Members
in Attendance: George Johnson, Linda
Johnson, Brenda Flaherty, Shirley Gibson, Bernice Beck, Kay Bryant, Art Runyan,
Ron Lind, Rodney Mitchell, (Evan Burnett, Charlotte Runyan, Chris Beck, Linda
Lazelle, Chris Fanton excused absence.)
Guests
in Attendance: Juliette Pia (Together
& Rainier Community Cares), Renee Wilson (Guest of Rodney Mitchell)
Minutes:
CORRECTION: First order of business: Brenda Flaherty mentioned that she is not
responsible for collecting membership club dues. This responsibility belongs to our
Treasurer: Linda Lazelle. King Lion, George Johnson will send the
correction to Linda Lazelle.
Pledge
of Allegiance
America
Prayer
Juliette: BINGO was fun last week. (Rainier Community Cares is the new name of
Rainier Community Coalition.) Renee
helps with the Family Fun night dinners and monthly get-togethers. Strengthening Family Classes will begin again
this spring. They will be in the Annex
building at Rainier Chapel. They will
help students with homework, too. They
are hoping to start after spring break and continue through the rest of the
school year.
There
is a poster campaign in the schools and a newspaper campaign directed towards
parents, so they will not give alcohol or drugs to their kid.
They
meet twice a month. One meeting is just
a planning committee meeting for the organizers at Rainier City Hall February
6, 2013. (Local Advisory Team) The group
meeting is on the second Wednesday,
February 13, 2013.
Together
/ Rainier Community Cares is in need of more volunteers to help them with their
projects. They are short of
volunteers.
End
presentation.
KL
George: Linda Lazelle is supposed to be
working with Chris Fanton to see if he will work the pot luck phone tree.
Discuss
having 2 meetings a month and make every member a member of the board. The board meeting will meet from 8:00 – 8:30
PM on the second Monday of the month, after our regular meeting.
ESD
grant classes. Americorp. Juliette will send us information on grant
writing classes.
Grapefruit: We have sold: 145 boxes.
White
Cane Days: Promoted on the first weekend
in May. We may decide to do it another
time of year, if we choose to. We may do
it again in September as well. Jim Bob’s
Restaurant will donate 15% of their proceeds to any non-profit group that
schedules and promotes having a fundraising event in their restaurant. Her father, Leo, was a Lifetime Lions Club
Member. We’re shooting for having our
promotion on May 2, 2013 at Jim Bob’s Restaurant in McKenna.
Papa
Murphy’s card sales: Talking to the Cub
Scouts about having a card sale. They’re
interested in selling these cards. (We
may want to sell Papa Murphy cards at Bluegrass.) George will have more information tomorrow
night.
Question: The Rainier Schools annual auction will be on
Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 3:30 PM. Do
we want to have an auction on that day for the Becky Waldren College
Scholarship Auction on the same day?
Answer: Yes.
Brenda will donate two bird houses, built to scale, of the Old Church in
Rainier, WA. Brenda’s husband, who is
now deceased, made them by hand. They are
one of a kind and very intricate. Each
shingle was cut by hand.
Rainier
Family Fun Day: Kite Flying. May 12, 2013
Afternoon. Together may join us,
along with the Boy (Cub) Scouts.
Concession
Stand: Discussed building it by the
restrooms and covered picnic area. We
have the support of the Mayor of Rainier and the Rainier City Counsel.
Mayor
Randy, of Rainier, told George that the City of Rainier’s website should be
working in February. There will be a
community calendar on there that we can access and add our events to it.
Our
sight and hearing van needs to be scheduled for next fall. We’re talking about opening up the afternoon
for adults in Rainier, so that they can have their sight and hearing tested,
too. George will have Evan schedule the
van.
Coming
Events:
1-Road clean up Feb.9th
A.M. rain or shine
2-Feb.11th meeting speakers
Tim Garchow
Scholarship
candidates
Essay entrant
3-City calendar EOM
4-Sec. training June
6-12-25
5- Zone dinner Hawks
Prairie Rest. Feb. 6th 5:30 P.M.
6-City council meeting 2nd
and 4th Tuesdays
7-Rainier Community Cares
meeting 1st and 2nd Wed.
8- LERK Wed. Feb.13th
9-Re-submit two NSF checks
for Christmas Trees. George sent letters
to these people asking them to call
him, but he received no call, so we will have to try putting them through the
bank again.- Linda L.
10-Senior Center meals at noon on Mon. and Wed.
PIE
BAKING CONTEST: This will be run by the
Senior Center. There will be a $5.00
entry fee. They will need to turn in 2
pies: One pie to judge, the other to be
auctioned off at Blue Grass. All
proceeds go to the Rainier Senior Center.
CUB
SCOUTS YARD SALE: Rent
tables and take a percentage of garage sale sales to be set up along the trail
down at the end by the Lions Burger Den.
CUB
SCOUTS SING FOR YOUR SUPPER FRIDAY NIGHT: They used to run this dinner. George will update us on this. They may be interested in taking this over
for Blue Grass in 2013.
Together / Rainier Community Cares: Feburary 21, 2013 will be having CPR training for the
Family.
RHS Senior Class to do fundraiser: Seniors have so much going on, that they may
not have time to do this during their school year. It much time, but maybe the music (Band) department
might be interested in a fruit fundraiser.
We’re going to contact Bev Jolley to see if Thurston
County Hooved Animal Rescue come to Blue Grass and have a booth.
Rod's Jokes:
“When you find yourself in deep water, remember who walked on it!”
The chicken said, “Ah, book-it, book-it, book-it.” “Ah, book-it, book-it, book-it,”
The frog said, “Read-it, read-it, read it!”
The frog said, “Read-it, Read it!”
NOTE: Victoria Fanton
returned the Rainier Lions Club Tail Twister supplies and has not attended a
meeting in several months, so we’ve asked Chris Beck to be our Tail
Twister.
We will still need a
Membership Retention Chairperson. If you are interested in this position please
call George or Evan. Thanks.
