ANNIVERSARIES

Oct 24 Jane & Everett Swanson

BIRTHDAYS

Oct 6  Jim Zack
Oct 13 Pat Koehler
Oct 18 Jim Weisser 

DATES TO REMEMBER

Oct 17-18   Candy Days
Oct 20   Lion's Meeting  6:30PM  Concordia Church
Oct 20 Lion's  Board Meeting    8PM Concordia Church
Oct 30 Red Cross Blood Drive  12-6PM  Methodist Annex
Nov 3 Lion's Meeting   6:30PM Concordia Church
Nov 3 Lion's Board Meeting 8PM Concordia Church
Nov 4 Election Day   VOTE!!!! 

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE

It was reported that the last blood Drive held in Sept collected 34 pints of
blood. Our next Blood Drive will be held Oct 30.You can sign up to help at
our next meeting or call Pat Yackley at 944-3270. It was reported that the last blood drive held in Sept collected 34 pints of blood. Our next Blood Drive will be held Oct  30. You can sign up to help at our next meeting or call Pat Yackley at 944-3270.

CANDY DAY

Please note the dates for  our annual Candy Days  Collection are Oct 17 & 18. This is an important project for all Illinois Lion's Clubs and the Illinois Foundation. Since we won't have a meeting before that weekend, you will be getting a call from the committee to set a time for you to help. We need to have a good response for workers.

DATE CHANGE

Our October meeting will be on the 3rd Monday, Oct 20, as usual: and starting in November, our regular meetings will be held the first Monday, Nov 3, at Concordia church Please note this change on your calendar.

SICK NEWS

Carolyn Griffin is doing better and progressing every day. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. If anyone has news  of a member that is ill or has had surgery, please notify your editor.

DID YOU KNOW

Lions International has 1.3 millions members, in 45,000 Clubs, in 751 districts, in 202 countries.You can be proud to be a part of this International
Organization.

President's Corner

Hi all. Once again I am running  behind on words for the Newsletter, so when it comes out late, you know who to blame. I'd like to say thanks to all the people who helped out on our sale with Vern Mariman: Pat Koehler, Sandy Griffin, Keith Himmelman. Pete Chodera, and Roger Wildermuth.It was a small auction, but the people there seemed to be hungary and thirsty, so we may have done fairly well.

We may have a problem with Candy Days this month. Apparently another organization here in Geneseo has cornered the first 2 weekends for their donation collection efforts, so we may have to go to the third weekend of October. It really doesn't seem practical to do our thing at the same time as the other organization is out collecting, just because people don't like to be hit up multiple times on the same day and in a lot of cases they just say "I gave at _______ just an hour ago" More to follow.

Other than that, I think everyone has heard that we plan to go to the first Monday of every Month as our meeting date with a separate Board Meeting, to which everyone is invited, to be held immediately after. We may have some cleanup details to deal with regarding this change, but as things stand right now, that is the plan.

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