This week's Roariings

Due too an overbooking by Maggiano's the next meeting is on Tuesday September 19.  The October meetings will return to the meeting schedule of 2nd and 4th Tuesday.  October 10 and 24. 

Project C.U.R.E. is consistently recognized with the highest Four Star ranking from Charity Navigator, and was named by Forbes as one of the top 200 charities in America

If you have not already made your reservation for the Denver Lions 100 year celebration,  THIS IS A REMINDER

 

Event:  Denver Lions 100 year celebration

Date:  October 14, 2017

Time:  5:30 to 9:00 pm

Location:  Wellshire Inn, 3333 S Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80222

Dinner and Beverages:  $60 per person.  Pay by check or online at denverlions.org

 

Send Reservation to Marie Wheatley    marie.belew.wheatley@gmail.com    303.921.9050  

 

The Denver Lions have been conducting research on possible new and larger boxes for some of our eyeglass collections sites.  Some sites collect a lot of glasses, so they fill the small cardboard boxes quickly.  Also the larger boxes create more visibility for the Club.  Some Lions Clubs have been able to get old US Postal Service mailboxes that they paint in Lions Colors.  The Denver Postmaster has informed Club members that these are no longer available.

 

Many other possibilities have been explored, but cost has been the determining factor.  A group of Lions in Milwaukee posted on-line plans for an inexpensive box made from wood.  Eric and Dwight Steen made one prototype based on the Milwaukee plans (see photo) at a total cost of less than $100.  Jessica and Jenna Steen (15 and 13 respectively) painted the prototype.  The Club has contacted the Littleton Leos to see if they would be interested in building some boxes with the materials being supplied by the Club.  We may also contact some Denver high schools to see if they would be interested in building some boxes.

With school starting we also start the KidSight season.  KidSight is one of Denver Lions major programs with last year screening over 2400 kids and 281 referred.  We have more schools to screen this year and project we will be screening over 3000 kids.  We are in dire need of screeners.   With the PlusOptix unit screening is very easy.  It just takes partnering with a screener to know how to use the unit and the process.   All it  takes is one or two sceenings to learn.  Most of the screenings are in the morning stating at 8:30 and can be finished before 11.  All it takes is one or two screenings a month to be a KidSight Screener.  With many we can do great things.  With the Calendar you can plan ahead for what best meets your schedule.

 

Being a screener is easy and very rewarding.   When you screen a kid and they need to be referred you know that day you made a difference in that kids life.   We need screeners.  Contact Lion Fletcher Brown  303.619.8486

 

All the information on each screening is on the website.  Just go to the Calendar and clink on the screening you are interested in.  If there is a screening with an afternoon session and you can do only mornings that is OK, just let me know.

 

We have a number of screenings in the next couple weeks.  See Calendar for details.  CLICK HERE to go to Calendar

 

 

This week, two trainers and Bob Cooley were on Colorado and Company (a 9News Program) talking about IHDI and Scruffy, lucky placement #1300!  Check out the YouTube video below. They will be featured again on Friday, Sept. 15 discussing  how Scruffy's placement has gone, plus advertising the Hearing Dog Harvest event scheduled for Sept. 22.  CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO

 

Mission Trip to Mongolia was a great success, measured not only in the number of people that we served but in proving, once again, just how much more satisfying true humanitarian work can be when it’s collaborate. The Lions in Mongolia really stepped up.

 

The catalyst was Denver Lion Myrna Ann Adkins, who’s been to Mongolia numerous times in her role as head of the Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning here in Denver, which works with immigrants and refugees to acclimate them to society in the US. We would be part of a Sister Cites delegation to promote goodwill between Mongolia and the US

 

We collaborated with the Ulaanbaatar Bichigt Lions Club through Lions Oyun Tuul and Davaa Tsermaa. Tuul and Tsermaa recruited other volunteers and interpreters to work with us at 2 sites for 3 days in Ulaanbaatar and also arranged for coverage from 3 different TV stations there. (Here is the video the language is Mongolian, but they’re still worthwhile to watch: 

Click here:  Video 1    Video 2 

 

We saw 1,140 people in 5 days and distributed 1,015 pairs of glasses, including readers and 42 pairs of bifocals.  

 

On the Mission Trip were Lion Dee Pape, Myrna Adkins, Steve and Susy Kinsky, Carla Osorio