THE WESTFIELD LIONS CLUB
PO BOX 572
Westfield, NJ 07091-0572
908-654-4880 or 908-654-3643
District 16-E
NEW MEMBERS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN AT ANY TIME
THE EYEGLASS RECYCLING MAILBOX IS LOCATED ON ELM STREET BY LIBERTY TRAVEL.
USED EYEGLASSES AND HEARING AIDS ARE ACCEPTED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
WE ARE ALSO COLLECTING USED CELL PHONES AND PRINTER CARTRIDGES FOR RECYCLING.
Please put them in a separate plastic bag and they can be dropped off in the same mailbox as the glasses.
Our recycling company has also added new items to their recycling program.
Ecophones now pays for Cell Phones, Ink Jets, DVDs, Laptops, MP3 Players, Digital Cameras, Portable DVD Players, Video Game Consoles & GPS Devices! Visit their website for more information
Items can be dropped at 359 Orenda Circle on the porch. Thank you for your support
UPCOMING EVENTS
Enjoy the summer
Regular Meeting September 9, 7pm
District 16E Calendar of Events
****For Your Convenience, New Entries Will Be Printed In Red****
June
June 11: The Mt. Olive Lions Club will hold their 7th Annual Golf Outing on Wednesday, June 11 at the Farmstead Golf & Country Club in Lafayette, NJ. Cost per player is $125.00 which will include lunch, dinner, golf and cart. There will be prizes for every player and other fund raising events. Please contact Lion Drew Van Dam at 862-219-5110 or golfnut137@aol.com for further information.
June 11: The Montclair Lions Club will hold their 22nd Annual Golf Outing at the Sky View Golf Club, 226 Lafayette Road in Sparta. Registration will begin at 11:00AM with a Shotgun Start at 12:30PM. Lunch, dinner and the driving range are all included. Dinner will be served around 5:30PM with a cash bar. There will be a hole in one contest for a chance to win a car and prizes will be awarded for the longest and straightest drives, and for the closest to the pin on two holes. The cost for golf and dinner is $150.00 with dinner alone costing $35.00. For reservations and questions please contact Lions Michael Zazzarino (973-751-6745) or Robert Ziccardi (973-744-3990).
June 14: The Lions Eye Bank of Delaware Valley will hold its Annual Meeting and install Lion Mary Devon O'Brien, PCC as Chairperson at L'Affaire Catering, 1099 Rt. 22 in Mountainside. There will be a cash bar starting at11:30AM, with the luncheon starting at 1:00PM. Meal choices are chicken, orange roughy or sliced NY sirloin. Cost per person is $25.00 and the deadline for reservations is May 16. For additional information and reservations please contact Lion Marion Goldberg at 732-408-1902 or Lion Althea Fogle at 1-800-743-6667 (LEBDV).
June 22: The Elizabeth Portuguese Lions Club will hold their End of the Year Party at Cruz Farms from 9:AM until late afternoon. The price for 12 and up is $15.00 each, 6-11 years old is $5.00 each and 5 years and younger are free. Please contact Lion Jennifer Da Silva at 973-517-5333 for further information.
June 23-27: International Convention in Bangkok, Thailand
July
August
August 16: Lions Eye Bank Delaware Valley's 50th Anniversary Cruise to Alaska. Seven nights aboard the Diamond Princess northbound from Vancouver to Whittier. Before and after packages available. The per person fares are, inside - $2191, outside $2706 and balcony is $2931. Included is air fare from Philadelphia (NY and Baltimore can be arranged), transfers, port fees, taxes and a $200 tax deductible donation to the Lions Eye Bank of Delaware Valley. For registration please contact Custom Travel, 221 Centre Street, Merchantville, NJ 08109, 1-800-626-8078 or e-mail gj@customtravel1.webmail.com
September
September 18-20: 32nd Annual USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. For questions please contact the Forum office at 605-723-4007, e-mail forum@rushmore.com or the website at http://usacanadalionsforum.org
Please fax (908-654-3643) or e-mail dslion@juno.com your club's fundraiser or event so it can be included in the District 16E Calendar of Events.
UNION COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND
SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS 2007 - 2008
2008
June 14 Picnic
June 17 Garwood/Clark
August 15 ANNUAL DINNER (3rd Friday)
September 16 Linden/ Linden Cafeteros/Union Peruvian
October 21 Elizabeth Cubanos/ElizabethPeruvian/Elizabeth Portuguese
November 18 New Providence/ Union Portuguese
December 16 Plainfield / Scotch Plains
July No Meeting
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José L. Fernandez and all Sunshine Club Members
NOTE: UNDERLINE CLUB MEANS HOST CLUB FOR THE MONTH
ABOUT THE WESTFIELD LIONS CLUB
The Westfield Lions Club originated in 1924, and for over 83 years has served Westfield with pride, with charitable
causes and service ranging from the eye/ear mobile and community clean-up campaigns, to its sponsoring of the annual
Easter egg hunt at Mindowaskin Park held the Saturday before Easter.
The Westfield Lions are part of Lions International, which is the world's largest service organization, founded in 1917.
It is currently comprised of nearly 1.3 million men and women from 200 different countries and geographic areas.
Collectively these Lions raise more than $500 million/year for charitable causes and contribute an estimated 60 million
hours to community service.
Since 1925, when Helen Keller addressed its national convention, the Lions accepted the promotion of sight conservation
and blindness prevention as its international charter and has since then become known as the "Knights for the Blind".
Nationally during the past year, nearly 4 million pairs of used or unwanted eye glasses were deposited by donors into
distinctive yellow mail box shaped receptacles identified with the Lions emblem, one being at the corner of Broad and
Elm Streets in Westfield. Once collected, they are processed at eye glass recycling centers in North America - the
closest to us being New Eyes for the Needy, PO Box 332, Short Hills, NJ 07078, 376-4903
and the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center in West Trenton -http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/vision_eyeglass_jersey.shtml
so as to give the priceless gift of enhanced sight to the poor in developing countries.
The Westfield Lions Club supports the Lions Eye Bank of NJ, in Springfield, NJ, which supplies a large percentage
of New Jersey's corneal transplant needs. The Club also supports the work of the Lions Eye Research Foundation
of New Jersey in their efforts to find a cure for common eye diseases.
Local Lions Clubs support several New Jersey summer and year-round camps and rehabilitation centers for
visually handicapped children, athletes and adults, as well as the largest Master Tape Library of it's kind in the world
(at Princeton) which makes available recorded books to those whose visual handicap makes them unable to read.
Additionally, for middle school students, the Westfield Lions Club sponsors a program of self-esteem and substance
abuse prevention called (Lions Quest), supports the Roosevelt Intermediate School Leo Club which encourages students to volunteer
part of their free time to the community and helps sustain the annual International Peace Poster Contest.
The Westfield Lions Club is an active service club whose motto, as with all Lions Clubs, is "We Serve". Should
you have an interest in finding out more about the Lions organization, we welcome your inquiry addressed to:
The Westfield Lions Club
PO Box 572
Westfield, NJ 07091
or your call to (908) 232-8551
Club Details
Club Number: 0000006927
District: 16E
President:
Michael
Gordeuk
Secretary:
Douglas Schembs, Jr.
Meeting Place: BG Field's Restaurant
560 Springfield Avenue
(908) 233-2260
Meeting Time: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month 7 pm
About LIONS INTERNATIONAL
The International Association of Lions Clubs began as the dream of Chicago insurance man Melvin Jones, who wondered why local business clubs -- he was an active member of one -- could not expand their horizons from purely business concerns to the betterment of their communities and the world at large.
Jones' idea struck a chord within his own group, the Business Circle of Chicago, and they authorized him to explore his concept with similar organizations from around the United States. His efforts resulted in an organizational meeting at a local hotel on June 7, 1917.
The 12 men who gathered there overcame a natural sense of loyalty to their parent clubs, voted the "Association of Lions Clubs" into existence, and issued a call for a national convention to be held in Dallas, Texas, USA in October of the same year.
Thirty-six delegates representing 22 clubs from nine states heeded the call, approved the "Lions Clubs" designation, and elected Dr. William P. Woods of Indiana as their first president. Guiding force and founder Melvin Jones named acting secretary, thus began an association with Lionism that only ended with his death in 1961.
That first convention also began to define what Lionism was to become. A constitution and by-laws were adopted, the colors of purple and gold approved, and a start made on Lionism's Objectives and Code of Ethics.
One of the objects was startling for an era that prided itself on mercenary individualism, and has remained one of the main tenets of Lionism ever since. "No Club," it read, "shall hold out the financial betterment of its members as its object."
Community leaders soon began to organize clubs throughout the United States, and the association became "international" with the formation of the Windsor, Ontario, Canada Lions Club in 1920. Clubs were later organized in China, Mexico, and Cuba. By 1927, membership stood at 60,000 in 1,183 clubs.
In 1935, Panama became home to the first Central American club, with the first South American club being organized in Columbia the following year. Lionism reached Europe in 1948, as clubs were chartered in Sweden, Switzerland, and France. In 1952, the first club was chartered in Japan. Since then, the association has become truly global, with clubs in more than 170 countries and geographical areas worldwide.
The proper name of the association is "The International Association of Lions Clubs." Many Lions, however, prefer the use of the shorter form of "Lions Clubs International."
Throughout the world, Lions are recognized by the emblem they wear on their lapels. It consists of a gold letter "L" on a circular purple field. Bordering this is a circular gold area with two lion profiles at either side facing away from the center. The word "Lions" appears at the top, and "International" at the bottom. Symbolically, the lions face both past and future -- proud of the past and confident of the future. Lions wear their emblem with pride.
The motto of every Lion is simply "We Serve". What better way to express the true mission of Lionism?
The slogan of the association is "Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nation's Safety (LIONS).
The royal colors of purple and gold were selected as the official colors when the association was organized in 1917. Purple stands for loyalty to friends and to one's self, and for integrity of mind and heart. Gold symbolizes sincerity of purpose, liberality in judgment, purity in life and generosity in mind, heart and purpose toward humanity.
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