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Lion Ken Habiger 2101 W 144th St Leawood, KS 66224

September 2010 We Serve

The Roar of the Leawood Lions

Club Calendar 2010

September 6 – Pancakes at the City of Leawood Labor Day Run – see message below. September 14 - Board of Directors Meeting @ 5:00 p.m.; Membership Meeting @ 6 p.m. - Leawood City Hall. See program information below. September 18 – Candy Days – see message below. September 20 – Leawood City Council Meeting – Pancake Days Proclamation September 28 – Membership Meeting @ 6 p.m. - Leawood City Hall. See program

information below. October 12 - Board of Directors Meeting @ 5:00 p.m.; Membership Meeting @ 6 p.m. - Leawood City Hall. October 15, 16, 17 – Pancake Days – see message below. October 26 – Membership Meeting @ 6 p.m. - Leawood City Hall. November 9 - Board of Directors Meeting @ 5:00 p.m.; Membership Meeting @ 6 p.m. - Leawood City Hall. November 23 – Membership Meeting and Zone Meeting @ 6 p.m. - Leawood City Hall. December 4 – Breakfast with Santa – 8 a.m. -12 p.m. at Ironwood Lodge.

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6. Pancakes for Leawood’s Labor Day Run – We will again be providing pancakes, juice, and coffee at Leawood’s Labor Day Run which will be held on Labor Day, September 6. The race starts at 7:30 AM and we need to be ready to serve pancakes by 7:45 AM. The race will start and end at the Leawood City Park, 10601 Lee Blvd, and pancakes will be served at the Lions Shelter. If you are in town that day, please come to the

Club Meeting Programs 09/14 Program – Ian Jolliffe, a scout with Troop 10, will describe his Eagle Scout project, which will be to perform maintenance activities at the Linwood Pioneer Cemetery. In addition, David Dwyer, Steve Nickelson, and Rick Waldenmeyer will each provide 6 – 8 minute bio-data sketches to allow us to get better acquainted with our membership. 09/28 Program – Folsom Prison Video which features a project of the Sacramento Lions Club. 10/12 Program – Tentatively, Gary Crist will discuss Boys Hope/Girls Hope. (Program has not been confirmed and is subject to change.)

District Activities 09/25 Sight Van Volunteers Needed. The Overland Park Host Club will have the Kansas Lions Sight Van at the Overland Park Festival and needs volunteers to help staff the van. Please let Big Lion Chris Wright or Lion Doris Nelmes know if you are interested.

Club Reports & News

1. Board of Directors Report from the August 24th meeting:

1. The Board voted to provide free pancakes at the upcoming Pancake Days to active and reserve military personnel. In addition, business card sized ads to be placed on placemats at Pancake Days will be sold to area businesses for $25.

2. A new road sign with the Lions insignia and meeting dates will be procured and placed near 117th & Roe.

3. Lions Club International is offering two awards through the Young Leaders in Service Awards program for fiscal year 2010 – 2011. The first, the Young Leaders in Service Outstanding Achievement Award will be given to the 10 youth who have

completed the most service hours. The second will be a certificate that will be given to the top ten districts who have submitted the most Young Leaders in Service Awards.

2. Linwood Pioneer Cemetery Care -- Big Lion Chris requests all who wish to help with mowing the cemetery to please contact him or Lion Bruce Deering. The timing of mowing depends on weather and temperature conditions. 3. New Directories are being prepared. Please advise Big Lion Chris Wright or Secretary Lion Doris Nelmes of any changes in your personal or contact information right away. 4. CLUB DUES for 2010/2011 are past due!! If you have not paid already, please do so ASAP.

ANNUAL DUES: (Individual): $95ANNUAL DUES: (Family)*: $142.50* Family dues based on full individual rate plus one-half of full rate for spouse. SEND TO: Doris Nelmes, Secretary 7575 W. 106th St., #463, Overland park, KS 66212 OR Charles Schutty, Treasurer 5520 W. 63rd Terrace Mission, KS 66202

5. Food Items -- Remember to bring food items for the food pantries to our meetings. See the Hunger Initiative Story below.

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park for a pancake breakfast and to help out. Plan to arrive by 7:00 AM. 7. Candy Days – On September 18, our club will have a Candy Days drive to solicit funds for the Kansas Lions Sight Foundation and/or the KU Department of Ophthalmology. We will be giving away candy and collecting donations at the following locations.

Wal-Mart, 158th & Metcalf (2 doors) Wal-Mart, 119th & Metcalf (1 door) Hy Vee, 123rd & State Line (2 doors)

Shifts at each location will be 10 AM – 12 PM, 12 PM – 2 PM, and 2 PM – 4 PM. Lion Jim Bays is leading our Candy Days drive. Contact Lion Jim to sign up. 8. Pancake Days Committee News – Pancake Days, our major fundraiser, will be held this year on October 15, 16, and 17. Tickets to this event are now available and are being distributed. Each Lion is being provided with 30 tickets for sale to the public. Please do your best to sell at least 30 tickets, and more if possible. Some of our past biggest sellers are no longer with us or are not physically able to participate. We need for other Lions to step up and fill the gap. If you are not able to sell your tickets, please consider making a financial contribution to the club. If you need more tickets, contact Lion Ken Habiger or Big Lion Chris Wright. The Pancake Committee is working on new ideas to increase awareness of and attendance at Pancake Days. Lion Gary Flick has secured commitments from Jeff Montgomery and the Missouri Comets indoor soccer team to be present on Saturday morning, October 16. Mayor Peggy Dunn has agreed to proclaim October 15, 16, and 17 as Leawood Lions Pancake Days. The proclamation will be made at the Leawood City Council meeting on September 20th. Flyers advertising Pancake Days will be handed out to participants of the Leawood Labor Day Run and to the public at our upcoming September 18 Candy Days. Additional flyers are available for handout. If you would like a

supply of flyers to distribute, contact Lion Ken Habiger or Big Lion Chris Wright. New yard signs have been procured for placement at strategic intersections during Pancake Days. We are exploring ideas for getting high school football fans to come for pancakes prior to the Friday night football games on October 15. Do you have any contacts at our local high schools that may be able to help with this? If you do, please let Lion Gary Flick know.

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Meeting Reports

08/10 Program – Our own Lion, Lee Shultz was the speaker. Lion Lee is the Honorary Consul for the Republic of South Africa in this area (Mo & KS). He presented a program about South Africa and what he does as its Consul in this area.

Lion Lee Shultz (left) visits with others at his table prior to his presentation.

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Lion Lee Shultz discusses his duties as Honorary Consul for the Republic of South Africa. 08/24 Program – Detective Kevin Boehm of the Kansas City, MO police department presented a program on Crime Stoppers. Kevin reported that Crime Stoppers is a three-pronged effort of community/law enforcement and media working together in the fight against crime. Since the program began in 1982, over 113,000 callers have furnished information to solve crimes and over $22 million in property and narcotics have been recovered. Over $1 million in cash rewards have been paid to tipsters.

Detective Kevin Boehm of the Kansas City, MO police Department discusses Crime Stoppers.

Other Information – The Kansas Lions Sight Foundation Mobile Screening Unit will be at the Kansas State Fair on September 10 – 19 for health screenings from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM each

day. Volunteer help is needed each day. See the attached for more information. Blue Valley North Band Trash Bag Sales are back with a new low price of $10 for blue 16 count 55 gallon, yellow 25 count 39 gallon or white 65 count 15 gallon plastic bags. Paper bags are 50 for $25. Please contact Grant Flick at 913-338-0753 to place your order and yes, he will deliver to your home or Lions meeting. If you want to catch the band in action, their first performance is Friday September 3rd at the Blue Valley District Complex at 135th & Switzer or at the Grand Re-opening of Wal-Mart on 117th & Metcalf on Sept 10th.

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Member Information and Updates Lion Bud Powell passed away on August 6, 2010. Please keep his wife, Marian, in your prayers. Contributions in Lion Bud’s memory may be made to the Leawood Lions Foundation. These tax deductible contributions should be sent to our Treasurer, Charles Schutty, at 5520 West 63rd Terrace, Mission, KS 66202. MENDING AND REPAIRING LIST --- Keep these fellow Lions in your prayers! Marie Britt (Lion Ken Britt’s wife) Kay Fisher (Lion Gil Fisher’s wife) Dale Greene (Lion Ed Greene’s wife) Mary Kay Jensen (Lion Win Jensen’s wife) Lion Bill Murfey Lion John Pitnick Lion Skip Skaptason Lion Don Stewart Please remember our Lions who are ill by calling them or visiting.

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Visit our Website: www.leawoodlions.org

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Meeting Place: Oak Room, Leawood City Hall, 117th & Roe. Meeting Dates: 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of each Month. Meeting Times: 6:00 PM Social Hour, 6:45 PM Dinner Meeting

********************* LinkedIn Page - Lion Gary Flick has created a LinkedIn Groups page for the Leawood Lions Club at: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1828462/ 2010-2011 Leawood Lions Officers

President – Chris Wright Past President – Harry Malnicof 1st Vice President – Ken Habiger 2nd Vice President – Bruce Deering 3rd Vice President – David Sails Secretary – Doris Nelmes Treasurer – Chuck Schutty Chaplain – Don Stewart Tail Twister – Dayton Koch Lion Tamer – Alan Callaway 2nd Year Board – Dayton Koch, Gene Tinberg, Gary Flick 1st Year Board – Rick Waldenmeyer, Lee Schultz, David Dwyer

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Update on the Leawood Lions’ Hunger Initiative. In late 2008 National Organizations reported a substantial increase in requests for food assistance. Local Food Pantries were facing special difficulty from greatly increased demand for their help and/or depletion of resources.

Our Response to this crisis affecting local families was the Leawood Lions Club Hunger Initiative to provide meaningful assistance to local area food pantries.

In December 2008, the Leawood Lions Foundation distributed gifts of $400 each to thirteen food pantries serving the needy in Johnson and Wyandotte Counties. The Leawood Lions Club issued a challenge to other Lions Clubs and civic groups to provide donations to individual pantries. The Leawood Lions Foundation provided an additional $2,600.00 to help those 13 food pantries during the spring 2009. In January 2010, the Leawood Lions and the Leawood Lions Foundation authorized an additional contribution of $200 to each of those food pantries ($2,600 total). Most recently, in May 2010, the Leawood Lions and the Leawood Lions Foundation authorized another additional contribution of $200 to each of those food pantries ($2,600 total). (See the attached thank you note from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.) With this recent contribution, the total contributions since the project started in December 2008 is $13,000 ($1,000 for each pantry). We have supplemented our collective contributions with an Individual Food Contribution Initiative. Each Leawood Lion is asked to bring one food item for each member of their household to each of our meetings. These items are then distributed by Lion Dale Curtin and other members of the Benevolent Committee to the food pantries we are working with.

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Leawood Lions Foundation The Foundation is our Club’s charitable affiliate that supports our charitable programs. Because the Foundation is a tax-exempt charity under section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, contributions are tax deductible for income tax (life-time gifts) and estate tax

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purposes. You and friends and family can help with our Club’s charitable programs by including a bequest to the Foundation in your will or trust. Here is some sample bequest language.

1. Bequest of cash

"I bequeath the sum of $XXXXX to the Leawood Lions Foundation of Leawood, Kansas."

2. Bequest of a percent of the estate

"I devise and bequeath XX% of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to Leawood Lions Foundation of Leawood, Kansas."

3. Contingent Bequest

"If my brother John Doe survives me, I devise and bequeath XX% of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to John Doe. If John Doe does not survive me, then I devise and bequeath XX% of my residuary estate, whether real or personal property and wherever located to Leawood Lions Foundation of Leawood, Kansas."

Review your desires with your attorney to make sure they are properly included in your estate plan documents.

KANSAS LIONS SIGHT FOUNDATION MOBILESCREENING UNIT IS GOING TO THE KANSAS STATE FAIR

SEPTEMBER 10-19

The Kansas Lions Sight Foundation will have the Unit open for screeningsfrom 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM each day. During that time period volunteer help is needed

and the number are 5 volunteers to cover the operation of the MSU each day. Can be two shifts.From 4:00 PM to 9 PM the Foundation needs to have two people at the

MSU but no screenings taking place.Need to have medical testing certification trained people also for blood pressure and diabetes

checks.

Each person helping out will receive a free pass to the State Fair for that day.Also hoping that one car, for a group, will receive a gate pass for vendors which is

inside the Fair Grounds for parking and close to the location of the trailer.The Trailer will be inside the North Sunflower Building. It is airconditioned. Should be comfortable tour of duty to "We Serve".

CALL RON BRETZTO SIGN UP TO HELP3 I 6-283 -192 1 0R 3 I 6-7 7 2-7 7 40

ORSYLVIA REINHARDT

Heartland Lions Eye Banks78s-650-0661 OR 7 8s-259-07 69

The objectives are to provide free screenings for sight, hearing, blood pressure and diabeteschecks

Advertise what Lions Clubs of Kansas are doing for their communities in Kansas.

July 3, ZALA

Dear Mr. Curtin:

Thank you very much for bringing the Leawood Lions Club contributions to thePantry at St. Paul's! They are deeply appreciated,

You asked at that time I send some materials, so I am pleased to do sol

St Paul's Episcopal Church is located in the middle of the two poorest ZIP codes inKansas! Since it's founding in 1857, over L50 years ago, St. Paul's has been feedingits neighbors, beginning with Indians living in the area. The Pantry as we know itbegan forty years ago and two years ago moved to the larger space we occupy at thenorth end of the lower level, under the high Altar, just in time for the recession!

The need has not diminished, In fact we see it increasing every year. With an agingcongregation, however, we depend very much on the generosity of persons likeyourself and your group, living in suburban areas, to keep this work going'

Each household that qualifies may come monthly, We feed approximately 800-1000persons per month, We give both commodities, originating with the U,S.

government, and other food obtained through Harvesters and through directdonations.

The Breakfast, offered free every Saturday morning at 9:30AM for the last L3 years,

was begun here by members of St. Michael and All Angels Church at 67OA Mission

Road. Now volunteers come from all over Kansas City to help each week. Persons

interested in donating to the Breakfast or volunteering with it should contact Miss

]ulie Marcus at 9L3-46t-7733. Volunteers interested in the Pantry may contact ourvolunteer coordinator, Kim Palmer at 913- 321-3535. Our volunteers discover a

fulfilling experience here, Over 600 volunteer hours are given monthly! These

feeding ministries at St. Paul's are part of the Hunger Relief Network of EpiscopalCommunity Services in Kansas City,

Please let me know if there are any questions, or if your group would be interestedin coming for a tour.

Again, thankyou very much for your kind generosityl

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Gail Reynolds, Deacon and on-site Manager