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President's Message
by Lion Mary Flexhaug
President Alix Lions Club
Welcome back to a new year of possibilities. I am excited about our 'start up' and hope you are too.
My goal (with your help) is to develop and promote visibility within our community, and to plan interesting meetings that will be fulfilling. "We Serve" is out motto, of course, but I believe that we also need to serve ourselves. Hopefully, we will look forward to our gatherings with new enthusiasm as a result of what we bring to them.
This year marks our 36th charter anniversary, and it would be wonderful to mark it with several new members. I challenge every9th)one to search our new/old possibilities and bring a guest. Maybe you can think of something we could use as an added incentive (other than we need new blood!)
I also challenge you to support Lion Cathy in her efforts to present a fun newsletter for you. As I said, with your help, it will be your newsletter and you will look forward to receiving it.
(Note from editor: Lion Cathy here, I would just like to reiterate that this is YOUR newsletter and thus encourage you to make every effort to send in submissions whether it be a joke, telling us of your last vacation, an important piece of information, or a cute picture - sharing yourself with others is a blessing.)
 Speaking at the 1925 International Convention, Helen Keller, the noted American author who was both blind and deaf, challenged Lions to be "knights of the blind on the crusade against darkness."
Lions answered "yes" and ever since, blindness prevention and service to the blind has been Lions highest service priority.
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 Read more information about this contest on the website: www.lionsclubs.org
Thanksgiving
by Lion Cathy Perry
Thanksgiving is a secular holiday celebrated in Canada on the second Monday of October 9th) and in the United States it is observed on the fourth Thursday of November (23rd).
There are many reasons to be thankful in our lives. But what, as a Lion, can we be thankful for?
Besides the obvious - the fellowship, serving our community, the challenges of keeping ahead of that bank balance as the pleas come in - we can be thankful for having been asked to be a Lion in the first place.
Without that most important question we would not know each other, nor celebrate the wonderful feeling as we fulfill those pleas and the pride as we continue to serve.
As with all that we are thankful for, we have an obligation to share our abundance and wealth with our family, friends, co-workers, neighbours, and folks around us everyday - ask them this Thanksgiving to become a Lion. Celebrate the Pride on the Lion.
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Two New Countries Join Lions Clubs International
News Relaese from Lions News Room
OAK BROOK, Illinois, USA July 4, 2006 -- Men and women in three more countries have taken the initiative to make a difference in their communities by joining Lions Clubs International, bringing the total number of countries with Lions clubs to 1999.
The small island nation of Seychelles, population 81,500 became the 198th Lions country with the chartering of the Paradise Lions Club in May. Located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, east of Kenya and north of Madagascar, the country was ceded to Great Britain in 1814 and became an independent country in 1976.
Seven Trucial States of the Persian Gulf formed the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the 1970's. This Middle East country, with a population of 2,602,700 was approved as 199th Lions country at the June 2006 Board of Directors Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and a Lions club has already been established in the country.
Lions continue to make a difference in their communities while reaching out to the new areas of the world.
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with nearly 1.35 million members in approximately 45,000 clubs in 199 countries and geographical areas around the world. since 1917, Lions clubs have aided the blind and visually impaired and made a strong commitment to community service and serving youth throughout the world.
 DID YOU KNOW? Bananas can help SAD sufferers (Seasonal Affective Disorder) because they contain the natural mood enhancer; tryptophan.
Soooo, stock up on bananas when the bad weather hits us, so we'll have 'happy meetings"
~ Lion Mary
COMING SOON!!! EYE BANK CASH DRAW!!! |
 I bet you can think of a friend, a neighbour, or a co-worker who would be a wonderful Lion.
Why not invite that person to our next meeting? Share your experience as a Lion with them.
JUST A THOUGHT
HAVE YOU HEARD?
Ed Hornett has retired after
19 years with NOVA chemicals.
Congratulations Lion Ed !!!
ALIX LIONS COMMIT TO
SIGHTFIRST II
We have committed to collect $400.00 US for each of our 13 members over a 5-year period that is just over a thousand dollars per year. If you can think of a project that would aid the club in procuring this amount, do speak with Lion Ed. An excellent project that will bring sight to many people in the world.
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