Trumpet Fanfare

Last year’s Chevron Banquet at the 19F Conference turned out to be the best part of the weekend through a series of serendipitous events. VDG Crystal had a new printer that printed marvelous certificates, the Marcus Whitman had a large chair that looked like a throne, PDG Marie Vogel furnished a fur lined royal robe, the College Place Lions provided 2 valet de chambres, DG Dave purloined a Viking crown and a trumpet fanfare, and Camera Caitlin came equipped to video broadcast on to a 12-foot screen while Lion Darling stood ready to snap photographs.

The hoopla was setup to honor those Lions present who were 2016-2017 recipients of Monarch Chevron Awards for long service to their clubs and Lions International.  The fanfare, throne, robe and honors were optional and the first few Lions coming forward accepted their certificate with thanks from visiting Council Chairman Enoch Rowland and walked back to their seats without ascending the dais throne.

The first Chevron Monarch courageous enough to be robed, crowned and lauded for his 40 years of service was Allen Aplass of the Walla Walla Downtown Lions. After being outfitted, he sat upon the throne, the video camera zoomed in close, his mustachioed face cracked a hint of a smile and the audience roared.  After that there was a steady parade of great Lions ascending to the throne.

This year, District Governor Crystal will host the 2017-2018 Chevron Banquet at the March 23^rd and 24^th 19F Conference in Walla Walla, WA.  She will honor 2017-2018 long serving Lions from the list which follows.  Of course, the crown and robe remains optional. Your club may want to carpool to help some of your longer serving Lions attend.

Asotin

James Jarvis 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Ronald Lamb 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Benton City

Jeremy Davis 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Wendy Davis 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Clarkston

Mary Jane Kneisly 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Tom T Driscoll 35-Year Monarch Chevron 

Sandi Powers 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Craigmont

James Riggers 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

Jayson England 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Cottonwood

James Remacle 45-Year Monarch Chevron 

Joseph B Schaeffer 20-Year Monarch Chevron

Morris Arnzen 25-Year Monarch Chevron  

Robert Daley 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Vern Uhlorn  35-Year Monarch Chevron 

Ellensburg

Elizabeth Whitaker 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Goldendale

James A Kern 45-Year Monarch Chevron  

Granger

Nancy Pena 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Susie Munos 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Valdemar Valenzuela 25-Year Monarch Chevron

Grangeville

Adam Green 10-Year Monarch Chevron

Dan Goehring 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Greg Stone 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

James Church 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Joseph Cladouhos 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Kevin Asker 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

Kirk Gus Macgregor 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Randy Brown 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Tyler Harrington 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Harrington

Donald Timm  40-Year Monarch Chevron

Jordan E Wagner  10-Year Monarch Chevron

M H Bill Floyd  65-Year Monarch Chevron 

Michael Hoob  30-Year Monarch Chevron

Randal D Oestreich   10-Year Monarch Chevron

Kendrick

Amber L Reeves 10-Year Monarch Chevron

Douglas Harris 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

James R Cuddy 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Dale E Renfrow 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Mark D Harris 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Kennewick

David Ashby 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Earl Fordham 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Fay Flint 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Lewiston

Adair K Becker 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Duane Persoon 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Terrence L O'Halioran 10-Year Monarch

 

Lind

Clifford Hays 50-Year Charter Monarch Chevron

Eric M Lund 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Jerry Branson 50-Year Charter Monarch Chevron

Joe Holland 50-Year Charter Monarch Chevron

Leroy Watson Jr. 50-Year Charter Monarch Chevron

Masami Nagamitsu 50-Year Charter Monarch Chevron

Steven M Wahl 45-Year Monarch Chevron

Moscow Central

Dale 0 Everson 55-Year Monarch Chevron 

Daniel Crandall 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Darrell E. Keim 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

David Leach 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Donna M Gardner 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Jack A Le Claire 45-Year Monarch Chevron 

Jenny B Kostroff 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Kenneth White  30-Year Monarch Chevron 

Larry Verdal  35-Year Monarch Chevron 

Patrick H. Gagon 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Nancy Strain 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Richard C Bull  50-Year Monarch Chevron 

Steven L. Mcgeehan 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Susan R. Petersen  10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Naches

Matthew W Miles 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Mr. Ronald D Freeze 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Naches Sunshine

Donna White 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Nezperce

Brian T Webster 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Marty R Lux  15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Stephen Calhoun 30-Year Monarch Chevron

 

Odessa

Dale Ramm 30-Year Monarch Chevron

James R Walter 50-Year Monarch Chevron

Jeff Schibel 35-Year Monarch Chevron

John F Strohmaier 30-Year Monarch Chevron

Norman Ott 40-Year Monarch Chevron

Rod Webster 25-Year Monarch Chevron

Steven 0 Fink 35-Year Monarch Chevron

Palouse

Alan Keasal 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

Eric Slocum 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

Marc Arrasmith 35-Year Monarch Chevron 

Mark W Kramer 45-Year Monarch Chevron 

Michael Wolf 25-Year Monarch Chevron

Scott Beeson 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Pasco

Don Bruce 40-Year Monarch Chevron 

Karen A Clayton 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Prescott District

Kevin Chabre 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Potlatch

Delfred Cone 45-Year Charter Monarch Chevron 

Shane W Anderson 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Patricia P Ashby 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

William A Hoage 15-Year Monarch Chevron

Ritzville

Brian Gordon 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Brian L Kramer 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Dale Anderson 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Dan Blankenship 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Dave J Benedict 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

David Powers 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Gerald Schoesler 40-Year Monarch Chevron 

Jacob Harder 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

James H Leffel 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

John C Anderson 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Mark Weigand 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Markham C Nichols 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Martin Gering 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Mr. Benjamin T. Cross 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Warren Cogswell   45-Year Monarch Chevron 

Pullman

Alex Cooper 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Charles Gearhiser 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Daniel R. Merry 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Don H Shearer 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Jack B Fulfs 40-Year Monarch Chevron 

Joseph M Campero 65-Year Monarch Chevron 

Lester Ruhs 40-Year Monarch Chevron 

Mary Jo Cady 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Mike Boone 35-Year Monarch Chevron 

Tom J Tippett 30-Year Monarch Chevron

Sunnyside

Martha M Conradt 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Terrace Heights

Stan Schmick 55-Year Charter Monarch Chevron 

Tieton

James F Yearout 40-Year Monarch Chevron 

PCC James L Kemp  50-Year Monarch Chevron 

Scott Ennis 40-Year Monarch Chevron 

William R Pottratz 50-Year Monarch Chevron 

Toppenish

Cliff Nichols 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

Touchet Gardena

Larry Bussell 55-Year Charter Monarch Chevron 

Nick Plucker 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Robert Kentch 50-Year Monarch Chevron

Steve Ames 40-Year Monarch Chevron

Troy

Clifford Fredrickson 40-Year Monarch Chevron

Greg Mann 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

John F Porter 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

Casey E Leachman 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Pat Smith 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Ralph D Payne 50-Year Charter Monarch Chevron 

Waitsburg

Dale A Nichols 10-Year Monarch Chevron

Gerald Baker 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Gerald Mason 30-Year Monarch Chevron

Howard P Smith Jr.  35-Year Monarch Chevron

Jack H Roberts 20-Year Monarch Chevron  

James D Mitchell 30-Year Monarch Chevron 

Larry Johnson 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Marvin Arland 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Neil Carpenter 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Robert J Patton 55-Year Charter Monarch Chevron 

William Dawes 25-Year Monarch Chevron 

Walla Walla Downtown

Guillermo Sandoval 20-Year Monarch Chevron

Jeff Mahan 20-Year Monarch Chevron 

Jerry M Makus 40-Year Monarch Chevron 

Walla Walla East Gate

Betty L Holway 30-Year Charter Monarch Chevron 

Frederick Kearsley 15-Year Monarch Chevron

Charles Huibregtse 35-Year Monarch Chevron

Washtucna

Andrew Butterfield 10-Year Monarch Chevron

R A Kinch 50-Year Monarch Chevron 

West Valley

Brenda M Gonzalez 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Ibis E Gonzalez 10-Year Monarch Chevron

Yakima

Howard Underwood 40-Year Monarch Chevron

Marion J Blank 40-Year Monarch Chevron

Mrs. Bille J Cox 15-Year Monarch Chevron 

Mrs. Kathy Birdwell 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

Zillah

Ms Ret Stewart 10-Year Monarch Chevron 

ASK!

Dick Woods, formerly of the Wenatchee Lions and now with the Willapa Harbor Lions, is a 50 year Lion.

During his years he has brought 102 people into the Lions. That sounds like an amazing accomplishment but Dick, a modest straight talker, downplays it a bit saying, “That’s about two a year.”

There is no magic potion or trick to it. Lion Dick says, “The key word is ASK. You have to ASK. ASK Have you ever heard of the Lions? ASK Do you know what Lions do? ASK Has anyone ever invited you to a Lions club meeting?”

He says, “There are prospective Lions everywhere.However you meet a person just bring up the subject. ASK!”

Dick Woods continues, “In September and October on Friday and Saturday our club sells tickets to the Rain Derby. If they get the next year’s rain amount right they win $5,000. It’s an eleven year old project.  While selling tickets outside the grocery, I talked to a 40 year old gentleman and invited him to our club meeting. He’s “retired” after 12 years in the military. He wants to get involved. He wants to volunteer. He came to last week’s meeting. He’s bringing his application to the next meeting.

Dick said, “We did an open house last March. Everyone ASKed someone to attend. Our Past District Governor spoke.  The meeting was only a half hour long. 10 people joined that night.”

I pressed Dick a little harder on what worked best for him besides just ASKing. He said, “First thing I ASK, Do you know anything about the Lions? Then I tell a quick Helen Keller story because everyone knows about her. I tell them about the 1925 convention where she ASKed us to be Knights of the Blind? We’ve been that ever since. That usually gets people interested.

Every Lion has contact with somebody. In your work place, at church, at the store, anywhere. If you talk to people, most often there will be a time to bring up Lions.

You have to ASK.

I’ve been ASKing for 50 years.”

What an inspiration! 

 

At the 2017 MD19 Convention in Surrey, British Columbia out going Secretary Treasurer Patty Allen  had some fun on her Lion safari crowning Dick Woods  "King of the Lion Hunters!"

1,2,3

Great farmers and great businessmen have at least 3 things in common.

1) They evaluate their enterprise continually and every year,

2) They pay attention to the climate whether it be weather or economic conditions, and

3) They see to it that enough workers are on hand to get the job done.

1, 2 and 3 - year in and year out - season after season - decade after decade.

Great Lions Clubs should and do have their own 1,2,3 systems to get their job done year after year, season after season and decade after decade,

1) Lions leaders and Boards of Directors set up a budget and assign committees to care for traditional service projects.

2) Lion leaders assess new community and regional needs they might address.

3) Great clubs conduct annual membership drives to see that enough members are on hand to get the job of service done.

Lions Club International is in the business of providing tools to help clubs accomplish the 1,2,3s of their business. Think of them like the MacGregor Company or a really tuned in local banker.

My job as 19Fs Global Membership Chair and now as MD19s Global Membership Chair (two hats, one head! The M-guy!!) is to be that guy that that gets those LCI tool into your hands.

At this website link 123MD19.org is your 1,2,3 tool box. During commercials while the game is on today or tonight please take some time to check it out.

Sometimes between now and January's end use a Step 1 tool to evaluate your club.

Then figure out which Step 2 Membership drive you want to conduct from February through April.

If you want a Step 3 Video show to go along with your membership drive let us know. Email liondavidwalk@gmail.com

If you end up using any of these 1,2,3 tools please drop me an email and let me know how it went. I have to keep the tools sharp and the tool box up to date.

Thanks!!!

Dave Walk

The District M-guy

(509) 200-1114

Paprika Butter

At the USA Canada Forum last weekend Naresh, our Lions International President, was speaking to about 1400 Lions over a meal. I was gnawing on a hunk of bread slathered with orange paprika butter when he said something like, "If every Lion would bring in a new Lion..." and just then a paprika flake sent my taste buds soaring and my mind off somewhere else and I lost most of the rest of what he was saying.

3 days later while chauffeuring the DG back from a visit to Asotin, Naresh's words popped back into my brain and I tried to start a conversation with DG Crystal about how amazing what he said really was... What if every Lion would bring in a new lion this year? We tossed it around for a few miles while my tired eyes scanned the road shoulders for deer and badgers.


Just how would bring in a Lion work?  Think this through with me, please.       

I could commit to personally finding a new Lion! Actually, it happened the next day when a 20-something named Zach said he'd like to join my club. Yikes! Twilight Zone music out of nowhere and As a man thinketh slogans slowly roll across my mind.

Maybe you could get your son to join? Tell him it's time to do what a man should do in the world. Maybe someone else would invite their niece or nephew to a service project and tell them truthfully that their help is needed to change their community and the world.

Another Lion could look over his barbed wire fence and strike up a Lions conversation with the guy in the next field. Stranger things have happened.




Naresh has nailed it! "If every Lion would bring in a new Lion.." we wouldn't be listening to tired people griping about how the same 5 Lions do all the work on their club's projects.

"If every Lion would bring in a new Lion.." it would be so much more fun watching an ancient Tail Twister trying to remember everyone's names.

"If every Lion would bring in a new Lion.." there would be more support for Little League teams, soccer teams, band trips, FFA and 4H and Scout Troops.

"If every Lion would bring in a new Lion.." our contributions to LCIF and Leader Dogs and Care and The Northwest Lions Foundation would double.

"If every Lion would bring in a new Lion.." there would be more new officers and van loads of people visiting clubs and going to conferences.

"If every Lion would bring in a new Lion.." the old guys could quit worrying about their club existing after they pass on.

Sometimes a leader will say something so profound that when you turn it over in your head the best thing that comes out of your enlisted soldier brain is something like, "Oh, Wow!" or "Wow, Sir!"

At that point, if you are a good Sergeant, you translate it for your troops, get on with the mission and take the objective.

Naresh

Navita & Naresh Aggarwal with Crystal & David Walk

Our International Lions President Naresh and his wife Navita Aggarwal hail from India which so far away from District 19F that when I shook his hand in Chicago I couldn’t imagine that anything he would have to say could even remotely apply to our district full of wheat farmers and good old boys and girls.

Sometimes an old redneck like me can enjoy being wrong.  Dr. Aggarwal has a great head on his shoulders. When he writes he doesn’t waste words and when he talks he gets right down to business. In the current Lions Magazine he says, “Service to others defines who we are. It is our very reason to exist as a global organization. Our motto puts it in terms others can easily understand - We Serve -… Our motto is timeless. It is as relevant today as it was in 1917, and it will inspire us into our next century of service
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Dr. Aggarwal and Lions Club International have developed the exciting and new Global Action Team which is actually a streamlining of ourorganization at all levels. He says, “It unifies the three key areas of Lions—leadership, membership and service into one team to strengthen our clubs, districts and association. It's a bottom-up approach to supporting and encouraging the one thing that unites all Lions: service.”

Dr. Aggarwal concludes, “Your clubs are counting on you. And so am I. Let's do everything in our power to make the Global Action Team a success!”

Check out the Global Action Team at this link or Google LCI Global Action Team.  This approach could very well be what your club and our District needs!!