Main Street

Coming into the 6 pm Main Street of Naches, WA is a step back in time to where people look at each other and smile instead of staring into cell phones. The street is wide and welcoming & full of cars. Wait! Except for the bar all the stores seem closed. What’s with all the cars? Is there a party somewhere?

Actually, there is is a party! A couple of dozen yellow vested seasoned and some youthful Lions are celebrating the Lions 100 Year Centennial with a Birthday Party. District Governor Crystal Walk has brought the party hats, balloons, pins and party favors!

Naches Sunshine Lion Peggy Walker has prepared the cake and what a cake it is… Beautifully hand drawn Happy Ballon Lions and delicious frosting! Wow! Yumm!

5 new members of the Lions of Naches receive New Serving Generations pins. 58 year Lion Ted Cowan gets pinned, too, while DG Crystal passes out long service Chevron awards, MD19 Centennial Pins and her coveted All That and a Bag of Chips Lions Award to other deserving Lions. 

Lions Presidents Aaron Roberts & Pat Cossey and Secretary Marty Close receive Lions Centennial Service Awards for their clubs.

 Lion Ted Cowan is awarded the Yellow Service Generations Pin for his 58 Years of Service as a Naches Lion.

 Lions Jim Gillie and Paul Kauzlarich.

 Lions Centennial Party Goers!

Margaret, the Apple Cart Deli owner where the Naches of Lions meet, says her business and the Lions of Naches are all about Community. “We support each other here!”

Visiting

2017-2018 District Governor Crystal Walk has been busy, along with 2017-2018 Cabinet Secretary Viva Metz, scheduling clubs for her DG Visits. They are contacting all the club officers in this regard. This gets complicated a bit by clubs who break for the summer. Please pass this info along if your officers aren't easily contacted by email. We’ve put a calendar on the District 19F webpage so your club’s secretary or president needs to let Crystal or Viva know what date will work for the visit. Crystal says:

“This year wraps up the Centennial celebration and I will be in a festive mood for the visits. I am asking each Club to provide the birthday cake if they can.  (If they can't, I will bring one). And I will bring the party .   DG Dave is working on a centennial celebration version of the video  and your club will also receive last year's version as a gift  from the District.

Guests are welcome and awards will be presented.”

Year in Review

A year ago VDG Governor Crystal and I went to Fukuoka, Japan for my District Governor training and three days of the 99^th International Convention. From our hotel window I took a photo of the entryway which appeared in one of the first of the You Guys Are Great blogs. 



Today, I took a similar shot, a year later, of the entry way to the hotel where we will stay as DG Crystal takes her District Governor training prior to the 100^th International Convention of Lions in Chicago, Illinois USA.

Looking back over the 2016-2017 19F Lions year is easy because of the You Guys Are Great DG blogs which were written more or less weekly. We tried to make a write-up of every club for the blogs but sometimes time, technology and fatigue got in the way of that aspiration. The goal was to showcase how great the Lions in our 46 clubs are, to stay positive, and to essentially be a cheerleader.  

VDG Crystal and I had a wonderful time visiting clubs, learning how they operated and how truly effective they are in service to their communities. It was a little humbling learning how much I didn’t know about Lionism and very exhilarating being in the presence of so many great Lions. 

Those 57 You Guys Are Great blogs have had 5,057 page views during the year. Each month my son Lion Derence Walk combined the best blogs of the month just passed and made them into the required DG You Guys Are Great Newsletter.  Each month we attached or linked it to the 600 or so District Lions who have emails listed in the LCI database. These same blogs and the newsletters were also shared via our District 19F Website and District 19F Facebook page.  

An alphabetical index of links to those You Guys Are Great blogs follows and is also at this link: 19F You Guys Are Great blog index.

Asotin  Servant-Leaders 

Benton City Stamps 

Clarkston  Change   The Ayes Have It  

College Place  Melvin and the Measles   Servant-Leaders 

Conference Thank You  Chevron  Party!

Craigmont  Home!

Dayton  White Cane

Goldendale  Rolling  

Granger There’s Ladies Here!    Cherry Festival   

Kahlotus  Kahlotus 

Kennewick  One Question

Lions Flag The Lions Flag

Lind, Potlatch, Yakima, Clarkston  The Ayes Have It                

Palouse  Inspiration   Servant-Leaders 

Past District Governors  Powerful  A Banner Bright

Potlatch The Ayes Have It   

Naches and Naches Sunshine  Great!  Hear us Roar!

Nezperce We Like it Up Here .

Northwest Lions Foundation Good Works 

Odessa Odessa

Selah Valley Peace!   Real Generations  .

Sunnyside Show It!  

Vice District Governor  Bright 

Walla Walla Downtown All Aboard!!!  Servant-Leaders 

Wapato  Rolling  

Washtucna  Bingo!  Ask!

West Richland White Room 

Whitepine  Old Guys 

Yakima Ben Franklin Live  The Ayes Have It   Rolling                  
Yakima West Valley Rolling  

You Guys Are Great

Great Lions share their love of serving their community and the world by inviting and sponsoring people into their Lions Club. Lions have been doing this for 100 years.

During the 2016-2017 Lions year William Shepherd, William Evans, Tracy Berry, Todd Inverson, Thomas Case, Teri Sanchez, Ted Cowan, Steven Watt, Stephen Diaz, Sharon Ireland, Sharon Harris, Shane Strohmaier, Russell Craig Biggam, Ronald Freeze, Ronald Brookshire, R A Kinch, Phillip Smith, Paul Eimers, Mike Kline, Mike Heston, Mike Doyle, Michael Ingham, Michael Himmelberger, Melissa Thiessen, Melba Fujiura, Mary Rightmire, Mary Cady, Marty Close, Marlon Shaffer, Mark Wagoner, Mark Boehne, Marion Blank, Marie Vogel, Lloyd Stoess, Liz Fuller, Linn Pemberton, Les Davies, Leroy Watson, Leor Ish-Shalom, Larry Carlton, Kevin House, Ken Roberts, Ken Buley, Kay Packer, Kay Metz, Josh Knodel, Josette Nebeker, John Menter, John McGowan, John Kenney, Jim Schmidt, Jim Reiner, Jessica Herron, Jenny Kostroff, Jeff Blackmer, Jason Hulett, Jared Arnzen, Jan Mcelroy, James Remacle, James Kemp, Glen Mendel, Francis Wolf, Erma Kemp, Edward Wemhoff, Earl Fordham, Dulce Kersting, Duane Le Tourneau, Dorris Walker, Donna Stoess, Donna Konen, Derrick Laird, David Wooten, David Berry, Dave Mcgraw, Crystal Walk, Carol Butterfield, Candy Delagasse, Calvin Dudney, Buck Romeike, Bruce Sauer, Brian McElroy, Brenik Iverson, Ashley Burmaster, Andrew Ottoson, Andrew Butterfield and Alexander Navarro all sponsored new Lions into their clubs. You Guys Are Great!

The new members sponsored by them include Jennifer Crow - Craigmont, Chad Crow - Craigmont, Adora Carlton - West Valley, Kathryn Webb - West valley, Mike Buckley - Touchet Gardena,  Crystal Hill - College Place, Christopher Pereyda - College Place, Larry Carlton - West Valley, Edenia Urenda - West Valley, Debbie Heath - West Valley, Kirman Broadbent - Prescott District, Robert Bradley - Touchet Gardena,  Justin Deford - Grangeville,  Ben Majetich - West Richland Red Mountain, Cynthia Majetich - West Richland Red Mountain, Matthew Howell - West Valley, Layne Harris - Kendrick, Melvin Sonnen - Cottonwood,  John Rightmire - Zillah, David Spencer - Clarkston, Lane Hannas - Lind, Branden Aby - Lind, Michael Funk -Lind, David Weisel - Clarkston, Brian Weisel - Clarkston, Fred Stevens - Grangeville, Larry Stephenson - West Richland Red Mountain, Diana Stephenson - West Richland Red Mountain,  Megan Newell - Tieton, Mark Pickel - Waitsburg, Marie Dymkoski - Pullman, Matthew Imbrock -Tieton, mike Ayers - Kahlotus, Charles Watkins - Odessa, Ryan Lewis - Odessa, Kyle Hagen - Kennewick, Joe Jacobs - Troy, Debbie Jacobs - Troy, Forrest Gilchrist - Troy, Natalie Gilchrist - Troy, Kennith Capello - Potlatch, Kayla Klingele - Selah Valley, Joel Klingele - Selah Valley, Jennifer Gonzales - Moscow Central, Beronica Velasquez - College Place, Mary Mcinturff - College Place, Tess Ish-Shalom, West Valley, Kevin Starring - Lind, George Dress - Kennewick, Robert Trimble -Yakima, Sarah Hatfield - Craigmont, Lee Chism -Kahlotus, Bernice Shoemaker - Lewiston,  Jim Nelson - Kahlotus, William Wolkenhauer - Troy, James Yerbich - Kahlotus, Chris Thomas - Kahlotus, Susan Chism - Kahlotus, Jessica Herron - Kahlotus, Dave Simmons -Wapato, Carolyn Sliger - Moscow Central, Jonathon Krenz, Moscow Central, Sara Cossio - Prescott District, Dusty Fox - Prescott District, Tylor Ray - Prescott District, Logan Larson - Troy, Daniel Crandall - Moscow Central, Wayne Miller - Washtucna, Kriss Bottino - Washtucna, Roy McKenzie - Washtucna, Marcia Gulley - Washtucna, Darrel Gulley - Washtucna,  Val Widmer - Washtucna, Caitlin Charnley-Ovens -College Place, Teresa  Asman - Potlatch, Gene Gossett - Walla Walla Eastgate, Dan Lustig - Grangeville, Paul Kimball - Lind, Walter Crow - Lind, Ron Hostetler - Asotin, R Ahler - Waitsburg, Robert Maxwell -pullman, Brennan wright - Grangeville, Joe Kuther - Cottonwood, Rob Gifford - Naches, Thomas Clark - Odessa, Kathleen Warren - Clarkston, John Bailey - Dayton, Gwen hoxie - Chinook Pass, Adam Colbert -Ritzville, Gary Skaro - Ritzville, Kim Freeze - Naches, Hanna Urlacher - Naches, Gail Welch - Naches, Dustin Frisvold - Lind, Gavin Morse - Lind, Laura Reed - Naches Sunshine,  Martha Conradt - Sunnyside, Kendra Evans - Lewiston, John Eberly - Benton city, Joni Ashley Eberly- Benton City, Karen cCaffrey - Whitepine, Frances Miller - Pullman, Chris Richardson - Pullman, Tara Lew - Moscow Central, John Anderson -Naches,  Marcia Anderson - Naches, Dale Cadwallader - Naches, Bill Davis - Naches, Patty Davis - Naches, Diane haun - Naches Sunshine, Andrew Nicholas - Moscow Central, Mitcheu Bryant - West Richland Red Mountain,Tonie Bryant - West Richland Red Mountain, Jeffrey Britz - West Valley, Leah Britz - West Valley, Bette-Jo Fordham - Kennewick, Robert McNaughton - Kennewick, and Mary Ellen Robinson - Wapato.

The Lions statistic I most love to quote says that for every new member who joins a club 50 new people benefit in their town by that Lion's service to the community. What a wonderful thing to think about! You Guys are Great! 

Servant-Leader

PID Anne Smarsh & Allen Aplass

“The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first.” - Robert K. Greenleaf.

Servant-Leaders share power, put the needs of others first and help people develop and perform as highly as possible.

Though the servant-leader term is just about a decade old Lions have been servant-leaders for ten decades. We serve! Always have and always will.

At the Asotin Pancake Feed

The servant leader is the first guy who shows up at your club’s pancake feed at dark thirty to get the grills going and he is likely to be the last guy scrubbing that same grill and shutting down the clubhouse after everyone else has gone.

At the Palouse Lions Club

The servant leader is the person who runs the Boy Scout Troop your club sponsors and has been churning out Eagles for years.

Allen Aplass, the Secretary Treasurer of the Walla Walla Downtown Lions Club is a servant-leader. He has championed and supported young Lions in our club and has always been on hand with his pal Lion Bill Lake to serve where needed.

Allen and Sherilyn

This afternoon Allen invited me and my home club to join him and Bill to scrub veteran’s grave stones at our town’s cemetery.  He has been working this project with Sherilyn Jacobson who is connected with the American Legion. 

Lions Caitlin, Dave and Alex. Lion Crystal is taking the pic!

Four of us showed up for a couple of hours and worked alongside Allen, Bill and Sherilyn caring for 10 grave sites and gravestones of soldiers, airman and sailors who died in the Second World War. Though just a small part of a greater project, I can honestly say I haven’t felt the heart stuff that goes along with service as strong on any other service project this year as I did on this one.  Thank you, Allen.

Ashley Burmaster, 19F’s Lion of the Year, is also a servant leader. Ashley, Secretary of the Selah Valley Lions Club, is a servant leader especially in the sense of sharing power. Although she has coordinated extremely effective projects for her Selah Valley Lions Club, she always acknowledges the leadership of others in her reports. The report she shared with me about their new club project, a Glow Run, is excerpted here - 

 Ashley is on the right!

“Selah Valley Lions Club is very active during Community Days in our small town of Selah. We start off Friday Night and set up the parade route, Mike, Cecil, Ken. This usually takes a couple hours. The next morning each of our members woke up and arrived at the Parade Staging location by 7 am. Tammy dispersed us out on the Parade route and we started to stage the Selah Community Days Parade. Lion Garry Johnson and Lion Bill Shepard both came to help. At 10am the parade went on without any problems. Ken and Cecil sold Raffle tickets for our 50/50 raffle and Ashley was in the Parade with all the members children supporting the Lions. The parade finished about 11:30am and Ashley went straight back to the pool and met up with Lauren to start checking people in for the Glow Run that was going to start at 8pm. Check-in was held at the Selah Pool from Noon to 7:59pm. Run started promptly at 8pm. We had 304 people register for our Glow Run. 287 people actually ran in the fun run. Our club brought in $7274.23 for this fun run. $2791.88 went to purchase Glow Sticks and shirts for the runners. Our club donated $448.14 to Yakima Veterans Association, $250 to the Local Young Life Group to help send them to summer camp, $125 to Ellensburg Youth Center summer trips program for students who can't afford to go on trips, $250 scholarship is being given out to Margaret Rees on May 30th. The remaining $3408.22 is being dispersed throughout the community through our projects. Lion Cecil also brought in a $200 donation from a co-worker. Thank you Club for all your work. Way to go us...”

Watching young people grow in their service is good for the heart, too.

You Guys Are Great!

Good Better

PDG Larry Carley - Leadership Chairman

Lions by definition, tradition and inclination strive to do good. Inspired Lions leaders strive to do good better. Good leaders encourage, are a good example and act selflessly without need of excessive praise or notice. Larry Carley our District's Leadership Chairman (GLT) is a good leader. His job is to put on approved training sessions for new club officers. Larry says, "There are two training sessions on the calendar - June 10, 2017 at the Troy Lions Community Center, 415 S. Main St. Troy Id., Time is 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M., and June 14th. at the Selah Civic Center, 216 S. 1st St. Selah WA., Time is 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. This Training will count towards your 100% awards. All Lions are welcome to attend any of these trainings. Hope to see you there!!"

If you are in the fields already and can't break away to teach your old dog new tricks you might check out new online training from Lions International. Here's their message and links.

Help to prepare your incoming club officers by sharing new club officer training! These online modules have a brand new look. Each of the trainings will be paired with an exciting interactive webinar (more information to come). Be sure to take a look at all of the excitement here:

Club Officer Training

Club President Responsibilities

Club Secretary Responsibilities

Club Treasurer Responsibilities

Users will need to create an LLC login if they don't have one, so please navigate to the LLC page to get started.

Please be sure to forward this message to any incoming officers.

Best Regards,

Leadership Development Division

Your Club Secretary can provide you with your membership number which you will need to create the LLC (Lions Learning Center) login. I can help you get that number as well.

Do Good Better!

You Guys Are Great!!

DG Dave