Todays Meeting

Lion President Tom presided over the meeting on Good Friday and called on Lion Pat to sing the song, Lion Roy to do the Pledge of Allegiance, and Lion Dee to do the invocation.

Lion Tony won the No Fine Badge today and gave a dollar for delivery. 

Lion President Tom also called for the secret greeter to show himself; it turned out to be Lion Bob, though he was unaware he was the secret greeter. Luckily, his memory was good enough to note that three people did not shake his hand.

Announcements

Linon Melinda was unable to attend the club meeting today, but she had Karen make an announcement about our club’s 100th anniversary party. It will be July 18th at the Hyde, beginning at 5:30. Note that we have Terry Oman, the Visalia historian, who will be speaking that evening and sharing a bit of Visalia’s history. Also, Melinda noted that if anyone was interested in helping plan the 100th anniversary, let her know. 

Lion President Tom noted that he did not have a list of April birthdays for the club, and no one in attendance had a birthday, so we did not sing “Happy Birthday.”

Lion Allen announced that we have a vision screening on Friday, April 24rd, in Goshen, and that anybody who would like to help should show up from 3:00 to 5:00 at Goshen Elementary School.

Lion Pete tells the story of Lion Bob’s April Fool’s joke. 

Happy Bucks 

Lyon Rick had a happy buck because when he went to spring training in March, he saw a great game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers. The Dodgers started out with a 7-0 score, and it ended up with the Brewers winning 19 -7 after the Dodgers pulled their starting pitchers. 

Lion Roy had a happy buck because NASA is returning to the Moon with the Artemis II mission. He also had a short little joke: A duck went into the old Main Drug store owned by former club president Roland Marr.  The duck asked for some lip balm. Roland got it, turned around, and said, “Will this be cash or charge?” The duck replied, “No, just put it on my bill.” Ha ha.

Lion Mark was happy to be back at our club meeting today after being away for a few weeks. He noted that his kids, who lived in Clovis, were expecting a child whom they would name Clara. He noted that several of them in that family were born on the same day.

Lion Dee had a happy buck, but first, reminded by what Lion Rick had said about the spring training baseball game,  remembered a couple of baseball games the cub attended several years ago.   In the first year, the group went down to Dodger Stadium to see the Dodgers play the Giants, and the Giants beat them 20 to 3. The next year, the club went up to San Francisco to see the Giants play the Dodgers, and the Dodgers beat the Giants in the same lopsided way. 

Lion Dee was also happy to play golf in Exeter the day before, and he did very well, posting some three pars. 

Dee also noted that, if members of the club wanted to go to a Rawhide game, he would get it together. 

Lion President Tom had a happy buck because he had gone to the symphony last Saturday night and Tom Link was there. It was a memorable experience. When asked if that memorable experience was because Tom Link was there, he said no, that fortunately, Tom was sitting several rows away.

Lion Tom also said that while he didn’t want to get political, he was happy we no longer had our Attorney General, Pam Bondi.

Lion Pete had a happy buck because he told a story about Lion Bob, who has a family breakfast once a month with his daughters, their spouses, and some nieces and nephews. This month’s breakfast took place on April 1st, and Bob commented that he was going to move out of Shannon Ranch and move in with each of his daughters for a month at a time. They were pretty shocked until he said, “Just kidding, April Fools.”

Fines

Lyon Roy fined himself because he will not be at the club meetings for three weeks. While he was not going anywhere special, he had three fairly big photo jobs on the following Saturdays, and he had to pack up for those jobs on Friday.

Lion President Tom fined several members for not having their badges, including himself.

Trivia

 Because this was Easter weekend, we decided to do Easter trivia

For Lion Pete: According to the song “Peter Cottontail,” what is the bunny bringing for Tommy? Pete’s answer of a dollar was incorrect. The correct answer, which nobody could come up with, was that the Easter bunny is bringing jelly beans for Tommy.

For Lion President Tom: instead of Easter bunnies, Swedish kids dress up as what? Even after a minute, Tom could not come up with the correct answer. Pat tried to answer “turkey,” and that was incorrect. Dee said that he was a turkey and that Swiss dress up as Easter wizards.

For Lyon Mark: Dee noted that we had not gotten a buck out of Mark in a long time. Mark, how much do U.S. households spend on average for Easter? Mark was not able to answer correctly. It is $131.

For Lion Allen: In what country did the Easter Bunny originate? Allen’s answer of Switzerland was incorrect. Karen said Germany, which was correct.

For Lion Roy: When was the first Easter egg roll at the White House? Roy’s answer of 1947 was way off; it was 1878 under the world-famous president Rutherford B. Hayes. (I photographed weddings for forty years, never had a groom named Rutherford)

For Lion Pat: Who introduced the Easter bonnet into American popular culture in 1933? His answer of Gershwin was incorrect. It was Irving Berlin.

For Lion Karen, Easter always falls between which two dates? Her answers on March 15 and April 15 were close but wrong. The answer is March 22 and April 24.

Lyon Rick had a couple of trivia questions. (No speaker today, so we had some extra time.) His question went to the group: “What was the smoggiest day in the United States history?” He noted that the governor called out the National Guard to stop potential travel. The answer occurred in Los Angeles on September 13, 1955.

Rick’s next trivia question was: What year was the smoggiest day in the San Joaquin Valley? It was 1989.

Drawings 

The $5 drawing went to Lion Bob, who gave it to the Eye Foundation.

Lion Karen won the drawing for the lotto tickets.

Lion Steve won the drawing for the marble, but did not draw the white marble. He drew a yellow marble.

Lion Pat ended up giving his last dollar to the club because he didn’t want to put it back in his wallet. Too much work.

Because we had no speaker today, we left early. Happy Easter!

Lion Pat won the free ad today and says 

Go Rancho Bernardo Wolverines