Lions team screens eyes at Project Connect

Poulsbo Lions Club LIONS doing what they do best: Helping those in need get vision screening and eye exams at the Bremerton Salvation Army are Poulsbo Noon Lions Steve Calhoun, Elda Armstrong, Karen Reitan, Laurie Sarver and Gil Williams.

 

Project Connect coming next Tuesday

 

Poulsbo Lions will be on hand to do vision screening!

107 screened during Project Connect

7 Poulsbo Lions helped screen the vision of 107 people, mostly adults, during Project Connect yesterday. 100 people were given prescriptions in the 2-1/2 hours. Lions helping include Diane Mayda, Pauline Ostheller, Zone Chair Elda Armstrong, June Cotner, District Governor Pat Burch and his wife, Sherri, and Karen Reitan.

Free services and information Jan. 21

Project Connect on Tuesday January 21 from 10am-2pm. If you're struggling with housing or other needs, this event is a great time to stand up and be counted and connect with services. Help us spread the word so organizers know a north end event is justified. New location this year at Gateway Church, Poulsbo.

One-stop free services

NKHS Leos make quick work of assembling hygiene kits

 

Poulsbo Lions supervised North Kitsap High School Leos as they assembled 182 hygiene kits for Project Connect with things like travel-size toothpaste, shampoo, deodorant, etc. at the NKHS Commons Jan. 19.

 

A job well done. 

 

Poulsbo Lions supervise the event. 

 Great job LEOs!

Lions join Leos to assemble hygiene kits

 

Poulsbo Lions and North Kitsap High School Leos put together hygiene kits for the homeless on Jan. 21 in the North Kitsap High Commons. Leos not only collected donations for the kits, but helped to put them together, as well.

 

NKHS Leo Club Advisor Stephen Nolet chats with Lion Pat Burch. Our club gave these Leos $200 to spend purchasing items they couldn't get donated.

 

Stickers saying the kits are "courtesy of the Poulsbo Lions" are put on the plastic baggies holding the kit items by Lion Jay Dahlquist (bottom left) and Lion Roland Arper.

 

Items for the kits include shampoo, disposable razors, soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste and more. It's an assembly line! Any leftover items were being taken to places that serve the homeless - Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul.

Photos courtesy of Lion Karl Ostheller.

Bellringer limps over $26,000 mark; board notes

Here we are on January 7, and with $1,500 contributed recently by local firefighters, our Bellringer Fund surpassed $26,000, according to Lion Dennis Tesch. He added that Mike's Car Wash has yet to make its annual donation.

That report was given at today's board meeting, which also saw Dennis Peters sharing stats on the 2015 Fall Fling Dinner Auction:

8 Lions were responsible for 64% of the auction donations;
6 members collected 58% of the donations from businesses.
34 members made or collected donations.
34% of the auction items were collected by committee members.
7 members sold tickets.
4 members solicited sponsorships.
31% of our annual budget is from our auction.
60 bid numbers were handed out.
55 people bought something.

There will be a special board meeting at 11 a.m. on Thursday, January 21, to discuss if there will be an auction this year, and if so, who will chair or co-chair the event. If you're interested, please attend.

Karl Ostheller reported on our four Leo Clubs:

Our newest club is at Kingston Middle School (6-8th graders) where 68 students expressed interest in the club and attended one meeting. Ostheller is filling out an organization report to send to Lions International with $100 check and a list of the 40 students who make up the charter list. These are students who attended at least three meetings. The student-designed T-shirts look fabulous!

At Kingston High School, there are 6-10 students in the Leo Club. They organized a successful blood drive this past fall, and have their second set for March. They are planning on buying $50 worth of items for Project Connect, in addition to asking for donations for the hygiene kits.

Poulsbo Middle School Leo Club collected 20 big bags of clothes for the Fill the Bus campaign. They meet every other week with teacher advisor Kate Ebert.

And North Kitsap High School will help put together hygiene kits for Project Connect Jan. 21 at 3 p.m. in the Commons.

The board voted to donate $200 to purchase supplies needed for Project Connect hygiene kits. Pat Burch is collecting items, so members are asked to bring whatever shampoo, conditioner, lotion, disposable razors, soap, etc. they have to contribute to the kits.

Dates were discussed for the joint food drive with Rotary (March 18 and 19) and White Cane Days (May 6 and 7), as well as the Spring Conference (April 1 and 2 at the Red Lion in Olympia).

Lions and NK High Leos put together 360 kits

 

Poulsbo Lions and North Kitsap High School Leos came together January 22 at 3 p.m. to assemble 360 hygiene kits in the NKHS Commons. The kits include shampoo, toothpaste, toothbrush, deodorant, comb, disposable razor and soap. Above, President Dennis Peters and Lion Pauline Ostheller place stickers on the baggies saying the kits are compliments of "your local Lions club."

 

 



These NKHS Leos put together a lot of baggies (from left to right): Autumn Johnson, Madison Skansi, Jenae Arnold, and Gabriela Castilleja.

 

 

Lions Steve Calhoun and Sandi Dahlquist. The hardest part of assembling was closing the baggies!

 

 

Tables were set up as two different assembly areas, with people on each side of the tables.



 

Lions Pauline, Michele Grenier and Nancy Patzer (the latter two are Evening Pride Branch members).

 

Many hands make for light work. It took everybody approximately 30 minutes to put together all of the kits.

 

Lion Steve Calhoun and NK High Leo Sean Millard assembled their share of hygiene kits.

 

 

Lion Clubs in our zone had been collecting donated items for the kits for weeks.

 

 

Zone chairman Pat Burch shows off kits that filled up his car. Pat drove around to all of the clubs in the zone collecting donated items over the past several weeks.