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(Dates
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added to the web page, not the date of the event.) MLERFI Eyeball coming up - You are invited to the MLERF Awards and Installation of Officers Night - July 21, 2007 LCIF Update - LCIF Chairperson Jimmy Ross provides an update on our work - July 21, 2007 Family Dues - Read about the reduced dues available to family members - October 8, 2006 Multiple District Flags - Who to contact if you need state and country flags. Updated: June 7 2006 Media contacts - an Excel spreadsheet of Media contacts for your press releases - July 18, 2005 Visions in Preschoolers - A state mandated requirements that the Lions can help with - May 18, 2005 America Diabetes Association Asks Our Help - Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness - Dec 21, 2004 Y.A.N.K.S. - Ever wonder how our sub districts got their letter designations? - June 23, 2004 Hearing Aid Development - LCIF to help develop hearing aid - December 11, 2003 Lions Eye Health Program - Information about the LCIF initiative to increase awareness - October 31, 2003 Lion-Quest - a youth development program with sure-fire results - May 13, 2003 |
Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, Inc EyeballYou are cordially invited to attend the 55th Annual Awards and Installation of Officers Night of Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund,Inc. It will be held on Saturday, August 25, 2007 at the Clarion Hotel (formerly the Sovereign Best Western) on Riverdale Street in West Springfield, MA. Three meals choices: Prime Rib, Chicken Francias and Vegetarian. Attitude adjustment at 6 PM with dinner at 7 PM. Contact PCC Arthur Thomas: Steel4Art@aol.com or 413-566-3756. Deadline for reservations is August 18, 2007. Special rooms rates available - call the Clarion directly at 413-781-8750 Download the information and reservation flyer:http://www.masslionseyeresearch.org/Calendar/Eyeball.pdf |
July 2007 LCIF UPDATEDear Fellow Lions, I enjoyed visiting with many of you during the International Convention and I look forward to continuing our service together this year as LCIF Chairperson. We have much to accomplish this year in order achieve our Campaign SightFirst II goal as well as spread the word about LCIF. In this message, I would like to update you on a number of LCIF news items. LCIF Ranked Best NGO Worldwide In a special report released Thursday, July 5, 2007, Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) ranked best among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide. From 34 global organizations, LCIF came in first for its execution of programs, demonstrated accountability, communications internally and externally, program adaptability to the surrounding community, and understanding the goals of its corporate supporters. The assessment was published in the Financial Times' Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy special report. The full story can be read online at http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/lions_lcif_times.shtml. Vote NOW to Help Eradicate Preventable Blindness LCIF has been selected by American Express as one of the top 50 project ideas in The Members Project, an exciting initiative that brings American Express Cardmembers together to do something good for our world. Join Cardmembers across the country to vote for LCIF's incredible idea to eliminate preventable blindness, presented to American Express by the Diamondhead Lions Club in Mississippi, USA. For every vote LCIF receives, US$1 will be donated to LCIF by American Express up to US$5 million. Cast your vote NOW for LCIF at membersproject.com http://www.membersproject.com/Health_Fitness/723. LCIF is Project ID #723. You only have until July 15 to keep LCIF in the top 25! Please share this information with your friends, family and co-workers so they can vote for LCIF. To learn more visit the LCIF Web site at http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/lions_lcif_amex.shtml. Grants Awarded at June Board Meeting More than US$2.4 million in grants were approved at the June 2007 LCIF Board Meeting. Lions clubs from all over the world were granted funds to assist many humanitarian projects, such as partnering with Lions in Malaysia for a clean water project (Korea), equipping a rehabilitation center for the disabled (Italy), upgrading the kitchen and dining room at an Easter Seals camp (Canada) and constructing a clinic and vocational center for the disabled (Honduras). Read the complete story and view the entire list of approved grants at http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/lions_lcif_newgrants.shtml. There are number of new materials, including a new DVD and CD of LCIF publications available to you to help promote LCIF in your club and district. A list of these materials can found at http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/lcif_pr_tools.shtml. I look forward to this year and thank you for your continued support and dedication to LCIF. LCIF is able to fulfill its mission of helping Lions serve worldwide through your support. Serving Through LCIF, Jimmy M. Ross |
Family Dues StructureThe new Lions Clubs International Family Dues Initiative kicks in on January 1, 2007. Read more about it on the Lions International Website. Also, you can download the Certification Form there. http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/programs_mem_family.shtml |
State and Country Flags LocationOver the years, Multiple District 33 has purchased many flags of countries, states and geographical areas in which Lions are active. We also have some other flags relative to Lions. These flags are available to Lions, Lioness and Leo clubs for use in parades, at anniversary parties and other events the clubs wish to have them at. This is the source of the flags we use at the Big E Parade, at Midwinter and at the State Convention. Bryan Murphy of the Woburn Host Lions Club has taken over the task of storing the flags. Any club that wishes to use the flags should contact him. His contact information is bryan@dustpipe.com of the Woburn Host Lions Club, PO Box 316, Woburn MA 01801. Woburn Lions Tel: (781) 933-8297 weekdays 9 AM - 4 PM or answering machine 24/7, Fax (781_ 933-2099 (24/7). There are many geographic areas for which we do not yet have the flags. For anyone wishing to purchase a flag for the Multiple District, the cost is $210.00 for an in-stock flag and $250.00 for a custom flag. (A stock flag means a flag that is in stock and standard design; a custom flag means the flag needs to be custom made due to color and design.) Many 33Y clubs and persons have purchased flags in the past. The donor's name will be documented on the flag pole. When an International Director from that area is in office, that flag is displayed at our state convention and the name of the donor announced during the flag ceremony. |
MD33 Resource GuideThe Membership and Extension Division of Lions Clubs International has just the right resources to help you put the pieces together. All puzzles begin as a jumble of pieces. Each piece is an essential part of the whole picture, but until the pieces are properly assembled, the true potential of the picture cannot be realized. Like a puzzle, a great Lions club is only as good as its individual parts. Separately, there are many interesting pieces, and when properly working together, the result is an active club making a significant difference in the community. Putting together the pieces of a successful club is not difficult. It involves taking a good, hard look at your club; creating appropriate, measurable goals; obtaining the needed resources to meet your goals; creating an action plan; and following through with the steps necessary to meet your goals. The pieces are all right here. Simply choose the ones that are right for your club and assemble a successful membership picture that will benefit your community and your members for years to come. The Resource Guide is available is available on the through the Multiple District website: http://www.lions-md33.org/documents/MD%20Membership%20Resource%20Guide%202005.pdf |
Media Contact InformationPDG Pamela Hodgkins has provided us with an excel spreadsheet that is a very complete listing of all the media addresses for our area. Feel free to use them to get your club information out to the public. You can download the list by clicking on this link: http://www.lions-33y.org/forms/MediaAddresses.xls (22 Kb) |
Vision in PreschoolersVision in Pre-Schoolers is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' program mandated in September 2004 to be the method by which ALL pre-school children will have been screened and certified as such by a trained screener prior to admission to any public school in Massachusetts.The method finds amblyopia and vision problems in young children as well as adults at a 95% accuracy rate. The current and now obsolete method you must pass at the Registry to get your drivers license every five years maybe is accurate to 10% for adults only. The apparatus costs less than $100 and the screening training takes maybe two hours, so a Lions Club can easily afford to become the screeners in their local communities. |
American Diabetes Association Asks Our HelpDear Friends of the American Diabetes Association:
I
am writing to
you to ask that you join the many Lions Clubs throughout the
As you may know, the American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Our mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by this disease.
Your contribution will help us to fund programs such as our diabetes camp for children, advocacy initiatives, community outreach, and scientific research. Thanks to wonderful organizations like yours, we are moving forward in the fight against diabetes.
If
you would
like to have a speaker come to one of your club meetings to talk about
,diabetes we would be happy to provide one for you. Please let me know
so that we can schedule this after the first of the New Year. We would be so grateful to have you on our team in this fight. We thank you in advance for your generosity and wish you a peaceful, happy holiday season.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Sincerely, Sheri Baron Market Manager American Diabetes Association 617-482-4580 ext. 3502 sbaron@diabetes.org |
Y.A.N.K.S - How it came to beVDG/PDG Jean W. Martin has gotten onto the trail of the naming of our sub districts after receiving the question: " How did our districts get the Y-A-N-K-S designations? Here is her answer, thanks to the help of PID John Hoyle and PCC L. Doug Sime:Prior to 1949 the state of Massachusetts had 3 districts: A, B, C. At the 1949 State Convention, held in Magnolia, MA., June 17 - 19, a resolution proposing the division of District 33 into five sub districts, to be known as Y-A-N-K-S was adopted. YANKS was first used as a description for patriots in the revolution, then it became a sort of term of endearment. Since this change was just after World War II, the word YANKS was a popular slang word for American Troops serving in Europe, and since we now had 5 districts, we needed names for our districts, and Wendell Ring of Leicester, MA proposed the names Y-A-N-K-S. And, it was voted that way. So that's the story, and we're sticking to it. |
LCIF Helps Develop Hearing Aid(From The Lions International Web site: )LCIF is helping to develop the world's finest low cost hearing aid. The long range plan is for Lions worldwide to take a leading role in improving the lives of millions of hearing impaired people. LCIF has approved US$600,000 for the Lions Affordable Hearing Aid Project (AHAP) to design, manufacture and distribute a high-quality, low cost hearing aid. AHAP is moving forward steadily. A digitally programmable hearing aid already has been developed, a manufacturing and distribution site were established in southern India, successful clinical trials were conducted in the United States and a fulfillment center is planned for New Jersey (USA). Hearing impaired people are an overlooked population, especially in developing countries. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 250 million people have a disabling degree of hearing impairment. The average cost of a hearing aid, US$1,450 in 2000, is prohibitively high for the poor. Only 12 percent of the 6 million hearing aids sold in 2000 were sold in developed countries, which is home to 70 percent of the global population. AHAP is manufacturing the hearing aids for US$40 to $50. Its price will range from $0 to US$500 depending on a client's ability to pay. The income realized from sales in wealthier countries will subsidize the cost in poor countries. Lions will be the exclusive distributor of the hearing aid to all Lions' groups and all U.S. non-profit groups. Many Lions clubs currently provide either low cost refurbished hearing aids or high-priced new hearing aids to the deaf in their communities. AHAP will allow Lions to deliver new high-quality hearing aids to those who cannot afford them. The hearing aids are being made in India at Aurolab, a world leader in manufacturing affordable medical technology. Aurolab developed the low-priced intraocular lens used in Lions' anti-blindness projects. Aurolab is part of the Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology, initially funded with a US$1.26 million SightFirst grant. The lead manager for the hearing aid project is one of the originators of Aurolab, social entrepreneur David Green of U.S.-based Project Impact. A pilot project will offer the hearing aid to Lions as a member benefit. If successful in parts of the United States and India, the member benefit could be extended to other regions. |
Lions Eye Health Program"The Lions Eye Health Program (LEPH is a community-based education program that allows Lions Clubs, other community organizations and individuals to promote healthy vision in the United States. "Please visit their web site for information on the program (http://www.lehp.org/about.htm), on the Anatomy of the Eye (http://www.lehp.org/diseases.htm), on Glaucoma (http://www.lehp.org/diseases_glaucoma.htm), and on Low Vision (http://www.lehp.org/diseases_low.htm) |
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Lions-Quest is a premier life-skills, character education, prevention, and service-learning program for young people. It has helped more than 6 million students around the world ages 5 to 18 reach their full potential. An e-mail received by District Governor Jean W. Martin: Greetings!. My name is Shmir Corzine. I am a Program Coordinator for the Lions-Quest Department of Lions Clubs International Foundation. AsI hope you are aware, the Lions-Quest program was purchased by LCIF inSeptember 2002. This change should allow for increased visibility andexposure amongst Lions and schools. LCIF hopes that it can count onyour support to make this a reality. The change in ownership will notaffect the basic program or its content, with the exception of violenceprevention materials, which were not part of the sale. Limited supplies of Working it Out and Working Toward Peace are still available through PMDS, but the future of the programs remain unclear at this time. We continue to offer materials and regional and contracted workshopsfor Skills for Growing (K-5), Skills for Adolescence (6-8), and Skillsfor Action (9-12). If you are interested in observing a workshop andyour schedule will permit, we would like to invite you to attend acurrently planned regional workshop, and those sites and dates can befound by visiting our website at www.lions-quest.org. To scheduleworkshops in the U.S. please call 1-800-446-2700; outside of the U.S.please contact the Lions-Quest department directly at (630)571-5466 ext.648 or 649, or e-mail us at jwester@lionsclubs.org orscorzine@lionsclubs.org. We are happy to inform you that grants are once again available tobegin or expand upon Lions-Quest activity under LCIF's Core 4 grantprogram. Under the revised regulations for this grant, MultipleDistricts or several sub-districts working together can request up to $100,000 from LCIF. Individual sub-districts can request up to $25,000. Clubs and districts are encouraged to explore how to participate inLions-Quest programs, and districts interested in requesting aLions-Quest grant should contact the LCIF grants department at(630)571-5466 ext. 328. The LCIF Lions-Quest Department looks forward to working with you anddeveloping a solid partnership with our Lions Districts and DistrictGovernors, in order to reinvigorate the Lions-Quest Program. We arecurrently developing new promotional materials for this effort as well. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have about the Lions-Quest program or to request materials or assistance in puttingtogether a presentation for your district. A sincere thanks fromLions-Quest, bringing Lions and communities together! |
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Multiple District 33 Map: PDG Lion Paul Viano. Conversion by Lion Al Porter. Modified into an imagemap by Lion Dennis Waller