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Sunday, December 30, 2012
A Year of Giving Through LCIF
Saturday, December 29, 2012
25th Annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest
Lions Clubs International Peace Poster Contest
The theme for the 2013 contest is “Imagine Peace”. In the past we have sponsored contests at Elkins Pointe Middle School, Crabapple Middle School, The Cottage School and Queen of Angels Catholic School. Posters will be judged at the beginning of November. This contest is for boys and girls ages 11 – 13 years old. The winners of the 2013 contest will each received a $100 check and will be honored at a dinner meeting. One poster from each contest will advance to the District 18-A Contest. Contest rules can be viewed at Peace Poster Rules and Guidelines page.
Mabank student moves up in poster contest
Posted by : | On : December 27, 2012
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Mabank Intermediate School sixth grader Lauren Davidson wins the local Lions Club poster contest “Imagine Peace.” Davidson now advances to the multi-district competition for a chance to win the international grand prize of $5,000 and a trip for two to Lions Day with the United Nations.
Mabank Intermediate School sixth grader Lauren Davidson wins the local Lions Club poster contest “Imagine Peace.” Davidson now advances to the multi-district competition for a chance to win the international grand prize of $5,000 and a trip for two to Lions Day with the United Nations.
MABANK–Mabank Intermediate School sixth grader Lauren Davidson has taken her first step to becoming an internationally recognized artist by winning a local competition sponsored by the Mabank Cedar Creek Lions Club.
Davidson’s poster was among more than 30 entries locally and more than 375,000 entries submitted worldwide in the 25th annual Lions International Peace Poster Contest.
Lions Clubs International sponsors the contest to emphasize the importance of world peace to young people everywhere.
Her poster illustrated the contest theme “Imagine Peace” by showing an angel holding a cross in one hand and releasing doves from the other hand as her arms open up over the seas and mountains.
“I can’t imagine peace without God in it,” Davidson said. The poster was selected by Lion Club members for its originality, artistic merit and portrayal of the contest theme.”
Mabank Cedar Creek Lions Club president, Edna Beltz said she was impressed by the expression and creativity of the students at Mabank Intermediate School who entered the contest through Mrs. Borden’s art classes.
“It is obvious that these young people have strong ideas about what peace means to them and they are all very creative. I’m so proud that we were able to provide them with the opportunity to share their visions,” Beltz said.
Davidson’s poster will advance to face stiff competition through the district. Competition in multiple districts and international rounds are needed to be declared the international grand prize winner.
One grand prize winner and 23 merit award winners will be selected. The grand prize includes a cash award of $5,000, plus a trip for the winner and two family members to the awards ceremony at Lions Day with the United Nations. The 23 merit award winners will each receive a certificate and a cash award of $500.
“Our club is cheering for Lauren as her poster advances in the competition, and we hope that her vision will ultimately be shared with others around the world,” Beltz said. Past international grand prize and merit award winners can be viewed at www.lions-clubs.org.
Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization with more than 1.3 million members in 45,00 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographic areas.
In addition to its efforts toward conquering blindness, the organization has made a strong commitment to community service, promoting peace and helping youth throughout the world.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Leos Club Visits Orphanage to Celebrate Christmas
The pictures below are from a Malaysia Leos Club Blog:
On 18 Dec , Leo Club of SMK USJ 4 visited a orphanage in Kepong to celebrate Christmas with them!
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
WINSTON CHURCHILL ON CHRISTMAS EVE 1941
I spend this anniversary and festival far from my country, far from my family, yet I cannot
truthfully say that I feel far from home. Whether it be the ties of blood on my mother’s side,
or the friendships I have developed here over many years of active life, or the commanding
sentiment of comradeship in the common cause of great peoples who speak the same
language, who kneel at the same altars and, to a very large extent, pursue the same ideals,
I cannot feel myself a stranger here in the centre and at the summit of the United States. I
feel a sense of unity and fraternal association which, added to the kindliness of your
welcome, convinces me that I have a right to sit at your fireside and share your Christmas
joys.
This is a strange Christmas Eve. Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and,
with the most terrible weapons which science can devise, the nations advance upon each
other. Ill would it be for us this Christmastide if we were not sure that no greed for the land
or wealth of any other people, no vulgar ambition, no morbid lust for material gain at the
expense of others, had led us to the field. Here, in the midst of war, raging and roaring
over all the lands and seas, creeping nearer to our hearts and homes, here, amid all the
tumult, we have tonight the peace of the spirit in each cottage home and in every generous
heart.
Therefore we may cast aside for this night at least the cares and dangers which beset us,
and make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Here, then, for one
night only, each home throughout the English-speaking world should be a brightly-lighted
island of happiness and peace.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas
delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we
turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our
sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied
their right to live in a free and decent world.
And so, in God’s mercy, a happy Christmas to you all.
-Winston Churchill
'Night Flights' raises about $14,000 for charity
Local helicopter firm, Flying Lions team up
Posted: December 24, 2012 - 12:05am
![People wait in line at the Juneau International Airport for a $30 helicopter ride over the Mendenhall Valley on Friday evening. The "Christmas Light Night Flights" event raised a record-setting $14,000 for charity.](http://jun-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/11840695.jpg "People wait in line at the Juneau International Airport for a $30 helicopter ride over the Mendenhall Valley on Friday evening. The "Christmas Light Night Flights" event raised a record-setting $14,000 for charity.")
People wait in line at the Juneau International Airport for a $30 helicopter ride over the Mendenhall Valley on Friday evening. The "Christmas Light Night Flights" event raised a record-setting $14,000 for charity.
Coastal Helicopters and the Mendenhall Flying Lions Club raised a record-setting figure during Friday’s ‘Christmas Light Night Flights’ fundraiser.
Neil Atkinson, the project organizer for the Lions Club, says about 470 people turned out for the $30 helicopter rides over the Mendenhall Valley, which raised about $14,100.
“It was an awesome turnout,” Atkinson said.
Three helicopters chartered a total of 81 flights to and from the airport from about 4:30 p.m. to a little after 9 p.m. Passengers could see the glimmer of the glacier and the Christmas lights on the houses below during the roughly 10-minute flight.
Pilot Dustin Carroll said they would have kept flying later into the night, but they wanted to be neighborly and not disturb residents at night. It was the first year they had to turn people away who were waiting at the airport, but “we got most people that came through,” Carroll said.
Half the proceeds from the event go to the helicopter company, which donates all the money to the Children’s Tumor Foundation, a nonprofit which seeks treatments and cures for Neurofibromatosis.
The other half of the proceeds goes to the Lions Club for their Sight Projects Fund. The club provides vision screening for children and students in Southeast Alaska to detect pediatric eye disorders.
Last year, the event raised somewhere between $9,200 to $9,5000.
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Community Members of Different Religions Have Holiday Plans Too
Written by Alex Wiederspiel
Last updated on December 24, 2012 @ 6:51PM
Created on December 24, 2012 @ 5:45PM
While many people will be celebrating Christmas on Tuesday with family and friends and Christmas dinner, there are a lot of folks who practice different religions. We found out what they'd do with the extra time off on Tuesday.
Some folks are planning on taking their family to see a movie, while others aren't planning anything at all. But one thing you can do is volunteer. One Jewish man we spoke to said he'll be volunteering tomorrow as part of the Clarksburg Lions Club, helping serve 2000 meals for the Clarksburg Community Dinner.
"I just like to help people. We'll also go to Morgantown and answer telephones for the Ronald McDonald House to let the people leave for a little while and enjoy the Christmas holidays with their families," Howard "Rusty" Mall told 5 News.
"We are a team. It tells you that we're tolerant. It demonstrates to me that when there is a need, this community and other communities across West Virginia. we rise to the occasion and we help out," said Clarksburg Lions Club International Director Steve Glass.
The Community Dinner is expected to serve 2000 meals tomorrow, involving 100 turkeys.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Merry Christmas Tidings!
Thank you and God bless,
Mike Huckabee and the GodFruits Team
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Linda,
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Today's Uplifting Message |
| "Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields,
keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood
before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly
afraid. Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you
good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you
this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be
the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a
manger." -- Luke 2:8-14 (NIV) |
Friday, December 21, 2012
A Year of Giving Through LCIF
Dear Lion,
Every year at this time, I send my personal greetings to you, the
members of my Lions family. This year is no different, except I want to take the
extra time to reflect on what we have accomplished together through our
Foundation. Thanks to your
donations and your service, we
have met needs all over the world and made a great impact in many people's
lives.
Together, we met
the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation's challenge grant to raise US$10
million for measles. Through this major accomplishment, we helped vaccinate 157
million children against measles in 2012.
Lions also provided
disaster relief worldwide following typhoons, flooding, tornadoes, wildfires and
other disasters this year. One recent example is Superstorm
Sandy in the United
States. Many Lions gave generously, and even Lions who were affected by the
storm were out serving their communities the next day.
In addition to
disaster relief, Lions and LCIF have been continuing to fight preventable
blindness. When I was in
Thailand for the 10 year celebration of Sight for Kids with Johnson &
Johnson Vision Care, I was able to see the impact that a simple vision screening
can have in a child's life. It is easy to see why organizations like Johnson
& Johnson Vision Care, Bausch + Lomb, The Carter Center and more partner
with us in our efforts to save sight.
Our Foundation has
also supported youth in many ways during this year. The Lions
Quest program is
continually growing to help provide children with positive life skills. The U.S.
State Department is helping the program expand in Africa, while the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime is working with Lions Quest curriculum in
Central Asia and Southeastern Europe.
As this year ends, I
look forward to a new year full of service and caring. Though we always pray for
no disaster and diseases in this world, they still happen. Please continue your
support to LCIF so that we can strive for a better world to live in with no
disaster and diseases in the coming future.
Sincerely,
Wing-Kun
Tam
Chairperson, Lions
Clubs International FoundationWednesday, December 19, 2012
Connected
101 Ways to be of Service and Create Community
Book Description
Connected is the start to seeing and being a different kind of human being. One in which we take conscious actions, contribute to humanity on a soul level-without the need for anything in return-to be of service and unite people merely for the sake of bringing people together and doing good. It is about stepping away from a "me-focused" agenda and shifting towards a "we-focused" world.
What if we lived in a world where every single person mattered? What if we all knew and felt that WE BELONG, that NONE of us ARE SEPARATE or disconnected and that we all have a beautiful, MEANINGFUL PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY and the world? What if...
What if we lived in a world where every single person mattered? What if we all knew and felt that WE BELONG, that NONE of us ARE SEPARATE or disconnected and that we all have a beautiful, MEANINGFUL PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY and the world? What if...
At the time of posting this article, this book was FREE.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Yelm Authors Published: DEEP Origin Healing
Congratulations Bob & Janice!
DEEP Origin Healing: and the Origin of Personality Distortion
DEEP Origin Healing
Book Description
DEEP Origin Healing and the Origin of Personality Distortion draws from differing world views to gain new insights into transpersonal healing. The emotional process/energy paradigms that define character structures were originally outlined in the groundbreaking work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich, a student of Freud, and those who followed: Alexander Lowen (Bioenergetics), Dr. John Pierrakos (Core Energetics), Eva Pierrakos (Pathwork), Donovan and Susan Thesenga, Barbara Brennan, Dr. Alima Hamilton, and others. The development of these emotional/energy
Sunday, December 16, 2012
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
HOLIDAY FOOD DONATIONS!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS
- Rainier Hardware
- Main Street Cookies
- Ginger Street
When then got everything to the food bank, they were told that the citizens of Rainier had already brought in over 300 pounds of food for the Rainier Lions Club "Caroling for Cans" food drive.
With the added donations - there will be at least 450 pounds of non-perishable food donated to the food bank.
If you haven't donated for the holidays & would still like to donate - you can drop off your non-perishable food items at: Rainier Hardware, Main Street Cookies or Ginger Street through January 1, 2013.
Thank you so much for caring. Our fellow citizens are important. Together we make a difference.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Thank you: Caroling For Cans!
THANK YOU ALL!
We thought of cancelling the "Caroling for Cans" due to the shooting at the elementary school in Connecticut. George talked to Bernice and Evan about this. Evan said, "If we don't go - evil will win. We have to combat evil with good." So, off we went caroling - hoping we wouldn't upset anyone - or hurt someone's feelings without meaning to.
We started on Olympia Street and worked our way around the loop. It took us over 1 1/2 hours to walk that short distant and sing for someone else's supper. One of the first homes we went to we sand, "Winter Wonderland." We were told, "I'm so glad you came. I needed this. I buried my grandmother this week." We told her and her husband we were sorry for their loss. At that moment, we knew caroling was the right thing to do. We were inspired to carry on.
We went to a home that gave us a whole case of canned goods. One house, with dogs, couldn't open the door to let us sing. They closed the door, then came out to see us and give us several bags of canned food. They were doggie sitting and didn't want to take a chance on loosing the dog they were trusted with.
We met many lovely, kind, compassionate people as we caroled around town. We sang "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," "Jingle Bells," "Joy to the World," and many many other songs. We had a wonderful time. We will do this again next year. Anyone interested in participating is welcome to join us. The more the merrier. It was great fun this year & last year.
To those who let us sing in their front yards: Thank you for letting us serenade you! Your good wishes and donations of food helped make this event special. We appreciate you and are thankful to have the opportunity to serve you if only with our humble little voices.
Unfortunately we can’t reach every single home, but you may also drop off canned & non-perishable food at Main Street Cookie Store or Ginger Street store in Downtown Rainier.
If you have any non-perishable donations, please call
George at: (360) 292-5363 or Evan at: (360) 280-0305
Soldiers Night Before Christmas
Disabled American Veterans Card
By: Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt
T was the night before Christmas, he lived all alone, in a one bedroom house made of plaster and stone.
I had come down the chimney with presents to give, and to see just who in this home die live.
I looked all about, a strange sight I did see, no tinsel, no presents, not even a tree.
No stocking by mantle, just boots filled with sand, and on the wall pictures of far distant lands.
With medals and badges, awards of all kinds, a sobering thought came to my mind.
For this house was different, so dark and so dreary, the home of a soldier, now I could see clearly.
The soldier lay sleeping, silent, alone, curled up on the floor in this one bedroom home.
The face was so gentle, the room in such disorder, not how I pictured the United States soldier.
Was this the her of whom I'd just read? Curled up on a poncho, the floor for a bed?
I realized the families that I saw this night owed their lives to these soldiers who were willing to fight.
Soon round the world, the children would play, and grownups would celebrate a bright Christmas day.
They all enjoyed freedom each month of the year, because of the soldiers, like the one lying here.
I couldn't help wonder how many lay alone, on a cold Christmas eve in a land far from home.
The very thought brought a tear to my eye, I dropped to my knees and started to cry.
The soldier awakened and I heard a rough voice, "Santa don't cry, this life is my choice."
I fight for freedom, I don't ask for more, my life is my God, my country, my corps."
The soldier rolled over and soon drifted to sleep, I couldn't control it, I continued to weep.
I kept watch for hours, so silent and still, and we both shivered from the cold evening's chill.
I didn't want to leave on that cold, dark, night, this guardian of honor so willing to fight.
Then the soldier rolled over, with a voice soft and pure, whispered,
"Carry on Santa, it's Christmas day, all is secure."
One look at my watch, and I knew he was right.
"Merry Christmas my friend, and to all a good night."
Wishing you Joy and Peace this Christmas
Donate to: Disabled American Veterans
JOIN US TONIGHT: Christmas Caroling for Cans
Remember “Caroling for Cans” is happening tonight in Rainier. Join us as we collect nonperishable food for the Rainier Food Bank.
The Rainier Lions Club will be asking for food for our area's hungry and homeless from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. We will meet and start at the Rainier Chapel at 6 P.M. this Friday evening, December 14, 2012. Anyone interested in participating is welcome to join us. The more the merrier. It was great fun last year.
Unfortunately we can’t reach every single home, but you may also drop off canned & non-perishable food at Main Street Cookie Store or Ginger Street store in Downtown Rainier.
If you have any questions, please call George at: (360) 292-5363 or Evan at: (360) 280-0305
Thursday, December 13, 2012
True Measure of Success
John Ahrends @jahrends
"A true measure of your success is the impact you have had on others! What impact are you having?
John Ahrends, of the people I follow on Twitter, posted his quote above.
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