May-June 2010
Mon. May 3—Lions Red Cross
Blood Drive
Wed.
May 12--Regular Dinner Meeting-Trull
Sat.
May 15—Flag Day/Summer Flag Presentation
Wed.
May 19--Board of Directors Meeting
Wed.
March 26—Regular Dinner Meeting
Sat.
May 29—Great Pootatuck Duck Race—Annual Lions picnic
Thurs.
June 10—Hospice Breakfast
Sat.
June 12—Americares type project
Sun.
June 13—Ladies Night/Awards/Installation
Sat.
June 19—Orchard Hill Cleanup
“President’s Message”
Fellow Lions,
It is hard to believe but we are entering the final
quarter of the Lions’ Year. This is a time for fun outdoors and the major
push on our two biggest fund raisers. We are already in full swing
selling Duck Race tickets and will then turn our attention to selling Mustang tickets.
Despite the weak economy, we hope to break all sales records. Of course
that will only happen through the full support and participation of all
members. Please do your fair share. Sell all of the tickets that
have been or will be issued to you. You can even buy them for your kids
and grandkids and hand them out as gifts. Also, please remember our
motto, “We Serve.” Volunteer to sell raffle
tickets and take the car out.
What a quarter we just had! Our Night at
A look at our project budget and schedule of
service and social activities shows that we have
made a huge impact serving
Lion Walt
“More
Actual Words from Court Testimony”
Attorney; How was your first
marriage terminated?
Witness: By death.
Attorney: And by whose death was it terminated?
Witness: Take a guess.
Attorney: So the date of conception of the baby was
August 8th?
Witness: Yes.
Attorney: And what were you doing at that time?
Witness: Getting laid.
Attorney: Can you describe the individual?
Witness: He was about medium height and had a beard.
Attorney: Was this a male or a female?
Witness: Unless the circus was in town, I’m going with
male.
Attorney: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you
performed on dead people?
Witness: All of them.
The live ones put up too much of a fight.
Attorney: Do you recall the time that you examined the
body?
Witness: The autopsy started around
Attorney: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
Witness: If not, he was by the time I finished.
Attorney: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did
you check for a pulse?
Witness: No.
Attorney: Did you check for blood pressure?
Witness: No
Attorney: Did you check for breathing?
Witness: No
Attorney: So, then it is possible that the patient was
alive when you began the autopsy?
Witness: No.
Attorney: How can you be sure, Doctor?
Witness: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a
jar.
Attorney: I see, but could the patient have still been
alive, nevertheless?
Witness: Yes, it is possible that he could have been
alive and practicing law.
Doings of the Pride
Dick
and Margaret Kovacs spent an enjoyable week and a half soaking up the sun down at St.
Martins, the interesting island that is one half Dutch and the other half
French. They enjoyed lots of walking,
touring the island and watching the airplanes land at the local airport. . Bob and Josie Schmidt and her two sisters
and their husbands took a great cruise recently. They stopped at
of a very
festive Earth Day. In just three years
Earth Day has turned into a major event.
. . . Dick Kovacs, Bob Schmidt and George Arfaras
and wives attended the Danbury Cultural Arts opening evening at the attractive
Palace Theater. In addition to good food
and drink the Newtowners got to witness an excellent
Film, “The Wrecking Crew”, which was about the backup band who
backed up so many bands from the Beach Boys to Frank Sinatra to Tijuana Brass
etc. All concurred it was a great
evening.
Real Notes
Written by Parents in a
My
son is under a doctor’s care and should not take pe
today. Please execute him.
Plese exkuce Lisa for being absent she was sick and I had her
shot.
Dear
school: Please ecsx’s John being absent on Jan. 28,
29, 30, 31, 32 and also 33.
Please
excuse Gloria from jim
today. She is administrating.
Please
excuse Roland from p.e. for
a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a
tree and misplaced his hip.
John
has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.
Carlos
was absent yesterday because he was playing football. He was hurt in the growing part.
Focus on Our Wives
Lee Paulson, is
our wife of the month. Lee, the
proud mother of Kate Gill, a Citi Bank trustee, and Christian Paulson, a mechanical engineer, and doting grandmother of two
grandchildren, is also happily married to Lion Chuck. Aside from being a good
mother and wife, Lee has done a variety of other things such as being a tutor
for an autistic boy in
If you are looking for one essential
person in any organization, where would you look? If you were thinking of the Faith Food
Pantry, you would look no further than Lee Paulson, co-chairwoman of the Faith
Food Pantry. The Pantry was founded
twenty-seven years ago and Lee was there at its beginning. In the last three years it has been full time
work for her. While they have plenty of
volunteers, and good help from Jim Short’s organic vegetable farm, Tony Posco’s Andrea’s Bakery, the Lions Club, the
Knights of Columbus and various other groups, Lee is the glue that keeps the
whole thing together. She said recently
that the situation of poverty in
A Lion from
An Oklahoma Lion
passing by his son’s bedroom was astonished to see that his bed was nicely made
and everything was picked up. Then he
saw an envelope, propped up prominently on the pillow that was addressed to
“Dad.” With the worst premonition he
opened the envelope and with trembling hands read the letter.
Dear Dad:
It is with great regret and sorrow that I
am writing you. I had to elope with my
new girlfriend because I wanted to avoid a scene with Mom and you. I have been finding real passion with Stacy
and she is so nice. But I knew you would
not approve of her because of all her piercings,
tattoos, tight motorcycle clothes and the fact that she is much older than I
am.
But it’s not only the passion. Dad, she is pregnant. Stacy said that we will be very happy. She owns a trailer in the woods and has a
stack of firewood for the whole winter.
We share a dream of having many more children.
Stacy has opened
my eyes to the fact that marijuana doesn’t really hurt anyone. We’ll be growing it for ourselves and trading
it with the other people who live nearby for cocaine and
ecstacy.
In the meantime we will pray that science will find a cure for AIDS so
Stacy can get better. She deserves it.
Don’t worry, Dad. I’m almost seventeen and I know how to take
care of myself.
Someday I’m sure that we will be back to
visit so that you can get to know your grandchildren.
Love,
Your son, John
P.S.
Dad, none of the above is true.
I’m over at Tommy’s house. I
just wanted to remind you that there are worse things in life than the report
card that’s in my center desk drawer.
I love you. Call me when it’s safe to come home.
New Lions in the Pride
John Truitt hails from sunny
Ryan Henry is a