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June 24, 2010
Bellingham Gold & Country Club
Contact: Don Wight

Biff Dickerson Wins 1000 GRAND at Lions Club Golf Toruney

The Bellingham Central Lions Annual Charity Golf Tour- nament featured an unusual contest and prize through the auspices of the Bellingham Servepro franchise. The prize: a 1000 GRAND! The contest: simple. You select a card with five topics on it; then you pick your topic. You are asked one question. If you get it right, the 1000 GRAND is yours. Let's watch Biff, who - truth to tell - was just a little suspicious of such a good deal. Biff picks a card ... and nothing bad happens.

		Choose your topic, Biff !

Answer!

		You WIN !

Gee ... And I thought I was the TAIL TWISTER ...

Mayor Pike

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January 18, 2010
Contact: Don Wight
MAYOR PIKE DECLARES MARCH 26TH "LIONS DAY" IN BELLINGHAM, WA

Lion's Giving Tree

December 22, 2009
Contact: Don Wight
LIONS RAISE FUNDS FOR THE ASSISTANCE LEAGUE AT THEIR CHRISTMAS DINNER

During it's Christmas Party on December 10th, the Bellingham Central Lions Club raised a total of $500 for the Assistance League of Bellingham, WA. These funds were raised through cash donations by those attending the party and through the spontaneous auction of our Christmas Tree. When the tree was suddenly made available, the club's dynamic doyen, Bonnie Goss, immediately donned the persona of a provocative auctioneer and raised several hundred dollars.

On December 22, Don Wight, President of the Bellingham Central Lions Club, went to AL's thrift store on Cornwall Avenue to present the Club's check to Kathy Robbins, the President of AL's Bellingham Chapter. Like the Lions, AL returns all funds raised by the public back to needy people in the community. It has five programs here in Bellilngham:
   1) Gift cards for shut-ins without families
   2) Summer scholarships for students in grades six to eleven
   3) Clothing and other supplies for hospital patients
   4) Clothing for elementary schoolchildren in need
   5) Supplies for women at Womencare Shelter

Read the Bellingham Harold article about the Assistance League.

Assistance League Poster

AL's Kathy Robbins accepts check from Lion Don Wight

In class at school

ARCO presentation

April 30, 2009
Contact: Ken Henderson, O.D.

LIONS CLUBS JOIN TOGETHER TO SUPPORT EL SALVADOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
Over the past three years, Lions Clubs in MD19 have cooperated with Lions Clubs in El Salvador (District D-2) to initiate a variety of cooperative programs in the areas of basic health, eyesight and hearing. One of these is a budding partnership with El Salvador's National School for the Deaf (Escuela Nacional de Sordera), a sprawling but under-capitalized institution that brings students in from the countryside to board at the school, and sends teachers out to identify, instruct and recruit deaf children. PeachHealth Missions, the Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight and Hearing, and faculty from the University of Washington also partner with the Lions to contribute to this project.

Earlier phases of the School-for-the-Deaf project have provided hearing aids, an audiometer to measure hearing impairment accurately, a Hy-Pro Box to calibrate hearing aids, and a variety of school supplies. This April, on behalf of the Lions of District 19-H, Milton Garcia, the Lion coordinator of the project, DG Carlos Guerra and VDG Roberto Ortega, presented an ARCO teaching kit to the School's Director, Dr. Rapalo (pictured right). This kit will be used for the basic instruction of young children at the school. Such teaching aids are not inexpensive; this one cost $637.

The next item on the project list is a van fitted out to test hearing and eyesight that can travel to rural communities to test young children. If you have a surplus van parked in your garage, or eye/ear portable diagnostic equipment tucked away in your closet, shoot an email Dr. Ken's way. Play your cards right and he'll take you sailing.