Monday, January 28, 2013

Rainier Lions Club Minutes January 28, 2013



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 CONTESTThis 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.



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