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November 17, 2012 by Kate Freeman

Are you one of the millions of Americans with diabetes?

November is National Diabetes Month, a condition that is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. Of the 25.8 million Americans who suffer from the disease, 7 million do not know they have it, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Diabetes is a chronic condition that results from defects in insulin production, insulin action or both. There are two main types of diabetes — Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 usually occurs before the age of 20 and is a result of the pancreas no longer making insulin. This type of diabetes requires taking insulin and possibly other medication. Type 2 diabetes, often called adult onset diabetes, is the most common form of diabetes and can be controlled with proper diet, medication and exercise.

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Benefits of the Club Excellence Process

Hi, all –

Submitted for your consideration.

Would you like to …

 - Expand your club’s community service work?

 - Make your club a better organization?

 - Make your club more visible to your community and more attractive to prospective Lions?

 - Develop a short- and long-term plan to pursue these goals?

The Club Excellence Process is designed with these goals in mind.  This process is not something that can be completed in one or two meetings; it requires time and commitment to see it through.  And the results can be truly outstanding.

If you’d like more information on this topic, members of the Faculty Development Team are available to make a presentation to your club.  Don’t hesitate to contact me for more details.

Al Hedstrom

Past Zone Chairman

Candidate for 2^nd Vice District Governor

Silverdale Sunrise Lions

Service to others is the rent we pay for our time on this earth.

Tony Curtis

LERC Last Wednesday Evening

Evan B, Bernice B, George J and I went to LERC last Wednesday night.  We cleaned and sorted glasses.

It was an amazing experience.  I've never seen so many different types and styles of glasses!  There are glasses that you can fold and bend without mutilating them!  There are colorful, designer glasses - as well as very classy looking Ralph Lauren & Tommy Hilfiger glasses.  Glasses that have gold plating - as well as titanium glasses.  The wrap around sun glasses were awesome.  Many of the glasses were perfect, without any scratches or damage at all.

Bill Miller was there to instruct us on how to clean and sort the glasses after they were washed in the dishwasher.  Listening to him was fun and interesting.  Here are a couple of things we learned:  

• The glasses that were outside of the standards that are set up by the missions that request them.  
• Glasses with gold plating are sent out to have the gold recovered.  We get paid for the gold.
• Some "coke bottle" glasses are not sent out to missions.
• Glasses without lenses are not used.  They are sent out.
• There is optometrist equipment to read the prescriptions of the lenses.  Once read, the glasses are put in plastic bags and labeled.  From there the glasses are organized in boxes.
• Readers (non prescription - magnification glasses) are given to people, too.
• Glasses that are badly scratched or scratched in the field of vision are set aside.
• We can't give out women's "low riders" as there have been fights between women over these kinds of glasses.  Incredible?  The winner would end up with the low rider glasses whether it helped her to read better, or not.  Vanity is alive and well - even in third world countries.  

We all had a very good time working at LERC.  (Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center)  Any Lion who works 20 hours during the Lion year - gets a LERC pin.  This is the only way to earn this pin.  I highly recommend volunteering for LERC.  Time flies there!  It seemed like we had just arrived, when we left.  We laughed and visited all evening long!  Come join us!

Lion Lying on His Back

LCI Peace Poster Deadline TODAY

All,
Today, Thursday November 15, is the cutoff for submitting peace posters for the competition.

To my knowledge only two clubs are submitting peace posters.  If I can get confirmation from others by email by midnight I'll include them in the judging.

Please spread the word as you are able.

Dave Risley

Families in Service
"To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace, and promote international understanding through Lions clubs." - Lions Clubs International Mission Statement

Rainier Lions Club Minutes for 11/11/12

Even though I sent out an e-mail with the agenda I thought that I would recap tonight’s meeting for those that could not attend. .

The dinner was great.  We had homemade meatloaf, mashed potatoes green beans & pumpkin pie.

• MLK quote-“the first question the priest and the Levite asked was ‘ if I stop and help this man  , what will happen to me ?’ BUT the good  Samaritan reversed the question ‘ if I do not stop to help this man , what will happen to him ‘

• Albert Schweitzer quote “ I do not know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know : the only ones among us who will really be happy are those who have sought and found how to serve “

• SERVICE—supplying aid and service rather than products or goods----an act of helpful activity----an act of help or assistance

Guest speakers- Mike & Margaret Madrid.  Al Headstrom.

MIKE & MARGARET MADRID:

• Mike Madrid had cataract surgery which was paid for by the Northwest Lions Foundation and the Rainier Lions Club, who split the cost 50/50.  Mike talked about his surgery and how grateful he is for the Rainier Lions Club’s help. 

• Mikes surgery went very well.  He said he sees colors more vibrantly and the cloudiness has vanished.  He said he now has 20/20 vision in that eye.  Mike and Margaret both said they are very grateful for our help. 

• He especially thanked PKL Evan Burnett, who did all of the Northwest Lions Foundation paperwork at our end for Mikes surgery.  

AL HEADSTROM:

• Al was politicking.  He’s running for a District wide leadership office.  Bill PKL of Mineral Lake Lions is running against Al.  Both men are fine candidates for this position.
  
  

McKenna restaurant:  The owner of this restaurant will allow us to have special fundraising events on Monday – Thursday (we have to make arrangements for specific days) and she will give our group 15% of the proceeds (or profit?) from her sales for this day.  We are thinking of scheduling a “White Cane Days” there on the Thursday before that special event nation wide.

Recap of dictionaries- recap already sent in an e-mail- We shared the thank you cards from kids at Eagle View Christian School.  There are a couple of pictures of these cards on our blog.

Recap of Halloween- very successful –feel that next year businesses in town will participate.  We have a couple of articles on our blog about this event.  One has a lot of pictures.

Need volunteers for getting Christmas trees Nov. 23

Christmas caroling at the tree lighting and on the 14 and 15 is a go and should be lots of fun

Christmas dinner on Dec. 7:  I need volunteers to help with the prep that day from noon on.

• ---Ideas welcome on how to make it a fun evening- lets make a deal , white elephant ‘ door prizes , etc.
• --Who else should we invite

 Christmas tree cutting for the hardware store – involvement of churches sending congregation to purchase

Grapefruit sales start in December – line up those customers

Dinners going forward are donation only and this will include any pot lucks

LERC starts on Wednesday this week – Evan, Bernice, Shirley G, Linda J. and George will go.  Thank you all for volunteering!

Club communication – How do we make it better? Call tree? If we are to grow and get our community involved we need more ideas and more participation-how do we make this work

Think about going to two meetings a month next year.  Possibly making on a board meeting with full club attendance 

Thank You Cards From: Eagle View Christian School

The third grade students from Eagle View Christian School had their "THANK YOU" cards for the Rainier Lions Club all ready when we arrived to deliver their dictionaries.

All of the children signed both cards.  To respect their privacy, the children's signatures were not scanned for public display on our blog. 

After KL George Johnson gave his presentation and the children thumbed through their dictionaries, we were presented with 2 thank you's from the third grade class.  Both thank you cards were hand made.  

In closing, one of the students said a prayer for the Rainier Lions Club (& us).  This was touching and means a lot to George and me.  

A special THANK YOU goes out to all of the children, staff and parents of the Eagle View Christian School for granting us permission to present dictionaries to the third grade students.

George and I treasure the memories  we share with you.  Going to your school is a wonderful  experience.  

On card was very large.  I scanned an image of the inside thank you, so you can read it here:

Above is a picture of the inside of the large Thank You card.  

This is the outside of the smaller card (shown with the back of part of the larger card.)

 This is the inside picture in the smaller thank you card.  (resting on the back of the larger card.)