Meadville Lion’s Club Founded in Years and Still Going Strong

2 Meadville Lions Club 2006/2007 Meeting Times and Locations General Meeting Monthly First and Third Thursdays 12:00 PM Wesbury Retirement Community N Park Ave. Meadville, PA Board Meetings Monthly Second Thursday 6:00PM Vietnam Vet Post 52 Dunham Rd. Meadville, PA Club Contacts President Karen Faivre Phone 814- Phone Membership Chairman Dave Hollern Phone 814- Phone Club Website

3 Meadville Lions Club 2008/2009 Club Officers TitleMember President Karen Faivre 1st Vice President Barb Lucas 2nd Vice PresidentDoug Nola 3rd Vice President Cynthia Fiorillo Secretary Melissa Woodworth Tail Twister Major L. Garth Faulds Lion Tamer Florence Hughes and Mindy Cole Treasurer Jeffrey Davis 1st Year Director John Salak Martha Consla Major Garth Faulds aren Faivre 2nd Year Director Scott Ladner Dutch Dine Jean Weber 3rd Year Director Dave Hollern Larry Mineweaser Arden Hughes Newsletter Editor Dave Hollern Past President Rob Sharp

4 Helen Keller’s Challenge (1925) “The opportunity I bring to you, Lions, is this: To foster and sponsor the work of the American Foundation for the Blind. Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness; no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided? I appeal to you Lions, you who have your sight, your hearing, you who are strong and brave and kind. Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in this crusade against darkness?”

5 We Serve (Lions Motto) The Meadville Lions Club is a nonprofit service organization founded in 1924 to serve the blind and needy of the Meadville area. The Lions’ motto “We Serve” is key to our activities in support of our community, our Lions District 14F, our state, and the world through Lions Club International.

6 How We Serve the Meadville Area Eye Screening We provide eye glasses to the needy of Meadville. We provide eye glasses to the needy of Meadville. The Keystone Blind Association Northwest Eye Bank Crawford County Leader Puppies Cambridge Braille Vision Program Beacon Lodge (Blind Children’s Camp) Eye Surgery Trust Fund Lions Eye Bank Eye Research Salvation Army Bell Ringing Meadville Civic Improvement –David Mead Log Cabin Maintenance –Christmas Lights Miss Crawford County Scholarship Big Brothers & Big Sisters Meadville Medical Center Audiology Department Optometry Department Hearing Research Diabetes Research Christmas Donations to Needy Families Make a Difference Day

7 How We Serve the Needy of the World Monetary Contributions to Lions Club International Foundation Sightfirst II Initiatives –Lions Eye Health Program (LEHP) LEHP is the main SightFirst-funded initiative for industrialized nations. LEHP is a community-based public awareness initiative that encourages the early detection and timely treatment of glaucoma and diabetic eye disease and the appropriate treatment for low vision. LEHP has been active in the United States, Japan, the British Isles and Ireland, Canada, Australia and Turkey. LEHP has been revamped and improved in the United States. The new LEHP for the United States includes a new CD- ROM format, a new logo and design, a new LEHP Web site and development of new print materials. Perhaps most importantly, everyone interested in eye health can now participate in LEHP, not just Lions clubs. This will help increase eye health awareness. –Project for Elimination of Avoidable Childhood Blindness A US$3.75 million SightFirst grant is funding pediatric vision centers and training programs in 30 countries. The program is being done in concert with the World Health Organization. The program represents a broad counterattack against preventable childhood blindness.

8 How We Serve the Needy of the World Monetary Contributions to Lions Club International Foundation Sightfirst II Initiatives – SightFirst has supported more than 80.5 million treatments of river blindness in Africa and Latin America since it forged a partnership with The Carter Center in The treatments for river blindness have transformed individual lives and communities in 12 countries in Africa and Latin America. In fact, in Latin America, experts foresee eradicating river blindness once and for all by The grant to the Carter Center also targets trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable blindness. SightFirst is controlling trachoma among 4.6 million people with zithromax treatments. –SightFirst China Action Project Completed in 2002, Phase I of LCIF's SightFirst China Action (SFCA) supported 2.1 million cataract surgeries in China and established surgical eye units in 104 rural counties that previously had none. Phase II will once again address blindness on a large scale. A SightFirst grant of US$15.5 million was matched with about US$200 million from the Chinese government. The goal of Phase II is to perform at least 2.5 million cataract surgeries as well as to strengthen eye care infrastructure by creating secondary eye care units at hospitals in 200 underdeveloped counties, provinces and Tibet. To assure sustainable eye care services for the vast populations of rural poor, training courses for paramedics will be created in the western and northern provinces

9 How We Serve the Needy of the World Contributions to VOSH of Pennsylvania (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity) –We have helped prevent blindness in the jungles of Guatemala by donations of; Money Ball caps and glasses Personal commitments of PDG Dutch Dine who has made many trips to Guatemala to help the medical teams provide treatment to the needy. Donations to Leader Dog School in Rochester MI.

10 How We Fund Our Projects We fund our projects through; –Personal donations of time and money –Available Grant Funding –Trust Funds available for our use –Fundraising Projects Some of our Major Fundraisers are, White Cane Day Lions Broom Sales Lions Club Mints Koeze Nut Sales Mother’s Day Dinner Parking for Wesbury’s BBQ and REC’s Invertors Meeting The Lions Club Garage Sale Harley Motorcycle Raffle County Fair Raffle Beef Raffle

11 How We Have Fun (Our Projects for Family Networking) Marching in the JC’s Halloween Parade Bus Trip to the Leader Dog School in Rochester, MI An evening at Jr’s. Comedy Club in Erie, PA Group Picnics Annual Christmas Party Cruising on Conneaut Lake Meadville Lion’s Club First Valentine’s Day Party Japanese Style at the Aoyama Japanese Steakhouse Upcoming club trip to the Lions International Convention 2007 in Chicago, IL

12 Our Projects Our Family Cruising Parade Leader Dog School

13 Our Projects Our Family County Fair Assorted Projects

14 “There is no better way to thank God for your sight then by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.” Helen Keller Meadville Lion’s Club Club # 5971 District 14F (Governor Becky Eldridge) Region III (Region Chairman Major Garth Faulds) Zone I (Zone Chairman Rob Sharp) Zone I Clubs: Centerville, Conneaut Lake, Conneaut Valley, Meadville, Townville, Vernon Township Meadville Lion’s Club Club # 5971 District 14F (Governor Becky Eldridge) Region III (Region Chairman Major Garth Faulds) Zone I (Zone Chairman Rob Sharp) Zone I Clubs: Centerville, Conneaut Lake, Conneaut Valley, Meadville, Townville, Vernon Township