Pride

Crystal Lake Lions Club-Serving In Its 85th Year

April, 2016

Upcoming Events - Mark Your Calendars

Monday, April 11 Board Meeting The Cottage

Monday, April 25 Program Meeting Village Squire

Monday, May 9 Board Meeting The Cottage

Monday, May 23 Program Meeting Village Squire

Monday, May 30 Carry The Flag-Memorial Day Parade

Monday, June 6 Golf Outing Boone Creek

Monday, June 13 Installation Dinner Rib House

Saturday, August 13 85th Anniversary Bull Valley CC

This new 85th Anniversary logo

was crafted by Lion Bob Moravec,

with the able assistance of his

brother. It will appear on all the

correspondence relating to our 85th

Anniversary and, with luck, on our

sign when it is not being rented by

a paying customer.

Please mark your calendars now

Saturday, August 13, 2016. We will

be celebrating the 85th Anniversary

with a gala dinner at Bull Valley

Country Club that evening. Formal

invitations will be sent in June.

Guest speaker for the evening will

be our International President, Lion

Bob Corlew. He will be accompa-

nied by his wife Lion Dianne. We

look forward to an enjoyable and

educational evening.

Sent to you with this issue of the

Pride is a copy of the flyer soliciting

advertisements for the 86th Anni-

versary Program Booklet.. The

Committee needs your help in sell-

ing advertisements for the Booklet.

Please contact your employer or

other Crystal Lake area business

for them to commit to putting an

advertisement in the Booklet. Let

Lion John Landon know who is

committed and get a check and

some sort of copy to him by no later

than early June. Your help will be

greatly appreciated.

2016-17 Officers

Elected At the March Program Meeting the

2016-2017 slate of Officers pre-

pared by the Nominations Commit-

tee and approved at the March

Board meeting was formally elected

to serve beginning with July 1,

2016.

President will be Lion Rob Wood,

1st Vice President, Lion Doug Lo-

men, 2nd Vice President, Lion

Randy Funk, 3rd Vice President,

Lion Peter Collins, Secretary, Lion

John Landon, Treasurer, Assistant

Secretary, Lion Norm Vinton,

Treasurer, Lion Mark Daniel, Tail

Twister, Lion Mike Cortina, Assis-

tant Tail Twisters Lions Rob Parrish

and Mark Des Biens, Lion Tamer,

Lion Bill Davies and Assistant Lion

Tamer, Lion Mike O’Toole.

In addition, per the Constitution and

By Laws, the most recent five past

Presidents will also serve on the

Board. They are Lions Glenn

Bereiter, Bob Jarvis, Jeff Thorsen,

Roger Weis and Nick Parashis.

Golf Outing

June 6 The Crystal Lake Lions Club Golf

Outing will be held on Monday,

June 6, 2016 at Boone Creek Golf

Course. Registration will be at

9:30am with a shotgun start at

10:30am.

Price of $125(has not changed) will

include golf, cart, lunch and dinner

and prizes. All par 3 games are

also included.

Lion Nick Parashis asks for any

non-golfers to volunteer to help

that day with registration, prizes

and other duties.

Lions are also encouraged to solic-

it hole sponsors. Price is $100 as

it has been for several years. Reg-

istration forms, hole sponsor forms

will be sent to you via email along

with this issue of the Pride. Golf

Outing flyer is included as part of

this issue as well.

This is a major fund raising event

for the Club. Be there and help!

Crystal Lake Lions

2015-2016 Officers

President Glenn Bereiter

1st Vice President Rob Wood

2nd Vice President Doug Lomen

3rd Vice President Mike Cortina

Secretary John Landon

Treasurer Rick Miller

Asst Treasurer Mark Daniel

Tail Twister Norm Vinton

Asst Tail Twister Jim Zambon

Asst Tail Twister Rob Parrish

Lion Tamer Bill Davies

Asst Lion Tamer Jim McMonigal

Asst Lion Tamer Randy Funk

Director 1 Bob Jarvis

Director 2 Jeff Thorsen

Director 3 Roger Weis

Director 4 Nick Parashis

Director 5 Pat Gummerson

Published Monthly by the

Crystal Lake Lions Club

PO Box 48

Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0048

Editor John Landon, PDG, PCC

President’s Letter

Greetings everyone on this snowy day in March! That’s right it is

March 24th and it is snowing as I write this. Of course I remember

later snow storms in March and even into April as I recall. So this

should not be much of a surprise to anyone that this is happening at

this time of year, but isn’t enough…….. enough.

We have had the golf courses open since March 12th, the second

earliest opening in my 20+ seasons in Rockford. But we knew

something like this was bound to happen, we just hope the cool

temperatures, precipitation and lack of play continue into April.

It kind of reminds me of the Lions calendar in a way, we have a

busy fall, followed by an even busier early winter, only to be greeted

by the Winter Steak Fry, and then seemingly nothing until June and

the Golf Outing (on June 6th this year).

On the contrary, there is plenty going on behind the scenes, and

right before our eyes. The Sight and Sound Sweepstakes is in full

swing, this is a program we support wholeheartedly for the Lions of

Illinois Foundation, so they can send more kids to Camp Lions and

other meaningful programs throughout the State.

Lion Rob Wood has put together quite a list of candidates to take

this club onward and upward (and I want to personally thank each

of you for volunteering your time so we can all succeed). Lion Jim

Zambon and Lion Bob Jarvis continue to work on getting the sign to

a more profitable state, Lion Rick Miller is chairing the 85th year an-

niversary committee, and it sounds like they have come up with

quite a celebration bash. Then there is Lion Mark Daniel continuing

to contact local venues on where we might sell candy for our Candy

Days in October.

Yes there is plenty going on with in the Lions Club of Crystal Lake,

make sure you are part of everything or at least something of what

is going on.

Lion Glenn Bereiter

President, Crystal Lake Lions Club

Meeting Schedule

Monday, April 11 Board Meeting The Cottage

Monday, April 25 Program Meeting Village Squire

Monday, May 9 Board Meeting The Cottage

Monday, May 23 Program Meeting Village Squire

Monday, May 30 Carry The Flag-Memorial Day Parade

The Crystal Lake Lions Club meets the second and fourth Monday. There are no club meetings in July and August. However, the Board meets in July/August to plan for the upcoming Lions year.

(Regular Board & Program Meetings begin at 6:30pm. Lionization -6:00pm)

could serve their growing community and improve the lives of their neighbors.

Michigan District 11 Governor Anthony Menke was known as a dynamic force in area business circles, and the enthusiastic leader was eager to make the Canadian Lions club a reality. Under his guidance, the Detroit Lions sponsored the Windsor club, which soon sprang into ac-tion and began serving fellow Canadians with Lions’ fer-vor. The Windsor club would later make its mark by intro-ducing Canadians to the white cane, a safety identifica-tion tool for the visually impaired.

After founding the Windsor club in Canada, Lions moved into China and Mexico. In 1926, the first Lions Club in China was established in Tianjin (formerly Tientsin). A year later, Mexico’s Nuevo Laredo Fundadores Club joined the association with the help of Lions across the border in neighboring Laredo, Texas.

Today, Lions are serving those in need through clubs in more than 200 countries and geographic areas. As the largest service organization in the world, Lions Clubs In-ternational goes wherever the Lion-hearted are found.

The International Association of Lions Clubs was anything but international when formed in Chicago in 1917. At its inception, about two dozen clubs were scattered around the central United States in places such as Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Okla-homa and Texas. Lions suspected, however, that their group would soon live up to its multinational name. Service and volunteerism are contagious, especially when combined with a bit of fun.

It didn’t take long. Just three years later, in 1920, Lions became truly international with the establish-ment of its first club outside U.S. borders in Wind-sor, Ontario, Canada.

Located across the river from Detroit, Michigan, Windsor was a bustling border town in 1920, bene-fitting from the region’s booming automotive indus-try. Detroit, birthplace of the moving automobile assembly line, had just formed its own Lions club earlier that year and word was quickly spreading about the association. Windsor’s volunteer-minded citizens were intrigued. Through Lions Clubs, they

Early Expansion of Lionism

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Crystal Lake Lions Club

PO Box 48

Crystal Lake, IL 60039-0048

Want to Learn More About Lionism? Check Out These Websites:

Lions Clubs International www.lionsclubs.org Multiple District 1(Illinois) www.illinoislionsmd1.org Lions District 1-J www.district1jlions.org Lions of Illinois Foundation www.lionsofillinoisfoundation.org Crystal Lake Lions Club www.crystallakelions.org

Did You Know? (as of 2/29/16)

Illinois Lions number 15,105 in 511 clubs in ten districts

District 1-J has 2,308Lions in 63 clubs (1-J is the largest district in Illinois)

Crystal Lake Lions are 54 strong

Editor

Lion John Landon, PDG, PCC (815) 385-1110 or landon@mc.net

Crystal Lake Lions Club

Golf Outing

Monday, June 6

Boone Creek