Showing posts with label Engage our Youth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Engage our Youth. Show all posts

Monday, August 1, 2016

July Centennial Service Activities

Can we say AWESOME??!!  Clubs in 49A started the new Lion year out busy!

  • Soldotna
    • Sharing the Vision:  Picked up 62 pair of used eyeglasses from collection boxes around town and shipped them to the recycle center in North Pole.
  • Palmer
    • Engaging our Youth:   In the planning stages for their Special Santa Project.
    • Engaging Our Youth:  Play 60 with the Seahawks, an event designed to encourage children to get out and play 60 minutes a day.  
    • Relieving the Hunger:  Helped at a food bank.  
    • Engaging Our Youth:  Big Brothers and Big Sisters golf outing and fundraiser.  
  • Wasilla
    • Sharing the Vision:   Vision screening at the Ptarmigan Health Fair.
    • Engaging Our Youth:  Play 60 with the Seahawks, an event designed to encourage children to get out and play 60 minutes a day.  
    • Relieving the Hunger:  Senior Meals on Wheels
    • Protecting Our Environment:  Collected 200 inkjet cartridges.  Funds raised will support the PET scooter project.  
  • Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions
    • Relieving the Hunger:  Donated food items to a local food pantry.  
    • Sharing the Vision:  Collected used eyeglasses from collection sites.  Provided $189 in financial assistance for an eye exam.  
    • Protecting Our Environment:  Set up collection boxes around town and collected 25 cartridges.  
    • Relieving the Hunger:  Weekly help at the local food bank.  
    • Protecting Our Environment:  Litter pick up.
    • Engaging Our Youth:  Assisted the Boy Scout Troop that the club sponsors at the annual concession booth for those in the parade staging area.  
  • Sutton Racing
    • Engaging Our Youth:  Motocross Race where members and youth of Sutton put on a race for all to compete in and the community to enjoy.  
  • Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mountain
    • Engaging Our Youth:  Hair and face painting booth at the 3rd of July booth. 
    • Sharing the Vision:  Bear Paw Parade.  We pulled our Vision Trailer in the Bear Paw parade, pulled small wagons filled with candy and passed out treats along the parade route. Thousands of bystanders along the 3 mile walk cheered us on and thanked us for all we do in the community!  
    • Engaging Our Youth:  Chamber Luncheon.  Start of Bear Paw we attended Chamber luncheon and donated 2 community scholarships for outstanding community service! We reviewed 13 portfolio's and essays to choose 2 outstanding students for their volunteering in our community. This is done annually during our Bear Paw festival.  
    • Sharing the Vision:  Vision screening at the 3rd of July event.  
  • Anchorage Mt. McKinley
    • Relieving the Hunger:  FISH Golf tournament.  Four members participated in a golf tournament to support FISH.  
    • Relieving the Hunger:  Donated $1,000 to Food Bank of Alaska.
    • Relieving the Hunger:  Delivered food boxes to the needy.  
    • Sharing the Vision:  Members volunteered at Campabilities, a camp for the blind.
  • Mountain View
    • Engaging our Youth:  East High School Football Players volunteer at the Mt View Lions Community Park.  59 East High School students participating in the football program plus a dozen coaches and parents volunteered with 13 Mt View Lions in various improvement projects at Mt View Lions Community Park. The boys and girls replaced boards on the bleachers surrounding the baseball fields, painted park equipment, cleaned bear-resistant trash containers, mowed & trimmed the park. Activities lasted over five hour including a lunch break of hamburgers & hot dog with lots of delicious & festive picnic fixings. The East High School students totally enjoyed working around the park and the Mt View Lions loved the help! 
Two clubs have already completed all four Centennial Service Challenges in the first month!  

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Getting Our Youth Involved

August is Engaging Our Youth month.  More specific, August 8-14 is Worldwide Week of Service to Youth.  This week is dedicated to mentoring, empowering, and engaging youth through community service and is designed to inspire the next generation of volunteers.

Most clubs are involved in youth programs throughout the year from helping at a youth event to teaching bicycle safety to cleaning gardens.

August is a time to host a project that engages youth in your community.  It's not too late to sponsor a Peace Poster contest or organize a new Leo Club or just invite youth to serve alongside you in a hands-on project.  The Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions club offers free coffee and pastries as parade participants wait in the staging area.  The Boy Scouts take the thermos of coffee and pastries around to them.

Here's some more ideas:

  1. Organize a youth forum to highlight topics that youth have identified as critical community issues.
  2. Designate a portion of club funds to be used for youth-led service projects.
  3. Implement the Youth Camp & Exchange Program in your district.
  4. Establish a mentor project with tech-savvy youth to teach older adults technology skills.
  5. Organize a job fair to help young people identify their career goals.

We Serve!
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Getting Your Fingernails Dirty

Ballyhoo Lions Club recently finished a project with the school children (Engaging Our Youth). They cleaned and graded their oriental garden.  This was an 8-hour community service project.

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We Serve!

Monday, January 11, 2016

Centennial Activities for MD49A: December 2015

Lions were busy in December!  The list below was taken from MyLCI and shows those activities clubs have identified as being a signature activity.  It's important that Clubs input their service activities, especially the four Centennial Challenge activities so your hard work can be recognized!  Thank you for all you do!

Relieving the Hunger Campaign
  • Copper River Basin:  Donated and distributed 30 Holiday food baskets to the needy over Christmas.
  • Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mountain:  Donated to the Elks to help purchase food for Christmas baskets; helped cook, serve, and clean up for annual Community Christmas dinner.
  • Girdwood Turnagain Arm:  Sorted donated food and made food baskets for 15 needy families.  
  • Palmer:  Food collection; prepared/sponsored 20 food baskets for the needy. 
  • Willow:  Distributed food, clothing, and toys for Christmas.
Engaging our Youth Campaign
  • Copper River Basin:  Christmas gifts for disadvantaged children; donated to the wrestling team.
  • Palmer:  Toy collection; worked at wrestling tournament.
  • Mt. View:  Food collection to feed children on weekend.
  • Spenard:  Photo screened children.
  • Sutton:  Youth snow-x race.
Sharing the Vision Campaign
  • Palmer:  Vision screening.
Protecting Our Environment
  • Palmer:  Recycling
  • Soldotna:  Eyeglass collection since August to December has sent 9 boxes of recycled glasses to the North Pole.
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