Is it too late to register for the world’s greatest show in Carlyle on the weekend of March 21^st thru 23^rd, better known as the District 1-CN Annual Convention? Of coarse not….just send in your registration today! Is it too late to purchase a District raffle ticket or shotgun raffle ticket, which proceeds will be used to support the administrative budget of District 1-CN? Of coarse not….just contact Cabinet Secretary Ted Turner today! Is it too late to donate an item for the “special auction” to be held during the convention banquet? Of coarse not….just contact Governor Hall today!

Is it too late to say “welcome aboard” to that new Lion or Lioness in your club and share your knowledge of Lions with him or her? Of coarse not….just do it today! Is it too late to ask that person in your community to be a Lion or Lioness and to be part of the world’s largest service organization? Of coarse not….just ask them today! Is it too late to reward a member of your club for all their hard work and dedication by purchasing a Foundation Fellow or Melvin Jones Fellow for them? Of coarse not….just honor them today! Is it too late to create a new project and do something different? Of coarse not…just plan it today! Is it too late to become part of VDG Jim Hauenschild’s Cabinet next year? Of coarse not….just get involved today!

I think you have figured out by now that my message was not just to draw support for our District convention, but it was also an attempt to make you aware that it is not too late to do the things that you have “put off” to another day. It is only too late when you don’t do it at all. How about doing it today!

Remember, “Good Things Happen to Good People” and that is why “WE SERVE”. Governor Jim Hall

Governor's Tid Bits

Governor Apologizes!

I am sad to say that I was not good enough to remember that there was an omission in the Foundation’s Candy Day Report (even though it was verbally brought to my attention during the last Cabinet meeting) and I failed to include the Hoyleton Lions in last month’s newsletter as one of the clubs who gave 100% of their Candy Day monies to the Foundation. For this error I am truly sorry and would like to formally apologize at this time to the Hoyleton Lions for my mistake. However, I am extremely happy that someone is actually reading my monthly newsletter.

Lioness/Lions Caramel Pop Day

The 2003 Carmel Pop Day will be Friday, May 2nd.  It can also be held on a different date with Foundation approval.  Like Candy Day, this is an excellent fund raising event that your club can participate in and like Candy Day, the Foundation gets 60% of your net while your club gets to retain the other 40% for your local vision and hearing impaired activities.  I would hope your club will take advantage of this excellent opportunity not only to support the growing needs of the Foundation, but also the needs of your own club.  Might I suggest that you get permission to collect in the town nearby you that does not have a Lions club.  You can even suggest to that town that in exchange you will try to bring one of our Foundation's programs (like the Hearing Bus) to their community.  Perhaps this will lead to the start of a new club.  Please contact the Foundation today! 

Attention Presidents and Secretaries:

Elections of officer’s for the year 2003-2004 and the submission of PU101’s must be completed by April 30^th. Originals should be sent to this Governor, with copies sent to Cabinet Secretary Turner and Vice District Governor Hauenschild. Secretaries, this is also a friendly reminder that you should be sending in your Monthly Membership Reports to International by the 10^th of the month. Thanks!

Additional District Convention Information:

Friday night’s “games of chance” will consist of the following:

Blackjack: Please arrive at the Convention Center by 6:45pm. $10 will buy you your “stake of phony money”. Play will start at 7:00 and conclude at 8:45. The top three players with the most money at the end of play will receive cash prizes based on the number of total participants.

Horse Race Game: This dice game will be played the entire night (7 to 9pm) and will consist of several races. Try your luck at this easy to learn, fast paced game of chance and perhaps walk away with “the purse” (that’s money in horse race talk!).

Japanese Slot Machines: These video games make a return appearance at the convention. A $5 donation lets you play. Every time your machine stops on a winner, you will receive a ticket. One lucky ticket will be drawn on Sunday for half the pot. So come to the convention Friday night, have some fun, and help out District 1-CN.

Saturday’s Antiquing Trip: participants will meet at the hotel lobby at 9:45am. We will car pool to Greenville which is about a 30 minute drive. Anyone wishing to drive should contact Convention Chairman Jim Beimfohr. You will return by 2:00pm.

Banners: Please plan on having someone from your club bring your club banner (you must provide your own stand) for display during the convention. These can be set up Friday evening or Saturday morning. Thanks!!

Foundation Trustee Nomination

PDG Jerry Clemens of the Mount Vernon Lions has officially been nominated for the position of District 1-CN Lions of Illinois Foundation trustee. Voting for this office will be Sunday morning of the District Convention. Please come and support your District candidate.

Kari Kinnett @ 1CN Convention

Kari Kinnett touched the hearts of many at last years state convention. This year our district gets a chance to see first hand a "Lions Payday." As this wonderful young lady will be at the District Convention to perform for us. Keep the tissues close at hand.

District Dinner Auction

District 1-CN will be holding a dinner auction on Saturday May 10, 2003 at the New Baden American Legion, starting at 6:30pm. Dinner will feature prime rib and fried chicken. Cost: $15 per person. I hope your club will plan on sending participants , as well as be able to donate an item. Your club will be receiving complete information in the mail at a later date.

Important Dates to Remember!

March 21-23 District 1-CN Convention in Carlyle

April ? Your club's Diabetes Awareness Day

May 2  Caramel Pop Day

May 2 District 1-CN Night at the Races at Fairmount Park

May 10 District 1-CN Dinner Auction in New Baden

May 16-18 State Convention in Springfield

June 5 St. Louis Cardinal’s Baseball Game

June 28 Camp Lions Open House in Dixon

June 30-July 4 International Convention in Denver

Governor's Travels

Mar 8 (am)  Smithton Community Blood Drive  

Mar 8 (pm)  New Baden Lions Dinner Auction  

Mar 15  District 1-L Convention, Springfield  

Mar 18  Salem Governor's Night  

Mar 21-23  District 1-CN Convention, Carlyle  

Mar 23 (pm)  District 1-G Convention, Carlinville  

Mar 26  Caseyville Governor's Night  

Mar 28  District 1-H Convention, Peoria  

Mar 29-30  District 1-K Convention, Bloomington  

April 4-6  District 1A and 1J Conventions  

April 11-13  District 1B Convention  

April 25-27  NACLF, Bloomingdale  

Wabash Region
ZC Elias Simpson 501 W. King Fairfield, IL 62837 618/842-2035,
ZC James Middlecalf 403 N. Fair Olney, IL. 62450 618/395-3637

TRUSTEE’S MESSAGE

All business’s need revenue to survive. Your Lions of Illinois Foundation is a big business.

Hope your plans for a successful Carmel Pop day are well advanced. This Foundation fund raiser is the least used. The caramel pop candy from Fannie May is far superior to the candy used for Candy Day. While this was originally a Lioness fund raiser, it is open to any Lions Club if a Lioness Club is not using it.

Sweepstakes is the second largest fund raiser of your Foundation. Sight and Sound Sweepstakes tickets are in your possession. Please try to attain the goal of your Trustee selling one book per member. If each member sold one book, the gross revenue would exceed $240,000.00. The biggest sales year to date is not close.

District Convention is fast approaching. PLEASE make plans to have your club fully represented at the convention. Your Governor has done a terrific job this year. Come to convention and show your appreciation of a job well done. Elections for Governor, Vice Governor and District Foundation Trustee will be held at the convention. Please attend and vote. Show your support for Governor James Hall , Vice Governor Jim Hauenschild, Vice Governor candidate Bill McKinney and trustee candidate Jerry Clemens.

Plan today to ATTEND the NACLF convention at Indian Lakes and State Convention in Springfield. Show the other Districts of Multiple District 1 which District is "The Garden Spot of Lions".

ATTENTION ALL CABINET MEMBERS

 Just a reminder:  ALL CABINET MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A WRITTEN REPORT for the cabinet meeting to be held on Sun, 23 Mar 03.  Oral reports will not be given.  Please forward a copy of your report to me to arrive NLT 17 Mar 03 so I may make required copies or bring 45 copies of your report to the meeting.  Thank You..................

Cab Sec Ted Turner,
305 N Third St.,
New Baden, IL 62265-1120 or email to: [email protected]

1 CN Convention Schedule

Friday, 21 Mar 03

4:00-6:30 PM Registration

5:30-7:00 PM PDG Dinner

6:00-12:00PM Hospitality Rooms

7:00-9:00PM Las Vegas Night

Saturday, 22 Mar 03

8:00-11:00AM Registration

8:00-12:00PM Golf on your own at Governor’s Run

(Time to be announced) Long Range Planning Committee Meeting

10:00-2:00pm Ladies/Guest trip to Greenville – Antiquing & Lunch

Noon Lunch on your own

2003 Seminar Topics:

1:00-1:45PM “Why Am I A Lion?”

• An open discussion led by Zone Chairman Jason Artman of District 1-K involving audience participation on the subject of “why I am a Lion”. Guest appearance by “Forrest Gump.”

2:00-2:45PM SVOSH (Student Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity)

• A presentation from the University of Missouri-St. Louis SVOSH. And will cover history of SVOSH, the upcoming and previous trips we have participated in, and some personal testimonials of patients that were served during specific missions.

3:00-3:45PM “The Rules of Roberts. How to Run a Lions Meeting”

By International Director Candidate Bud Wahl

• Are your meetings being run, as they should? Are you following correct procedures? Are you “out of order”? Can your meetings run smoother? Come to this seminar and find out.

3:45-4:00PM “World Wide Induction”

• Plan on having your new members installed by PID Battistone during “World Wide Induction Day”

4:00-5:30PM Hospitality

5:30 Banquet, Speaker, Entertainment, Special Auction & Shotgun Raffle

9:30-?? Hospitality

Sunday 23 Mar 03

8:00-9:00AM Registration

8:00-8:30AM Non-Denominational Church Service (Lion John Healy)

8:30-9:00AM Necrology Service (Lebanon Lions)

9:15-10:30AM Cabinet Meeting, Business Meeting, Nominations & Election

10:30-12:00PM Awards Brunch and District Raffle

Menu

12:30-1:00PM Governor Elect Receiving Line

“Did you hear? We’re going to the races!!"

Who: District 1-CN

What: Thoroughbred Racing

Where: Fairmount Park Race Track / 9301 Collinsville Rd, Collinsville, IL

When: Friday, May 2, 2003 (Gates open @ 6pm, races start at 7:30pm)

Cost: $20.00 per person

Price Includes: Parking, Admission, Official Racing Form and Steak ‘N Shrimp Buffet

Proceeds to support Lions District 1-CN

Name_______________________________________

Phone Number_______________________________

Adress__________________________City________________

State_______________Zip_____________

Number of Tickets ______ x $20.00 =________ Total Due: March 28, 2003

Please send this order form and a SASE to: Lions Jim and Dorothy Douglas 304 W. Washington Collinsville, IL 62234

Make Checks Payable To: District 1-CN

(For office use)

Date Paid________

Check No. ________

Ticket Nos. Issued____________

 Retention

Here are some ideas that may keep both old and new members interested and active in your club.

• Keep members involved and active; make sure they have one or several specific job responsibilities.
• Rotate members occasionally for different projects with specific job responsibilities. This encourages members to become more active because of their involvement.
• Give new members a responsible job immediately and have them work with a few older members of the club.
• Involve the Lions families through guest nights, etc.
• Have a Publicity committee and have them place regular articles about your club activities in the local newspapers.
• Establish an Awards committee to be responsible for ordering and presenting awards to deserving Lions. This is very important to give recognition.
• Give praise often to club members for a job well done, a good idea or an effort beyond the call of duty. A simple “thank you” in front of the entire club will go a long way in building members’ pride.
• The President needs to be prepared and organized for the meetings and start on time.
• Have speakers on a regular basis will keep the meetings interesting.
• Have an active Tail Twister to keep the meetings fun.
• Publish a monthly newsletter or bulletin and mail to all members to keep them informed.
• Make sure your standing committees have a reason to be active.
• Have combined meetings with another club.

Submitted by:

Lion Barbara Taylor, Dist. 1-CN Retention Chairman

ZONE MEETING

DISTRICT 1-CN/WABASH REGION/ZONES 1 & 2

Official call to attend the 3rd Zone Meeting for the 2002 – 2003 year.

• Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003

• Time: 6:00pm

• Hosted By: Grayville Lions

• Meeting Place: American Legion 209 E. Mill St. Grayville, IL 62844

This is a joint Zone 1 & 2 Meeting. Dinner will be served at 6:00 P.M. Please RSVP to your Zone Chairman so that we can have a head count for dinner.

Please keep in mind that Lions Clubs are a Service Organization and not a social club. As such clubs need to participate at the Zone, Region and District levels to stay up to date on all of the programs available to serve your community. Attendance by Club Presidents & Secretaries is requested to obtain this vital information. All other members are welcome. It would be great if Wabash Region would have 100% club attendance.

We would like to request each club continue to send us a copy of your monthly membership report and activities report. This will assist us in our Zone Report to the District Governor. Cabinet Secretary Ted Turner provided you with an extra copy of the Activities Report along with our address labels.

Please schedule your Governor’s Visit ASAP if you have not already done so. District 1-CN Convention is scheduled for March 21 – 23, have you registered? Don’t wait until the last minute. Mail it today.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Lion Elias Simpson
Wabash Zone 1 Chairman
501 West King
Fairfield, IL 62837
618/842-2035

Lion James MiddleCalf
Wabash Zone 2 Chairman
403 North Fair
Olney, IL 62450
618-395-3637

To Illinois Lions, Lioness, Leos:

Do you stop and pick up a penny, nickel etc when you see it on the sidewalk? Would you pick up an aluminum tab? Well our Lion of Illinois Foundation Alternate Revenue Sources Committee has approved a new pilot project: Aluminum tabs. Yes, pick up the alum tabs when you see them. Pull the tab off a pop, beer, fruit, vegetable and soup cans. Collect them in an empty peanut butter jar, sandwhich bag, pretzel jar or any type of container and give them to your District Environmental Chairman or Trustee. They will then give the tabs to our Lions of Illinois Foundation and they will be cashed in for dollars for our Low Vision program. PDG's Lion Mush and Carol (McCann) Kojima have volunteered to store these tabs and then recycle them for dollars for our Foundation. 113 pounds were turned in netting $39.55 for our Low Vision program.

Recycling our used eye glasses, hearing aids, keys and alum tabs, all things that are useful and that you no longer can use we can recyclr to help others and to help with the cost of our programs, to help others within our state and throughout the world. Lion Leon Martin, District 1-H Environmental Chairman has been pushing this program during his presentation to the Cabinet and clubs this Lions year.

Isn't that why we became Lions to Serve and help others who are unable to help themselves.

Have you seen our new Key Recycling brochure? Contact our Lions of Illinois Foundation, your District Ambassador or Trustee if you are interested in obtaining this new brochure.

Lion Carol McCann-Kojima PDG