Moorhead Lions
September 2010 Regular Meeting
Sept 28 5:30 pm
SpeakEasy Moorhead MN
Members Present:
Brent
Ann
Sheila
Darla
Brenda
Sue
Dawn
Anna
Mike G
Pam
Program:
Ken Fredette from Lakes and Prairies Community Partnership
Serving Clay and Wilkin Counties
They offer 50-60 programs and services. Ever-changing.
They have three goals essentially
1. Eliminate Poverty
2. Empower Families
3. Engage communities
Major themes/trends within the community they are dealing with now
Housing, homelessness, childcare
A few programs they are offering now include, Rainbow Bridge, work camp in which 100 kids fix homes in communities such as Hawley, Breckenridge, Georgetown. Also, handle the childcare resource and referral.
How can our club support Lakes and Prairies?
We can volunteer for the group workforce, Project Homeless Connect, and the Tax Site. Promote, volunteer etc.
Courtney and Andy presented on Homeless and Hungry, a program through their church. They have many events through the year to support this program. A motion was made to cover the cost of what was needed for them to reach their monetary goal individually.
Homeless and Hungry is Oct 16-17th this year. Please contact Sheila if interested in participating.
Meeting
Secretary’s report
Darla read an abbreviated version of the August meeting minutes.
Dawn motioned to accept, seconded by Sue
Secretary’s report was approved
Treasurer’s report
Sue motioned to accept, Dawn seconded
Treasurer’s report passed
Old Business
Riverarts- yes we want to continue to do this.
Potato Days- keep the location. Better sound system for the parade, new banner, having the candy walkers walk further back, and having better sucker holders were issues of concern that were brought to attention. It helped to have Sharon doing the tickets.
Pancake Feed
We need to get our name out more. More promotion. May ask to change day if possible. More promotion through Greater Moorhead Days.
Sue mentioned that the Friends of the Wetlands in Detroit Lakes is willing to buy our leftovers next year from the feed.
Other ideas for summer
Facepainting at the Cobber Feed, corporate parties
Adopt a Highway
Need to get a weekend picked out. Kyle will email us all with possible weekends.
Shirts- Everyone felt the design was good. We can now order 1 @ a time as well.
Haiti- Cots and Cribs. Second order of bigger ones for adults and older kids were ordered.
Brent motioned to approve covering the difference, Pam seconded.
New Business
October meeting we will do our annual membership night. Everyone bring a friend! Oct 26
Bowling Tournament has been scheduled for March 6. We need to start getting door prizes together.
Governor’s Night- We decided to invite Moorhead Midday and plan the evening for 4th Tuesday in May.
Glasses- Brenda received another request for glasses. Going with what we have done in the past, we donate the money and go through Walmart.
Brenda motioned to approve, Dawn seconded.
Meeting Adjourned Next meeting October 26th 2010. Bring a guest! See you then!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
April 2010 Meeting Minutes
April Meeting Minutes summarized- Full minutes were sent to each member.
Moorhead Lions
Regular Monthly meeting
April 27 2010
5:30pm
Bennigan’s Moorhead MN
Members present:
Brent
Sherrie
Mike G
Sue
Brenda
Darla
Dawn
Sharon
Steve
Ann
Sandy
Program:
Our speaker cancelled- no program this month
Meeting:
Secretary’s report: Darla read the meeting minutes from the March 2010 meeting.
Treasurer’s report: No report
Dues are still due.
Dues are:
30$ for a single, twice a year. So 60$ per year
45$ per couple, twice a year. 90$ per year
Brent motioned to accept, Sandy seconded.
Old business:
Scootin’ to the next Level: Was a success. Darla and Sandy made it to see Lion Mark Schmidt of the Perham Lions take off Thurs April 22nd for Minneapolis.
Lions Ladies Night- was Fri April 23rd. Fun was had by all.
We welcomed Ann as an official member! Congrats!
New Business:
Riverarts is June 8 July 13 and August 10 this summer. We discussed improving on what we already do as well as adding some variety and other services.
Potato Days dates – Aug 27, 28 125$ for 10x20 booth. It was decided that we should do this again this summer as well as participate in the parade.
Discussion
Motion made to purchase fringe for trailer.
Dawn motioned to accept/Sandy seconded.
Motion accepted.
Fly in Pancake Feed- Sept 2010. Never too soon to start thinking about this. Decided we should do this again and hype it up even more this year.
Lions All Star Baseball tournament- Chaska MN end of June. Like last year, we decided to send the tickets back paid for since it was highly unlikely any of us would be able to attend
Discussed having an eyeglasses box around town. Decided against at this time.
Dawn motioned to adjourn/ Brent seconded.
Meeting Adjourned!
See everyone in May!
Moorhead Lions
Regular Monthly meeting
April 27 2010
5:30pm
Bennigan’s Moorhead MN
Members present:
Brent
Sherrie
Mike G
Sue
Brenda
Darla
Dawn
Sharon
Steve
Ann
Sandy
Program:
Our speaker cancelled- no program this month
Meeting:
Secretary’s report: Darla read the meeting minutes from the March 2010 meeting.
Treasurer’s report: No report
Dues are still due.
Dues are:
30$ for a single, twice a year. So 60$ per year
45$ per couple, twice a year. 90$ per year
Brent motioned to accept, Sandy seconded.
Old business:
Scootin’ to the next Level: Was a success. Darla and Sandy made it to see Lion Mark Schmidt of the Perham Lions take off Thurs April 22nd for Minneapolis.
Lions Ladies Night- was Fri April 23rd. Fun was had by all.
We welcomed Ann as an official member! Congrats!
New Business:
Riverarts is June 8 July 13 and August 10 this summer. We discussed improving on what we already do as well as adding some variety and other services.
Potato Days dates – Aug 27, 28 125$ for 10x20 booth. It was decided that we should do this again this summer as well as participate in the parade.
Discussion
Motion made to purchase fringe for trailer.
Dawn motioned to accept/Sandy seconded.
Motion accepted.
Fly in Pancake Feed- Sept 2010. Never too soon to start thinking about this. Decided we should do this again and hype it up even more this year.
Lions All Star Baseball tournament- Chaska MN end of June. Like last year, we decided to send the tickets back paid for since it was highly unlikely any of us would be able to attend
Discussed having an eyeglasses box around town. Decided against at this time.
Dawn motioned to adjourn/ Brent seconded.
Meeting Adjourned!
See everyone in May!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
March 2010 Monthly Meeting Minutes
Summarized meeting minutes posted here. All members receive the more detailed minutes in their private emails
Moorhead Lions
Regular Monthly meeting
March 22 2010
5:30pm
Bennigan’s Moorhead MN
Members present:
Brent
Sherrie
Sue
Brenda
Darla
Dawn
Sharon
Program:
Terry Haus, Director of Admissions at Oak Grove:
Main discussion points:
-Service opportunities with our club and Oak Grove
-Success of Fill the Dome
-“Can-struction”
-Mission trips, such as the 10th Grade trip to Texas this year
-Flood fight 2009 and 2010.
We are supposed to call him if we have ideas about partnering with Oak Grove students on service ventures, or giving presentations etc.
Thanks to Dawn for setting this up!
Meeting:
Secretary’s report: Darla read the meeting minutes from the Feb 2010 meeting.
Treasurer’s report: Brent read the report since Vanessa was ill.
Reported funds from Admin and Fundraising accounts
Dues are still due.
Dawn motioned to accept, Sherrie seconded.
Old business:
Governor’s night: Was March 9. Brent, Sherrie, Pam, Brenda, and Darla attended. We listened to DG Jeanine Windels speak. It was a very good time.
Bowling Tournament:
Rousing success! Congrats everyone!
We spent the majority of this time discussing what we could do better and what went well that day.
Main points from this discussion:
- Scootin’ to the next level:
Darla has been in contact with Lion Steve from the Perham Lions in order to set things up.
Possible start date for Lion Mark to leave from Moorhead
April 21. Darla is going to get a firm date on that.
They are very excited about this.
Things that were suggested that we could do:
-Alert media
-get fire trucks/police to make noise with their sirens
-have a few members ride with Lion Mark a mile or two.
Also talked about putting up a challenge to those clubs in our district near or around highway 10.
Voted on a donation
More details about this to come obviously! Keep up to date with your email.
Brent motioned to accept/ Sharon seconded.
New Business:
Time to elect officers again. It was decided that we should keep with a two year term. There was no discussion. Everyone thought this was great.
Brent motioned to accept/ Sharon seconded.
Riverarts, Potato Days, Fly-Pancake fundraiser-never too early to start thinking about. Darla should have the Riverarts form soon.
Instead of adding more events to our plate, it was suggested by Sharon that we improve on what we do. Fair hair was a suggestion. Bigger signs, more flash to our booths especially for Potato Days.
Dawn motioned to adjourn meeting, Sharon seconded.
Moorhead Lions
Regular Monthly meeting
March 22 2010
5:30pm
Bennigan’s Moorhead MN
Members present:
Brent
Sherrie
Sue
Brenda
Darla
Dawn
Sharon
Program:
Terry Haus, Director of Admissions at Oak Grove:
Main discussion points:
-Service opportunities with our club and Oak Grove
-Success of Fill the Dome
-“Can-struction”
-Mission trips, such as the 10th Grade trip to Texas this year
-Flood fight 2009 and 2010.
We are supposed to call him if we have ideas about partnering with Oak Grove students on service ventures, or giving presentations etc.
Thanks to Dawn for setting this up!
Meeting:
Secretary’s report: Darla read the meeting minutes from the Feb 2010 meeting.
Treasurer’s report: Brent read the report since Vanessa was ill.
Reported funds from Admin and Fundraising accounts
Dues are still due.
Dawn motioned to accept, Sherrie seconded.
Old business:
Governor’s night: Was March 9. Brent, Sherrie, Pam, Brenda, and Darla attended. We listened to DG Jeanine Windels speak. It was a very good time.
Bowling Tournament:
Rousing success! Congrats everyone!
We spent the majority of this time discussing what we could do better and what went well that day.
Main points from this discussion:
- Scootin’ to the next level:
Darla has been in contact with Lion Steve from the Perham Lions in order to set things up.
Possible start date for Lion Mark to leave from Moorhead
April 21. Darla is going to get a firm date on that.
They are very excited about this.
Things that were suggested that we could do:
-Alert media
-get fire trucks/police to make noise with their sirens
-have a few members ride with Lion Mark a mile or two.
Also talked about putting up a challenge to those clubs in our district near or around highway 10.
Voted on a donation
More details about this to come obviously! Keep up to date with your email.
Brent motioned to accept/ Sharon seconded.
New Business:
Time to elect officers again. It was decided that we should keep with a two year term. There was no discussion. Everyone thought this was great.
Brent motioned to accept/ Sharon seconded.
Riverarts, Potato Days, Fly-Pancake fundraiser-never too early to start thinking about. Darla should have the Riverarts form soon.
Instead of adding more events to our plate, it was suggested by Sharon that we improve on what we do. Fair hair was a suggestion. Bigger signs, more flash to our booths especially for Potato Days.
Dawn motioned to adjourn meeting, Sharon seconded.
Monday, March 22, 2010
March meeting this Tuesday
We have our regularly scheduled meeting tomorrow night! Lots of important things to discuss so hope you all can make it!
Happy Spring!
Happy Spring!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Rousing Success!
We had our second annual Lions bowling tournament on Sat March 6. Congratulations to everyone who participated in this, helped, made donations, anything! It was a fantastic, fun day.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Feb 2010 Meeting Minutes
Meeting minutes summarized. Full meeting minutes with all discussion points have been sent out to members on their private emails.
Moorhead Lions
Regular monthly meeting
February 23, 2010
5:30pm
Moorhead Bennigan’s
Members Present:
Sharon
Dawn
Sandy
Darla
Brenda
Sue
Ann
Vanessa
Brent
Sherrie
Pam
Mike
-Secretary’s Report- Darla read the Jan 2010 minutes
-Treasurer’s Report- There is no report. Dues are due right now for members.
Old Business:
-Parade of checks or Parade of Green-
-Maria Alfaro-
-Governor’s Night-Tues Mar 9. District Gov Jeanine Windels will be in Moorhead. Hosted by Moorhead Midday Central. Let Brenda know if you can attend. Cost will approx. be about 15$. –
-Mark Schmidt of the Perham Lions is going to ride a scooter from Moorhead to Minneapolis end of April and arrive in Minneapolis on the night of the Make a Wish ball. We think it would be fun to meet him at the city limits sign of Moorhead and get a picture with him. Will also send a donation which needs to be in by Mar 31. Darla is going to email the Perham Lions to see what we could do, what is going on etc. More info to come as well as a solid date as to when this is going to happen.
-Bowling Tournament. We are getting very close to our second annual bowling tournament at Sunset Lanes in Moorhead. Discussed bowling tournament.
New Business:
-New members:
We welcomed Mike and Pam Gruchalla officially into our club. We are SO happy to have them!
-Mid-Winter Convention 2011, Sandy is selling ads to local businesses and Lions clubs for a spot into the MWC booklet. She is also designing the pin for the event. The MWC 2011 has a ‘50’s theme. We all should plan to attend this even next winter. As it gets closer there will be more info.
-Women’s stag in Barnesville is Fri April 23. If interested let Brenda know by Friday. 20$ to attend. We had a BLAST last year!
-Dilworth Loco Ladies are having a pancake breakfast, Sat Mar 13. Brenda is going to send out more info about this.
Sandy motioned to adjourn, Sherrie seconded
Moorhead Lions
Regular monthly meeting
February 23, 2010
5:30pm
Moorhead Bennigan’s
Members Present:
Sharon
Dawn
Sandy
Darla
Brenda
Sue
Ann
Vanessa
Brent
Sherrie
Pam
Mike
-Secretary’s Report- Darla read the Jan 2010 minutes
-Treasurer’s Report- There is no report. Dues are due right now for members.
Old Business:
-Parade of checks or Parade of Green-
-Maria Alfaro-
-Governor’s Night-Tues Mar 9. District Gov Jeanine Windels will be in Moorhead. Hosted by Moorhead Midday Central. Let Brenda know if you can attend. Cost will approx. be about 15$. –
-Mark Schmidt of the Perham Lions is going to ride a scooter from Moorhead to Minneapolis end of April and arrive in Minneapolis on the night of the Make a Wish ball. We think it would be fun to meet him at the city limits sign of Moorhead and get a picture with him. Will also send a donation which needs to be in by Mar 31. Darla is going to email the Perham Lions to see what we could do, what is going on etc. More info to come as well as a solid date as to when this is going to happen.
-Bowling Tournament. We are getting very close to our second annual bowling tournament at Sunset Lanes in Moorhead. Discussed bowling tournament.
New Business:
-New members:
We welcomed Mike and Pam Gruchalla officially into our club. We are SO happy to have them!
-Mid-Winter Convention 2011, Sandy is selling ads to local businesses and Lions clubs for a spot into the MWC booklet. She is also designing the pin for the event. The MWC 2011 has a ‘50’s theme. We all should plan to attend this even next winter. As it gets closer there will be more info.
-Women’s stag in Barnesville is Fri April 23. If interested let Brenda know by Friday. 20$ to attend. We had a BLAST last year!
-Dilworth Loco Ladies are having a pancake breakfast, Sat Mar 13. Brenda is going to send out more info about this.
Sandy motioned to adjourn, Sherrie seconded
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Feb 2010 Meeting
We have our regular monthly meeting next week. Tues Feb 23rd @ 5:30pm at Moorhead Bennigan's. Last regular meeting before the big bowling tournament! Be there or be square :)
Friday, January 29, 2010
Jan 2010 Meeting Minutes
Moorhead Lions
January 2010 Regular Meeting
Jan 26, 2010
5:30pm
Bennigan’s
Moorhead MN
Members Present:
Sherrie
Dawn
Steve
Sandy
Sharon
Brenda
Darla
Mike
Pam
Ann
-Sherrie updated us on Brent and Vanessa. Congrats!
We decided to skip the Treasurer’s report and the secretary report this meeting.
Old Business:
-Mid-winter Convention 2011- we are helping host the convention here next year in Moorhead. Sandy and Brenda are attending the meetings hosted by the Moorhead Midday Central at the Courtyard by Marriott. The next meeting is Monday Feb 1 at 7pm. If interested in attending email Brenda.
-Mid-winter Convention 2010 is this weekend in Grand Forks. If interested in attending, email Brenda or Darla before this weekend.
- Our annual bowling tournament is March 6. We will need to be there between 11-11:30 to begin set-up. 1:30 when the first shift would start. We have 12 lanes reserved this year. As last year, we will have the 50/50 drawing, sucker sales, and silent auction. We discussed having a drawing at the very end for a gift certificate to the pro shop. Sandy suggested offering a chance for two or three prizes to be given away.
At this point we need donations donations donations! When you receive a donation please email everyone so we know what was received!
New Business:
-We have had a number of requests for glasses in the past few months. We decided it would be best to partner with Wal-mart and direct requests to Wal-mart and we would offer to pay 100$ towards new glasses.
Sharon motioned to accept, Dawn seconded.
Motion passed.
-Governor’s Night is March 9th. District Governor Jeanine Windels will be in town to visit both Moorhead clubs. It will be at the Courtyard at Marriot, hosted by the Moorhead Midday Central. There will be a meal that will cost around 10-15$. If interested in attending please contact Brenda.
-Mark Schmidt of the Perham Lions is riding a scooter, non-motorized, from Moorhead-Minneapolis, in order to raise funds for Taylor, a teen from Monticello who is battling burns on 80% of her body. Her wish is to go to Paris. He will start in late-April and arrive Sat May 1 in Minneapolis at the Make-a-wish ball. Along the way, he is going to be stopping to meet Lions at city limit signs for photo opps. Brenda suggested that once our bowling tournament is over we should decide on an amount to donate. We need to donate by March 31.
-Brenda informed us of a possible partnering with MSUM football players.
Matt Oachs, who is in charge of the alumni football team at MSUM, mentioned to her that MSUM football players are expected to become involved with their community and various volunteer projects. A partnering with them would provide us with some extra man-power at our events, possibly more participation in events at MSUM, etc. Darla suggested that this would be good as it would possibly encourage these students to join a Lions organization in the future whether it be our Lion club while in college or elsewhere after college.
-Sherrie handed out some packets to the group about the need for Veteran volunteers in Clay County. One does not need to be a veteran to be a veteran volunteer. They are currently experiencing a volunteer shortage and one afternoon a month would help out greatly if interested, contact Sherrie. Darla also has a few packets left over from the meeting. Also here is the contact information if you would like to contact them directly.
Tom Figliuzzi
Veterans Service Officer
Clay County
218-299-5041. there will be an application to fill out and a background check.
Motion to adjourn was made by Ann and seconded by Sharon
Meeting adjourned.
NEXT MEETING TUES Feb 23. 5:30pm Moorhead Bennigan’s See you all there!
January 2010 Regular Meeting
Jan 26, 2010
5:30pm
Bennigan’s
Moorhead MN
Members Present:
Sherrie
Dawn
Steve
Sandy
Sharon
Brenda
Darla
Mike
Pam
Ann
-Sherrie updated us on Brent and Vanessa. Congrats!
We decided to skip the Treasurer’s report and the secretary report this meeting.
Old Business:
-Mid-winter Convention 2011- we are helping host the convention here next year in Moorhead. Sandy and Brenda are attending the meetings hosted by the Moorhead Midday Central at the Courtyard by Marriott. The next meeting is Monday Feb 1 at 7pm. If interested in attending email Brenda.
-Mid-winter Convention 2010 is this weekend in Grand Forks. If interested in attending, email Brenda or Darla before this weekend.
- Our annual bowling tournament is March 6. We will need to be there between 11-11:30 to begin set-up. 1:30 when the first shift would start. We have 12 lanes reserved this year. As last year, we will have the 50/50 drawing, sucker sales, and silent auction. We discussed having a drawing at the very end for a gift certificate to the pro shop. Sandy suggested offering a chance for two or three prizes to be given away.
At this point we need donations donations donations! When you receive a donation please email everyone so we know what was received!
New Business:
-We have had a number of requests for glasses in the past few months. We decided it would be best to partner with Wal-mart and direct requests to Wal-mart and we would offer to pay 100$ towards new glasses.
Sharon motioned to accept, Dawn seconded.
Motion passed.
-Governor’s Night is March 9th. District Governor Jeanine Windels will be in town to visit both Moorhead clubs. It will be at the Courtyard at Marriot, hosted by the Moorhead Midday Central. There will be a meal that will cost around 10-15$. If interested in attending please contact Brenda.
-Mark Schmidt of the Perham Lions is riding a scooter, non-motorized, from Moorhead-Minneapolis, in order to raise funds for Taylor, a teen from Monticello who is battling burns on 80% of her body. Her wish is to go to Paris. He will start in late-April and arrive Sat May 1 in Minneapolis at the Make-a-wish ball. Along the way, he is going to be stopping to meet Lions at city limit signs for photo opps. Brenda suggested that once our bowling tournament is over we should decide on an amount to donate. We need to donate by March 31.
-Brenda informed us of a possible partnering with MSUM football players.
Matt Oachs, who is in charge of the alumni football team at MSUM, mentioned to her that MSUM football players are expected to become involved with their community and various volunteer projects. A partnering with them would provide us with some extra man-power at our events, possibly more participation in events at MSUM, etc. Darla suggested that this would be good as it would possibly encourage these students to join a Lions organization in the future whether it be our Lion club while in college or elsewhere after college.
-Sherrie handed out some packets to the group about the need for Veteran volunteers in Clay County. One does not need to be a veteran to be a veteran volunteer. They are currently experiencing a volunteer shortage and one afternoon a month would help out greatly if interested, contact Sherrie. Darla also has a few packets left over from the meeting. Also here is the contact information if you would like to contact them directly.
Tom Figliuzzi
Veterans Service Officer
Clay County
218-299-5041. there will be an application to fill out and a background check.
Motion to adjourn was made by Ann and seconded by Sharon
Meeting adjourned.
NEXT MEETING TUES Feb 23. 5:30pm Moorhead Bennigan’s See you all there!
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