5 Fridays and our Membership Chair Lion Roy Pulliam is trying something new! Our regularly scheduled meeting on Friday, September 30 will be CANCELLED. Rather we will hold our weekly meeting on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 7PM. Place to be announced. We are offering this as an opportunity for those members who are unable to attend our noon meeting and as an introduction of Lions to family and friends. Roy has a great pro-gram planned and we are looking forward to meet-ing those members we don’t get to socialize with at our Friday noon meeting. See you all there! Look for the “HELP WANTED” column else-where in this newsletter. It is a listing of those pro-jects that are in need of leadership and extra hands. As with any organization, the same people seem to be doing the same thing. If we want the same re-sults, we continue to do the same. If want change, we need to change the way we do things. Some of the more ‘seasoned’ Lions are ready to step aside and help newer Lions take over. Check out the column and see where you might help change hap-pen! This is especially good for those members who can not attend our regular meeting. ANNUAL FALL CONVENTION: It is not too early to plan to attend the MD19 annual conven-tion in Yakima – Oct. 13 -15. This is the time when all the clubs in WA, northern Idaho and BC will gather to share and learn. If you can attend only for a day – it is well worth it. Those who wish to move up in a Leadership role will gain much from the training sessions and socializing with other Lions. Car pooling is always available. For more detailed information check out www.lionsmd19.com. Enjoy September – the colors and sights are won-derful! Yellow school buses, new clothes, eager faces at bus stops, football and soccer games, new opportunities to help at WA Elem, leaves and fly-ing geese on their way south. Enjoy it all! You deserve the best. President Helen

Fort Vancouver Lions Club

Vancouver, WA., U.S.A.

Established 1955

September 2011 ISSUE

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I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Presidents Corner 1

Hearing Commit-tee

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Amphitheater 2

Help Wanted 3

MD19 Fall Conv. 4

Calendar 6

Sponsors 7

Strive For 5 5

Sight Committee 5

S E P T E M B E R S P E A K E R S

P R O G R A M D I R E C T O R R O Y P U L L I U M

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Eric Holmes Vancouver City Manager

Sept 9th Karin Ford

Vancouver Community Library

Sept 16th Chad Doing

Morning Talk show Host

Sept 23rd Anne Vitort

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Editor Dotty Scott dotty@premiumwebsites.net

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President’s Corner Fellow Lions – It appears that summer made a short visit – hope you were able to get out and enjoy the warm rays. Just to remind us that we live in the Pacific Northwest, Mother Nature continues to show her wet side. Enjoy the last month of summer and get ready for a busy and active Lions Fall season. Lion Roy and his merry band of ‘wristers’ are finishing up at the amphitheater. With Lion Charissa and her band of beer sellers our club will see a nice profit that will allow us to offer opportunities to those in need. Thanks to all who helped! Job well done! By the time this newsletter is out to members, Lion Lee Denny will have finished the frozen berry sale. This requires much coordination between the grower and our club. Thanks Lee for helping to make this a suc-cess. Lion Lee is also getting ready to welcome the youngsters at Washington Elementary School on Sep-tember 6. His group will have ice cream and good will to all who attend the before school Open House. This is always a fun time. Stop by from 3-4pm to help spread the good cheer! The school will also be having their annual Learning Fair on Sept. 20. At this evening event we provide din-ner for those families who attend. This is an excellent way to help the school boost the attendance at the fair and it is a great way for us to start our year of service at Washington Elementary. Lee is looking for a chairper-son to head this up – he has lots of experience and will mentor. Contact Lee if you are interested. Time for the reins to change hands! Lions Bill Shalaby and Alan Rhyasen are getting ready to polish off the many apples that we will be selling in late October. This project, along with the amphitheater and fruit sales, is one of our biggest fund raisers. To be successful they need all of us to promote sales and in-sure that there are more orders than last year. How well we provide service to those in need is tied to how well we do with our fund raisers, and the apple project is a ‘biggie’. Thanks for all your help. MEMBERSHIP OPEN HOUSE – As I mentioned in my July newsletter, we will be doing some different things with the 5th Fridays of the month. September has

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Fort Vancouver Lions Club Officers

King Lion: Helen Sutfin 1st VP: Bill Shalaby

2nd VP: Adam Hegewald 3rd VP: Len Leger

Past President: Bruce Armstrong Secretary: Chriss Denny

Treasurer: Steve Staudinger Tail Twister: Marilyn Robertson

Lion Tamer: Fred Larson John Caldwell

Membership: Roy Pulliam Board Members: Kathy Howell, Lee Denny, John Caldwell, Terry

Robertson, Vikki Hart, Sandy Foster, Program Directors: Roy Pullium,

Dotty Scott, Hallie Kofstad, Vikki Hart

Sunshine Committee: Wanda Slevin

Technology Guru: Dotty Scott Visitations: Terry Sutfin Social Chair: Lee Denny

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Hearing Committee Report We are missing representatives from Woodland, Presidents please make sure your clubs member joins us at our next meeting on the 1st Tuesday of every month. This is your committee we cover ALL of Clark County and the Woodland area. In August we are meet at Rick Giles home for a BBQ. Please RSVP if you are coming. Spouses are welcome. By Richard Giles

August Concerts at the Amphitheater

It was a busy month with 6 concerts at the Sleep Country Amphitheater. We worked 5 Clark County Fair concerts in 7 days: Beach Boys August 5th REO Speedwagon August 6th Dierks Bentley August 8th Three Days Grace August 9th Motley Crewfest August 11th The first 4 Fair concerts were lightly attended but the Motley Crew show had over 8000 in attendance. We were fortunate to have some wonderful weather and plenty of volunteers. On August 19th, we worked the Toby Keith show. We not only needed 25 to wrist band and be alcohol monitors, but we also needed 14 beer stand workers. It was a lot of work but we did earn $2870.00. A lot of members and friends stepped up and worked multiple concerts and filled in for last minute cancellations. We are fortunate to have so many non Lions that volunteer to work at the Amphitheater. Even with 5 concerts in 7 days we filled every need that was asked of us. Great job everybody. There is one more show to go. It is the Heart and Def Leopard concert on Wednesday, September 14th. We still need more volunteers for both the wrist banding job and beer kiosk workers. Please contact Lion Roy Pulliam to help wrist band and Lion Charissa Steinmann to help in the beer kiosk.

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F O R T V A N C O U V E R L I O N ’ S U P R O A R

Help Wanted LEARNING FAIR AT WA. ELEM. (Sept. 20) Chairman - time: appx 3 hours day of event Mentor available to work with and train – school food service personnel on site * Plan menu * Organize sign-up sheet for volunteers (5-7) * Assign tasks evening of the event Contact Lee Denny lcdenny8@msn.com APPLE PACKING AND SALES – OCTOBER 28 -29 Unloading apples at the warehouse and packing trucks for delivery – time: appx. 2 hours *need people with pick-up trucks * 12 – 15 people to work the various delivery stations (2-3 per station) – time: appx. 2 1/2 hours Contact Alan Rhyasen rhyasen@comcast.net or Bill Shalaby ashalaby@comcast.net HIGHWAY CLEAN-UP – TBA This is a new project the club is considering * State Dept. of Transportation has full details *Determine highway section to be cleaned *Set calendar date *Arrange for volunteers Contact Len Leger lenjen1@comcast.net LUNCH & READING & MENTORING BUDDIES – WA ELEMENTARY * Meet with a child one day week for one hour (time set to your schedule) * Must fill out Volunteer Application form (school office) * There are a wide variety of opportunities for service at the school Contact Principal Sean McMillian: Sean.Mcmillan@vansd.org SCRAPBOOK EDITOR – on going Compile the club’s year of events into a scrapbook * The finished product will be entered into the MD19 Scrapbook Contest * Guidelines for the contest will be provided PHOTOGRAPHER – on going * take pictures of the various club activities *distribute pictures to the Scrapbook Chairperson and to the area newspapers

Please mark you calendars for a special evening meet-ing on Thursday, Sept. 29th. We are cancelling our usual Friday lunch meeting on September 30th so we can all get together for din-ner on Thursday the 29th. We hope to see our usual attendees plus our members that work during the day and can't make our Friday lunch meetings. We are using this meeting to invite our family mem-bers to attend and also any potential new members. Where we meet will de-pend on how many sign up to attend. We plan on a 6:30 social half hour with dinner at 7 PM. Please email me back and let me know if you can at-tend and if you are bring-ing a guest. We will contact everyone with the meeting location. Think about anyone you know that might like to help us help our commu-nity and have a whole bunch of fun while doing it. Let's work together to make this special meeting a huge success. Thank you, Roy Pulliam rapid14@aol.com

If you are interested in renewing or get-ting the Multiple District newsletter, you should go to the website: lionsmd19.com and then to the BORDER CROSSING link and sign up there. This is a good deal. Boarder Crossing needs to be renewed annually.

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F O R T V A N C O U V E R L I O N ’ S U P R O A R

MD19 Fall Convention

Hotel Information is on Page 5 of this Newsletter

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F O R T V A N C O U V E R L I O N ’ S U P R O A R

Sight Committee The Lions Sight Foundation of Clark County met on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. We received 55 applications for exams and glasses this month.. 9 appli-cations were denied: 6 needed more information; 1 non-resident; 1 had too many requests; and 1 had insurance. A total of 46 applications were reviewed and approved for exams and glasses. The Foundation voted to increase the amount that we pay for vision exams from $25 to $50, effective for vouch-ers signed after September 1, 2011. Our next meeting will be held at 6:30pm on Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at the Washington State School for the Blind.

Contact Roy for more information

Yakima Convention Hotels Prices in US funds & do not include taxes None of the hotels charge for parking. Headquarters : Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel, 9 North 9th St. Phone: 509-452-6511 Toll Free: 800-446-4656 Code MD19 Lions $84.00 Single Occupancy $89.00 Double Occupancy Breakfast included (Deadline for room reservations is 9/28/11) Additional Hotels: Deadline: September 12, 2011 1. Red Lion Yakima, 607 East Yakima Avenue, 800-733-5466 Code: MD19 Lions or Lions Clubs Inter-national $89.95 Single/Double Occupancy $99.95 Triple Occu-pancy 2. Cedars Suites, 1010 East “A” Street, 509-452-8101 $90.00 Single $98.00 Double 3. Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott, 137 North Fair Ave. 509-452-3100 $99.00 for all rooms 4. Hilton Garden Inn, 401 East Yakima Ave. 509-454-1111 $109.00 King & Double Queens 5. Holiday Inn, 802 East Yakima Ave. 509-494-7000 $99.00 for all rooms 6. Holiday Inn Express, 1001 East “A” St. 509-249-1000 $93.00 Single/Double 7. Ledgestone Hotel, 107 North Fair Ave. 509-453-3151 $109.00 Single Queen Suites 8. Oxford Inn, 1603 East Yakima Ave. 509-457-4444 $85.00 for all rooms 9. Oxford Suites, 1701 East Yakima Ave. 509-457-9000 $105.00 King & Double Queens RV Parking: Sun Tides RV and Golf Course, 231 Pence Rd. 509-966-7883 $33.00 per night 20 sites reserved Reserve ASAP.

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