Meeting at Davies 161 W 2nd Ave S at 7pm 403-388-4332

On Sat 22 Jun 2019 at 6pm we held a nice Lions end of year (2019/20) BBQ at the fishpond for all Lions and Lion Families: We met across from Campground Shelter nearest the Terry Trainer Playground and had burgers and buns and fixings. Attending were Whites, Duffs, Murrays, Davies and their extended families. Great time was had by all.

Earlier in month - we held the Annual Lions Club Garage Sale (2nd June 2019).

Our regular 4th Wed meeting will be moved this month to Sat 27 Apr as a working meeting in conjunction with Annual Food Drive. Come meet with us as we load donated food items into the collection vans! loading 10am-noon at Magrath Seniors parking lot and unloading 1pm at Lethbridge Food Bank

You are invited!

Our Mar 2019 meeting is hosted again this month at The Davies at 161 W 2nd Ave S (big white house with red shutters and solar panels on top) in Magrath, AB T0K 1J0 on Wed night 27 Feb 2019 7-8pm ish for our monthly Lions Club meeting. See you all there! Nominations for club executive 2019-2020 this month.

We Serve in Magrath 

​Lion Roger

My preliminary notes from Meeting 27 Mar 2019 Lions Club Meeting 7pm at Davies. 

• Attending: Alex/Laurie Ann White, Mike/Kelly Duff, Roger/Shauna Davies, Lawrence Papworth, Elizabeth Olsen, Larry Murray. Regrets: C/G Bly, D Friday, C Cai. 
• 7:10pm meeting called to order. Last meeting minutes read and accepted with revision: "Last meeting we agreed to install 3 vice presidents to serve until next election for purposes of AGLC/current bylaws. Laurie Ann White will serve as 1st VP. Larry Murray will serve as 2nd VP. Tracie Dawson will serve as 3rd VP. Elections in Apr 2019 will determine officers for 2019/20." 
• Correspondence: Letter via Zone Chair Cathy Anderson on upcoming Dog Walk event in Lethbridge (25 May). Discussed how club might support it. Encourage any who wish to walk to collect sponsors. Discussed current club bank balances. Club to write a $100 check to Lions Foundation of Canada. Approved. 
• Lion Roger reported that online voting system set up again for this year. Please look for email from club and register your vote before mid April results to be available for next meeting. Each member has been set up with forwarding email with format aname@magrathlions.com - let us know if you have a change in email to use or cannot find the emails as sent.
• Discussed upcoming  food drive. Proposed that the next meeting be moved to that Sat morning as a working meeting. Approved. Sat 27 Apr at 10am in Seniors Parking Lot. Lion Alex to arrange truck with V Torkleson. Lion Roger will have flyers and poster printed and get bags and confirm date with Lethbridge Food Bank. Lion Alex has contacted school re lunch program needs. Discussed way to save 12 food baskets for anonymous local delivery to needy families here in town. Since non-perishable items, they can be collected and if not needed immediately then forwarded on to Lethbridge. Will need additional staffing for this to identify and pack those baskets on collection day. Approved (but not implemented as yet).

Magrath Lions Club Established 1938
Meeting Minutes/Date: February 27, 2019

• Opening: The regular meeting of the Magrath Lions Club was called to order at 7:00 pm on February 27 in Magrath, AB at home of  Lions Roger & Shauna Davies.
• Present: Lions Alex White, Laurie Ann White, Roger Davies, Shauna Davies, Lawrence Papworth, Christine Bly, Glen Bly, Kelly Duff, Deanna Friday, and guests Tracie Dawson, Larry Murray
• Special guests: Lion Brent Johnson (incoming District Governor)Cathy Anderson (Zone Chair) Zone Chairperson
• Introductions by Alex welcoming and introducing our two guests, Cathy and Brent.
• Brent’s comments included greetings from the International President, Introduction of the International theme for Lions 101. Beyond the Horizon -Needs- increase membership, leadership growth, member retention, Lion Fellowship. - Share Lions experiences, track people served. International Lions focus relief projects 1/Vision 2/Diabetes 3/Hunger 4/Environment improvement 5/Childhood cancer. Campaign 100 Each lion to donate to lions lcif general fund.

Upcoming district events:

• April 13 in Strathmore - Officer training seminar
• April 26 & 27 in Rimby - Multi District Convention
• April 29 in Lethbridge - Zone meeting at Honkers @ 6:00 pm 2808 - 5 Ave. N. 
• May 25 in Lethbridge - Lions Dog Walk, fundraiser for service dogs

Previous Minutes posted online on Discord and at Magrath Lions Website. Accepted as posted

• Alex read a letter from LCI Club badge recognizing our membership increase over the past centennial year.
• Alex and Laurie Ann received Golden Centennial Award for sponsorship in the centennial year.

Old Business:

• Lion Alex reported on **Playground equipment: Lions Park Upgrade, town to do work, Southwest Concrete will donate pea gravel. Bluegrass Landscaping available to donate trailer for the April 27th food drive and for upcoming Lions garage sale on June 01
• **The Discord telephone app will be used for club communications. You can find it in your app store or online.
• There’s also a new MyLion app to help keep informed on club activities. It will be used in future for all online club reporting.
• Lion Lawrence reported on status of Casino Application - Ongoing AGLC requires we address our by-laws re Vice Presidents and provide a letter of good standing from Lions (Lion Roger will request such a letter from current DG Tyler Bray). Discussed suggestion that VPs 1/2/3 could be volunteers vs current lion member (contrary to by-law) [see post meeting discussions on Discord on this].

1. Minutes from last meeting not available (Nov 2018 see Lion Christine). Dec 2018 was to be Dinner meeting in Lethbridge but it had to be unscheduled. Lion Roger will attempt to take notes for current meeting ..
2. Lion Alex reported on status of work on Lions Playground. Town Foreman W Quinton has list of items needing updates and working on getting quotes for needed gravel etc. He wants to meet with us at next club meeting (Feb 2019).
3. Lion Roger reported on upcoming Community Food Drive plans. Over past several years have relied on Calvin Heggie of Custom Windows with many thanks for transportation of the 6-10K pounds of donated food from Magrath to Lethbridge in his truck/trailer. He is now facing some serious health issues and we likely need to find alternative helpers at least for this year. Lion Alex will approach others to see if they can step in (eg V Torkelson, or others). Otherwise, project plans are as in past years. We will order bags via Magrath Pharmacy and print prepared flyers via Keyline. Lion Roger will prepare and coordinate via website. Confirmed date for event this year is Sat 27 Apr 2019.
4. Discussed date and plans for Lions Garage Sale in Spring 2019. Sat 1 Jun 2019 proposed with collections throughout May 2019. Lion Alex suggested we find a way to run the event longer than just the Sat morning. Although it might be nice to give people more time to shop, need to check with W Quinton re availability and logistics. We used Home Hardware last year for collection storage. OK to approach Jay Mackenzie to see if he is still willing to do this again this year (note some construction underway in 2nd Floor of that building).  Last year event raised about $1600 but a lot of volunteer work was required for collection, storage, moving and setup, then running the event and cleanup afterwards. Lion Roger to update website project page. It was proposed we prepare printed posters and do more advertising to ensure event is easily remembered this year.
5. Lending Library project proposed in past by Lion Catherine. Lion Roger proposed we consider sponsorship of event rather than just doing it as a club. He wants to make his own and thinks others will want to do their own as well. Club could prepare contest parameters and provide a prize or award for those participating. Discuss at future meetings
6. Santa Gone Loonie project discussed. Would be nice to have this event available in Magrath but considered too big for a club of our current size. Lion Roger suggested we participate as part of community committee for this event. Suggested we approach past organisers S Robinson, K West, etc to gauge interest and needs.
7. Lion Lawrence reported on status of Casino application. Needed current member list, a current year budget report and past 2 year financial reports (provided after meeting by Lion Roger) as well as copy of minutes where ok to proceed with application was given. See Lion Christine for those meeting minutes (Fall 2018). Proposed we re-confirm that we want to proceed with the Casino application in this meeting as well. Approved
8. Lion Roger provided updated financial report to Pres Alex. Note this report online at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WYrLKYdWqQ6gCMSlt3nLeB8dNlCi-27ojakXqxQzQzk/edit?usp=sharing Link to Magrath Lions Financials - Lion Roger. Updated notes page with current financial issues to discuss. Google Docs Lions 2018-19 Reports Summary Income Expense 
   
9. Motion to adjourn at 8pm by Lion Shauna

p.s. deferred/future items

• Nov 2018 - Status of Casino Acct vs Playground Upgrade. Per meeting decisions in 2018 the club proceeded with selection and purchase of Blue Imp equipment for Terry Trainer Playground at fishpond. Subsequent meetings with Town Foreman W Quinton indicated town would rather use this in the older Lions Park Playground and focus improvements there to meet new safety and insurance requirements. Club agreed to proceed that way in Spring 2019    plan
• Jan 2019 - FYI Revised budget item for dues payable from 750 to 1000. With current exchange rates and since we have not raised our annual fee request ($75/person $112.5/couple CAD), we are currently losing money on exchange re LCI bi-annual dues payable in US Funds. There are also some addl bank fees in using Paypal to collect and disperse funds online. This year we appear to be about $310 CAD short or over $25 per person. To discuss with executive .. we have little control over US/CAD exchange rates    discuss
• Jan 2019 - Propose: we consider new schedule of $99/person or $149/couple CAD for 2019/20 and on unless exchange rates improve. Only other alternative is to have club subsidize the difference from fundraiser events in years when rates are unfavorable (grey area) ..    propose
• Jan 2019 - Casino Appl being worked on by Lion Lawrence. Lion Roger provided him more info to him at 23 Jan 2019 meeting (past 2 year financials and current membership lists. He may also need a copy of official minutes for meeting (about Fall 2018 from Lion Christine) where club agreed to proceed with Casino and updated club brochure. /rdd    work in process
• 2019 -  Funds for MES Lunch Program $500 and to Community Nativity Display $300 could come from Casino funds. Propose transfer $800 from Casino to Savings to offset checks we wrote in Dec 2018    propose
• addendum to meeting minutes: Next meeting will be Wed 27 Feb 2018 7pm at the Davies (161 W 2nd Ave S Magrath, AB T0K 1J0 403-388-4332) with DG and IPDG (Cathy Anderson) planning to attend as well. Town foreman also asked us if he could attend that meeting as well. /rdd
• Also Lion Alex/Christine, don't forget: When printed member list from LCI website for Lion Lawrence had to manually fix two errors. Corrections needed to membership data names: a) Lion Glen Bly's file has been renamed to Mike Duff somehow and b) Lion Mike Duff's file shows 'Mr Irene Rennie'  as his name. Hmm. Perhaps we need to have our DG visitors tell us how to get this corrected at LCI .. Lion Christine: I’ve tried several times to correct that.  I’ve even emailed them.  If only one could speak to a human to correct ‘computer errors’. ssdirect: Yeah, that is why the DG may need to provide some direction on this ..
• ssdirect: Update .. paid LCI dues due online today (24 Jan) and mailed check for district c-2 dues as well

Next Magrath Lions club meeting is August 22, 7:00 pm at the Bly Camp Kitchen. Please bring a potluck item! 🍔 
Burgers will be supplied. Upcoming events: No Cost Clothing - bags moved and tables setup Thu, sorting Fri, event on Sat 25 Aug 2018, cleanup to follow

Meeting this month at The Davies 161 W 2nd Ave S 403-388-4332 at 7pm 
* Welcome new members 
* No Cost Clothing - end of Aug 2018 w/Collections Jul-Aug
* Playground Upgrades - report 

Minutes
Members present: Lions Roger Davies, Alex White,Catherine Cai, Laurie-Ann White, Lawrence Papworth. Regrets: Lion Elizabeth (travel family wedding), Lion Shauna (work), Lions Glen/Christine (Nanton), Lion Deanna (away).

Meeting called to order 7:10pm

1. Lion Roger distributed posters prepared for No Cost Clothing 23-25 Aug. We have updated website to match this info. Requested booking at arena via town: Thu Aug 23 set up tables, Fri Aug 24 sort clothing, Sat Aug 25 event/cleanup. He will have collection van in front of pharmacy all Jul/Aug for drop offs. Will also need list of names for volunteers.and arrange diabetes association to be called for pick up that week.
   
   
2. Casino Report. Lion Lawrence: We have to start from beginning for new application to be filed. We need a copy of meeting minutes from today show the motion requesting we proceed with Casino application. Other paperwork will be needed to complete application: list of executives, club roster, etc to be worked on by Lion Lawrence, Lion Roger and Lion Alex as needed.
   
   
3. Motion: ​Propose Catherine Cai, Kelly Strey, Mike Dunn as new Lions members effective now with Lion sponsors as Elizabeth Olsen, Christine Bly, Glen Bly. We propose an official induction ceremony to be held at our next dinner meeting in September - perhaps at Golf Course to welcome new members. Lion Roger to get membership applications to each new member.
   
   
4. Despite being initially approached by Town of Magrath (Fernando), we may not need to judge parade at upcoming Magrath Days as he subsequently has asked the Chamber of Commerce to handle this in our stead. We are available to stand in or assist if needed.
   
   
5. Lion Alex talked to Barbara from Blue Imp yesterday and she stated that the equipment should be here 12 Aug to be set up. What are we doing to keeps costs down?  A rep will be here to ensure safety standards are met during set up. Equipment will be some color as pirate ship and ropes same colors as Lions (blue and yellow). We propose working on upgrades of lions park after that.. next year. Suggest having an independent safety inspection done on the Lions Park. Current plans are to install the week following 12 Aug .. Lion Alex to coordinate this project.
   
   
6. Motion by Lion Roger to proceed with Casino application. We need to set up and prepare and proceed application and appoint a chairperson. Also propose Lion Lawrence as Casino Chair. and Catherine Cai to act as Casino Treasurer. Voted: all in favor. As club treasurer Lion Roger will prepare financial paperwork for same. Target date for application prep to be done by end of August.
   
   
7. Motion by Lion Laurie-Ann to proceed with new inspection of playground equipment in old playground. Vote: all in favor. Questions: Does old fence need updates? Lighting: Alex spoke to Town Foreman Trevor Millward.. re town plans to install a light at playground.. is solar possible? 
   
   
8. Lion Roger made an motion to write letter to Town re installing more lighting at/around all our playgrounds.. Vote: all ok.

Discussed the date for next meeting/activity. No meeting in July. In August on 4th Wed we will plan a potluck/picnic at fishpond by new playground improvements (just prior to the No Cost Clothing event). 

Lion Roger proposed adjournment of meeting at 8:05pm​

minutes coming soon

Our Apr meeting will be a work meeting .. with the annual food drive on Sat 28 Apr 2018

For more information see the Food Drive project page ..