Durham Lions Club

	Md 31 District G Durham Lions Club North Carolina United States Club Number:011620
Club Address:1401 Forestview Drive, Durham, NC 27707 Club Tel:(919)489-8150 This Page address: http://durhamnc.lionwap.org Mail To

Meetings:

When:Every Wednesday, 12:30PM
Where:Lions Scout Center

1850 Hillandale Road

Durham, NC

Just 1/2 mile North of I-85

Officers:

	Office Tel	Home Tel
President	(919)401-4801	(919)401-4801
1st Vice President	(919)682-0773	(919)309-0195
Secretary	(919)489-8150	(919) 489-8150
Treasurer	(919) 544-0199	(919) 544-0199
Membership Chairman	(919)683-2413	(919)383-9241

Announcements :

WE HAVE 65+ ABLE AND WILLING MEMBERS WHO SUPPORT ALL OUR ACTIVITIES - WE COULD DO MORE FOR THE COMMUNITY IF YOU WILL HELP - contact the President if you would like to be a Lion!!

Bwana Simba recruiting for Lions International

JOIN THE DURHAM LIONS TODAY.

BOARD of DIRECTORS AND OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT/APPROVALS

The NCLF Vision Van has finished all but one of its six 2009 visits to Durham and will be back next year for six stops of four hours each to screen Durham residents for vision problems. Over 150 people have had their eyes checked in 2009 at these sessions with over 100 referred for further care. We enjoy joining with the Duke University Eye Center (who loan us two doctors!) to enable us to continue to provide this service to our community.

Members of the Club and the Board of Directors have given nearly $10,000 to the UNC Glaucoma Research facility for their programs.

Authorized $550 for assisting four Boy Scouts to attend summer camp last year.

The Board has welcomed 4 new members so far this year and we have high hopes for more soon.

The Lions Club of Durham will raise and spend over $35,000 this year to improve the lot of the visually and hearing impaired, promote and sponsor Scouting for our youth, provide scholarships and many other projects. By doing these things we hope to fullfill the motto of the Lions Club: "WE SERVE"

LOCATION - DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA also known as the TAR HEEL STATE

North Carolina is found on the eastern seaboard of the United States of America. Its is popularly know as the TAR HEEL STATE. Legend has it that during our civil war (1861-1865 and known in this part of the country as the 'war of northern aggression') several regiments of soldiers from North Carolina (most units were composed of men from individual states) were involved in a battle that was not going so well for the South. When they, unlike some of their allies, refused to run, a general commented "those boys from North Carolina" stand like they got tar on their heels (in other words, stuck to the ground). The term, like the TAR HEEL, stuck. Even today North Carolinians are known to dig in their heels in a fight but they do move fast at other times.

IN APPRECIATION

In recognition of the contribution of the Lions Clubs of Turkey, especially Lion Dr. Enzar Tore, in providing free web page hosting for Lions Clubs everywhere, the Lions Club of DURHAM - NORTH CAROLINA, USA proudly displays the flag of Turkey on our site.
Click on the flag to go to the web site of Lion Dr. Enzar's home club - the Lions Club of Canakkale.

As an extension to the Turkish Lions' contribution, the Brisbane Ekibin Lions Club of MD 201 Q1 (Australia) offer assistance to Lions Clubs who want to take advantage of the Turkish Lions offer, but are not familiar with web publishing. They've already set up many sites for Lions Clubs world-wide, using Lionwap.
If your club wants to be on the internet, and would like some help, leave a message in the Ekibin Guest Book by clicking on the image above. This is a FREE SERVICE, so you don't spend a cent for their work. As Lionwap is also FREE, this means you get a web site that you NEVER have to pay for. - Is that a deal or what?
All your Club has to do is have someone update and maintain your page, which needs not take more than a few minutes each month. The Ekibin Lions will even give you some tips on that!

Activities :

(flags of the United States, Lions International and North Carolina)

DURHAM LIONS ASSIST THE COMMUNITY - JOIN THEM AND IMPROVE OUR CITY, COUNTY & WORLD

HOW WE RAISE OUR FUNDS

Christmas Tree Sale - This year's sale was a success thanks to all of our loyal customers. This is an annual project and a major fund raiser. We only offer home grown north Carolina Frazier Fir trees. Please plan on seeing us for your next year's Christmas tree!
The Concession Booth at the UNC Football games is done for this year and will re-open next September. Please stop by at the East end on the visitor side of Keenan Stadium and thank you to all who helped and all who purchased from us last season! It was an extremely successful fund raiser for us.
Income from Gumball machines located in various sites around the community. (If you would like a Lions sponsored Gumball Machine at your place of business - you will be helping in the betterment of the local community - Please contact the President of the Club).
Semi-annual Yard Sales - The 2008 Spring Sale at the Scout Center raised $2,500 for our good works. Thank you to all who helped and bought this year! We are a 501(c)3 tax deductible organization.
This year we are sold chances on a 42 inch flat screen HDTV. The tickets were $5 and and we sold over 1000! The second prize was $500 and a third prize of $100 was also awarded. The drawing was held on September 3rd. We will do a similar drawing next summer. Please keep us in mind and contact any Durham Lion if you want to buy ticket.
We sell of brooms manufactured by the BLIND, Diners Coupon Books and we collect used Printer cartridges to be recycled.

HOW WE SPEND WHAT WE COLLECT

Financing the costs of 20 (Twenty) BLIND campers to a week at camp Dogwood each summer.
Supplying discounted eyeglasses through Pearl Vision, Inc. stores for Durhamites in need of such assistance.
Distributing 30+ (thirty plus) food baskets at Christmas time for the visually impaired and financially strapped in our community.
Helping to fund the Triangle Radio Reading Service for the Blind which provides in depth information from magazines and newspapers (including grocery ads!) for those who can't read themselves.
A Contribution, each year, to the Boys & Girls Home in North Carolina.
Provide a building for Boy and Girl Scouts and Cubs and Brownie troops to meet as well as Financial support for their activities. Scholarships awarded annually to deserving DURHAM HIGH SCHOOL graduates (One thousand dollars per year for four years). At present we have four students that we have sponsored at University, two at UNC, one at ECU and one at NC State. The students are from Southern High School, Hillside High School, Jordan High and Northern High School.
Sponsor a little league Baseball team in the South Durham Little League.
Assist Duke Eye Center in screening Durham Citizens for GLAUCOMA and other eye diseases at local Kroger stores using the NC Lions Foundation Vision Van throughout the year. We did six screening this year (the last on Dec.3) and screened 200 people!
Contribute $100 per member to International, State and District 31G projects to aid the visually and hearing impaired(over $7,000 per year).
support other fund raising project such as Habitat for Humanity and various projects to assist university teaching hospitals in Eye Research and treatment.

WE HAVE over 65 ABLE AND WILLING MEMBERS WHO SUPPORT ALL OUR ACTIVITIES - WE COULD DO MORE FOR THE COMMUNITY IF YOU WILL HELP - contact the President if you would like to be a Lion!!

JOIN THE DURHAM LIONS TODAY.

LIONS INTERNATIONAL ETHICS & OBJECTS

Given below are the Ethics and Objects of Lions International that are read out at all our meetings

Lions International Objects

To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
To Promote the principle of good government and good citizenship.
To Take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.

UNITED WE STAND

Lions Code of Ethics

To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubts against myself.
To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy

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