© Elk Grove Lions Club

Volume 72

Issue # 9

March 2022

We Serve

President John Muegge

President’s Message

Join Us

Calendar

Activities

Announcements

Birthdays/Anniversaries

Cooks List

Board Minutes

Contact Info

District Info

President’s Message

President John Muegge’s Message:

February has a month of returning to a bit of normalcy. We are back in the Albiani Recreation Center for our dinner meetings. We decided that we would switch to having Board Meetings by Zoom. This makes the meetings much easier than meeting in person and reduces our obligations to the Consumnes Service District for use of the Albiani Center.

For February events, we started with our District Meeting on February 5^th at Pioneer High School in the Woodlands Dos Rios Region.

Our Community Pancake Breakfast was held on the 12th of February. The Community Breakfasts are held monthly on the second Saturday of the month at the Albiani Recreation Center from 8 am to 10 am. The breakfast includes all you can eat pancakes. You also get scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, fruit & coffee. Don’t be surprised if we have specialty pancakes sometimes during the year. For example, we may be serving pumpkin spice pancakes or blueberry pancakes. Of course, there will always be regular pancakes and syrup.

We hosted the Club Student Speaker Contest on the 14th of February. Two students made presentations for the contest and the winner will be going on to the Zone Speaker Contest to be held on March 2^nd at the Albiani Center. Congratulations to our winner, Carmen Ma from Pleasant Grove High School, and best wishes at the next level of the contest. Also, thanks to Eleanor Hopper for competing in our contest.

Finally, there has finally been a crab feed event at the SES Conference Hall.

The Theta Tau Theta Crab Feed came back for 2022 The event was held on Saturday, February 26th. Tickets were $70 per person, The event lasted from 5:30 to 11:00 PM @ S.E.S Hall – Elk Grove. Included: Dinner, Open Bar & Dancing, Silent Auction & Amazing Raffle, All the Crab you could eat until gone!

Open Bar was provided with Lazy Dog Special Brew Beers. The Lazy Dog Huckleberry Haze IPA was a big hit. The Elk Grove Lions Club supported this event by providing bartending services.

The Elk Grove Lions Club also donated $1000 to support the Lions Wilderness Camp for Deaf Children Foundation. https://lionswildcamp.org/schedule/

The Elk Grove Lions Club also purchased 25 $5.00 raffle tickets to support the Lions Project for Canine Companions. The Elk Grove Lions Club will use the tickets as event prizes, door prizes, or dinner meeting raffles. The raffle will be held in September with a prize of $2000 to the winner.

The Elk Grove Lions Club has also supported the community by turning in 2225 pairs of glasses, 5 phones and 10 hearing aids over the past few months to be refurbished and given to people in need.

Note: The Elk Grove Lions Club holds dinner meetings on the second and fourth Mondays of the month at the Albiani Recreation Center at 6:00 pm to approximately 7:30 pm. Our Board Meetings are at 6 pm on the third Monday of the month by Zoom. We encourage anybody to attend a meeting to see what we do for the community.

Don’t forget, the Elk Grove Lions Club is having a Drive Thru Tri-Tip Dinner event on March 30^th. Save yourself the trouble of cooking and enjoy a great tri-tip dinner. https://elkgrovelionsfoundation.org/

Join Us

Elk Grove Lions Club

P.O. Box 465

Elk Grove, CA. 95759

General Meeting: 6:00PM – 2nd Monday of the month
Location: Albiani Recreation Center

Board Meetings: 3rd Monday @ 6:00PM

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

General Meeting: 6:00PM – 4th Monday of the month (except Nov & Dec)
Location: Albiani Recreation Center

Application for Membership

Lions are in 200 countries and geographic areas. We have 45,000 clubs with over 1.3 million members world wide. We have a dynamic history. We are best known for fighting blindness — it’s part of our history as well as our work today. But we also volunteer for many different kinds of projects including disaster relief — across many borders. We serve youth. Our community projects often support local children and schools with new programs and resources. Internationally, we offer many programs.

- We hope you will consider joining our club.
- To become a Lion, you must be of good moral character and good reputation in our community.
- Membership is by invitation.
- If you’re interested in being invited to join Lions Club of Elk Grove, you may want to consider some of the following facts about Lionism:
  - Lions are active.
  - Our motto is “We Serve.”

Calendar of Events

Club, District and Zone Highlites:

Activities & Photos
Check out the following photos & videos:

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Announcements

Let’s reach out to our fellow members:

As many of you know, Lion Sterling has been in a care facility since his stroke. He would love to have some visits from his Lion friends. Call ahead to make sure he is not out on a field trip. He is at Emeritus of Laguna Creek, 6727 Laguna Park Drive, EG, CA. 95758 916-683-1881

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As usual, we want to send out a special thank you to Dr. John J. Eliopulos, O.D. for all of his support with our efforts to continue to provide support to people with visual impairments. You can find Dr. Eliopulos’ office at 9074 Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove, CA 95624.

We also send our thanks out to Dr. Diana Holcomb, O.D. for her support of our mission to support people with visual impairments. You can find Crystal View Optometry at Dr. Diana Holcomb’s office at 8419 Elk Grove-Florin Road, Elk Grove, CA 95624 just south of Calvine Road, next to the Bel Air Market.

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Birthdays

Happy Birthday to Lions:

Dennis Weiss, Kirk Marchetti, Randy Feist

Anniversaries

Congratulations on another year of Service to the Lions Club:
Jack Edwards &Jim Switzgable

Cooks List

January 10 – Jerry Salamy
January 24 – Randy Feist
February 14 – Student Speaker Contest – Sharon Mika
March 14 –
March 28 –

Board Minutes

ELK GROVE LIONS CLUB

Board Meeting Agenda
February 21, 2022

Call to order: 6:00 President: John Muegge

Attendance:

X	President: John Muegge	X	Secretary: Jack Edwards
X	1^st VP: Rebecca Muegge	X	Bulletin Editor & PR: Jack Edwards
	2^nd VP: Vacant		Tail Twister: Brad Dano
	3^rd VP: Vacant	X	Treasurer : Jason Springer
	Lion Tamer: Bob Husted		2-Year Director: Taka Blackburn
X	1-Year Director: Don Thompson	X	2-Year Director: Marv Neill
X	1-Year Director: Sharon Mika	X	Membership Director: John Zehnder Jr.
	Immediate Past Pres: Taka Blackburn	X	LCIF: Andy Anderson

Guests:

Susan Hernandez from the Elk Grove Historical Society: Her group has two requests. 1. To support the Spring Tea by providing 2 bartenders to serve wine and 2 people to re-direct traffic to the alternate parking lot. Time from about 11:30 am on May 7^th to 3:00 pm for wine service and to about 12:30 or so for parking. About 240 people.

The Historical Society also needs 2-4 people to assist with parking at the Civil War Days at the Mahon Ranch on April 29, 30 and May 1. Lion Jack worked it last year with Lion John. No real activity on first day. Lion Jack handled it all on the 2^nd day and Lion John helped with the third day. They also said that if we wanted we could do a fundraiser by cooking hamburgers and cheese burgers. Maybe serve beer. Cannot do hot dogs because they already have a vendor for that.

Leslie Flojo from Meet me on the Red Carpet: Needs support for a crew to cook hamburgers and to serve at their event. Start serving at about 5:45 for a couple of hours. Arrive earlier at the Town Hall to grill hamburgers and hot dogs. They will provide food. Between 200 & 225 people.

Secretary Report (Stag) by Lion Jack: Minutes for December were approved and have been posted in the Stag. Click Here for the January Stag. All activities will be recorded in the Lions International’s MyLion program.

Motion to approve Board Minutes for January 2021 by Lion Marv, second by Lion Andy Motion…Passed…………

Treasurer Report by Lion Treasurer Jason Springer:

PDG Andy reported that the LEF approved the matching funds and we should have the $1000 check soon. He also asked Jason if we had received the check from the Pride of Laguna Creek. Jason will check the mail.

Administrative: …..	$ 7014.57
Project: ………………	$ 36,894.17
Scouts: ……………	$ 2,838.95
Equipment: ………..	$ 5,941.67
FFA: …………….…..	$ 468.04
Combined Amount:	$ 46,142.83

Total ……………….	$ 53,157.40

Correspondence: See new business. Committee Updates

Eyesight-Marv: Used one voucher for a pair of glasses for an elementary school student.

Sunshine-Charlene:

Assets/Equipment-Don:

Membership-John Jr:

Visitation-Anthony:

Adjourn Club Meeting & Open Foundation Meeting Elk Grove Lions Foundation at 6:37 pm

Old Business / Status Checks / Chairperson’s Report

All bartenders need to take the class We have bars on 2/26 & 3/19.
Time to start thinking about club officers. 1^st VP will need people to step up. We will need a club secretary as Lion Jack already has too many jobs and someone else needs to Jason said he would continue on as treasurer. PDG Andy suggested that the 1^st VP call all officers to see who will continue. Also to ask for people to step up as 1^st and 2^nd VP as well as Secretary. Also, the 2 year directors move up to the one year director position and she needs two volunteers for the two year director positions. Good positions for new members to be a part of the club and to get to know the membership.
Sac County Fair/FFA and 4-H. Our fundraiser is set for March 30^th to fund our purchases at the auction. This event is usually on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend.
Fundraiser; Tri-Tip Drive-Thru on March 30^th at ARC. Lion Warren is cooking.
2 Speakers presented at the Speaker

New Business:

Lions Project for Canine Companions $5 raffle tickets (25 tickets). Can donate as a club or
Lions Support for Deaf Campers. Request for donations for 2 camping events. (costs are $400/camper).
Meet Me on the Red Carpet (Pleasant Road High School). Hamburgers and Bring BBQ. Cook, serve, cleanup. Laguna Town Hall. March 11, 6:00 – 7:30 pm.
Request for formula help, diapers, and Referred to Lions by Food Bank. Lion Jack talked with the lady over the weekend. He told her that we don’t currently have a program to provide that type of support.
Elk Grove Historical Society Civil War Days, Mahon Ranch. Parking and serving wine? 4/31-5/2. 8:00-5:00 pm. (can have a hamburger stand for Lions Fundraising)
Elk Grove Historical Society EGHS Spring Tea. May 7, 2022. 11:00 am – 3:00 Elk Grove Regional Park. Parking and serving wine?

Motions on New Business

Motion	Moved By	Second	Passed	Lead
Support Canine Companions – buy all 25 tickets	Andy	Sharon	Yes	None
Donate $1,000 to Support Deaf Campers	Don	Jason	Yes	None
Cook for Red Carpet Event if we can get assistance to haul trailer. Sharon will check with Bob B, Brad & Bill	Sharon	Andy	Yes	Sharon
EG Historical Society Civil War Days Parking	Jack	Sharon	Yes	Jack
EG Historical Society Tea (Parking & Serving Wine)	Rebecca	Sharon	Yes	Sharon

Upcoming Activities and Approved Projects:

Event	Date	Location	Chair
Board Meeting	Feb 21 @ 6 pm	Zoom	John M
Bar Event – Diabetes Camp	Feb 26	SES Hall	Bill Kirkland
Lions Club Dinner Meeting	February 28	ARC	John M
Zone Student Speaker Contest	Mar 2 @ 5:30	ARC	Jack
Community Breakfast	Mar 12 @ 8-10 am	ARC	Don & Jim
Lions Club Meeting	March 14	ARC	John M
Bar Event – Martinis & Merriment	March 19	SES Hall	Bill Kirkland
Board Meeting	March 21 @ 6 pm	Zoom	John M
Lions Club Dinner Meeting	March 28	ARC	John M
District Convention	April 7-10	Marriott	PDG Andy & Jack
Community Pancake Breakfast	April 8	ARC	Don & Jim
Lions Club Dinner Meeting	April 11	ARC	John M

Good of the Order:

PDG Andy reminded us about the Delta Tea on March 19^th. The cost is $40 per person. It is a great event.

Lion Don reminded us that we turned in 2225 pairs of glasses, 5 phones and 10 hearing aids over the past few months.

Adjournment: 7:35 PM

Club Contact Info

The organizational structure for our Lions Club is as follows: Lions Clubs International, Multiple District 4, District 4C5, Sacramento Region, Sutter Zone, Elk Grove Lions Club.

This newsletter is produced each month by the Stag Editor, Lion Jack Edwards. He may be reached by email at Jack@ElkGroveLionsFoundation.org or by phone at 916-240-9302:

Elk Grove Lions Club P.O. Box 465 Elk Grove, CA 95759

President: John Muegge

1st VP: Rebecca Muegge

2nd VP: Vacant

Secretary: Jack Edwards

Treasurer: Jason Springer

Tail Twister: Brad Dano

Lion Tamer: Bob Husted

1 Year Director – Don Thompson
1 Year Director – Sharon Mika
2 Year Director – Taka Blackburn
2 Year Director – Marv Neill
Membership: John Zehnder, Jr.
Past Pres: Taka Blackburn
Public Relations: Jack Edwards
Stag Editor: Jack Edwards
LCIF Coordinator: Andy Anderson

Make-up Clubs

Delta Lions Club

2nd Thursdays, 7 am

Bartley Cavanaugh Golf Course

8301 Freeport Blvd.

Sacramento

Galt Lions Club

2 & 4 Thursdays

6:00 pm Social

6:30 pm Meeting

Grange Hall

5th & D Street, Galt

Pride of Laguna

2 & 4 Wednesdays at 6:30 pm

Albiani Recreation Center

8830 Sharkey Ave

Elk Grove, CA

Club Roster with Phone Numbers & Email Addresses
was Emailed to Each Member

Name	Spouse
Andy Anderson
Tom Anderson	Ashley
Taka Blackburn	Valerie
Bob Brewer	Cheryl
Charles Brummer
Brad Dano	Teresa
Anthony Dapelo	Chalene
Jack Edwards	Tracey
Randy Feist	Barbara
Bill Heston Jr
Ann Higginbotham	Ron
Ron Higginbotham	Ann
Bob Husted	Charlene
Charlene Husted	Bob
Lynden King
Bill Kirkland Jr	Dusty
Harjeet Kumar	Vanita
Vanita Kumari	Harjeet
Kirk Marchetti	Robin

Name	Spouse
Sharon Mika
John Muegge	Rebecca
Rebecca Muegge	John
Greg Neill	Amy
Marv Neill	Annajean
Dan Pearsen	Shelli
Shelli Pearsen	Dan
Stan Pochop Jr.
Dan Quiggle	Marsalina
Teresa Rodriguez
Jerry Salamy	Leann
Bob Shipley
Jason Springer	Raelynn
Jeylon Strong
Jim Switzgable	Debbie
Don Thompson	Sue
Warren Weaver	Patricia
Dennis Weiss	Diane
John Zehnder Jr.	Linda