THE WESTFIELD LIONS CLUB
PO BOX 572
Westfield, NJ 07091-0572
908-789-8726 before 7pm after 908-447-4881 or 908-654-3643
District 16-E
NEW MEMBERS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN AT ANY TIME
THE EYEGLASS RECYCLING MAILBOX IS LOCATED ON ELM STREET BY LIBERTY TRAVEL.
USED EYEGLASSES AND HEARING AIDS ARE ACCEPTED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
WE ARE ALSO COLLECTING USED CELL PHONES AND PRINTER CARTRIDGES FOR RECYCLING.
Please put them in a separate plastic bag and they can be dropped off in the same mailbox as the glasses.
Our recycling company has also added new items to their recycling program.
Ecophones now pays for Cell Phones, Ink Jets, DVDs, Laptops, MP3 Players, Digital Cameras, Portable DVD Players, Video Game Consoles & GPS Devices! Visit their website for more information
Items can be dropped at 359 Orenda Circle on the porch. Thank you for your support
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 17th White Cane
Regular Meeting October 27th, 7pm Snuffy's
District 16E Calendar of Events
October
Lions & Leos Membership Growth Month
October 20: Union County Association for the Blind Meeting, 7:00PM.
October 20: The Springfield Lions Club will sponsor a Gold Buying Event from 7:00PM-9:00PM at the Sarah Bailey Civic Center, Church Mall behind the Presbyterian Church in Springfield. Evaluation will be made by a licensed, reputable local jeweler with 80 years experience. Highest prices paid on the spot for your old gold, platinum and silver in any condition with or without stones. For further information or questions please call 973-376-5566
October 25: Camp Marcella Annual Harvest Luncheon, 12 Noon - 4:00PM at the Regency Hotel/Best Western, 140 Route 23 North, Pompton Plains, NJ. Tickets are $40.00 per person. All Lions of MD 16 will be honored as well as PID Robert "Bob" Moore. Checks should be made payable to Camp Marcella-NJ Camp for Blind Children. Please send reservations, questions and checks to PDG Paula Tarantino at 973-759-1332 or 201-709-4944.
October 25: The Scotch Plains Lions Club will hold its Pancake Breakfast at the Scotch Hills Country Club, Jerusalem Road and Plainfield Avenue in Scotch Plains from 8:00AM to Noon. The cost is $6.00 per person and children under 6 are free. For further information or reservations please contact lion Ron Kelly at 908-753-8218.
October 27: NJ Lions District 16E Developing Action Plans for Recruiting New Members Workshop, for Club Membership Chairs, Region and Zone Chairs, 6:45-9:00PM at the Lions Eye Bank, 841 Mountain Avenue, Springfield. Light refreshments will be served. Please call Lion Joyce Kernusz at 908-687-3920, Lion Isabel Baquero at 908-355-0256 or Lion Diego Santiago at 201-774-1399 to say you will be attending.
October 31: The Lions Eye Bank of NJ will be having a Donor Day from 8:00AM-12Noon at the 5 Motor Vehicle Locations in Union and Essex Counties. A separate e-mail announcing this event has been sent. Please contact Lion Stan Grossman at 973-376-7713 or Margaret Chaplin at 973-921-1222 for further details.
October 31: Deadline to purchase Peace Poster Contest kits from Lions Club Supplies.
November
LCIF Contributing Member Month & Lions Diabetes Awareness Month
November 8: Plainfield Lions Club's Annual Pancake Breakfast at the Masonic Temple, 105 E. 7th Street, Plainfield, from 8:00AM to 1:00PM. Tickets are $6.00 for adults and $3.00 for children under 12. Please contact Lion Dan Frisch at 908-687-2282 for further information.
November 8: The Hillside Lions Club will hold their Annual Pancake & Sausage Breakfast from 8AM-Noon at the Hillside Knights of Columbus, 1220 Liberty Avenue in hillside. Tickets are $6.00 for adults and $3.00 for children.
November 11: The Linden Lions Club will hold their Pasta and Meatball Dinner from 5:00PM-7:00PM at the Linden Ambulance Squad Hall, 12 N. Stiles Street in Linden. Adult tickets are $10.00 and children under 12 are $6.00. there will also be raffle prizes. For further information and/or tickets please call 908-862-8808 or 732-815-3280.
November 12-15: Senior Leadership Institute in Oak Brook, for Lions in good standing that have completed a successful term as Club President, but have not yet attained the position of First Vice District Governor. Lions who are Region and Zone chairs as well as Second Vice district Governors are encouraged to apply. LCI will pay for meals and lodging however the participants are responsible for travel expenses. The application packet can be obtained on LCI's web site, www.lionsclubs.org The deadline for registration is September 4, 2009.
November 14: **Saturday Morning Meeting** District 16E's Second Cabinet Meeting starting at 9:30AM at L'Affaire on Rt. 22 East in Mountainside. Peace Poster judging will be done at this meeting. Participating students, parents and teachers are welcome to attend.
November 17: MD16 Council Meeting, 7:00PM at the East Brunswick Chateau, 678 Cranbury Road, Cranbury, NJ. All Lions are welcome to attend. Dinner cost is $24.00 per person. Please call Phyllis (732-747-9440) or e-mail (njlions@verizon.net) that you will be attending.
November 17: Union County Association for the Blind Meeting, 7:00PM.
November 21: The Elizabeth Portuguese Leo Club will hold their 13th Anniversary Dinner starting at 6:30PM at the Portuguese Instructive Social Club, Rt. 1&9 in Elizabeth. Tickets are $40.00 per person. Please e-mail Laura at laura.fernandes88@gmail.com for tickets and further information.
December
December 6: MD16 PDG Association Holiday Party at the East Brunswick Chateau, 678 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick.
December 6-12: Lions Eye Bank Week.
December 14: Lions Eye Research Foundation Meeting, 7:00PM at the Holiday Inn in Carteret.
December 15: Union County Association for the Blind Meeting, 7:00PM.
January
Glaucoma Awareness Month
January 10-16: LCIF Week.
January 13: Melvin Jones Birthday.
January 19: MD16 Council Meeting, 7:00PM at the East Brunswick Chateau, 678 Cranbury Road, Cranbury, NJ. All Lions are welcome to attend. Dinner cost is $24.00 per person. Please call Phyllis
(732-747-9440) or e-mail (njlions@verizon.net) that you will be attending.
January 19: Union County Association for the Blind Meeting, 7:00PM.
February
February 8: Lions Eye Research Foundation Meeting, 7:00PM at the Holiday Inn in Carteret.
March
Eye Donor Awareness Month
March 25: MD16 Council Meeting, 7:00PM at the East Brunswick Chateau, 678 Cranbury Road, East Brunswick, NJ. All Lions are welcome to attend. Dinner cost is $24.00. Please call Phyllis at 732-747-9440 or e-mail njlions@verizon.net that you will be attending.
April
Leo Club Awareness Month
April 12: MD16 PDG Association Meeting at the Lobster Shanty, 7:00PM, Rt. 33 & Perrineville Road, Hightstown.
April 27: Lions Eye Research Foundation Meeting, 7:00PM at the Holiday Inn in Carteret.
April 24: Lions Worldwide Induction Day.
April 25: District 16E Charity Ball at L'Affaire, US Rt. 22 Mountainside.
May
Recycle for Sight Month
May 14: MD16 PDG Association Luncheon at the NJ Lions State Convention.
May 15: Deadline for filing PU101 Officer Reporting Forms.
May 22: District 16E Governor's Testimonial.
June
June 10: Mt. Olive Lions Club's 8th Annual Golf Outing at the Farmstead Golf & Country Club in Lafayette, NJ. Please contact Lion Drew Van Dam at 862-219-5110 or e-mail golfnut137@aol.com or Lion Ralph DeVito, PDG at 973-668-5684 for more details. Golf, carts, lunch, Prime Rib dinner and lots of prizes for everyone.
June 21: Lions Eye Research Foundation Meeting, 7:00PM at the Holiday Inn in Carteret.
June 28-July 2: 93rd Annual Lions Clubs International Convention in Sydney, Australia.
Updated October 13, 2009
Please fax (908-654-3643) or e-mail dslion@juno.com your club's fundraiser or event so it can be included in the District 16E Calendar of Events.
ABOUT THE WESTFIELD LIONS CLUB
The Westfield Lions Club originated in 1924, and for over 85 years has served Westfield with pride, with charitable
causes and service ranging from the eye/ear mobile and community clean-up campaigns, to its sponsoring of the annual
Easter egg hunt at Mindowaskin Park held the Saturday before Easter.
The Westfield Lions are part of Lions International, which is the world's largest service organization, founded in 1917.
It is currently comprised of nearly 1.3 million men and women from 200 different countries and geographic areas.
Collectively these Lions raise more than $500 million/year for charitable causes and contribute an estimated 60 million
hours to community service.
Since 1925, when Helen Keller addressed its national convention, the Lions accepted the promotion of sight conservation
and blindness prevention as its international charter and has since then become known as the "Knights for the Blind".
Nationally during the past year, nearly 4 million pairs of used or unwanted eye glasses were deposited by donors into
distinctive yellow mail box shaped receptacles identified with the Lions emblem, one being at the corner of Broad and
Elm Streets in Westfield. Once collected, they are processed at eye glass recycling centers in North America - the
closest to us being New Eyes for the Needy, PO Box 332, Short Hills, NJ 07078, 376-4903
and the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center in West Trenton -http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/vision_eyeglass_jersey.shtml
so as to give the priceless gift of enhanced sight to the poor in developing countries.
The Westfield Lions Club supports the Lions Eye Bank of NJ, in Springfield, NJ, which supplies a large percentage
of New Jersey's corneal transplant needs. The Club also supports the work of the Lions Eye Research Foundation
of New Jersey in their efforts to find a cure for common eye diseases.
Local Lions Clubs support several New Jersey summer and year-round camps and rehabilitation centers for
visually handicapped children, athletes and adults, as well as the largest Master Tape Library of it's kind in the world
(at Princeton) which makes available recorded books to those whose visual handicap makes them unable to read.
Additionally, for middle school students, the Westfield Lions Club sponsors a program of self-esteem and substance
abuse prevention called (Lions Quest), supports the Roosevelt Intermediate School Leo Club which encourages students to volunteer
part of their free time to the community and helps sustain the annual International Peace Poster Contest.
The Westfield Lions Club is an active service club whose motto, as with all Lions Clubs, is "We Serve". Should
you have an interest in finding out more about the Lions organization, we welcome your inquiry addressed to:
The Westfield Lions Club
PO Box 572
Westfield, NJ 07091
or your call to (908) 232-8551
Club Details
Club Number: 0000006927
District: 16E
President:
Alberta
Capria-Ryan
Secretary:
Douglas Schembs, Jr.
Meeting Place: Snuffy's
Park & Mountain Avenue
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
Phone: 908 322 7726
Fax: 908 322 1810
http://www.snuffypantagis.com
Meeting Time: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month 7 pm
About LIONS INTERNATIONAL
The International Association of Lions Clubs began as the dream of Chicago insurance man Melvin Jones, who wondered why local business clubs -- he was an active member of one -- could not expand their horizons from purely business concerns to the betterment of their communities and the world at large.
Jones' idea struck a chord within his own group, the Business Circle of Chicago, and they authorized him to explore his concept with similar organizations from around the United States. His efforts resulted in an organizational meeting at a local hotel on June 7, 1917.
The 12 men who gathered there overcame a natural sense of loyalty to their parent clubs, voted the "Association of Lions Clubs" into existence, and issued a call for a national convention to be held in Dallas, Texas, USA in October of the same year.
Thirty-six delegates representing 22 clubs from nine states heeded the call, approved the "Lions Clubs" designation, and elected Dr. William P. Woods of Indiana as their first president. Guiding force and founder Melvin Jones named acting secretary, thus began an association with Lionism that only ended with his death in 1961.
That first convention also began to define what Lionism was to become. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, the colors of purple and gold approved, and a start made on Lionism's Objectives and Code of Ethics.
One of the objects was startling for an era that prided itself on mercenary individualism, and has remained one of the main tenets of Lionism ever since. "No Club," it read, "shall hold out the financial betterment of its members as its object."
Community leaders soon began to organize clubs throughout the United States, and the association became "international" with the formation of the Windsor, Ontario, Canada Lions Club in 1920. Clubs were later organized in China, Mexico, and Cuba. By 1927, membership stood at 60,000 in 1,183 clubs.
In 1935, Panama became home to the first Central American club, with the first South American club being organized in Columbia the following year. Lionism reached Europe in 1948, as clubs were chartered in Sweden, Switzerland, and France. In 1952, the first club was chartered in Japan. Since then, the association has become truly global, with clubs in more than 170 countries and geographical areas worldwide.
The proper name of the association is "The International Association of Lions Clubs." Many Lions, however, prefer the use of the shorter form of "Lions Clubs International."
Throughout the world, Lions are recognized by the emblem they wear on their lapels. It consists of a gold letter "L" on a circular purple field. Bordering this is a circular gold area with two lion profiles at either side facing away from the center. The word "Lions" appears at the top, and "International" at the bottom. Symbolically, the lions face both past and future -- proud of the past and confident of the future. Lions wear their emblem with pride.
The motto of every Lion is simply "We Serve". What better way to express the true mission of Lionism?
The slogan of the association is "Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nation's Safety (LIONS).
The royal colors of purple and gold were selected as the official colors when the association was organized in 1917. Purple stands for loyalty to friends and to one's self, and for integrity of mind and heart. Gold symbolizes sincerity of purpose, liberality in judgment, purity in life and generosity in mind, heart and purpose toward humanity.
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