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Happy New Year Lions & Lionesses! It is hard to believe that my first halfyear as your District Governor has gone by. I want to thank the Lions and Clubs in District 29I for all you have done in the past 6 months. I’ve had a wonderful me vising your clubs and learning about your fundraisers and community service projects. I look forward to vising the rest of the clubs during the coming months. We sll have some work to do to make this a successful Lions year. At the end of our first 6 months we have gained 90 new members. Unfortunately, we also lost 97 members resulng in a net loss of 7. We can turn this around if we resolve to work as a team to focus on membership growth and keep a close eye on members who for some reason or another haven’t been aending meengs or parcipang in club acvies. Find out why and keep them in our Lions family. This is a good me for each club to review their plans and goals and make adjustments as necessary. I’m so proud of the generosity of our Clubs in supporng the District 29I Parade of Checks. So far we have received checks amounng to $57,777 as follows: Lions Clubs Internaonal Foundaon $14,468 Pilot Dog $3,355 WV Lions Sight Conservaon Foundaon $17,064 Diabetes Fund $3,180 WV Blind & Deaf Recreaon Program $4,045 Youth Exchange $2,095 Romney Student Work Program $2,705 Quest $2,645 Leader Dog Kennel Program $8,220 What a great job! We sll have 8 clubs who have not yet parcipated and several of those have indicated their checks are coming. Thanks to all who have given and those who are about to contribute. Please remember to register to aend the WV Lions Leadership Retreat to be held during the last 3 days of this month at the Charleston Marrio Town Center. It will be a rewarding and fun experience. Addional info and a registraon form can be found in this newsleer. Once again, I want to wish all of you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year! If I can help in any way, please let me know. DG Al District 29-I Newsletter January 2016 “Seize the Moment” District Governor’s Message
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Happy New Year Lions & Lionesses!

It is hard to believe that my first halfGyear as your District Governor has gone by. I want to thank the Lionsand Clubs in District 29GI for all you have done in the past 6 months. I’ve had a wonderful 4me visi4ng yourclubs and learning about your fundraisers and community service projects. I look forward to visi4ng the restof the clubs during the coming months.

We s4ll have some work to do to make this a successful Lions year. At the end of our first 6 months wehave gained 90 new members. Unfortunately, we also lost 97 members resul4ng in a net loss of 7. We canturn this around if we resolve to work as a team to focus on membership growth and keep a close eye onmembers who for some reason or another haven’t been a5ending mee4ngs or par4cipa4ng in clubac4vi4es. Find out why and keep them in our Lions family. This is a good 4me for each club to review theirplans and goals and make adjustments as necessary.

I’m so proud of the generosity of our Clubs in suppor4ng the District 29GI Parade of Checks. So far we havereceived checks amoun4ng to $57,777 as follows:

Lions Clubs Interna4onal Founda4on $14,468 Pilot Dog $3,355WV Lions Sight Conserva4on Founda4on $17,064 Diabetes Fund $3,180WV Blind & Deaf Recrea4on Program $4,045 Youth Exchange $2,095Romney Student Work Program $2,705 Quest $2,645Leader Dog Kennel Program $8,220

What a great job! We s4ll have 8 clubs who have not yet par4cipated and several of those have indicatedtheir checks are coming. Thanks to all who have given and those who are about to contribute.

Please remember to register to a5end the WV Lions Leadership Retreat to be held during the last 3 days ofthis month at the Charleston Marrio5 Town Center. It will be a rewarding and funexperience. Addi4onal info and a registra4on form can be found in this newsle5er.

Once again, I want to wish all of you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!If I can help in any way, please let me know.

DG Al

District 29-I NewsletterJanuary 2016

“Seize the Moment”District Governor’s Message

DG Al Cox 2015-16 CalendarJanuary9 WV MD 29 Council of Governors, Pipestem Resort16 3rd District 29-I Cabinet Mee,ng, WVU Eye Insitute, Morgantown 10 am29-31 WV Lions Leadership School, Charleston Marrio-29 WV Lions Sight Conserva,on Founda,on, Charleston Marrio- 4 pmFebruary2 Charles Town Lions TBDMarch3 Adamston Lions Club, Christ Methodist Church, Adamston 6 pm11-12 District 29-L Conference, Parkersburg, Blennerhasse- Hotel15 Inwood – Bunker Hill Lions 6:30 pmApril7 Hedgesville-Pikeside Lions, Hedgesville United Methodist Church 6 pm8-10 WV Lions State Conven,on, Pipestem Resort8 WV Lions Sight Conserva,on Founda,on TBD10 4th District 29-I Cabinet Mee,ng TBD10 WV MD 29 Council of Governors, Pipestem TBD10 WV Lions Sight Conserva,on Founda,on TBD26 Wilsonburg Lions 6:30 pm

Club: New Member: Sponsor:Bridgeport Lisa Hall Robert BoyerBruceton Mills Peggy Galloway Jean ClarkBruceton Mills Rex Galloway Jean ClarkBuckhannon Howard Ross Gary FrushRomney Mona Childs John ChildsRomney Mar,n Keller Roy KnightWardensville Angela Funk Pa-y Aus,n

Donald D. Cole

Short Gap Lions Club

WORLDWIDE WEEK OF SERVICE TO FIGHT HUNGER AND POVERTY Show your commitmentto service, and help LCI reach the Centennial Service Challenge goalof serving 100 millionpeople, by planning a project impac4ng hunger and poverty in your community. Fromstocking your local food pantry, to serving meals at a soup kitchen, there are countless waysto make a difference. No ma5er how you choose to serve, be sure to join us for thisCentennial service event!Join Us for the Worldwide Week of Service to Fight Hunger andPoverty.

Here's how your club can take part in this special event:

Plan your project - Host a service project that impacts hunger and poverty in yourcommunity during the week of January 10-16. Go to the LCI website @ Lionsclubs.orgto download a Planning Guide for project ideas and planning 4ps.

Promote your project - Invite your community to serve with you to showcase your club andthe power of service.

Report your project - Report your service on the MyLCI Service Ac4vity Report to earn a CentennialBanner Patch and to get your club's name on the Centennial Ticker. Be sure to include the project date.

BETWEEN US LIONSSVDG Ken Shahan

Happy New Year, to you and your family. Here’s hoping and praying for aworld at peace.

This month letter is addressing all Club, in District 29-I, by getting into thefun of competition with other Club. There are many ways this can be done,whether it with membership growth, visitation, how much can goods youcollect. All of this can be done by filling out your District Contest Forms and

emailing them to our District Chair, Lion Mark Conrad.

Lion Mark has been very busy this past year tabulating your monthly forms that have been submitted tohim. The competition has two grouping, Small Clubs 35 members or less and Large Clubs over 35members. The competition categories are Membership, Visitation and Publicity, as of November 2015the results are as follows:

If you need a copy of the Contest Forms contact: [email protected].

LARGE CLUBS:Membership Publicity VisitationCLARKSBURG 600 CLARKSBURG 20 CLARKSBURG 70FORT ASHBY 7825 FORT ASHBY 110 FORT ASHBY 95TENNERTON 4350 TENNERTON 390 WARDENSVILLE 100WARDENSVILLE 11325 WARDENSVILLE 160

SMALL CLUBS:Membership Publicity VisitationBRIDGEPORT 6475 EAST LEWIS 45 NUTTER FORT 335EAST LEWIS 3525 JUNIOR 40FRANKLIN 200 KEYSER 140JUNIOR 2225 NUTTER FORT 120KEYSER 6825NUTTER FORT 8625PARSON 1200PAW PAW 2625ROMNEY 925STONEWOOD 400TUNNELTON 200

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declared the Lord. Plans to prosper you andnot to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future. JJeerreemmiiaahh 2299::1111

There is still time to join in this funcompetition and bring home the honors

to your Club, by knocking these current Clubs off, you just need

to get involved and have some fun in the process.

District Peace Poster Contest Winner

Johnna Smith is the District 29-I winner of this year’sPeace Poster Contest. Johnna lives in Buckhannon and isan 8th grade student at Buckhannon Upshur Middle. Herart teacher is Mrs. Sherri Butler. The theme for this year’s contest was “Share Peace”. Johnna was sponsored by theTennerton Lions Club. Congratula4ons, Johnna!

Students ages 11, 12 or 13 on November 15, 2016 are eligible to par4cipate in the LCI Peace Poster Contest. The 2016-17 theme is “A Celebra4on of Peace”. LionsClubs can order Peace Poster Contest kits beginningJanuary 15th from the Club Supplies Sales Department atLCI for $11.95 each. Each club can send one winningposter to the District Governor postmarked no later thanNovember 15, 2016. For more info go online to LionsClubs Interna4onal and in the search box enter “PeacePoster Contest”.

The Nu5er Fort Lions Club, headed up by Lion Anne5a Payne and the pediatric staff at UnitedHospital Center hosted a performance of CharlesDickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at UHC on Thursday, December 10, for local schools, pre-school, daycarecenters, pediatric pa4ents, parents and teachers,there were 80 in a5endance. This live presenta4onby the Hampstead Stage Company was performedby the Na4onal Touring Theatre Company. This interac4ve educa4onal produc4ons are a great wayto bring the arts to children and allow children toexercise their crea4vity.

Nu5er Fort Lions Club

Romney Lions Club

Nice turnout for District Governor visit. Club Secretary Dr. Roy Knight (2nd from le$) and PDG John Childs (last on right) welcome new Romney Lions

(l-r): Dr. Mar4n Keller, Jamie McBride, Anita Adkins and Mona Childs.

Short Gap Lions & Guests. DG Al presents his "Seize the Moment" pins to Short Gap Lions (l-r) Secretary Keith Staggs and

President Bob Miltenberger.

The Bruceton Mills Lions DG Night & Christmas Partywas held at Lion Jean Clark's home.

DG Al inducted two new members sponsored by Lion Jean Clark. (l-r): Al, Jean, new members Rex &

Peggy Galloway and Club President John Myers.

Bruceton Mills Lions Club

Tennerton Lions enjoying great food & fellowship at their annual Christmas dinner.

The Tennerton Lions Club inducted two new members (l-r): Secretary Frank Becker, President John Haymond, new member Nancy Ward, Lion Penny Haymond, new

member Terry Harper and DG Al Cox.

Tennerton Lions Club

The Buckhannon Lions gathered to celebrate the Christmas Holiday.

DG Al inducted a new Buckhannon Lion (l-r): Lion Al,President Hank Ellis, new Lion Howard Ross and his

sponsor Lion Gary Frush.

Buckhannon Lions Club

Short Gap Lions Club

2016 LEADERSHIP RETREAT NEWSBy Lion Steve Glass, Chairperson

As the date of the 2016 Lions of West Virginia LeadershipRetreat nears, I wanted to share with you a li5le bit about six of the twelve exci4ng seminars that we havescheduled.

Organizing Leadership at the Grass Roots“We can solve child poverty in West Virginia.” One in two West Virginia children live in a family withoutenough money to make ends meet. This interac4ve seminar will include a brief presenta4on of the childpoverty crisis, and then dive into strategies that leadersmight use to lend a hand in solving the crisis. Might thisbe a new centennial service challenge for all of us?Crea,ng & U,lizing Social MediaDo you live in Bedrock with Fred and Wilma or on Jupiterwith George and Jane? You can choose to keep your Lionsclub in the Stone Age or rocket them into the next centuryof service. Social media is nothing to fear. At the Lions ofWest Virginia Leadership Retreat get ready to impact the future of your community and world by ge6ng set upon Facebook, Twi5er, and Instagram! Bring your laptop,IPad, or smart phone, a name for your accounts and passwords. You’re going to Jupiter!Genera,onal Differences“What’s happened to the greatest genera4on? Why areyoung people ALWAYS on their cell phone? Why is ourAssocia4on struggling so hard to bridge the genera4on

gap? Join twenty-one year old Brandon Johnson as he answers these ques4ons and more!How Leaders Mo,vate OthersInside every Lion there is a Leader wai4ng to get out.Quality and though3ul leadership is essen4al to con4nueto grow our Associa4on and any organiza4on. Effec4veleadership directly impacts our membership growth andthe service that we provide to our communi4es andmembership experience. You need to give yourself permission to come out and move forward and meetthese challenges.

Persuasive Public SpeakingThis seminar is designed to make the a5endees awarethat to present oneself in a public se6ng requires discipline in dress, discipline in posture, and, specificallydiscipline in speech. A5endees will take away from thispresenta4on valuable lessons which are geared towardmaking them be5er public speakers and communityleaders. Lions are dedicated to serving; however, theycannot serve their communi4es well if they fail to deliverthe Lions’ message with power and persuasiveness in appearance, knowledge, and believability.Time ManagementYou cannot create or save 4me but you can manage it!You can do this by managing YOU, for you do have control over how you choose to use your 4me. Most of us know we could manage our 4me more effec4vely –but it can be difficult to iden4fy the mistakes we’re making and to know how to improve. In this seminarwith an expert on the topic you will iden4fy the mostcommon mistakes and learn new strategies for managingyour 4me more wisely.

Deadlines to Note:Registra�on Deadline: January 23, 2016Room Reserva�ons: January 15, 2016 (this has beenextended from the previous date of January 1, 2016)

2016 Lions of West Virginia Leadership Retreat Reminders

Final No�ce!

January 16, 2016 is the last day to make room reserva4ons for the Leadership Retreat. This date has

been extended from the original date of January 1, 2016, so if you s4ll would like to a5end,

you may make a room reserva4on by calling the Marrio5 at 304G365G6500 and telling them that you

are part of the Leadership Retreat group.

January 23, 2016 is the last day to make reserva4ons for banquet meals and all of the seminars and other ac4vi4es so please make

your reserva4ons soon!

Those a5ending the Retreat are advised that public parking is available in the Town Center Shopping

Center parking lots at a substan4ally less rate than theHotel parking facility. The shopping center lots are

just a short walk away from the Marrio5 Town Center so take advantage of them.

Detach and send registra4on to PID Steve Glass

Jane Lew and East Lewis DG Christmas Dinner.

East Lewis LionSteve Colburn presented a Leonard Jarre5Award by DG Al and Club President Ginny Lamb.

Lion HowardReeder long4memember of the East Lewis Cluband DG Al Cox.

Jane Lew and East Lewis Lions Clubs

Lions of West Virginia 2016 Leadership Retreat

Registration Form

Name TagName______________________________________________________

Lion ______________Lioness ______________LEO _______________

Address_____________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

Home Phone __________________Cell Phone ___________________

Email___________________________________________________________

Club Name___________________________________________________________

District 29 L_______ C ________I _________ Other ____________

I am a first time attendee: Yes _________________ No

Special dietary requirements________________________________

__________________________________________________________

REGISTRATION FEE is $125.00 per person

Non-Lion Meals Only Tickets - $110.00(No individual meal tickets)

Make check payable to Lions of WV Leadership Retreat and mail completed registration to:

PID Steve Glass191 Ridgeway DriveBridgeport, WV 26330

Message from the Chairperson:We respectfully ask that if you plan to attend the Retreatthat you send in your reservation by January 23, 2016.

In planning for meals with the event planner, we must guarantee a certain number of meals for each banquet.

Our guarantee date is Monday, January 25, 2016.

We will not guarantee banquet meals for any persons sending reservations received after January 23,

2016.

We truly hope that you will take full advantage of this premier opportunity in West Virginia to enhance your leadership abilities. Our planning committee has strived to put into place a weekend

of fun, great fellowship, and opportunities to broaden yourknowledge and understanding, and to gain information that youcan use in your family life, work environment, social networking

and in your Lions Club. I hope to see you in Charleston!

Lion Beth Whitepresented a Leonard Jarre5Award by theJane Lew Lions.

Jane Lew Lion andZone Chair RuthStraley honoredwith a Melvin Jones Fellowship. Look-ing on are DG Aland Club PresidentMichael Walker.

Ray Smith a Jane Lew Lionsmember also received aLeonard Jarre5Award.

DG AL COX313 Worley AvenueClarksburg, WV 26301304;216;[email protected]

Important Dates to Remember from the DG’s Desk….January 13 Melvin Jones BirthdayJanuary 16 District Cabinet Mee4ng at WVU Eye Ins4tuteJanuary 29-31 West Virginia Lions Leadership Retreat at the Charleston Marrio5

Town Center

Clarksburg Lions Club

Clarksburg Mission - Lion President Nick Lambernedis, Director of Ministries Lou Ortenzio, Food Service

Manager Angie Knight, Mission Execu4ve Director Chris Mulle5 and Lion Al.

The Salva4on Army, Major Brooks Gilliam,Lions Nick and Al.

The Clarksburg Lions donated the ground beef they won in the WV Lions Beef Raffle to local food banks.


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