November Legacy Projects

Anchorage Mt. McKinley Lions completed and reported a Legacy Level 1 Project:   Lion Michelle worked on the Lions Logo Wrap on the Anchorage Senior Activities Center Van. This is a District 49A project

Chugiak Lions completed and reported a Legacy Level 1 Project:  vision screening

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Legacy Projects

Holiday Activities

This time of year, clubs around the state get into action.  Here's where we are for the month of November:

Sharing the Vision

• Kodiak Lions 
• screened at local private schools and had 8 referrals
• purchased a white cane for a young blind man whose can was stolen
• Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions
• screened at seven different locations in Juneau and Southeast for 685 screened and 81 referrals
• Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mountain Lions
• Screened 93 children at St. John's Orthodox School with 6 screened.  Will follow up with a couple students to ensure they get further vision care.
• Girdwood Turnagain Arm Lions
• Screened at several different schools and events for a total of 957 screened with 168 referred.  
• Used the DMV screener at the Health Fair to screen participants.  
• Anchorage Mabuhay Lions
• Provided assistance during screening at Lake Otis and North Star Elementary.  
• Kachemak Bay Lions
• Screened 47 with 23 referrals at the Homer Health Fair
• Chugiak Lions
• Screened at the Chugiak Elementary School

Engaging Our Youth

• Kodiak
• Worked with three youth groups to assist Kiwanis unload and sell Christmas trees as a service project.  
• Donated to the Kodiak Youth Hockey Club for gear.
• Involved two other service groups, including youth, in the community Christmas Tree Lighting event.
• Kodiak Lions get referrals from schools and local housing projects for kids that may not have proper winter gear and take them shopping!!!  Along with support from Macks, they are able to outfit children with coats, hats, boots, and anything else they need to help them them through the winter.  
• Anchorage Mt. McKinley Lions
• Helped set up and work Family Night
• Donated to Camp K.
• Willow Lions
• Skate Night -- roller skating at local elementary for community.
• Girdwood Turnagain Arm Lions
• Peace Poster event
• Anchorage Mabuhay Lions
• Assisted Mabuhay Leos with their fundraising project -- Christmas ornament making.
• Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions
• Gun safety starts in elementary school in Juneau.  One Lion volunteered his time teaching students about gun safety.
• Soldotna Lions
• Replaced eyeglass collection boxes which the local high school students made.  

Relieving the Hunger

• Anchorage Mabuhay Lions
• Annual Thanksgiving dinner:  Served a scrumptious meal in honor of seniors in the community.  Mabuhay Leos assisted. 
• Kenai Lions
• Cooked and provided breakfast for the alternative high school students.
• Helped at the annual Christmas Comes to Kenai community event.  Gave away 50 gallons of hot chocolate and 700 cookies baked the night before.  Leftovers were given to the LeeShore Center.
• Willow Lions
• Assisted at the local food pantry and distributed food to the community.
• Kodiak Lions
• Donated a $100 Safeway gift card to a young adult
• Helped at a community food drive and accumulated 625 pounds of goods.
• Anchorage Mt. McKinley Lions
• Delivered food boxes to Anchorage residents.
• Girdwood Turnagain Arm Lions
• Worked with several local churches and other service organizations to prepare food for, serve, and bus tables at the community Thanksgiving dinner.  
• Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions
• Donated $400 to Helping Hands, a local food pantry.

Yes, WE SERVE!  Thank you Lions for all the hard work you do in your community all year long!

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Centennial Service Activities

Vision Screening in Southeast Alaska

Our Lion year runs July 1 through June 30.  We start the year running, lining up schools, home schools, and pre-schools to offer free vision screening to children.

When we screen a child's eye, we let the PlusOptix screener do the work.  We aren't medical professionals and don't diagnose.  But the computer will identify any abnormalities in a child's eye and give a report of REFER if it found something wrong.

So far this year, the Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions have screened at the following locations in Juneau and Southeast Alaska:

• Auke Bay Elementary School (preschoolers):  screened 107 children with 7 referrals
• Infant and Baby Fair:  screened 37 infants and toddlers with 4 referrals
• Faith Community Christian School:  screened 53 children with 14 referrals
• Gastineau Elementary School:  screened 120 preschool, kindergarten, first graders, and miscellaneous other children that had questionable eyesight with 19 referrals
• Glacier Valley Elementary School:  screened 213 children with 42 referrals
• Haines Elementary School, Haines, Alaska:  Screened 137 children with 9 referrals
• Harborview Elementary:  screened 121 preschool to kindergarten with 23 referrals
• Harborview Montesorri:   screened 51 preschool and 1st graders with 3 referrals
• Head Start Faith Lutheran:  screened 37 with 2 referrals
• Head Start Pioneers Home:  screened 15 with 4 referrals
• Head Start Mendenhall School:  screened 15 with 3 referrals
• Juneau Community Charter School:  screened 79 with 14 referrals
• Juneau Co-Op Preschool:  screened 37 with 1 referral
• Raven Home School:  screened 9 with 2 referrals
• Riverbend Elementary:  screened 260 children with 53 referrals
• KEET Elementary, Sitka, Alaska:  screened 354 children with 27 referrals
• Valley Baptist Academy:  screened 79 with 7 referrals
• Wrangell Elementary:  screened 73 children with 17 referrals

Total screened and referred the first half of the Lion year:  1,797 with 251 referrals.

Submitted by Lion Nancy Norton
Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions

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Legacy Project: Newtok Water Project

The POWER of Lions...

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Today as we give thanks wanted to pass on one of the things I give thanks for...Lions. And realizing that we as Lions do not do a good job of tooting our horn, am letting everyone know what the Lions of Multiple District 49 did within a few months.

A little background...the Alaskan village of Newtok will become a casualty of erosion within the next year or two and the population of 209 will have to move to higher ground about 9 miles away to a new village named Mertarvik (literally meaning "a place to get water"). What was interesting is that although millions of dollars had already been spent and budgeted for houses, roads, etc., no funding was forthcoming for a way to provide clean water. A water well for the village was drilled and an electric water pump installed but there was no electricity or filtration system in place.

This is where the Lions stepped in...

The Fairbanks Host Lions sponsored two of their members to go around to small villages in the Philippines to assemble and hand out small hand-operated drinking water plants after a typhoon knocked out the ability to get clean water. After returning the Host Lions wanted to do a similar project closer to home and they talked to Jon Dufendach of CampWater Industries who in turn talked to the Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC). Although there are 35 villages without clean water, the recommendation was Mertarvik and the Host Lions started running.

The Host Lions presented it to the District 49B cabinet for adopting this as a major Lions Centennial project in March 2016. Next, District 49A was asked to help support and then both the District 49A and 49B Foundations (both 501(c)(3) organizations) tackled this as a joint project.

At the Multiple District 49 convention in April 2016 they started raising the $30,000 needed. Jon Dufendach volunteered his time and CCHRC provided two laborers, not charging us for it. Jon installed a hand pump (remember no electricity there yet), the filtration system, and built a wellhouse the last month of June 2016...this is the POWER of Lions.

We Serve!
Submitted by Ski Marcinkowski
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Legacy Level 1: Eyeglass Collection Box

What is a Legacy Project?  

A Legacy Project is a VISIBLE gift to your community.  

A Level 1 project raises your visibility in the community.  

It shines all year long where passerbys can see it and be reminded of just how important your club is to the community.  

Examples of a Legacy Level 1:

donate a park bench where needed

post new Lion signs around town

maintain a town fountain

or, in this case, build some awesome collection boxes for eyeglasses!

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The Soldotna Lions Club collects used eyeglasses to send to the Lions recycling center in North Pole, Alaska, The eyeglasses collection boxes located at the various locations throughout the community were deteriorated and needed to be replaced. The club's Vision Chair, Jewel Lee Martin, asked the club for approval to have a local high school students in a woodworking shop class, under the direction of their teacher, make new collection boxes out of wood. The club agreed to pay $300.00 to cover material cost and to engage the seven students and their teacher in the project. It took the class a month to make eight beautiful wood collection boxes.

Jewel Lee Martin, Soldotna Lions Vision Chair asked the students and teacher how the club could express thanks for the excellent work that they did with making the collection boxes and the students replied that they would love some pizza which Jewel Lee provided for them.   #Lions100  Protecting Our Environment

We Serve!
Submitted by 
1st VDG Jeannine Morse
Soldotna Lions Club

Legacy Level 1: Flower Pots Down Main Street Seward

What is a Legacy Project?  

A Legacy Project is a VISIBLE gift to your community.  

A Level 1 project raises your visibility in the community.  

It shines all year long where passerbys can see it and be reminded of just how important your club is to the community.  

Examples of a Legacy Level 1:

donate a park bench where needed

post new Lion signs around town

maintain a town fountain

or, in this case, maintain flower pots in the heart of town.  

Lions Dave and Cindy Beardsley

"Seward Resurrection Bay Lions maintain 12 of these flower pots year round.  We plant new flowers in the spring and do weekly clean out, as some people use these for ashtrays and trash bins.  This Legacy Project was started in May 2016."

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We Serve!
Submitted by PDG Cindy Beardsley
Seward Resurrection Bay Lions

2nd Quarter Centennial Report

Centennial service activity increased this quarter.  We still have five clubs who have completed all four categories with five other clubs right behind with three categories completed. 

Four Service Areas:

The following clubs have reported centennial service activities in MyLCI with five clubs having completed all four categories:

Engaging our Youth:

Sutton Racing

Wasilla

Palmer

Mountain View

Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions

Kodiak

Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mt.

Anchorage Mt. McKinley

Soldotna

Seward Resurrection Bay

Anchorage Benton Bay Athletics

Anchorage Muldoon

Spendard

Sharing the Vision:

Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mt

Soldotna

Wasilla

Anchorage Muldoon

Anchorage Mabuhay

Spenard

Mt. View

Girdwood Turnagain Arm

Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions

Anchorage Mt. McKinley

Kodiak

Chugiak

Kenai

Palmer

Seward Resurrection Bay

Relieving the Hungry:

Anchorage Mt. McKinley

Palmer

Wasilla

Anchorage Mabuhay

Anchorage Polynesian

Spenard

Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions

Copper River Basin

Kenai

Girdwood Turnagain Arm

Kodiak

Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mt.

Protecting Our Environment:

Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions

Anchorage

Seward Resurrection Bay

Anchorage 1st Hmong

Kodiak

Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mt.

Wasilla

Soldotna

Anchorage Mabuhay

Anchorage Polynesia

Spenard

Legacy Projects: 

A few clubs completed and reported new Legacy projects this quarter; we gained six Level 1 Legacy Projects.   Reminder:  Legacy projects are visible gifts to our community, not generally a gift given to one person, not an event, vision screening, or a financial contribution (unless your club name will go on a plaque to identify your contribution).   

Level 1:   17 completed projects      

Kodiak (7), Soldotna (1), Copper River Basin (2), Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions (1), Eagle River Sleeping

Lady Mt. (2), Sutton Racing (1), Anchorage Mt. McKinley (1), Chugiak (1), Seward Resurrection Bay (1)

Level 2:  4 completed projects

Seward Resurrection Bay, Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions, Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mt., Sutton Racing

Level 3:  1 completed project

Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mt.

 The Gold Rush of Lionism Blog

Continue to update the Centennial blog on a regular basis.  Lionsmd49ab.blogspot.com

People Served: 

So far this year 49A has served 78,996 people. 

  

We Serve!
Lion Nancy Norton

49A Centennial Coordinator

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