When the mud slides off a mountain like at Oso,
WA or a mountain blows up or a fire
devastates a valley or even a town the Lion District ALERT
Team helps mobilize volunteers, gather resources, and apply LCIF
emergency grant money. ALERT relieves pain, provides food, clothing,
shelter and just plain helps do what needs to get done. Up until Wednesday our District 19F had no ALERT
Chairperson.
Sean Marcellus has been a Clarkston Lion since February
2015 and has just become 1st Vice President of the Clarkston Club.
When presented with VDG Crystal’s pre-meeting fact sheet about the great things
that our Lions support and do, Sean scanned the sheet and said, “I want to
learn all this.”
Chatting with Sean, I discovered what he really meant was that he wanted training for his new 1VP job. I promised to start him off with a coupled of online resources. We told him there would be more officer training at the 19F District Conference. His Zone Chair Marie Vogel and District Trainers Larry Carley and Ret Stewart will put all the icing on his training cake that Sean can handle. Great volunteers, all!
The Clarkston Club is
a jovial, salt of the earth bunch of service oriented Lions. They tease and
banter like a big family at a holiday dinner but like a great family they pull
together when it matters. After the Serving Generations presentation was
complete, Sean, Ken Roberts and others were helping with the breakdown while
Crystal was counting contributions to the 5 causes. Sean looked at the four
cookie jars with the bills and coins. He smiled and asked if we could wait for
a few minutes while he ran home to get his change jar to make an additional
contribution to the Leader Dogs. Sure we could!
Returning shortly, Sean presented Lion Crystal a huge
coin filled jar with $149.41 worth of quarters nickels, dimes and one penny. Sean explained
that about once of year he directed his collected pocket change to a good
cause. Wow! That's change that matters.
While we all were carting gear to our van, the conversation
led to higher level service in Lions. I allowed that Sean could one day be District
Governor. Crystal pointed out that he would need to serve on the District cabinet
before that happened.
You know what happened.
Meet Lion Sean Marcellus, our District’s new ALERT
Chairperson.
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| Clarkston 1VP Sean Marcellus receives his Key Membership pin from Clarkston Lion President Cathy Bailey |
You guys are great!
