January 2012 Meeting Minutes

January 2012

Moorhead Lions Meeting Minutes

Members Present:
Missie
Dawn
Brenda
Sue
Darla
Sharon
Mike G
Pam
Kyle
Sheila
Mary
Randy
Speaker:
Habitat for Humanity:
We had a speaker from Habitat for Humanity. Habitat has over 150 families per year that attend the interest meetings. They average around 5 home builds per year. She visited several area clubs. Kevin Spaulding of the Dilworth Lions has challenged the area clubs to contribute.
Secretary’s report:
Sandy a report from the Dec meeting. Dawn motioned to approve, Missie seconded.
Sec. report approved as read
Treasurer’s report:
Brenda gave the report
Dues are due. Please pay your dues if you need to. There are 7 dues that are outstanding.
Singles- 70 per year.
Couples- 100 per year.
You can also pay half now and the half later
Dawn motioned to approve/ Missie seconded.
Treasurer’s report approved as read
Old Business:
-Sharon gave the report regarding the District Governor’s meeting held on Dec 19 in conjunction with the Midday Central Lions.
-Mid- Winter Convention 2012 is Feb 3-5 in Grand Forks at the Alerus Center/ Canad Inns.


Brenda motioned that to approve the above Parade of Green donations, Sharon seconded.
Motion approved.

-Bowling Tournament- March 3rd at Sunset Lanes
11am Set up-
1pm start time
Posters were not ready as of yet but Sue is going to send out some old ones in the next few days that we can tweak possibly for those that need them to distribute at events this week. Sandy plans to have the poster ready in the next few days as well. We can have 24 teams this year
We should have team registrations sent to

PO Box 101 or email – moorheadlions@gmail.com
100$ team of four.
As in prior years, we plan to have :
Door prizes
50/50
Raffle (casino)
“White Elephant” table.

New Business:
-Per the speaker, we are going to meet the challenge set for us by the Dilworth Club and donate x amount of dollars to Habitat for Humanity. Pam is going to check on February 14th to see if the Dakota Med Foundation can match that donation.
Pam motioned to approve the donation/ Sandy seconded
Motion approved.

-We have a Zone meeting this Thurs Jan 26th. 6:30pm Social hour, 7pm dinner. Cost is 8.00 @ the Dilworth Community Center.
There will be a speaker from Churches United and LeaderDog.
Please let Sue or Brenda know if you plan to attend.

-Sandy let us know about Project Night Light which provides a comfort bag for children who have been abused or neglected. Sandy will see about having her come and speak at one of our meetings.

Brenda moved to adjourn the meeting, Missie seconded

Our next meeting will be Tues Feb 21st at 6pm at the Moorhead VFW instead of the fourth Tues. See you then!