April/May/June 2009
Wed. April 8--Regular Meeting
Wed. April 15--Board of
Directors meeting
Wed.
April 22--Father-Daughter-Son Meeting
Sat.
April 25--Loose the Litter Day and Earth Day
Sat.
May 2--Americares Day
Mon.
May 4--Blood Drive
Sat.
May 9--Orchard Hill Cleanup
Wed.
May 13--Regular Meeting--Honan-Trull Awards
Sat.
May 16--Flag Day--Summer Flag presentation
Sun.
May 17--Frisby Golf Day at Orchard Hill
Sat.
May 23--Great Pootatuck Duck Race--all hands needed on deck
Wed.
May 27--Regular Meeting
Thur.
June 11--Hospice Breakfast
Sun.
June 14--Ladies Night--Awards--Installation
Wed.
June 17--Board of Directors Meeting
“President’s Message”
I have received
numerous e-mails from our International Lions club, President Al Brandel,
concerning increased membership. He has
been providing pep talks to all District Governors and Presidents to hopefully
convince us that we need to try a little harder to get our friends and other
acquaintances to join this great organization.
In keeping with this theme, I am asking each of you to invite a friend,
neighbor or other acquaintance, to join us for another membership meeting on
April 8, 2009. Lion Schweikert and his
committee will be contacting you to encourage you to bring a prospective member
to this meeting.
I recently attended the Lions Day at the United
Nations. Ban Ki-moon, the
Secretary-General of the United Nations, spoke about the long standing support
the International Lions Club has provided the UN. The Lions Club of Newtown was recognized for
its contributions to the United Nations sponsored School-In-A-Box program. Our contribution of $600.00 is enough to
supply basic educational materials and supplies for 250 students and teachers
in culturally deprived areas of the world.
All in all, it was a most rewarding
We are approaching the most active and productive part of
our calendar year. Tickets for the
annual Car Raffle and Duck Race are being printed and will be available very
shortly and distributed to our membership.
Upcoming is the Lose the Litter Day, which has already received
attention in our local newspapers as a part of Earth Day, on April 25,2009.
This is followed by the Americares project, the Red Cross Blood Drive, the Flag
Day Presentation, Orchard Hill Cleanup and the Great Pootatuck Duck Race. Now is the time to STEP-UP. We need everyone to help to make our projects
successful. Our success translates to
more help for those charitable organizations we have supported for so many
years. Please do your part!
Tom
NEW-- from a Lion in :Phoenix, Arizona
My grandpa
started walking five miles a day when he was sixty. He says it keeps him spry. Now he is ninty-seven years old and we don’t
know where he is.
The Little Girl and the
Dog
A little girl asked her Mom, "Mom,
may I take the dog for a walk around the block?" Mom replies, "No,
because she is in heat."
"What's that mean?" asked the
child. "Go ask your father. I think he's in the garage."
The little girl
goes to the garage and says, "Dad, may I take Belle for a walk around the
block? I asked Mom, but she said the dog was in heat, and to come to you."
Dad said, "Bring Belle over here." He took a rag, soaked it with
gasoline, and scrubbed the dog's backside with it to disguise the scent. Then
he said, "OK, you can go now, but keep Belle on the leash and only go one
time round the block."
The little girl
left and returned a few minutes later with no dog on the leash. Surprised, Dad
asked, "Where's Belle?"
The little girl
said, "She ran out of gas about halfway down the block, so another dog is
pushing her home."
Doings of the Pride
NEW. A few years ago Tom Evagash bought a home on
Candlewood Lake in New Milford that needed a great deal of repair. Over several winters he has basically
stripped the house and put in new cabinets, baths, tile, carpeting and redid
the floors plus lots of painting. There
is a lot of quality craftsmanship there. Someone will be lucky to snag it. . .
.Frank and Jan ardner recently had a
wonderful trip to Maui. Frank believes
it is probably the best vacation they have ever had. They enjoyed the different climates all
within one island, the many scenic vistas, the good restaurants and the
incurably snorkeling activities they participated in. Beautiful tropical fish and large sea turtles
abounded. . . .Alex Fraser just
purchased a double wide 1000 square feel trailer with two bedrooms and
two baths. He can’t wait to spend a good
part of next winter in the Sunshine state, like so many other Lions. Ed Miklaszewski had bigs plans to spend a day
on a forty mile bike ride in NYC.
Sounded great but . . . The day before Ed, as always the helpful guy,
was working with the Americares project and fell off a ladder breaking his
foot. We’re happy to say he is much
better now. . . OLDHither and yon have gone the Lions! For example, Dick Kovacs and his wife,
Margaret, spent an enjoyable two weeks in St. Martin, the half Dutch, half
French island where everyone speaks French.
The Kovacs have been going there since the 1980s and bought a time share
in 1993. . . Lincoln Sander and his
wife, Jean, have just enjoyed a week at Guadalahara in central Mexico visiting
friends. They found the city very
pleasant and economically vibrant.
Higher in altitude than mile high Denver, days were warm and nights very
comfortable. I imagine it was hard to
come back to the cold just as it was for returning snow birds Arneth,
Evagash, Wyslick and Larin. Still enjoying the southland are Lions
Hostetler and Mounts. . . . Alex Fraser spent two pleasant weeks in the mid
winter visiting his daughter in Ft. Lauderdale and is thinking of buying some
property down there. . . . And Ed Miklaszewski and wife Donna have recently
returned very tanned from a week’s cruise to Mexico on the royal Caribbean. They visited Casomel and enjoyed the many
things to do on the ship. One day they
took a side trip out to see sting rays which were very common in this
area. They event petted them. . . .
About to depart are Walt and Peg Schweikert for a month traveling in their
camper through the South visiting twenty national parks and such cities as New
Orleans. . . . We are happy to see that Paul Krueger has rebounded so well from
his shoulder surgery and that Jon Christensen is his own affable self after a
blockage in his intestine. . . . Keep our founding member, Bill Honan in, your
prayers for he is currently in Danbury Hospital with a serious case of
pneumonia.
According to George Carlin
“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the
grave safely in a well preserved body but rather to skid in sideways, totally
worn out shouting ‘Holy shit! What a
ride!’”
Focus
on Our Wives
Life for Sandra Brown has always been
busy, so busy it has been hard finding time for her hobbies of camping,
walking, bike riding, reading and doing crossword puzzles. Raising four children ages forty to forty
five took a lot of energy as do her eight grandchildren most of whom don’t live
too far away. Every summer the
grandkids come for a week of Granny Camp.
Lots of activities fill the week such as camping, swimming, crafts and
scavenger hunts. This is a hectic but
fun filled week . When Sandy isn’t too
busy being wife to Dave, sister to Debbie Stakel, mother and grandmother, she
works as assistant manager of the Dress Barn
in Shelton. She is also quite
active in the Methodist Church. After
having many roles there, she is currently the Head Usher and Minister of
Fun! Knowing Sandy’s enthusiasm and pep,
I bet the Methodists have been gifted with lots of Fun!
According
to a Lion from Nebraska
I want to die
while asleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like the passengers
in his car.
According
to a Lion from Montana
I am a
Nobody. Nobody is Perfect, Therefore, I am Perfect.
According
to a Lion from New Hampshire
I have kleptomania but when it gets bad, I
take something for it.
According
to a Female Lion in Boulder, Colorado
Heaven is
where:
The police are
British. The chefs are Italian. The mechanics are German.
The lovers are
French. And it is all organized by the
Swiss.
Hell in where:
The police are
German. The chefs are British. The mechanics are French
The lovers are
Swiss. And it is all organized by the
Italians.