Membership development remains a priority! Please INVITE and warmly welcome newcomers, INSPIRE their commitment with your stories and INVOLVE them immediately in producing miracles! Let’s continue helping our members to learn, experience-exciting service adventures, and most importantly, enjoy making a positive difference. Lions service thrives when membership adds significance to life! For fundraising, please offer Peg Stoklas & company your praise for organizing our October Benefit Dinner, our first, annual fundraiser. Bob Daily needs many hands in gearing up for the Christmas Tree Sales, as does Dick Pastor for the December 10th Pancake Breakfast. Ken Shaffer & company are preparing for the early January start of the 2012 Directory Campaign. Dona Van Leer is leading preparations for the April JDRF Walk. Steve O’Brien & company are creating novelty for the May Golf Tournament.

For offering service, please remember that Len Fleet needs your ideas and help in revising our Constitution.

Sandy Decker is revitalizing our used cell phone collection effort and planning our Lake Wylie Assisted Living Caroling event. Dona Van Leer is setting up the multi-day, late October SC Lions Health Screening Unit visit that provides student vision and hearing tests to Clover School District middle and high school students. Contact me about mentoring, tutoring, reading to students and the Nager’s Roaring Readers book distributions. Peg Stoklas is focusing upon our December 6th Holiday Banquet. Marianne Lewis is thinking about our Spring 2012 Pot Luck Supper. Lou Girolami heads up our effort to help all enjoy better vision! Pat Kirby leads our hearing improvement services.

Lots of service opportunities are available! Adding more keeps our interest and impact strong! Let’s continue to produce miracles, impart hope, and model how to bring to life Lions International President Tam’s motto, “I believe”!

Personally, I look forward to collaborating with you in offering smiling faces and helping hands for love’s power to transform lives.

All the best! Frank