First Vice-president Lion Ruth McKee lead the meeting today and called on our young guest, Maeve to lead us in the flag salute, Lion Pat to lead us in song.

Announcements

Two sympathy cards were sent around for Lion Carol and Lion President Karen,  each of there fathers had passed away and their services were held today. 

Lion Lauri announced that the September 21st meeting will be held at the Visalia Rescue Mission at 322 NE. Santa Fe here in Visalia. We will have lunch and be given a tour a tour of the facility. 

Lion Brad gave us all a message from golf committee chairman Lion Melinda, she wanted to thank all of us who worked on the golf tournament and made it so much fun and the success it was. 

Happy Bucks

Acting president Lion Ruth started off happy bucks with her “happy Friday” happy buck. 

Lion Brad was happy his son recently got a job in Bakersfield and will be within easy driving distance. 

Lion Arron was happy his wife Lion Betty, who recently broke her ankle, is now is now in a boot and out of the cast. We are all wishing her a speedy and complete recovery and hope to see her at club soon. 

Lion Steve was happy the golf tournament off so well and that his 8-year-old granddaughter was helping put out T-Signs. 

Lion Leigh was also happy for the success of the golf tournament. 

Lion Craig was happy to be sitting at a table and referee a political debate that he was not part of for a change and happy that school had started and happy he was going on an overnight backpacking trip before he started on the campaign trail this fall. 

Lion “Tommy” Link was happy that Angelica, the new Leo advisor at La Sierra school is 100% behind the program going forward. 

Lion Lauri was happy Lion Pat had given her the gift of two books, one of which was Roberts Rules of Order. 

Lion Vicki was happy for the golf tournament. 

Fine

Lion Brad fined Lion Bob Line for being on the last place team in the golf tournament. 

Lion Vicki was our secret greater and garnered $2 for the club because Lion Bob and Lion Tom Link didn’t shake her hand. 

Drawings

Lion Allen won the $5 and donated it to the Lions Eye Foundation. 

Rodney Blaco and his daughter Maeve were our program today. Rodney has been a speaker at our club several times speaking of various subjects from the DAs office, where he works to Kaweah Softball but today he was speaking on the first all-girls Boy Scout troupe in California. Maeve even lead us in the flag salute. 

Check out some photos taken at our 23 annual golf tournament on August 17th

Lion “Tommy” Link draws for the white marble, but he got a green one. 

Lion Brad was $5 happy for a new grandchild in the family. 

Our Meeting

Lion President Karen lead today’s meeting and asked Lion Pat to lead us in song, Lion Leigh to do the flag salute and Lion Bob Line to say the invocation. 

Head greater Lion Melinda announced our guests today were Alfred and Christian from CASA, who were also our speakers today.

Announcements 

Lion Melinda also announced that the golf committee had met on Wednesday night at Buckman Mitchell Insurance (thanks to BMI for allowing us to use the room again) and that things are moving along nicely for the August 17th fundraiser. We have one sponsor, The Equity Group and we will soon have our sign-up forms. By the way, we now have an online sign-up form on our website. You can sing up to play and pay all online. 

Melinda also reminded us that, like the Murder Mystery Dinner, we would like to have each club member contribute $25, either in cash, a gift card or a raffle prize. Plus, we need help on the day of the tournament. Ether play or help was the moto. 

Happy Bucks 

Lion Roy was happy that it has been a year Saturday since his open heart surgery. 
Lion Ruth was happy it was Friday. 
Lion Carol was happy that she was going to San Diego for the week. 
Lion Craig was happy that he was going on an overnight backpacking trip. 
Lion Tom Link was happy that he got the brace off his hand, but warned us that we didn’t want to see the scar from his surgery. 
Lion Carol was our secret greater today and only two people did not shake her hand. 

Fines

Lion John Parker fined Lion Dee for the joke he had told at the installation dinner. 

Drawings

Lion Leigh won the no fine badge and was spared coughing up more money for any fines that may have been levied against him. 
$5 drawing was won by Lion Pat who generously donated it to the Leo Club, Lion Dee thanked him. 
The Lotto tickets were won by Lion Vicki. (10% to the club) 
Lion Bob Line won the marble drawing but was not lucky in drawing the white marble. 

Our program 

Alfrado and Christin from Casa were here today to talk about the need for eyeglasses for kids. Foster kids move from home to home and often do so in a hurry. They often loose or break there glasses and medical only pays for glasses for these kids every to years. The club ended up brainstorming ideas with the two of them at the end of their program. 

Sing up for the Visalia Host Lions 
23rd Annual golf tournament 
Friday, August 17, 2018
Valley Oaks Golf Course