Volume 19, Issue 5 EASTON LIONS CLUB€¦ · Bill Palmer, Matt Cioffi, Tyler Bourne, Tony Cabral,...
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Easton Lions Club, P.O. Box 1032, Easton, MA 02334-1032 Jim Lee, Editor, [email protected] E ASTON L IONS C LUB January 8, 2015 Volume 19, Issue 5 INSIDE THIS ISSUE President’s Message 1 Bourne’s Auto Donates Car 2 Holiday Event Photos 3 New Member Orientation 4 Eyes on the Web 5 Queen of Hearts 5 Thanks to Our Sponsor 5 President’s Message By Dennis Gutman, President Not Above You; Not Beneath You; But With You The holidays are behind us, here’s hoping you have all had a restful time off with family and friends. The Easton Lion’s club was certainly active in November December with very public efforts (The Holiday Fest, Continued management of the thrift store), while also quietly helping our community members in need of some cheer and support. You as a member of this extraordinary team should feel a real sense of pride and accomplishment as we review these efforts. Holiday Festival Set Up, Friday Prep and 2 day management of activities. John Morgan’s organizational skills and leadership again were called upon to orchestrate yet again our Holiday Fest. A steering committee that began meeting in September (Kevin McIntyre, Debbie Lynd, Bill Palmer, Matt Cioffi, Tyler Bourne, Tony Cabral, Frank Smith, Mike Melley, Bob Grella, John Mallers, Rick Gravely, Matt Soeldner, Veronica Lamb, Jorge Cortizo) set the stage with great preplanning. The publicity and awareness were superbly executed by Matt Cioffi, Debby Lynd, Bill Palmer, Tia Famularo and team. John Mallers as usual, superbly managed the logistics of the trailers and equipment, while the Set up teams worked the Friday Evening and Weekend to set up and tear down. (Ray Morrell, Henry Narsasian, Ed Pires, Matt Soeldner, Serah Selmon at the hall). The event was rainy on Saturday and then bone chilling on Sunday, as a wind roared through overnight leaving tents damaged across the site. Mr. Mallers and team regrouped and all was restored. Over 70 lions worked the events over the weekend in the rain, cold and long hours. The scenes of the crowds at Mark Vinnocor’s Christmas party, or Santa’s Parade or Rein Dog event attest to the enduring popularity of this event. The addition of the Red Sox World Series trophy at the Shovel Shop also drew families for pictures expertly done by Mr. Cabral. Even though the Saturday Dance didn’t quite get off the ground, we (Continued on Pg. 2)
Transcript of Volume 19, Issue 5 EASTON LIONS CLUB€¦ · Bill Palmer, Matt Cioffi, Tyler Bourne, Tony Cabral,...
Easton Lions Club, P.O. Box 1032, Easton, MA 02334-1032 Jim Lee, Editor, [email protected]
EASTON LIONS CLUB January 8 , 2015
Volume 19 , Issue 5
INSIDE THIS ISSUE President’s Message 1 Bourne’s Auto Donates Car 2 Holiday Event Photos 3 New Member Orientation 4 Eyes on the Web 5 Queen of Hearts 5 Thanks to Our Sponsor 5
President’s Message
By Dennis Gutman, President
Not Above You; Not Beneath You; But With You
The holidays are behind us, here’s hoping you have all had a restful time off with family and friends. The Easton Lion’s club was certainly active in November December with very public efforts (The Holiday Fest, Continued management of the thrift store), while also quietly helping our community members in need of some cheer and support. You as a member of this extraordinary team should feel a real sense of pride and accomplishment as we review these efforts. Holiday Festival Set Up, Friday Prep and 2 day management of activities. John Morgan’s organizational skills and leadership again were called upon to orchestrate yet again our Holiday Fest. A steering committee that began meeting in September (Kevin McIntyre, Debbie Lynd, Bill Palmer, Matt Cioffi, Tyler Bourne, Tony Cabral, Frank Smith, Mike Melley, Bob Grella, John Mallers, Rick Gravely, Matt Soeldner, Veronica Lamb, Jorge Cortizo) set the stage with great preplanning. The publicity and awareness were superbly executed by Matt Cioffi, Debby Lynd, Bill
Palmer, Tia Famularo and team. John Mallers as usual, superbly managed the logistics of the trailers and equipment, while the Set up teams worked the Friday Evening and Weekend to set up and tear down. (Ray Morrell, Henry Narsasian, Ed Pires, Matt Soeldner, Serah Selmon at the hall). The event was rainy on Saturday and then bone chilling on Sunday, as a wind roared through overnight leaving tents damaged across the site. Mr. Mallers and team regrouped and all was restored. Over 70 lions worked the events over the weekend in the rain, cold and long hours. The scenes of the crowds at Mark Vinnocor’s Christmas party, or Santa’s Parade or Rein Dog event attest to the enduring popularity of this event. The addition of the Red Sox World Series trophy at the Shovel Shop also drew families for pictures expertly done by Mr. Cabral. Even though the Saturday Dance didn’t quite get off the ground, we
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really appreciate the earnest effort of Carolyn Cole and her team, and we’re sure an event on Friday or Saturday will be a staple starting next year. A full report on the Festival will be forthcoming. Thanks again to the over 70 Lions helping in the rain and cold. Brockton ARC, Center for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental disabilities. On Saturday 12/13-Led by Tony Cabral, staffed by Easton Lions Bob Moulton, Marilyn Henderson, Lynn Cleveland, Jan Melley, Mike Melley, Bo Alger, with major gift contributions by Mark Ingalls and Ruth Calvagne. Brockton Lions were Gail Delgado, Jim Silverman, Roberta Silverman, Bob Wisgirda. Finally, Leos Emily Morgan and Nicole Eidelman. The holiday atmosphere the team created, with gifts, food and good cheer all around was a heartwarming example of Lion’s serving. Over 150 clients attended this annual event. South East Rehabilitation & skilled Care Center-Lincoln st. Easton. On Saturday 12/20, Henry Narsasian and Nancy Sullivan led an effort to ensure the over 170 clients in care would receive a visit from Santa and his Lion’s Elves, with gift bags of holiday goodies. Ray Morrell, Matt Soeldner, Frank Smith, Ed Hands, Ken Wood (and daughter), Doc Mudd, Jorge Cortizo, Joyce Tardito, Rob Goodrich, Brian Edlund, Matt Soeldner and I helped Santa as we visited every accessible client on 3 floors. The smiles
and expressions of thanks from our friends and neighbors at the facility, and their families, were a reward in itself for another effort of service by your Easton Lion’s. Well done guys! On to the Auction- 2/8 Look for the message coming out shortly from the Auction team chaired by Nancy Sullivan. We’ll discuss at the January meetings 1/14 and 1/28. Thanks for all you have done and will continue to do! In Lionism, Dennis.
Bourne's Auto Center Donates Car!
Bourne generously donated a 2007 Ford Focus has about 76,000 miles and has a Kelly Blue Book value over $6,000. This car will be a great buy for the one lucky bidder in February.
President’s Message
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By Tony Cabral
BAARC Party
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Holiday Photos Continued—BAARC
Southeast Rehab
New Member Orientation
By Amos Keddem NEW MEMBERS -- PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! Easton Lions Orientation session for new members will be held on January 22nd from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at the Queset House Library. This is a very important step in your integration into the club please make an effort to participate. Participating in the first Orientation of the year I have the pleasure to have 15 new members:
Dick Price Mike Freeman Todd Gornstein Wayne Dozier Dave Mills Jorge Cortizo Red Reid Bob Grella Dick Lacana Karen Castonguay David Gonzalez Lynn Kingsbury Jason Parks Don Sierra If you are not a new member and want to participate, please contact/text Amos Keddem at 508—514-0215 or email to [email protected]
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2014 was another busy year for our club and our website reflects that activity. Every month there was always something happening to keep our content fresh and folks engaged. In September, we switched our club site to a .org domain, EastonLions.org, and enabled a mobile-friendly design making our information accessible on the go. We’ve also been working hard on our social media front door, facebook.com/EastonLions, to keep people updated about all our events and activities. Keeping our web presence fresh requires behind-the-scene work by many people and the support of local businesses to help cover costs. Mark Vinocoor has been the backbone in getting local businesses to monetarily support our web presence. With his efforts and business prowess, he has enabled us to continually improve our site. This year he received website sponsor commitments ($300 each) from Personal Best Karate, Connolly Insurance, Creative World Children’s Learning Center, and the Law Office of Kevin G. McIntyre. Sally Zussman, along with Mark, has been instrumental in pushing us to continually improve our web-based capabilities and content. She set-up the template and structure our current site is now based-on. It was Sally’s business connection with Kathy Shafer, owner of Cogent i-Solutions, that got us a substantial discounted rate for the annual cost of the web server space. Kathy was critical in helping us troubleshoot and remove a virus infecting our site. Dottie Fulginiti and Tia Famularo have been our Facebook go-to-masters, helping connect our club page with other networks and friends. They have been the dominant
players for our Facebook presence pushing out details of coming events and connecting us with others who would like to know about our events. If you are on Facebook, facebook.com/EastonLions, please Like us, Follow us, and Share our posts on your timeline. Recent work has been focused around our Charity Auction in February. New this year is an online form for item donations, including a downloadable PDF form. Like our club domain, the auction domain is now .org, eastonlionsauction.org. Please drop by the auction pages, as they will be receiving frequent updates over the next 4 weeks as items come in! In the coming club newsletters, I plan to provide updates of activity on our web sites. Also, if you have an interest in helping out with our web content, please send me an email at [email protected].
Eyes on the Web By Matthew Cioffi
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Easton Lions Club P.O. Box 1032 Easton, MA 02334-1032
Queen of Hearts By Ginny Ando and Paul Lemieux,
The - Queen of Hearts - Raffle Jackpot is
$1400 & Growing!!
We’re on the Web! Your sponsorship on our site
can include a link to your website!
Visit us at: www.eastonlions.org
This issue sponsored by:
Lynn Cleveland
Thank you!
