Highway 3/305 interchanges cleaned up for another quarter

 

Here's our litter crew today! From left to right: Terry Blais, Cherria Kimbrell (friend), Pat Burch, Eric Thanem and Carol Ryan (co-chairs of our Adopt-a-Highway committee), Chuck Weaver and Karl Ostheller. Sylvie Blais, daughter of a Lion, took the photo.

Lions busy with food drive and calendars and more!

This week: Adopt-a-Highway Wednesday; Joint Lions/Rotary Food Drive for Fishline Friday & Saturday at Red Apple, Central Market and Walmart; annual Birthday Calendar fund-raiser; and 40-lb Fuji apples for $40 Leo fund-raiser!

Leo makes appearance at Kids' Day

 

Leo at Kids Day at First Security Bank
What a great day for this event; not too hot, not too cold! Please join us for loads of free fun activities for the children. There are even FREE car seat checks. So come on out, tour the fire engine, go on a bicycle rodeo, and much more!

Firehouse Garden cranks out the veggies for Sharenet

 

Another 25 lbs of veggies was dropped off at Sharenet Sept. 3 from the Evening Pride Branch Club Firehouse Garden!

NKHS Leos sell boxes of Fuji apples for only $1 per pound

 

Leos from NKHS are selling 40 lb boxes of Fuji apples for $40! Place your order (here, if you like). Apples will be available mid-October.

We're making a difference

In the month of August, 203 Lions volunteered 1,191 hours, served 8,331 people in 61 different activities.

Evening Pride garden producing wonderful veggies for food bank

 

Our Firehouse Garden is still producing great things like green peppers! Today, we delivered 16 lbs of produce to Sharenet.

Former Leo becomes a Lion

 

Welcome to our newest Leo-to-Lion club member Chris Nardelli! He was inducted Thursday, and sponsored by Karl Ostheller.

Another 10 lbs of veggies to Sharenet

 

10 lbs of produce delivered to Sharenet Tuesday from the Evening Pride Branch Club Firehouse Garden.

Give service, get joy. When you are a Lion, it's that simple

Sharenet benefits from Firehouse Garden

 

17 lbs of fresh produce delivered to Sharenet today from Evening Pride Branch Club's Firehouse Garden. 

Firehouse Garden veggies contributed to Sharenet food bank

 

Yummy, nourishing food from our Firehouse Garden. Ready to donate to ShareNet.

Making a difference

Last week, 29 Poulsbo Lions contributed 166 service hours, serving 54,000 people! We make a difference!!!

Burleson appreciated

 

Evening Pride Branch Club President Joyce Smith presents Cecilie Maeda Burleson with a certificate for her service as secretary at tonight's meeting.

Scholarship, new Lion and Finnish exchange student

We had another scholarship recipient/Leo to Lion, as well as a Finnish exchange student at today's gathering. Recent Kingston High grad Chris Nardelli received his Poulsbo Lions scholarship check at today's meeting from Lion Karl Ostheller. Chris was the KHS Leo club president for 3 years and was named Leo of the Year 2 of those years! He's planning on attending Seattle University in the fall in film study. Also, Chris is taking advantage of the Leo to Lion program.

Club President Steve Calhoun looks on as Finnish exchange student Erica Costiander exchanges banners with our Lion Tamer Rick Wright. Erica has been staying for 2 weeks with Lion Elda Armstrong.

We collect eyeglasses!

 

Drop off eyeglasses in Poulsbo at:
Farmers Insurance, 19168-B Jensen Way
Fishline Food Bank, Viking Avenue
First Lutheran Church, 18920 4th Ave
Martha and Mary, 19160 Front St NE
Modern Dentistry, 19301 8th Ave NE
NK Fishline, Viking Avenue
Pacific Eye Care, 20669 Bond Rd NE
Peninsula Hearing, 19319 7th Ave, Suite 102
Poulsbo Eyecare Center, 19220 8th Ave NE
Poulsbo Library, 700 NE Lincoln Way
Sherrard, McGonagle, Tizzano & Lind, 19717 Front St NE
Walmart, 21200 Olhava Way NE

Kingston:
Albertson's, 8196 NE State Hwy 104
20-20 Eyecare, 25989 Barber Cut-off Rd

Bainbridge Island:
Ace Hardware, 635 High School Rd
Bainbridge Eye Physicians, 931 Hildebrand Ln NE

Two more pancake scholarships handed out

 

Congrats to two more of our Viking Fest Pancake Breakfast scholarship recipients Karla Rodriguez and Nate Blanchard, both North Kitsap High graduates. Karla received her check from Leo liaison Karl Ostheller. She's planning on attending Olympic College and eventually becoming a labor & delivery nurse. Nate received the Herb Armstrong Memorial Scholarship from Elda Armstrong. Nate is going to Cal Poly, majoring in biology.

 

Awards given, new officers installed at Clearwater Casino dinner

 

Every June we install our club officers for the upcoming year (July 1-June 30). Denise Zaske was our MC for the evening. She's also our incoming Tail Twister. We enjoyed a great dinner and company at the Clearwater Casino & Resort.

 

Outgoing President John Macdonald recognizes Elda Armstrong, Dick Prine, Tom Settle and Chuck Weaver for lining up programs for our club meetings for the 2017-2018 year.

 

 Dennis Peters receives a certificate and engraved gavel for chairing the single most successful fund-raiser our club has had in the dinner auction (October 2017).

 

Outgoing President John Macdonald names Ginger Shields the recipient of the Gordon F. Smith Fellowship for her valuable contribution to the Multiple District 19 Lios-CARE partnership. Ginger was our zone chair for 2 years.

 

Special thanks to Jay Dahlquist for giving us 15 years as treasurer.

 

Sandi Dahlquist receives an award for her many years of service as club secretary for for keeping John's "ass out of trouble 2017-2018". Sandi remains as secretary for the 2018-2019 Lion year.

 

 

 Macdonald (right) names Steve Calhoun (incoming president) as Lion of the Year for his fantastic year of service.

 

Evening Pride Branch Club President Joyce Smith recognizes Dottie Ridgeway, Cecilie Burleson and Pauline Ostheller for the 2017-2018 year as treasurer, secretary and club liaison, respectively.

 

Karl Ostheller presents his wife, Pauline, with the Melvin Jones Fellow, a high honor in Lions.

MJF Facts

• The Fellowship was established in 1973 and the Progressive program began in 1986 in response to Lions' request for a way to extend their commitment to LCIF.
• Donations through MJFs provide 75 percent of the Lions Club International Foundation's annual revenue.

 

Incoming officers (l to r): Joyce Smith (Evening Pride president), Cecilie Burleson (Evening Pride secretary), Steve Calhoun (Noon president), Sandi Dahlquist (Noon secretary), Marilyn Kover (Evening Pride treasurer), Rick Wright (Lion tamer), John Macdonald (Noon treasurer), Terry Blais (1st vice president), Sherri Burch (service project coordinator), Carol Ryan (2nd vice president and LCIF coordinator), Linda Schwind (membership), Andy Hento and Joe Stenstrom (board of directors), Denise Zaske (Tail Twister), and Eric Thanem (board of directors).

 

Welcome our newest member, Marilyn Wetland

 

Welcome to our newest Poulsbo Lion Marilyn Wetland (left) with sponsor Ginger Shields. It's GREAT to be a 🦁!

Three pancake scholarships awarded

Meet three of our 2018 Viking Fest Pancake Breakfast scholarship recipients: Riley Tellinghuisen and Mikka Yamane from Kingston High School, and Tara Battaglia, MD19 Leo of the Year and 2nd time scholarship winner. Our Lion Karl Ostheller (2nd from right) presented the checks with President John Macdonald looking on at our June 21 noon meeting.