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October 1, 2020 Volume 4
District 29 L Newsletter
A Message from District Governor Ron
Legacy .
Well, I don’t have much to say so I decided to leave all you
Lions and guests with this following: I bring you greetings
from Lions International President Dr. Jung-Yui Choi, who
is serving a second term due to the pandemic. His theme
this year is United in Kindness and Diversity. Don’t we
have diversity in the world today, but where there is a need
the Lions are there.
The 5 Global Causes are: Diabetes, Vision, Hunger, Envi-
ronment, and Childhood Cancer. My theme is LEGACY,
whatever you do, and your club does leave a legacy on you
and your club.
I want to thank the clubs that are working to better their
clubs in their communities during this pandemic. The Li-
ons Clubs, Kiwanis, Optimist Club, and Rotary are teaming
together to help with the essential workers during this pan-
demic.
Boo!!!!! Mary and I wish the Lions and guests
“Happy Halloween.”
[email protected]. Cell phone: 304-216-4717 Home phone: 304-599-3742 DG Visits October
1st-Williamstown 6:30
5th-Winfield and Scott Teays 6:30
14th-Mt. Olivet 6:30
19th-Doddrige DG meeting 6:30
20th-Moundsville Noon
November
2-Leasage & Huntington 6:30
1st Vice District Governor
Ramona Sago’s Message
Lions
Harvest gardens, cold nights, and changing leaves are all signs that Fall has arrived. I stop to think
about how planting seeds in a garden is like planting seeds in Lions Clubs.
What is a seed?
It is a simple act of setting an idea into motion that will help clubs attract Lions that will
want to take lead.
Seeds take time to grow.
When a seed flowers, everyone recognizes its beauty.
Go out there and start planting seeds in your club, no matter how hard or discouraging it may seem
right now. With a little time and patience and hard work, what now seems like a task to come to a
meeting will be filled with Lions excitement to come to future meetings.
Just like a beautiful flower attracts butterflies, your club will be a magnet for drawing individuals
that will truly make a difference in the growth of your club.
FVDG Ramona
Membership Article
Well, we are headed into October already. I realize some clubs have not met yet. This can be a trou-
bling thing. The longer you do not meet, the harder it becomes to plan membership drives, fundrais-
ers and service projects.
If you can meet by Zoom or some other virtual means, or social distance on someone’s deck, or even
meet in a restaurant – it would be very helpful. I have talked with some clubs and I understand they
are having a difficult time.
If you have any ideas on recruiting new members – please share them with others. If your club is
meeting and you could possibly help another club close to you- please reach out to them!!
Feel free to contact me – I will assist you anyway I can.
Remember, new members are our lifeblood and we must keep growing. We are currently at 1178
members in 29L (as of the end of September).
Don’t be afraid to ask someone to join, the more you ask, the more you may get. Go to the LCI web-
site and you can get membership information there.
Yours in Lionism,
PDG Gary
http://wvlions.org/
LeadershipSchool/
home.html
http://wvlions.org/
LeadershipSchool/pdf/
RegistrationForm.pdf
http://wvlions.org/
LeadershipSchool/pdf/
RetreatScholarship.pdf
DIRECTORY INFORMATION
WEB LINKS
Zone Person Training Materials
http://lions29l.org/zonetraining.html
Club Officer Training Materials
http://lions29l.org/
clubofficertraining.html
Club Excellence Award Application
file:///C:/Users/ksyph/Downloads/
DA-CEA1_en.pdf
Kindness Matter Service Award
https://www.lionsclubs.org/en/
kindness-matters-service-award
file:///C:/Users/ksyph/Downloads/
KMSA%20Application%
20Nomination_en.pdf
President Choi’s Theme
Lionsclubs.org/en/discover-our-clubs/
presidential-theme
Program Booklet
https://cdn2.webdamdb.com/md_SJB3MVA18O31.jpg.pdf?v=1
LEADERSHIP BY PDG BILL SYPHERS
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Due to some ongoing health issues PDG Eva Dague has had to resign her position as
District Cabinet Secretary/Treasurer. She has held this position for several district
governors and has done an outstanding job. She will continue to serve as the Leo
Chairperson. We wish her a speedy recovery and a well earned thanks for all she has
done for the district.
PDG Bill Syphers has been appointed to fill the position. All district and cabinet
business should be directed to him or DG Ron.
Beef will be butchered by HYDES MEAT PACKING – ENTERPRIZE, WV
PDG Paul & Phyllis Amrhein – 1-304-242-0911
Since the WV Sight Foundation provides funding for the entire state of WV, ALL clubs in ALL Districts
should participate in selling or buying the tickets out right. Our goal is to have 100% participation
with ALL clubs in ALL Districts.
Please return your stubs with a name and telephone number along with your check written to
the “WV LIONS BEEF RAFFLE”. Please make sure you return all your stubs when sending in
your check. Mail to PDG Paul Amrhein 4957 Glen Dale Heights Rd. Wheeling, WV 26003
I am pleading with clubs to please sell or buy their tickets. We have worked very hard to make this a
successful fundraiser, putting out around 3,500 on this project is a lot of money. We are not even close
to our goal. This is very disappointing.
WV Lions Multiple District 29
Beef Raffle
Proceeds Benefit: WV Eye Sight Foundation
INFO
“If the Club sells over $100 in
tickets, the Club will receive
credit toward a Leonard Jarrett
according to the total amount of
sales.”
(i.e. Sight Foundation) will be
separated from Club sales, unless
the individual requests otherwise.
LCIF – transforming the future
The pandemic has created many and great hardships and completely
changed our daily lives. But there is hope and one of them is LCIF.
Where there is a need, there is a Lion member willing to help in whatever
way possible. Did you know that:
- 2.2 billion people have vision impairment
- 6 million people are affected by measles yearly
- 1 in 11 people suffer from diabetes
- 1 in 9 people lack proper food
LCIF stands ready to help so that our future will be brighter. We need all
Lions to step up and provide the necessary funds to continue our mission. Dis-
trict 29-L has done a pretty good job of that, but we could do better. Did you
know that last year only 3.8% of individual Lions in District 29L contributed to
LCIF. And we still had 12 clubs that did not contribute anything.
So, I am respectfully asking all Lions to please make a donation as an indi-
vidual be it $25 or $500 whatever you can afford. I am also requesting all clubs
in 29-L also make a donation.
Donations can be made through the LCIF website or by check to (on check
indicate 29-L) LCIF, Department 4547, Carol Stream IL 60122.
Thank you for your continuing support of YOUR foundation, LCIF.
Sincerely,
PDG John Wensyel
LCIF 29-L Coordinator
Zone meeting on October 11th at
Perkins in Moundsville at 5 p.m.
Zone Chairman Gary Rider
Several clubs turned in impressive “Kindness Matters” applications for
consideration.
Congratulations to the Mt. Olivet Lions Club!
Your application has gone on to be considered on Multiple District Level.
Remember that the Board of Directors voted to waive the charter/membership
fee through December. While no clubs will be placed on status quo during this time, we still need to
pay dues because LCI, as well as districts and multiple districts, have expenses. So, encourage your
members to pay. Although, you may want to consider other options, such as a monthly payment plan
to help those who are struggling. Consider, too, using the tail twister account to offset their costs.
It’s important to continue to visibly serve our communities during this difficult time.
Please consider the creative use of technology to host “virtual meeting” experiences
for your members until you can resume in-person meetings and events.
There are many FREE options for hosting virtual meetings.
* Zoom Basic Free – https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pq411urXA
* GoTo Meeting Free – https://support.gotoco/meeting
* Free – https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3115553?co=GENIE.Platform%DDesktop&hl=en
Please remind your club to work toward the Club Excellence Award in order to meet the criteria during the year. ALL clubs are capable of accomplishing this. Good Luck as we work to “Unite our communities in Kindness and Diversity”.
If you are having trouble navigating the MyLION or LCI sites,
please let me know and I will help you or send me a complete
list of your monthly activities with all the information and I will
get it all reported for your club.
It is very important that our District report these service
projects!
304-662-6265
Dist. Service Coordinator/Administrator
FVDG Ramona Sago
DG Ron has asked that I do not include the monthly totals in the newsletter. “THANK YOU! to those LIONS doing the
reporting and those clubs participating in the contest. Please continue sending in those reports so that the district can
know what your club is doing.
Participating Clubs
Grantsville Friendly Barboursville
Pleasants Area Fairmont Doddridge
South Parkersburg Morgantown Ohio Co. Virtual
Vienna Mt. Olivet Parkersburg
Weirton Warwood
West Liberty Wheeling
Western Mon. Co. Williamstown
Westover
Wheeling Island
DG Contest Chair: Lion David Sago
For more information, go to
https://lcicon.lionsclubs.org/
Register at
https://www.mcisemi.com/lci2021/
Deadline to order kits: October 1, 2020
Annual Art Contest for Kids Each year, Lions clubs around the world proudly sponsor the Lions International Peace Poster Contest in local schools and youth groups. This art contest for kids encourages young people worldwide to express their visions of peace. For more than 25 years, millions of children from nearly 100 countries have participated in the contest. The theme of the 2020-21 Peace Poster Contest is “Peace Through Service.” Students, ages 11, 12 or 13 on November 15, are eligible to participate. Peace Poster Contest Judging Each poster is judged on originality, artistic merit and expression of the theme. Posters advance through several judging levels: local, district, multiple district and international. At the international level, judges from the art, peace, youth, education and media communities select one grand prize winner and 23 merit award winners. Peace Poster Contest Awards International winners will be notified on or before February 1.
• One international grand prize winner will receive US$5,000 and a trip to a special award ceremony.
• Each of the 23 merit award winners will receive a cash award of US$500 and a certificate of achievement.
Visit Lions International Peace Poster Contest page
Peace Poster Contest Deadlines
• January 15: Participation information available from International Headquarters to Lions Clubs. • October 1: Deadline to obtain participation from International Headquarters. • November 15: Postmark deadline for a club to send one winning poster (per contest sponsored) to
the district governor.
Reach Out and Read
In 2012-13, International President Wayne Madden initiated a program called Action for Reading
and his challenge was taken up by the Lions Clubs everywhere. This is a brilliant program in which we
can all be involved.
The ability to read and write is the foundation for education and social development. Yet hundreds of
millions of adults lack minimum literacy skills and millions of school aged children are not attending
school to obtain them.
The Reading Action Program is a 10-year commitment to increase reading and literacy rates. It’s a
call to action for every Lions Clubs around the world to organize service projects and activities that
recognize the importance of reading and address specific needs related to illiteracy with their own
community. Don’t forget to register your service activities on LCI as they count towards your
Centennial Challenge.
IDEAS
• Third Grade Dictionary Project
• 5th Grade Chapter Books
• Build/Erect a portable little library
Reading Action Chair
Ramona Sago
Diabetes
Mary Kay Wensyel, 29L Diabetes Chair
An Overview of Diabetes Worldwide and in West Virginia
Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide. According to the
International Diabetes Federation there were approximately 463 million adults
aged twenty to seventy-nine living with diabetes in 2019. Roughly ten percent of
that 463 million were Type One Diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that effects the
production of a hormone called insulin that is produced in the pancreas. This
hormone allows sugar into the cells in order for it to be used as energy in the
body. If this insulin is missing or works improperly, the sugar collects in the
blood and makes it acidic which is deadly. There are three main types of diabetes,
(type one diabetes, type two diabetes, and gestational diabetes).
According to the 2019 data from the Department of Health and Human Re-
sources of West Virginia, more than one in ten (15%) of West Virginia adults were
diagnosed with diabetes, which is the second highest rate nationally. Approxi-
mately, 11% of West Virginia adults were diagnosed as pre-diabetic. West Virginia
counties that had the highest rates of diabetes than any other county in the state
were Grant, Logan, McDowell, and Wayne. The prevalence of diabetes through-
out Appalachia, especially West Virginia, is further emphasized by a study done
by the Harvard School of Public Health which revealed that West Virginia was
among the highest diabetes rates in America. Sadly, diabetic death has become
ubiquitous throughout the state. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death
across the state according to the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia,
however, nationally, West Virginia has the highest death rate due to diabetes than
any other state with a 36.2% death rate.
Lions Club International added the focus of diabetes as one of their now eight
global causes. Lions Club has been a leader in promoting awareness though dia-
betes education, support of diabetes youth camps, distributing diabetic resources,
diabetes screenings for the community, and organizing community support
groups for newly diagnosed individuals and their families.
In District 29L, what can Lions do to raise awareness of the importance of Diabet-
ic Awareness and support? Let me know if I can help you in your community.
29L Diabetes Chair
Lion Mary Kay Wensyel
Reading Action Program
MD 29 RAP Chair: Deborah Delaney
I know that everything is different now because of Covid 19, and I realize that clubs are
not able to function in their normal way. With schools operating on varied schedules and
online classes, it’s difficult or even impossible to make contact with school children. Howev-
er, there are still ways that your club can participate in the Reading Action Program. For ex-
ample, you can still order dictionaries for third graders through The Dictionary Project
www.dictionaryproject.org and have the teachers pass them out to students along with a la-
bel/flier about your Lions club. Or, you can order chapter books for individual classes
through The Scholastic Book Club. Work with a teacher at your school to order the books for
you at a discounted price while earning points for their classroom.
If and when this pandemic is behind us (let’s pray that it’s soon), your club might consider
trying one of the following project ideas:
Help with an afterschool reading program
Read to children at local libraries or schools
Read or record books on tape for the blind and visually impaired
If I can assist you with any of these project ideas, please email me at
[email protected], and I’ll be glad to help.
Fellow Lions – I have recently been in contact with Anita Graham, social worker with the
WVU Medicine Children’s Pediatric Blood and Cancer Center.
Many of you (about 90) individually or as a club donated $50 Visa Gift Cards to their
“Camp in a Box” project, when their annual summer camp was cancelled and it had to be
held virtually. You may also remember that we donated a “car full” of snacks to the
Children’s Pediatric Blood and Cancer Center during the Leadership Retreat last January.
The generosity shown by our MD29 Lions was very helpful and very much appreciated
by the affected young patients and their families.
Anita is now collecting $25 Visa Gift Cards as a holiday project to assist the families of
children who are undergoing treatments during the holiday season, to be used for food,
gas etc. Imagine yourself in such a difficult situation, with a sick child, trying to cope
with the stress, worry and expense involved. This is an easy and worthwhile service
project, and I think many Lions will be interested in assisting.
If your club or you as an individual Lion would like to participate, please purchase a $25
Visa Gift card (or cards) at a vendor of your choice, and please activate it by paying the
small fee involved.
We hope to collect the cards by the middle of November, if possible. The cards can be
sent to me at 191 Ridgeway Drive, Bridgeport, WV 26330. Questions may be directed to
me at 304-203-2006 or at [email protected]. If you or your club would prefer to
send the cards directly to Anita Graham, let me know and I will provide her address.
Childhood Cancer is one of Lions Clubs International’s global initiatives, and this will
assist children and families affected here in West Virginia. #KindnessMatters #WeServe
Thank you!
Lion Cindy Glass
Past Council Chair
On the past three Saturdays, members of the Scott Teays Lions Club have been in the
Huntington Bank parking lot in Teays Valley selling Chick-fil-A meals. And they plan to
be there again on Saturday, October 3rd. They have been there between the hours of 11:00 am and
1:00 pm and each Saturday they sold out thanks to support of the community and friends. Each
Saturday, the mix of members working has changed, meaning that all members are participating.
The club needed to work together on a project and this one has been good for the members. They
were unable to sell Christmas trees last year because they couldn't find any trees and the Putnam
County Homecoming was cancelled due to COVID-19. Both of these activities are big fundraisers for
the club. See you Saturday, October 3rd. Thanks for your support.
Bill Hensley 304-757-8599
Lions Luther Cope and Tom Owens wait on a customer
at the Lions Chick- fil-A meal sale.
Lions Tom Owens, Luther Cope, Bill
Hensley, Larry Frye, Harold Walker and
Steve Biron
Lion Luther Cope and Larry Frye wait on a
customer while other Lions prepare the Chick
-fil- A meals.
Lion Bill Hensley dressed as the Chick fil A cow
invites customers.
“FLAGS FOR HEROES”
The Mt. Olivet Lions will proudly display 110 American
flags from November 8th through 16
th in honor of VETER-
ANS DAY at the Mt. Olivet Community Park.
If you did not already sponsor a flag for our 2020 Display,
and wish to do so, please contact Lions Paul/Phyllis Am-
rhein at [email protected] to receive information
on how to become a sponsor. Your flag will then be
among those special HEROES we honor.
Information on our VETERANS DAY PROGRAM will be available soon on our web page ( https://e-clubhouse.org/sites/mt_olivet/ ) and on our Facebook Page (Mt Olivet Lions).
Happy Autumn fellow Lions of West Virginia!!!!
Soon, the leaves will begin their annual color show. Our
thoughts will soon turn to cooler weather, Trick or Treat,
Thanksgiving, and the end of the year with Christmas and New
Year’s. I think I can speak for many in saying that I will be hap-
py to see 2020 finally end. Thankfully, the end of the year gets
closer each passing day.
I want to begin by sending kudos to DG Charolette Henson in
29C and each of her respective Club secretaries. Her Clubs have
had 100% membership reporting to LCI for July and August. Please keep up the good report-
ing!!!!
While it is important to report service projects, it is just as important to report our member-
ship numbers. LCI and the districts base your Club’s international and district dues on the
numbers that are reported to LCI. December and June are the two most critical months to
report membership. Dues notices based on those numbers go out in January and July. If any
Club secretary or Club administrator has issues with making monthly membership reports to
MyLCI, please contact me or your district GST and one of us will be happy to show you how
this is easily done. Whatever we need to do to help will be done. We serve!!!!!!!!
Lion Dan Heintzman, MD-29 Global Service Team chair
PLEASE PLACE STAMP HERE
29 L Newsletter DG Ron Grubb
Newsletter Chairperson, Lion Kathy Syphers
77 Raven Avenue
Wheeling, WV 26003