Ostheller, Shields return home with awards

There were 250 Lions at the District 19C Spring Convention April 1 and 2 at the Red Lion in Olympia. They came together to play golf and croquet, listen to seminars, eat, play and be merry! Our Norwegian four-some (made up of 7 golfers) came in last. They got a lot of practice hitting balls and came home with more than they left with!

Lion Karl Ostheller proudly shows the certificate of appreciation he received from the international president.

The certificate! Yay Karl!

Gotta get a photo of President Jim Stark, Zone Chair Ginger Shields and Karl Ostheller. We have the BEST Lions!

Ginger shows off the first-place patch she single-handedly earned for Musical Comedy. The woman can sing!

Poulsbo Lions make it easy to attend Spring Convention, offering reimbursement for the Saturday lunch and registration portion. Hope you'll make it next year!

Spring Convention is almost upon us

Our club has a fabulously dressed golf team participating this year (to defend their nattily dressed title from last year). Lion Pat Burch has spring convention forms at each meeting!

Click here for more information: http://www.md19clions.org/Conventions/2016/2016ConventionHome.php

Nattily attired golfers brighten up the course

 

Woo hoo! Check out our team of Poulsbo Lions that participated in the MD-19 Golf Tournament last weekend during Spring Convention. Chuck (pictured by himself below) won the Best Dressed Award! And not pictured, but earning the Best Dressed Putter Award was Sherri Burch. (Photos by C-4 Zone Chairman Pat Burch.)

We're Winners!

Poulsbo Lions Club was well represented at the 2015 District 19C Contest and Awards at Spring Convention in Tacoma March 14.

The best news first - we placed first for our club brochure (Karl Ostheller), our scrapbook (Terry Blais), and our action photo of Dave Risley screening a preschooler's vision (Dottie Ridgeway).
 

New member Ken Rury placed second for his Achievement Speech, and this website (Terry Blais) got 3rd place behind Gig Harbor and Puyallup.

"Congratulations to all clubs with contest entries. With “Skin in the Game" participants have more fun, strive to do their best and

cheer each other on. New this year, the Action Photo contest attracted the most clubs participating! The smaller clubs competed toe to toe with the larger clubs sometimes with only 1 point separating the standings. Thanks to my focused and thoughtful committee:
 

Dotty Jackl, Bill Zidel, Bob Johnson, Karl Ostheller, Bob McLean, Suzanne Gayda and Judy Ann Bergvall. Those in the first place column will receive homemade cookies delivered to their club meeting by yours truly! Guess I'd better get busy!"

1st VDGE Jan Weatherly,

Contest and Awards Chair

P.S. Weatherly will be visiting our club at our April 9 meeting and bringing cookies, so you won't want to miss it!

I have a voice

I spoke briefly at the LIONS MD19 Zone C-4 District Meeting last Thursday about my effort to provide social media to charities and those being charitable in the community by writing about them everyday this year to direct traffic to their websites. That blog is called Kitsap Cares about Charity 365. I also provide a dozen positive community Facebook pages for nonprofits to have a voice. I have spoken to over 600 people this year in person and over 200,000 people online every week.

 

This coming March 13-14th is the 67th LIONS District 19 Convention in Tacoma and I have to give a 5 minute speech on what the Poulsbo LIONS has done this past year in regard to service for the community. I am getting over a cold and have no voice and I woke up thinking what if I don't have a VOICE on Friday. But I fought back that fear as what I have to say is too important, I have to have a VOICE!

I thought about how even without a physical voice, on the internet I have a voice that can speak loud and clear. I can speak for those that can't, those that are hidden in the shadows, those that lost their way and need our help.

I thought about the speech Helen Keller gave at the 1925 LIONS convention in Chicago that gave the LIONS the mandate to be "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness". Helen Keller always had a voice she just had to figure out how to get it out. She could have given up being deaf and dumb as they said in those days. I thought if Helen Keller can speak, than nothing should stop me. I would rather record my computer speaking my speech or my Smartphone reading it at the conference then to let something like losing my voice keep me from having a VOICE. Don't let obstacles get in your way of what you have to say. It didn't stop Helen Keller.

My name is Ken Rury and I'm going to let it ROARrrr at the convention.

Great reasons to attend spring conference

Dear Poulsbo Noon Lions,

 

You have great reasons to attend the Spring MD-19 District Convention on March 13 and 14 - our club will pay your $8 registration fee (and you need to register by March 7), and take care of your $22 lunch tab on Saturday, which is when the awards will be announced.

 

Lion Karl Ostheller has been making sure our club is entered in many categories, so you won't want to miss out!

 

The convention will be held at the La Quinta Inn & Suites in Tacoma. Hope to see you there!

Blue vest, new members and a winning berry pie

 

It was a busy noon lunch meeting for the Poulsbo Lions April 11. Above, sponsoring Lion Lynnea assisted Lion Joe Stenstrom with his new blue vest, which he earned by participating in the Easter Egg Hunt March 30 at Raab Park.

 

 

Here are our two newest Lions - Janet Marie Valiga (sponsor: Lion Eric Thanem) and Gwen Woods (sponsor: Lion Jim Stark). They were inducted at today's meeting.

 

 

 

And Lion Elda Armstrong won first-place honors for her Wild Blackberry Pie at Spring Conference. Lions brought desserts, which were first judged, then enjoyed by all April 5.

 

The scheduled program didn't show up, so Lions Dick, Scott, and Kent brought their bows and arrows to share.



Lions Armstrong and Heerman earn Spring Conference awards

 

Lion Elda Armstrong earned a first place certificate award and gold medal for Best Dessert. She made a wild blackberry pie. To her right is Lion Karl Ostheller.

 

 

Lion Lynnea Heerman earned second place and a silver medal for Poulsbo King Lion Ginger Shield's President's Scrapbook.

 

Congratulations ladies!

Ginny Risley receives Melvin Jones Award

 

 

It was a big night at the Lions' Spring Conference at La Quinta Inn in Tacoma when our own Ginny Risley earned the Melvin Jones Award. Looking on are her son and past District Governor David Risley (over her left shoulder), and her husband, Dick.