospital and her fiance’ Craig                                                            States. We also had Butch Kile & Tim Crawford from the                                                    Hamlin Lions Club.

 

Collected $243.00 for meals, We had 27 Lions and 2 guests 

 

Tail Twister collected $12.00

 

Split Club (club portion) collected $30.00

Winner #1       Cliff Provost

Winner #2       Frank Lauta

 

Secretary’s Report    Minutes were read by Lion Debbie. Motion was made to accept the minutes, carried and approved.

 

Treasurer’s Report presented by  Lion Paul Dittman. Lion Paul passed out a revised copy of budget for 2007-2008. The Club has approx.$12,763.98 in the checking acct as of 9/6/07. Club has paid out $3498.50 for the football game but that will be paid back by all the members going to the game. If we don’t count the football game, the club actually has $16,362.48 plus $5763.50 in the Emergency Fund for a Grand total of $22125.78. Paul has asked that the Champion or Chairperson for the budgeted items to ask for the checks so that they can be written ahead of time instead all at year end. Lion John Wing makes motion to accept treasurer’s report, Lion Karl Emilson 2nds it, carried and approved.

 

Lion Paul also reported on the Web site. Picture was put on the Web Site. While looking at Lions info, picture will come up. The club will get head shots with a biography to help the new members as well as the old members know who is who. In regards to the calendar, anyone in the world, club, etc can put anything on the Web site, but only Paul Dittman or Frank Lauta ( the administrators) can okay or approve the information that was put on.

 

Thank-you’s and correspondence:

 

There was no correspondence.

 

Committee Reports:

 

Lion Jerry reported on tents. Vacation Bible School sent check for $50.00 for use of the tents along with a thank-you. Lion Jerry also reported on visitations for DG Terry Bliss. The visitations are all set for the next 2 months. Lion Terry will be responsible for bringing the vest around to the area clubs that he visits.

 

Lion John Wing reported on the Walk-a-thon. This event will take place on Sat, Sept. 22nd, at 9am at the cemetery in Albion. Needs 1 more volunteer for the day, approx 1&½ hours of your time. Lion John, Karl Emilson with help from Guy Maglocca. Lion Sonny has volunteered to help.

 

Lion John Wing reported on the Spaghetti dinner. Lion John will meet with new chairman, Frank Downey on Friday. Lion Frank is looking at changing the recipe for the spaghetti sauce. Instead of Meatballs, having a meat sauce.

 

Lion Debbie reported on the Arc of Orleans signature dinner. The club had 7 members with their spouses attend this event for a total of 12. The dinner was great. J-mac along with his father were very interesting speakers. Clarendon Lions Club won $2000.00 in the reverse raffle. The Club paid $750 for a table of ten, with the $25 that each attendee paid, the Club was able to give an additional $150.00.

 

Lion Dan Peckham reported on the Pumpkin Patch. This event will be held at Wilson’s Farm on Saturday, October 6th-raindate will be the following Saturday, October 13th. Expecting between 100-150 kids & parents. This is a great 1st.event for the year.

 

Lion Craig Herman was not available to report on the Buffalo Football game. From last meeting’s report it is sold out but you can sign up for the waiting list. This event will be on Sunday, October 21st against Baltimore.

 

Lion Sonny reported on the Fall conference. It will be held on Saturday, November 3rd at the Days Inn in Batavia. Cost is $15.00 which includes Continental Breakfast, Lunch and full day of seminars. Conference starts at 8:30am with the breakfast, seminars will start at 10am. Days Inn is offering a nights stay at $49.00. There will also be a dinner afterwards at Batavia Downs. Cost is $30.00, will receive $5.00 in gambling money. Flyer will be going out on this. Lion Sonny is looking for 3 to 4 volunteers to help with the hospitality room. Will be serving beer, wine and soft drinks. Will start at 2:45pm til 6pm on Saturday.

 

Lion Sonny reported on the State convention in Niagara Falls. The Board has approved to pay registration for member and spouse of $30.00 per person. To guarantee rooms, 1night deposit is required. Lion Sonny would like to have all the registrations and deposits taken care of by the end of October, beginning of November. Please contact Sonny if interested in staying the night. Because this event is so close, members could just go up for the day.

Lion Sonny went with Bob Furness and vice versa to the meetings for Terry’s District Governor visitations on Monday and Wednesday. Lion Sonny said they ate very well. Told Terry to take a nap, by the time they had traveled only 3miles, Terry was asleep. This was a very nice experience to drive Terry to these meetings

 

 

Lion Skip reported on the Vietnam Wall. Lion Skip thanked all the volunteers who signed  up to help with the construction of the platform. They didn’t need help after all because Lowe’s helped with lumber and the construction. It was expected to have 500 motorcycles to escort the memorial but only 300 showed up. There were approx. 70,000 people who attended this event. Kendall Lions contributed $200 to this event along with the Hamlin Lions who also contributed $200. Kendall Lions were mentioned in the brochure that was handed out at the Vietnam Memorial.

 

 

Old Business:

 

Lion Jerry Reamer reported that there was no conflict with September 20th.

 

Lion John Wing inducted Lion Frank Downey for 2 year director.  Lion Sonny commented on the induction ceremony that DG Terry Bliss performed at 1 of his visitations.

 

New Business:

 

Lion Butch Kile and Lion Tim Crawford from the Hamlin Lions Club made a brief presentation on “Casino Night. It will be held on Saturday, October 6th, starting at 7pm at the VFW. There will be a DJ, finger food and a silent auction of 5-6 items. At the end there will be the opportunity to bid on items using the play money that you have accumulated throughout the evening. Cost is $20.00 per person, you will be given $110 in play money, $30.00 per couple and $220.00 in play money. Additional money can be purchased-$5.00 will get you $45.00 in play money.

 

 

Lion Jerry Reamer reported for the good of the community that it received a  $249,000 grant from FEMA to replace 2 firetrucks. It cost $475,000 to purchase the truck. The Fire Dept has $185,000 to help but still needs $40,000 to borrow to pay for the truck. This will be in the paper, the truck has to be delivered 1 year after the contract has been signed. This grant will enable the fire department to replace a 36 year and a 26year old truck. The fire department can’t sell the old trucks to another fire company. The vote will be held in late October, early November.

 

Lion Karl makes a motion for meeting to be adjourned, with Program to follow.

 

 

Program:

 

Heidi Drought, RN from Park Ridge Hospital gave a very interesting presentation on the treatment and prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease. Heidi is one of the nurses who has been helping Lion Ray with his treatments.