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DISTRICT GOVERNOR
DENNIS GRANT
205/40 Watt Street
LARA VIC 3212
M: 0427 432 643
EDITOR
VALDA PRITCHARD
1/75 Christies Road
Leopold VIC 3224
P: 03 5250 1446
M: 0438 501 445
E: 201v2dg-
Dennis’ Dispatch Hello Fellow Lions & Partners As this is my first District Governor’s Newsletter article for 2019-2020, I would like to congratulate all the dedicated Lions who have accepted nominations to serve your Clubs as leaders, and wishing you all the success and have an enjoyable Lions year. To all those Members who have accepted the additional responsibilities of joining my Cabinet and serving the wider community of the District, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. By working together we can achieve good leadership of the District while enjoying each other’s company.
Incoming International President Dr Jung-Yui Choi’s theme for 2019-20 is WE SERVE - Through Diversity. All people in all places. Lions are a shining example to the world of the good that can be accomplished by uniting in harmony. We’re known for our strength and ability to help others, and this is only accomplished through Diversity. My theme for this year is “Together Little Things
Become Great”. If we can improve the life of one person in need in our community, by increasing our service through one additional Member or re-tain one more Member, and working together, we will be successful in achieving this goal. This year, I would like all Club Members to treat each other with respect, nothing destroys Clubs’ morale and abilities to serve their communities than lack of respect shown to Members, and I would encourage ALL Clubs to have this discussion early in the new Lions year. Remember that the Lions Code of Ethics is based on the values that we all should live by. The 2019-2018 Council of Governors adopted the Code of Conduct explaining the Ethics. I hope that you all have seen and read the Code of Conduct, if not, ask your Club Secretary for a copy. PDG Trevor Hirth, as Club Quality Initiative Coordinator, supported by Region and Zone Chairpersons, can assist with these discussions. As part of the District Cabinet I have strengthened our media presence by appointing Lion Jeanette Estreich (Point Cook) as Public Relations Officer, and if any Clubs need assistance in developing or improving their community profile, I am sure Jeanette will be only too happy to assist. By the time you, the Members, read this, both Lions Lady Shirley and I will be in Milan, Italy at the International Convention completing our final require-ments to return as District Governor 2019-2020 of District V2. We will return full of enthusiasm and “hit the ground running” after the District Changeover in Camperdown on July 13th. I would like to make mention of the Lions Club of City of Horsham Environ-mental Service Project to recycle plastic bottle tops. The collected tops are then used in molding prosthetic hands etc. for amputees. For further in-formation please contact PDG Margaret Sheriff of the City of Horsham Club. On behalf of the District I would like to thank IPDG Biddy and Lion Nick for the fantastic leadership and friendship shown to all of us during the past 12 months and I would like to wish them both all the best for their future endeavors.
July 2019 V2 NEWS
District Governor Dennis & Lions Lady Shirley
Dennis Grant District Governor
District Governor’s Newsletter 2019-2020
From the Desk of the Cabinet Secretary
Welcome to the 2019-2020 Lions year! Well, it appears that my “year with training wheels” has finished! I would like to thank all those Lions who helped me during my year as Assistant Cabinet Secretary, their guidance and advice has been im-measurable. I would also like to thank DG Dennis for offering me this opportunity to serve as YOUR Cabinet Secretary for 2019-2020. As you would all be aware, there have been a few problems with Lions gaining access to the Your Lion Account, hopefully by now most of these issues have been rectified for you all. However, if you are still experiencing difficulty, please do not hesitate to let me know. For those of you who attended the Club Develop-ment Days, thank you for giving up your time, and I hope that the Club Secretary Forums were of value to you. As I expressed in the forums, I am always available to assist with any queries and if I am unable to give you an answer straight away, I will endeavour to get back to you promptly with the information you re-quire. At the time of writing this, our District still has just under 500 Lions Members who do not have an email address (and some recorded incorrectly), in-correct phone numbers, addresses and date of birth, entered against their record in MyLCI. One of my goals for this Lions year is to get all these rec-ords updated as it is imperative that this infor-mation is accurate to allow the administration of our District to run efficiently. I look forward to working with all Club Secretaries and the District Cabinet Team over the following year. Lee-Ann Anselmo Cabinet Secretary [email protected]
V2 NEWS July 2019
Shirley’s Snippets After a tour of Italy (Rome, Florence and Venice), DG Dennis and I will be attending the International Convention in Milan, Italy, where we will complete our District Governor requirements before our return to Australia. Thank you to Lion Nick for organising the Partners’ tours as part of the Cabinet weekends. These have been interesting, giving us Partners the opportunity to appreciate the local history, cafes and wineries. Best wishes to IPDG Biddy and Lion Nick in your future endeavours. I am looking forward to meeting all the Lions and Partners as we visit each Club during the year, and hosting all the Cabinet Members’ Partners on the Partner Tours. I am looking forward to catching up with old and new friends at the District Changeover in Camperdown.
Lions Lady Shirley
DG DENNIS’ VISITATION SCHEDULE
July 2019
Sunday 14th July Region Meeting, Camperdown
Thursday 18th July Geelong Corio Bay
Monday 22nd July Footscray
Tuesday 23rd July Corio Norlane
Wednesday 24th July Altona
Thursday 25th July Sunshine
Friday 26th July Camp Koala
August 2019
Sunday 4th August Cabinet Meeting, Point Cook
Monday 5th August Macarthur & District
Tuesday 6th August Warrnambool
Thursday 8th August Camperdown
District V2 Lions Membership Opening Balance 30th April 1562 Add New Members 11 Reinstated/Transfers In 4 1577 Less Dropped/Deceased 23 Closing Balance 31st May 1554
Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
V2 NEWS July 2019
District Governor Dennis, Members and Partners of District 201 V2 welcome the following
new Members, and thank their Sponsors for introducing them into the Lions Family
CLUB NEW MEMBER SPONSOR BANNOCKBURN & DISTRICT Katherine Watt Peter Deutsher COLAC Cass Holloway Christopher Smith Greg Holloway Christopher Smith LEOPOLD Ross Warner Dennis Mitchell LISMORE & DISTRICT Peter Metcalfe Ted Goodacre Danni White Ted Goodacre MACARTHUR & DISTRICT Margaret Nield Helen Winnell MORTLAKE David Caudle Alan Wentworth POINT COOK Vinay Malhotra Tom Gilfillan PORTLAND Trisha Winthrop John Hurt RUPANYUP Susan Tyler Joanne Bourke
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS FOR ALL INCORPORATED CLUBS
These clubs are reminded that their Annual Meetings are to be held in August, and Annual Returns forwarded
to the Office of Fair Trading with the nominated fee (to be advised after July 1st), within one month
John Mitchell Constitution & By Laws Chairperson 2018-2020
V2 NEWS July 2019
Why Do We Lose Members? Member feedback is important, both to you and the District. We must know why we are losing Members. To date surveys have indicated four primary areas. Failure to work together as a team – Political and personal difference MUST be left outside of the meeting room. Personal differences can lead to poor communication and dissatisfied Members. We must learn to share the load and work together towards the same end. WE ARE A TEAM. Poor Meeting Quality - Lengthy, boring, unruly and uncoordinated meetings, poor chairmanship and the lack of agendas are some of the reasons why. Harmful Club Dynamics - Again those political, selfish and sometimes overbearing is-sues (eg poor attitudes towards new Members). Remind the Members of the Lions Ethics. Lack of involvement - People join to be involved - involve them!
DEVELOP THE GROUND RULES FOR YOUR MEETINGS REMEMBER ME? I'm the bloke who was asked to join the Club. I'm the bloke who paid twenty-five bucks to join, stood up in front of all of you and promised to be a loyal and faithful Lion. I'm the fellow who came to every meeting since that time, but no one paid any atten-tion to me. I tried several times to be friendly to some other fellows, but they all had their "buddies" that they had to talk to and sit next to. I hoped very much that someone would have asked me to take charge of the last fundraising project, but no one asked me. I wanted very much to do the job but no one noticed my hand when I volunteered. When I missed my first meeting because my wife was sick, no one at the next meeting asked me where I was. Gosh, I guess it didn't matter much to them whether I was present or not! So I decided to stay home and watch TV on the next meeting night. The following meeting I attended. Yet again, no one asked me where I was at the last meeting. You might say that I'm a good bloke, a good family man, that I hold a responsible job, and love my community. And you know who else I am? I'm the bloke who never came back! John Mitchell Global Membership Team
GLOBAL MEMBERSHIP TEAM
The more you weigh the harder you are to kidnap.
Stay safe! Eat Cake!
V2 NEWS July 2019
MEMBER WELFARE
The sincere sympathy of District Governor Dennis and Lions Lady Shirley, Lions and Partners are with those who loved ones have passed away since the last District Newsletter. To Lions Lady Sue Pat Brady (Ocean Grove Barwon Heads) on the sad passing of her husband Lion John Brady OAM, Lion Jeffrey Presser (Hamilton) on the sad passing of his wife, Lions Lady Jennifer Presser, Lions Lady Robyn Jewell (Kaniva) on the sad passing of her husband Lion Barry Jewell, Williams Family (Kaniva) on the sad passing of Lions Lady Helene Williams, Lion June & Lion David Underhay (Bannockburn & District) on the sad passing of Lion Judy’s father, Lion Jenny O’Keefe (Warrnambool) on the sad passing of her mother, Lion Lorraine McMillian (Warrnambool) on the sad passing of her husband Murray McMillan. District Governor Biddy & Lion Nick Weel would be pleased to hear of any Lions and/or Partners who are unwell to enable them to visit when they are in the area. To all our Lions who are unwell at this time, we wish you a speedy recovery. Get Well wishes are extended to Lion Jan John (Dimboola), Lions Lady Pam Budde (Dimboola) and Lion Max Budde (Dimboola). Congratulations to Lion Bill Coe (Coleraine) on his 70th Birthday. Lion Jim & Lions Lady Bernice Kent (Port Fairy Belfast) on their 60th Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations to Lion John Olsen (Geelong Corio Bay) on being awarded an Order of Australia Medal for services to children suffering from Cerebral Palsy and Leukodystrophy. Could all Clubs when sending in names of Members, please also include their address and, in the case of deaths, the date the person died and if they had any awards in Lions. This information is needed for the Remembrance Book.
Edna Uniacke District Membership Care & Welfare Officer E: [email protected] M: 0409 400 693
IMPORTANT CONVENTION DEADLINES
I remind Clubs of several important dead-lines for the 201V2 District Convention to be held at Nhill, from Friday 8th November to Sunday 10th Novem-ber 2019. District Project Notices of Motion which relate to a District Project 10th August (90 days before Convention), Notices of Motion 9th September (60 days before Convention). Applications for Host Club for 2021 Convention 9th September (60 days before Convention). Nominations for District Governor 9th September (60 days before Convention). Nominations for First Vice District Governor 9th September (60 days before Convention). Nominations for Second Vice District Governor 9th September (60 days before Convention). Nominations for Victorian Lions Foundation Council 9th October (30 days before Convention). Nominations for Licola Board 9th October (30 days before Convention). If a motion is to be submitted proposing a District Project please note that the provisions of Article 9, Section 2 of the District 201V2 Constitution must be complied with. For details regarding Late Notices of Motion see Article 9, Section 4. Please note that they By-Laws Rule 13 state that “A motion shall be affirmative in form…..” John Mitchell District Constitution & By Laws Chairperson
V2 NEWS July 2019
MUCH NEEDED EXPANSION TO CURRENT PREMISES AT VERDON
IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
This is the exciting news released at MD Convention at Geelong early in May, and above are the Artist’s images of the planned expansions, showing the enlargement and renovation of the existing Administration Building and the overall extensions to the Training Areas and State-Of-The-Art Kennel complex to house 50 dogs and two purpose built training houses. Alterations will be completed in four stages to allow the staff to continue working, training and delivering dogs with minimum disruption to routine. Stage One (The Administration Building) is expected to commence in 2021 with total project completion five years from that date. The Lions Clubs of Australia will not be asked to fund this building project, we are sourcing Corporate funding. However, if any Clubs chooses to make a donation to the Building Project, it would be gratefully accepted. Our Annual Appeal will still be conducted early each year as we still need the support and donations from your Clubs to finance the acquisition and training of dogs. More news next month…… The Board of Directors, CEO & Staff Australian Lions Hearing Dogs
City of Horsham Collection
The City of Horsham Lions Club Inc. have established a Lions Cub Program to encourage young families to be involved in Community Service.
The Cubs assist in many of our projects but this new project is run by the
Cubs with the assistance of Members.
They are collecting bottle caps Type 2 & 4 to assist Envision, a not-for-profit Organisation, who use them to make and then donate 3D printed prosthetic
hands and arms for children in under resourced countries. The Cubs sort the caps and get them ready for packaging.
Pictured are Lion Cubs Cameron, Calista & Emma with City of Horsham President PDG Allan Henderson sorting bottle tops for the Cubs Project.
V2 NEWS July 2019
Laptops from lions project
A Portland lions club project in conjunction with
I founded the project after I ran out of space on my laptop, (it apparently didn’t want to accept another 5000 photos from our recent holiday). After thinking about different options, expanding the memory/new computer/clearing crap off my computer (not that I had a lot of crap on it, maybe a few backups from my I Phone, and literally thousands of photos), I decided to up-grade to a new laptop with bigger memory. I was about to do what most people do with old laptops – put it in the cupboard and forget about it. I wasn’t too happy about stuffing it in a cupboard, as it was only a few years old and still in really good condition. Then a family friend in Queensland, who was originally from Heywood, was talking about how she was struggling to be able to afford a computer for her son who was about to start year nine. So I set about getting my old laptop cleared and refurbished. Once this was done, we posted it to her for her son. They got it just in time for Christmas last year. That’s when I started thinking about how many other students’ parents were struggling to be able to afford a laptop for their sons and daughters, for school. Also how many other laptop computers are sitting in drawers and under beds collecting dust? So I started to make a few enquiries to local schools on how a project of refurbished and free laptops would be able to help local students in need. The response was quite amazing on how many students there were just in our local area. So I had a conversation with Lion Michael Hunter about my ideas (Michael owns and runs Icon Investments, Portland’s largest computer store). He agreed to refurbish the laptops at no charge for the project. Next on my list was to sort out the legalities of people handing over personal items to be cleared and refurbished and then being given to students. Lion Pat Howman (who owns and runs HBH Legal) was next on my list of people to see. After speak-ing with him for about half an hour one afternoon, a meeting was set up with Lion Michael Hunter about getting a legal docu-ment drawn up for the change of ownership for the laptops to be donated, which his company did for us. Final person on my list was Andrew Bryant from Portland Signworks to get a logo drawn up for the project. Andrew is not a Lion but I knew him from when I was in business. He not only designed the logo, but also helped with the certificates, stickers and our large sign. We then decided that we needed to have an official launch to help get the project out there into the community. So we held a night at Michaels’ shop for the launch. The ‘Portland Observer’ did an article to also help get the project out into the public. Also many shops in Portland and businesses have also displayed our A4 poster in their shop windows and on staff and commu-nity notice boards. As of last week we have had about 35 laptops donated, which is a fantastic start to the project and have about six ready to go out to local school students. So now the project is up and going with the hope that other Lions Clubs may also look at the project for their local area. For further information please email Lion Wendy Godfrey at [email protected] **If other Clubs are interested in taking on the project, I will have a package set up shortly with all the paperwork ready to go for them. (So they don’t have to get legal forms drawn up etc.) Therefore all the Club has to do is determine a need in their local area, and find a computer store willing to clear and refurbish the computers. Package will include: (All will be in PDF format and sent out by email) when I get this sorted Letters to schools Request forms for Laptops/I Pads Thank you Certificates Waiver & Release document Posters for shop windows etc General Information on Project Maybe some stickers to start them off??? PDG Terry Uniacke Lions Club of Portland
V2 NEWS July 2019
CONGRATULATIONS LION JOHN OLSEN OAM
Thirty people attended a “Very Special English Breakfast” on the Queen’s Birthday, Monday 10th June 2019, to celebrate the announcement of Lion Kerry “John” Olsen, as recipient of an Order of Australia Medal for his services to children suffering from Cerebral Palsy and Leukodystrophy. John’s extraordinary long term commitment to helping these children has included three solo long distance fundraising walks across Australia. Past District Governor Trevor Hirth, former Chairman of the Australian Lions Children’s Foundation (ALCMF), congratulated John on behalf of the ALCMF and Lion Brian Edward read a congratulatory letter from Sister Julie Thomas, CSB, OAM, a Leukodystrophy sufferer and the founder of the organisation now named Leukodystrophy Australia Inc. Needless to say, John was elated by the announcement and is presently wearing a permanent 24 hour grin - so well deserved! Should you wish to extend congratulations to John, he is contactable (M) 0427 849 901 and his postal address is 59 Barrabool Road, Belmont, 3216
Re-Advertised Position - Convention Standing Committee The duty of the Convention Standing Committee is to liaise between the Cabinet and Convention Organising Committees for the purpose of assisting with the planning and management of District Conventions. There is a vacancy for ONE Lion on the Convention Standing Committee. The Member appointed will nominally assume their position from 1st January, 2019 for a period of three (3) years, and their main responsibility will be for the 2020 Convention. The Convention is to be hosted by the Lions Club of Ararat. It is not a necessity, but is an advantage, to be within a reasonable travelling distance of Ararat, as the applicant is expected to attend most meetings of the Convention Planning Committee. Applications are preferred prior to 31st July, 2019. Appointment will be made at the first Cabinet Meeting of 2019-20 in August. Applications to the Cabinet Secretary,. [email protected] Convention Guidelines are available by email from C&BL Chairman John Mitchell at [email protected] John Mitchell District Constitution & By Laws Chairperson
V2 NEWS July 2019
Cakes and Mints
Hi All I am pleased to advise that I will be your District Cake Chairperson for 2019-2020 and I look forward to continuing with the great job that outgoing chairperson Terry Parsons has carried out over the past few years. Our “Lions Christmas Cakes” have been a great fundraiser for Clubs for many years but I wonder how many Members understand that they are also a “Magical” resource because, on the 26th December, they then become “Lions Fruit Cakes” and so still ready to be sold all year round. Clubs are also encourage to order Mini Fruit Cakes and have them on hand at Barbecues, street stalls etc. or to sell them on to local business-es, Nursing Homes, sporting clubs, su-permarkets etc. The possibilities are end-less. By selling our Lions Christmas Cakes, both large and small, Clubs not only raise funds directly from the profits of their sales but that the makers, Westons Foods Top Taste also pay a premium on overall sales to our District, thus providing more funds to help our communities and keep Members’ costs down. Lion Mints For all those Clubs that currently sell our Lion Mints, you may be pleased to know that there are now sugar-free mints available as well as a new product, Travel Mints. These are delicious mints in a plastic container which are ideal to put in your car or truck when travelling, for example. Suggested ideas for these, and the other Mint items, are to place them in Caravan Parks, Transport Companies, Nursing Homes, Local Supermarkets, Estate Agents, Car Sales Offices or wherever else comes to mind. Our Cake and Mint sales have been dropping off in the past few years and we must all do our best to ensure that these don’t fall by the wayside. They are not only a great fundrais-ing opportunity but also great advertising by putting the Lions name out there in front of the public. PDG Terry Uniacke Cakes & Mints Chairperson
DISTRICT V2 TRAVEL GAVEL
The “Travelling Gavel” , inside a beautifully built red gum box, continues to travel around our District. The purpose of the box is twofold. The Gavel will raise money for our own “V2 Charitable Fund”, because the Club in possession of it must pay $5 per day for the time it is with them. This, in turn, will encourage Clubs to visit one another to pass it on. There are wonderful advantages to visiting other Clubs. The sharing of Fellowship is paramount, but often as a bonus, you will see and hear other ideas that your as a Club can try. Inside the box under the gavel you will find information about the Charitable Fund as well as details about where to send your Club’s donation. Remember $5 a day until it is passed to another Club. There is also a small book in the bottom of the box that we ask you to fill out when you are transferring the box to another Club. This allows us to see which Clubs the box has been to. Just for your information, donations are to be sent to: V2 Charitable Fund Treasurer PDG Bill Duncanson PO Box 86 Camperdown VIC 3260 We ask that the box is brought to the District Changeover each year, by the Club in possession of it at that time. PDG Trevor Hirth
From the Editor At the last Cabinet Meeting in June, it was decided that, as from January 2020, there will no longer be District Governor’s Newsletter mailed out to Members. This means that Members who do not have email access will need to ask another Member, or the Secretary of their Club, to print off a copy for them. It will also mean that there will be a reduction in District Dues in the second half year Club invoice. There will be another reminder contained in the November edition so that those Members affected can make other arrangements. Valda Pritchard Newsletter Editor
V2 NEWS July 2019
Men at work!
It was all hands to the tools when Victoria’s Torquay Lions joined with local RSL members to work on the garden of a veteran’s home that had got out of control. From left are Neil Roche, Murray Heard, John Bell, Allen Osman and Theo Reyntjes. Torquay RSL and Torquay Lions have a record of helping each other’s pro-jects over a number of years. Great job fellas
Gary Poon from Lions Club of Footscray was the recipient of the very prestigious Melvin Jones Fellowship. A very quiet young man but a huge contributor to the community. But Guys……..you could have taken it out of the plastic!
V2 NEWS July 2019
The 43rd Lions International Convention will be hosted by the Lions Club of Nhill in
November, but no time like now, to get your bed booked.
The “Land of the Lowan” will become the “Land of the Lions” for 2 days
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V2 NEWS July 2019
ALL THINGS CHANGEOVER & SOCIAL!
V2 NEWS July 2019
