President: Jerry Tecca Bulletin Editor: John Budzak Jr.

Volume 63 Issue 6 December 2016

Puyallup Lions Club

2nd & 4th Wednesdays

6:30 PM

Mrs Turners Restaurant

Puyalluplions.com

Email: Puyallup.lions@gmail.com

President: Jerry Tecca

VP Kent Sharpe

Secretary John Budzak Jr

Treasurer Dave Hilderbrant

Tail Twister Neil Gruchalla

Lion Tamer Vacant

1 yr Board Terri Soliz

2 yr Board Anne Rhyner

Membership Brian O’Bannon

IPKL Vacant

PR John Budzak Jr

Inside This Issue:

Page 2 Pictures Month

Page 3 International

Page 3 Membership

Page 3 Project Spotlight

Page 4 News and Notes

Page 4 Upcoming Events

Page 5 Lions Information

Page 5 Potpourri

Page 6 Program Info

Page 6 Misc. Info

Page 6 Calendar

Forgotten Heroes

How many people in Puyallup have heard the name 1st Lieutenant Victor L. Kandle? I admit that I had never heard his name until I read about him on Veteran’s day this past year. He graduated from Puyallup High School just prior to World War II. He was killed in action on December 31st, 1944 somewhere in Europe. But what he did almost two months earlier near La Forge France is what I found so in-teresting. On a foggy day he led a reconnaissance patrol against a German stronghold that had held up an Allied ad-vance for three days. He led his men against fortified posi-tions taking out a machine gunner himself with accurate rifle fire. Then he ran across an open field in full view of a squad of Germans smashed through a fortified door and caused the surrender of 32 enemy combatants. In the end his leadership and individual heroism accounted for three enemy strongholds destroyed, the seizure of an enemy stronghold and the capture of 3 officers and 54 enlisted men. On May 9th, 1945 he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Do you know there is nothing to honor this brave man from Puyallup in this town? There is no street named after him, no park or no building named in his memory. That is a sad state of affairs. Do you know how many every day heroes there are in this city? Unless they were school board members that had schools named after them there is nothing named after an-yone in this city. How many forgotten heroes are there in this great town? How many volunteers that have given back? How many leaders that have truly made a difference in this town? Maybe there should be a change, maybe we should honor a few heroes.

Pictures of the Month

Upper Left: Lions Terri

and Dee Gabriel serving

chili, Upper Right: Lion

Neil and Dave at the

Homeless Feed.

Center Left: Lion Rick and

Senior at the Homeless

Feed. Center Right: The

Tree Unloading Gang

Lower Right; Lions Jerry

and Jank. Lower Right Li-

ons Dave, Sr and Erica

International Corner

Lions Clubs Code of Ethics

To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to

the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.

To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questiona-ble acts on my part.

To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to my-self.

Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or ac-tion towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.

To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friend-ship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.

Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.

To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.

To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.

With the upcoming year soon to begin we will be fo-cusing oin a spring time membership drive to try to get some new members into our club. To do this we need a few things from each member. If we want to be successful and move forward into the next 100 years of service we need to accom-plish this.

1. We need each member to provide two names, addresses, phone num-bers and email of some-one that you think would be someone that would be interested in commu-nity service.

2. We need a few short words on why you joined Lions Club so that it can be put into a presenta-tion for recruitment. What LCI has is great but a personal one from our members would be better.

3. Think of a business you frequent that may have someone that could be wanting a way to perform community service. Give that address so when we send out invitation we can include them. More next month.

Project Spotlight

The Puyallup Lions have had a history of providing some kind of a celebration during the holiday season. This year we will be providing the Senior Citizens in our community a free breakfast like we have been doing for the last several years. This is our last breakfast we will be cooking. In the past we have provided a Breakfast with Santa with all of the other clubs in the area for the Children with other Abilities and for a long while provided Christmas to those that were in the Good Samaritan Hospital Rehab Center. With the ending of the Senior Breakfast this could be the end of the Holiday parties for the community. We may nerd to find a new event to undertake next year.

Membership

Meeting Cancellations: The meeting of December 28th is being can-celled due to the holidays. We will resume our normal schedule of meetings in January.

Lion Kent Sharpe felt bad after unloading Trees and equipment on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and went to the Hospital. At first he was told he had a minor heart attack, but that turned into a triple bypass early Monday morning. He is resting comfortably and should be home soon. Get better quick Kent.

Lion Rick Adamson and his wife just celebrat-ed their 36th anniversary. Congratulations to them both.

Lion John Budzak Jr and his wife Tracie cele-brated their 32nd wedding anniversary re-cently.

Lion Melissa Budzak recently changed jobs. She is now working full time for Bargreen El-lingson rather than only part time. She no longer drives school bus as a full time posi-tion opened up at that other company. Con-gratulations to Melissa. Special Thanks to the people who came down and helped unload Christmas Trees. A former members daughter, Sonya Baker Zei-genfelder brought her church group down to help, Lion Amy brought her kids down and some of their friends with Tarjei being a huge help up in the truck. Additionally we had some Boy Scouts from Troop 525 that came down to assist us (my old troop from back be-fore time.) Also can’t forget Lion Ed’s grand-sons who really helped as well. Thanks to all who worked so hard.

News and Notes

Senior Breakfast: The Senior Breakfast will be on December 10th at the Activity Center. This is our last one and we do both the front and rear of the house for this one. We need extra people to make this a success. Please ask others to come down and help to serve and clear tables.

Feed-In No Feed in during the month of De-cember. We will start again in January

Time to start thinking about next years offic-ers. It is time to look into what you want to do next year to make our club run efficiently. Start thinking about what position you would like to fill. More information next month.

Christmas Tree Sale is in progress and we need help, especially during the weekends. We have one fewer member that cannot work the sale at all this year so we need every able bodied person to come down and sell trees. This is our largest fund raiser of the year and without all of our help it cannot be successful. Please drop by the Tree-Sale and sign up for a shift or two. Covington Lions Special thanks go out to these great friends of the Puyallup Lions Club. Their four years of working with us in our Chili cook-off were greatly appreciated. This was the last year they will be helping us with this project. Thank you for all you did.

Upcoming Events

The Puyallup Lions have been in three Zones during their existence, C-3, C8 , C-5 and then returned to C-3. We have had members that were Zone Chairs in each of the Zones.

We have had four members that were Dis-trict Governors in our Club. Lee McGee in 70-71, Elmer Goff in 73-74, Larry Schrodt in 76-77 and Larry Grace in 93-94. Lion Larry Schrodt went on to become a Coun-cil Chair and an International Director .

One of our former members, Earle Shoupe , was a glider pilot in World War II. He participated in D-day and several other major battles.

Another former member of our club Thomas Shoji Takemura was interned in the Fairgrounds at Camp Harmony before going to Montana to harvest sugar. There is a very interesting article on his life in an interview he did in 1991 for a student at UW Tacoma.

Our first dunk tank was a swimming pool with seats over the pool. There was a button that was pushed when someone hit the target. The pool failed on the the last day of the air flooding out a Belgium Waffle stand. All told we had or built five different Dunk tanks including a one seat-er that was rented out to small organiza-tions.

Fun Facts About December:

When we use the abbreviation X-Mas we are not dishonoring anything. It was a shorthand version derived from the Greek tradition in that X is the Greek letter “CHI” which is short for “Christ” in Greek.

On December 3, 1967 the first Heart Transplant was performed in South Africa

December 1, 1918 Iceland became a self governing Kingdom united with Denmark

December 8, 1980 John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City

December 16, 1773 the Boston Tea party occurred.

December 17, 1903 the Wright Brothers first flew at Kittyhawk

December 5, 1901 Walt Disney Born

December 14, 1799 General George Washington dies

December 20, 1803 the United States took over the Louisiana Purchase

December 27th is National Chocolate Day

December 2, 1942 scientists in Chicago achieve the first controlled nuclear chain reaction

December 10, 1898 Spain ceded the Phil-ippines to the United States

December 29, 1845 Texas admitted to the Union

December 24, 1814 the United States and Brittan signed the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812.

December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

Lions Information

Potpourri

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Tree Sale

2

Tree Sale

3

Tree Sale

4

Tree Sale

5

Tree Sale

6

Tree Sale

7

Tree Sale

8

Tree Sale

9

Tree Sale

10

Breakfast

Tree Sale

11

Tree Sale

12 Jud Carr

Birthday

Tree Sale

13

Tree Sale

14 Regular/

Board Mtg.

15

Tree Sale

16

Tree Sale

17

Tree Sale

18

Tree Sale

19

Tree Sale

20

Tree Sale

21

Tree Sale

22

Tree Sale

23

Tree Sale

24

25 26 27 28 29 30 31

December 2016

Programs

12/14

Board Meeting/ discussion on programs wanted

12/28

No Meeting due to Holi-days

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

May this holiday season bless you all with health, happiness and joy. May you not have to much stress during this season. Remember this is not a great time for everyone. Please be considerate and caring for those that are hurting during the holiday season. Be there for them if they need you.