Hello, Denver Lions!
I hope you are all having a wonderful summer. As for Steve and me, our highlight so far was in June, babysitting our two granddaughters (3.5 y/o and 10 months old). I don’t know how we summoned the energy needed back in the day ….
News from the desk of your new Denver Lions President:
Our Club have been blessed with the birth of two healthy baby boys. Joe Young and Patrick Samuels are the new dads on the block. I am going to encourage them to bring their little boys to our picnic in August 25.
Our Denver Den partnered with Project CURE on an Eyesight Mission in Haiti. This campaign took place in the middle of June.
Our beloved First Baptist Church of Denver will host for a second consecutive year the mobile Consulate of Ecuador. In a sense, the Church will be considered an Ecuadorian territory on August 17th and 18th.
On July 12th a handful of us went to visit our dear friend, Lion Joe Beaghler. He is recovering amazingly well from his accident at the Lions Camp in April.
We’ll be participating at the Dragon Boat Festival again this year. We’ll be conducting Kidsight screenings and distributing readers with the help of our Denver Latino Branch Club.
Five members of our Club are heading out next month (August 8 to 20) to Mongolia. We will conduct another Eyesight Mission in this beautiful country. This time our goal is to train our Lions partners in Ulaanbaatar, so that they can continue delivering this great service to their communities.
We are having our annual picnic on Saturday, August 25th, at the Colorado Railroad Museum, 17155 W 44th Ave, Golden, CO 80403. I hope you can come with your family. At this event we would like to recognize all the volunteers who have helped us in different events our Club has put together. 1st Vice-President Bill Henderson has arranged for us once again to have the Museum’s pavilion for free. In exchange for this generosity, the Museum asks we volunteer our time in September at its Thomas the Train event.
As our Lions year begins, I would like to invite you to our Denver Den’s Annual Retreat on September 8th from 9 am to 12 noon. It will take place at Savio House, 325 King Street, Denver CO 80219 (enter through the Lowell Blvd entrance; it will be on the second floor).
Our first meeting of the year will take place on Tuesday, September 11, at Maggianos. Our speaker will be Dr. Valeria Canto-Soler, Director of the Ocular Stem Cell and Regeneration Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
I hope to see you soon!
Susy