Swim, screenings and more

Here's an update on what your club has been doing:

We had another good turnout for our free community swim on April 11, with 35 people (adults and kids) splashing around the NK Pool.

Our vision team screened 43 people (3 adults, 40 kids) at Gateway in Poulsbo on April 14.

We have Lions working on the Fish Park boardwalk this Saturday at 8:30 a.m. And more Lions at Fish Park on Sunday for a work party (bring work gloves!).

Free swim at noon today

 

Free open swim at the North Kitsap Pool from noon to 2 p.m. today, courtesy of our Poulsbo Lions Club. Tell your friends!

Easter hunt is a success!

 

Lions Steve Calhoun and Dennis Deitch chat while parking cars at Raab Park Saturday, April 4, for the annual city Easter Candy Hunt.

 

Dennis D. and a city worker keep the cars moving.

 

 

Patrick Osler headed up the Lions committee.

 

Leo the Lion (Ginger Shields) was on hand to high 5 those kids who weren't afraid of her.

 

Many kids were thrilled!

 

 

Our club provided $500 in candy and prizes.

 

Here is one of the "bunnies" tossing candy onto the grass in the 1- and 2-year-old section.

 

Since the kids were so young, parents and other family members were invited to help out.

 

 

We had princesses on hand to brighten up the day.

 

 

Nicole Lacey, Sabrina Mai Tucker, Madison Gilmore and Lion Ginger.



 

Karl in the shelter area.

 

 

Organized chaos.

 

Some kids understood they should put the candy and eggs in their baskets. Others did not.

 

A dad holds open his son's bag. The kids were definitely not hurrying.

 



If a child had an egg, he or she could either 1) keep it, or 2) turn it in for a prize from this bin.

Photo courtesy Lion Ken Rury

 

Lions Pat Burch, Ginger and Lynnea Herrmann were on hand to help out too.

Let the hunt begin!

 

Don't forget about our Easter egg candy hunt at Raab Park (off Caldart Avenue) today at 1 p.m. Leo the Lion will be there, as will other Lions to help you park.

Rury earns blue vest

 

Sponsoring Lion Patrick Osler helps Ken Rury with his new blue vest at Thursday's noon meeting. Rury had to fulfill a series of requirements (helping with activities, attending a board meeting, etc.) to ditch his temporary yellow vest for a blue one. Congrats Ken!

 

 

Helping with Easter candy hunt

Our club gives $500 for candy and assists with parking.

Member accomplishments

Lions Karl, Elda and Herb received a certificate of accomplishment from Lions Club International for service, growth and leadership at our April 2 meeting.

April is a busy month for eyes

Pauline Ostheller tests a middle school girl's eyes

 Seventeen people from 18-month-old and 5-year-old boys, to middle schoolers and adults took advantage of free vision screening this afternoon at the Poulsbo Library.

Free vision screening will next take place April 14 from 9-11 a.m. at The Gateway Preschool (40 students).

A small group of Lions will do screening on April 28 at 10 a.m. at Silverdale Lutheran Church.

April wraps up with a 10-1 p.m. screening on April 29, again at Silverdale Lutheran.





 

Today's crew was (front): Karen Reitan, Pauline Ostheller and Jim Schoettler; (back) Larry Linn and Pat Burch.

Pat tests the machine on Jim. You're not supposed to smile!

3+ tons of food, $2,465 raised for food bank

Two sisters were delighted to add a spice as their food bank contribution at Safeway March 27.

 

It was a well-spent two days March 27 and 28 at area grocery stores to help fill up the food bank's shelves. The results: This past weekend the Poulsbo Lions Club & Poulsbo Rotary citywide food drive collected 6,408 lbs of food and $2,465 for Fishline. That's both more food and money than we collected last year, which was the first year. We had 37 Lions helping out, for approximately 120 hours. Special mention goes to Lion Linda Schwind for pulling 4 shifts! It's GRrrrreat to be a Lion!



Ron (Rotary) and Jim Stark start their Friday shift.

Welcome newest Lion Burris

 

Welcome to Linda Burris, our newest member. Linda is the marketing manager for Fishline food bank. She and her family moved to Poulsbo just over a year ago. Linda's sponsor is Lion Greg Supancheck.

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.

So much fabulousness...

Just another fabulous week as a Poulsbo Lion. Here's what that means:

Poulsbo Lions screened the vision of more than 40 preschoolers at Martha & Mary Tuesday.

We are providing funds for an iPad for a blind student in the NK School District.

We are giving $500 to two NK High Debate students who qualified for national championships in Nebraska in May. This is the first time in 20 years our students have qualified!

And coming up - more fabulousness:

We're cleaning up up the Highway 305 interchanges Monday, March 16, through the Adopt-a-Highway program.

We are helping with the city Easter Egg Hunt at Raab Park, Caldart Avenue, on Saturday, April 4.

We're providing materials and labor for a stairway at Fish Park in early April.

We are hosting another FREE Open Swim on Saturday, April 11, at the NK Pool from noon to 2 p.m.

And we're hosting a FREE fishing derby for students 7-1 p.m. Saturday, April 25, at the NK Horticulture Pond, with donations taken for doughnuts, hot chocolate and coffee.

It's GREEEEAT being a Poulsbo Lion. If you want to join us, you're invited to a noon lunch meeting Thursdays at the Social Hall at First Lutheran Church on 4th Avenue, Poulsbo.

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!

Open swim our club hosts brings in at least 40

 

Our first free open swim today was a HUGE success - 40 happy swimmers enjoying the water. Lifeguards report "far more" use of the pool today compared to an average Saturday open swim period. A big BRAVO ZULU to Lion Dick Prine for heading up this project.

 

 

Our club hosted the swim from 12-2 p.m. Saturday, February 21, for $200. At least two more events may be forthcoming.

Don swimsuits for free swim Saturday

 

This is just a reminder to let your friends and family know our club is offering a FREE community swim from 12-2 p.m. Saturday, February 21, at the North Kitsap Pool on Hostmark Street. If there's a good turnout, our club is prepared to offer a couple more free swims in the future!

Schoettler interviewed on vision screening

Check out the great article in The NK Herald featuring Lion Jim Schoettler. It's on page 8. http://www.northkitsapherald.com/green_editions/?iid=i20150129153427423&pid=balanceguide

Lions return with handful of awards from curling

 

Ten Poulsbo Lions made the journey to British Columbia for a weekend of curling Feb. 13-15. Our Lions have made the trek for 13 years in a row, receiving the traveling trophy this year. Herb Armstrong received a special wooden crutch-type award so he can pee standing up (you'd have to see it and hear the poem to understand). High-scoring teams were the Burches (Pat and Sherri) and the Prines (Dick and Linda). Others attending were Joyce Smith and her friend, Elda Armstrong, and Scott and Bev Puhn.

Here's a good look at our Lions club

Photo by Dennis Peters

Trying to get a good photo of our Lions club is like... well, herding cats! Here's our first try at taking a Poulsbo Noon Lions Club photo. You can see we tried to represent many of the activities we do - pancake breakfast, flag set-up and take-down on holidays, White Canes, highway litter clean-up, and more with a variety of props.

 

We'll share the latest group photo, taken by Lion Dottie Ridgeway last Thursday, soon!