Todays Meeting
Lion president Melinda opened today’s meeting by calling on Lion Steve to lead us in saluting our flag, Lion Bob Line to lead us in singing “God Bless America,” and Lion Mark to do the invocation.
We had two guests today, PDG Lion David Hamilton and our Leo’s club advisor, Patricia Lara from La Sierra Academy.
Lion Bob Line was the secret greeter today and was able to collect $2 for the club because Lions Tony and Allen did not shake his hand.
Lion Tony did the first reading of the 2025-26 slate of officers as listed; they are
President: Lion Tom Gaebe
1st Vice President: Lion Colin
Immediate past president: Lion Melinda
Secretary: Lion Melinda
Treasure: Lion Karen
One-year directors: Lion Tom Link and Lion Leigh Musconi
Two-year directors: Lion Roy Dressel and Lion Allen Ventling
Tail twister: Lion Roy
Head greeter: Lion Tony
Head Lion Tamer: Lion Dee
Announcements
This Friday, April 11th at 11 AM: Board Meeting at Left of Center.
Birthdays this month: Lion President Melinda is the only club member who will celebrate a birthday in April, so we all sang Happy Birthday to her.
On a personal note, Lion’s Pat and Dee announced their annual barbershop show, this year titled Grandpa’s Attic, with the Mighty Oak Chorus on the 26th.
PDG Lion David Hamilton announced the Lions 4A2 District Convention May 16- 18th at the Visalia Wyndham.
Lion Allen announced two vision screenings: On April 24th at the Family Health Care health fair at Goshen Elementary School and on April 29th at the Early Learning Resource Fair at 1040 N. Woodland. A signup sheet will be passed around at each meeting.
Lion Tony does the first reading onf the 2025-26 Slate of officers.
Lion President Melinda, happy for the wonderful harmonies during the song.
Lion Dee has his weekly triva questions.
Happy Bucks
Lion Dee gave two bucks because he had won $20 with last week’s Lotto ticket win.
Lion Pat was happy he could help out his daughter and son-in-law with renovations to their home that had gone way beyond what they had expected needed to be done.
Lion David Hamilton was happy he recently went to the Dead and Company at the Spire in Las Vegas.
Lion Roy was happy the Dodgers were doing well.
Lion Karen had a sad buck that the water heater broke in their rental home, costing them over $6,000 to clean up the mess.
Lion Bob Line was happy that he was not in the stock market.
Lion Allen was happy for Saturdays Visaion Screening, also for Lion Tom Gaebe taking on the job as president next year and that he was headed to Hawaii next week.
Fines
Lion Roy asked the group to fine Lion Dee for his insistent horn honking during Lion Roy’s happy buck for the Dodgers, but he could not get enough votes to pass that.
Dee’s Trivia
To Lion Bob Line: How many Leo Clubs are there worldwide? Bob was not able to give the correct answer of 7,700. The added question was how many Leos there are: 200,000 is the correct answer.
To the group, how many countries are the Leos in? Patricia answered the question correctly: 150.
Mark was asked when and where the Leo Clubs were founded. He could answer the place, Pensavanya, but in the first one, he got close to the correct year, 1957.
Lions Roy, Leigh, Rick, and Allen at the April 5th TCOE resource Fair in Visalia.
Lion Mark draws for and wins the white marble and goes home with an extra $60.
Patricia Laura, advisor of our Leo club from La Sierra Academy, talks about club activities.
Drawings
The $5 drawing went to Lion Bob Line, who donated it to the Leo Club after some cojoiling from Lion Dee.
Lotto ticket: Lion Pat
Patricia Laura, the Leo’s advisor won the free add today.
As always, we are looking for speakers for the club. Use this schuduler app to book your speaker or send them the link to this page and have them do it themsilves. No need to contact me when you want to know if a date is available, if it open on this app, it’s available. (Lion Roy)
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