October 1, 2020 Volume 4

District 29 L Newsletter

A Message from District Governor Ron

Legacy .

Well, I don’t have much to say so I decided to leave all you

Lions and guests with this following: I bring you greetings

from Lions International President Dr. Jung-Yui Choi, who

is serving a second term due to the pandemic. His theme

this year is United in Kindness and Diversity. Don’t we

have diversity in the world today, but where there is a need

the Lions are there.

The 5 Global Causes are: Diabetes, Vision, Hunger, Envi-

ronment, and Childhood Cancer. My theme is LEGACY,

whatever you do, and your club does leave a legacy on you

and your club.

I want to thank the clubs that are working to better their

clubs in their communities during this pandemic. The Li-

ons Clubs, Kiwanis, Optimist Club, and Rotary are teaming

together to help with the essential workers during this pan-

demic.

Boo!!!!! Mary and I wish the Lions and guests

“Happy Halloween.”

grongrubb@comcast.net. Cell phone: 304-216-4717 Home phone: 304-599-3742 DG Visits October

1st-Williamstown 6:30

5th-Winfield and Scott Teays 6:30

14th-Mt. Olivet 6:30

19th-Doddrige DG meeting 6:30

20th-Moundsville Noon

November

2-Leasage & Huntington 6:30

1st Vice District Governor

Ramona Sago’s Message

Lions

Harvest gardens, cold nights, and changing leaves are all signs that Fall has arrived. I stop to think

about how planting seeds in a garden is like planting seeds in Lions Clubs.

What is a seed?

It is a simple act of setting an idea into motion that will help clubs attract Lions that will

want to take lead.

Seeds take time to grow.

When a seed flowers, everyone recognizes its beauty.

Go out there and start planting seeds in your club, no matter how hard or discouraging it may seem

right now. With a little time and patience and hard work, what now seems like a task to come to a

meeting will be filled with Lions excitement to come to future meetings.

Just like a beautiful flower attracts butterflies, your club will be a magnet for drawing individuals

that will truly make a difference in the growth of your club.

FVDG Ramona

Membership Article

Well, we are headed into October already. I realize some clubs have not met yet. This can be a trou-

bling thing. The longer you do not meet, the harder it becomes to plan membership drives, fundrais-

ers and service projects.

If you can meet by Zoom or some other virtual means, or social distance on someone’s deck, or even

meet in a restaurant – it would be very helpful. I have talked with some clubs and I understand they

are having a difficult time.

If you have any ideas on recruiting new members – please share them with others. If your club is

meeting and you could possibly help another club close to you- please reach out to them!!

Feel free to contact me – I will assist you anyway I can.

Remember, new members are our lifeblood and we must keep growing. We are currently at 1178

members in 29L (as of the end of September).

Don’t be afraid to ask someone to join, the more you ask, the more you may get. Go to the LCI web-

site and you can get membership information there.

Yours in Lionism,

PDG Gary

http://wvlions.org/

LeadershipSchool/

home.html

http://wvlions.org/

LeadershipSchool/pdf/

RegistrationForm.pdf

http://wvlions.org/

LeadershipSchool/pdf/

RetreatScholarship.pdf

DIRECTORY INFORMATION

WEB LINKS

Zone Person Training Materials

http://lions29l.org/zonetraining.html

Club Officer Training Materials

http://lions29l.org/

clubofficertraining.html

Club Excellence Award Application

file:///C:/Users/ksyph/Downloads/

DA-CEA1_en.pdf

Kindness Matter Service Award

https://www.lionsclubs.org/en/

kindness-matters-service-award

file:///C:/Users/ksyph/Downloads/

KMSA%20Application%

20Nomination_en.pdf

President Choi’s Theme

Lionsclubs.org/en/discover-our-clubs/

presidential-theme

Program Booklet

https://cdn2.webdamdb.com/md_SJB3MVA18O31.jpg.pdf?v=1

LEADERSHIP BY PDG BILL SYPHERS

4

Due to some ongoing health issues PDG Eva Dague has had to resign her position as

District Cabinet Secretary/Treasurer. She has held this position for several district

governors and has done an outstanding job. She will continue to serve as the Leo

Chairperson. We wish her a speedy recovery and a well earned thanks for all she has

done for the district.

PDG Bill Syphers has been appointed to fill the position. All district and cabinet

business should be directed to him or DG Ron.

Beef will be butchered by HYDES MEAT PACKING – ENTERPRIZE, WV

PDG Paul & Phyllis Amrhein – 1-304-242-0911

Pamrhein25@comcast.net

Since the WV Sight Foundation provides funding for the entire state of WV, ALL clubs in ALL Districts

should participate in selling or buying the tickets out right. Our goal is to have 100% participation

with ALL clubs in ALL Districts.

Please return your stubs with a name and telephone number along with your check written to

the “WV LIONS BEEF RAFFLE”. Please make sure you return all your stubs when sending in

your check. Mail to PDG Paul Amrhein 4957 Glen Dale Heights Rd. Wheeling, WV 26003

I am pleading with clubs to please sell or buy their tickets. We have worked very hard to make this a

successful fundraiser, putting out around 3,500 on this project is a lot of money. We are not even close

to our goal. This is very disappointing.

WV Lions Multiple District 29

Beef Raffle

Proceeds Benefit: WV Eye Sight Foundation

INFO

“If the Club sells over $100 in

tickets, the Club will receive

credit toward a Leonard Jarrett

according to the total amount of

sales.”

(i.e. Sight Foundation) will be

separated from Club sales, unless

the individual requests otherwise.

LCIF – transforming the future

The pandemic has created many and great hardships and completely

changed our daily lives. But there is hope and one of them is LCIF.

Where there is a need, there is a Lion member willing to help in whatever

way possible. Did you know that:

- 2.2 billion people have vision impairment

- 6 million people are affected by measles yearly

- 1 in 11 people suffer from diabetes

- 1 in 9 people lack proper food

LCIF stands ready to help so that our future will be brighter. We need all

Lions to step up and provide the necessary funds to continue our mission. Dis-

trict 29-L has done a pretty good job of that, but we could do better. Did you

know that last year only 3.8% of individual Lions in District 29L contributed to

LCIF. And we still had 12 clubs that did not contribute anything.

So, I am respectfully asking all Lions to please make a donation as an indi-

vidual be it $25 or $500 whatever you can afford. I am also requesting all clubs

in 29-L also make a donation.

Donations can be made through the LCIF website or by check to (on check

indicate 29-L) LCIF, Department 4547, Carol Stream IL 60122.

Thank you for your continuing support of YOUR foundation, LCIF.

Sincerely,

PDG John Wensyel

LCIF 29-L Coordinator

Zone meeting on October 11th at

Perkins in Moundsville at 5 p.m.

Zone Chairman Gary Rider

Several clubs turned in impressive “Kindness Matters” applications for

consideration.

Congratulations to the Mt. Olivet Lions Club!

Your application has gone on to be considered on Multiple District Level.

Remember that the Board of Directors voted to waive the charter/membership

fee through December. While no clubs will be placed on status quo during this time, we still need to

pay dues because LCI, as well as districts and multiple districts, have expenses. So, encourage your

members to pay. Although, you may want to consider other options, such as a monthly payment plan

to help those who are struggling. Consider, too, using the tail twister account to offset their costs.

It’s important to continue to visibly serve our communities during this difficult time.

Please consider the creative use of technology to host “virtual meeting” experiences

for your members until you can resume in-person meetings and events.

There are many FREE options for hosting virtual meetings.

* Zoom Basic Free – https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pq411urXA

* GoTo Meeting Free – https://support.gotoco/meeting

* Free – https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer/3115553?co=GENIE.Platform%DDesktop&hl=en

Please remind your club to work toward the Club Excellence Award in order to meet the criteria during the year. ALL clubs are capable of accomplishing this. Good Luck as we work to “Unite our communities in Kindness and Diversity”.

If you are having trouble navigating the MyLION or LCI sites,

please let me know and I will help you or send me a complete

list of your monthly activities with all the information and I will

get it all reported for your club.

It is very important that our District report these service

projects!

rsago1959@gmail.com

304-662-6265

Dist. Service Coordinator/Administrator

FVDG Ramona Sago

DG Ron has asked that I do not include the monthly totals in the newsletter. “THANK YOU! to those LIONS doing the

reporting and those clubs participating in the contest. Please continue sending in those reports so that the district can

know what your club is doing.

Participating Clubs

Grantsville Friendly Barboursville

Pleasants Area Fairmont Doddridge

South Parkersburg Morgantown Ohio Co. Virtual

Vienna Mt. Olivet Parkersburg

Weirton Warwood

West Liberty Wheeling

Western Mon. Co. Williamstown

Westover

Wheeling Island

DG Contest Chair: Lion David Sago

For more information, go to

https://lcicon.lionsclubs.org/

Register at

https://www.mcisemi.com/lci2021/

Deadline to order kits: October 1, 2020

Annual Art Contest for Kids Each year, Lions clubs around the world proudly sponsor the Lions International Peace Poster Contest in local schools and youth groups. This art contest for kids encourages young people worldwide to express their visions of peace. For more than 25 years, millions of children from nearly 100 countries have participated in the contest. The theme of the 2020-21 Peace Poster Contest is “Peace Through Service.” Students, ages 11, 12 or 13 on November 15, are eligible to participate. Peace Poster Contest Judging Each poster is judged on originality, artistic merit and expression of the theme. Posters advance through several judging levels: local, district, multiple district and international. At the international level, judges from the art, peace, youth, education and media communities select one grand prize winner and 23 merit award winners. Peace Poster Contest Awards International winners will be notified on or before February 1.

• One international grand prize winner will receive US$5,000 and a trip to a special award ceremony.

• Each of the 23 merit award winners will receive a cash award of US$500 and a certificate of achievement.

Visit Lions International Peace Poster Contest page

Peace Poster Contest Deadlines

• January 15: Participation information available from International Headquarters to Lions Clubs. • October 1: Deadline to obtain participation from International Headquarters. • November 15: Postmark deadline for a club to send one winning poster (per contest sponsored) to

the district governor.

Reach Out and Read

In 2012-13, International President Wayne Madden initiated a program called Action for Reading

and his challenge was taken up by the Lions Clubs everywhere. This is a brilliant program in which we

can all be involved.

The ability to read and write is the foundation for education and social development. Yet hundreds of

millions of adults lack minimum literacy skills and millions of school aged children are not attending

school to obtain them.

The Reading Action Program is a 10-year commitment to increase reading and literacy rates. It’s a

call to action for every Lions Clubs around the world to organize service projects and activities that

recognize the importance of reading and address specific needs related to illiteracy with their own

community. Don’t forget to register your service activities on LCI as they count towards your

Centennial Challenge.

IDEAS

• Third Grade Dictionary Project

• 5th Grade Chapter Books

• Build/Erect a portable little library

Reading Action Chair

Ramona Sago

Diabetes

Mary Kay Wensyel, 29L Diabetes Chair

An Overview of Diabetes Worldwide and in West Virginia

Diabetes is a disease that affects millions of people worldwide. According to the

International Diabetes Federation there were approximately 463 million adults

aged twenty to seventy-nine living with diabetes in 2019. Roughly ten percent of

that 463 million were Type One Diabetes. Diabetes is a disease that effects the

production of a hormone called insulin that is produced in the pancreas. This

hormone allows sugar into the cells in order for it to be used as energy in the

body. If this insulin is missing or works improperly, the sugar collects in the

blood and makes it acidic which is deadly. There are three main types of diabetes,

(type one diabetes, type two diabetes, and gestational diabetes).

According to the 2019 data from the Department of Health and Human Re-

sources of West Virginia, more than one in ten (15%) of West Virginia adults were

diagnosed with diabetes, which is the second highest rate nationally. Approxi-

mately, 11% of West Virginia adults were diagnosed as pre-diabetic. West Virginia

counties that had the highest rates of diabetes than any other county in the state

were Grant, Logan, McDowell, and Wayne. The prevalence of diabetes through-

out Appalachia, especially West Virginia, is further emphasized by a study done

by the Harvard School of Public Health which revealed that West Virginia was

among the highest diabetes rates in America. Sadly, diabetic death has become

ubiquitous throughout the state. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death

across the state according to the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia,

however, nationally, West Virginia has the highest death rate due to diabetes than

any other state with a 36.2% death rate.

Lions Club International added the focus of diabetes as one of their now eight

global causes. Lions Club has been a leader in promoting awareness though dia-

betes education, support of diabetes youth camps, distributing diabetic resources,

diabetes screenings for the community, and organizing community support

groups for newly diagnosed individuals and their families.

In District 29L, what can Lions do to raise awareness of the importance of Diabet-

ic Awareness and support? Let me know if I can help you in your community.

29L Diabetes Chair

Lion Mary Kay Wensyel

Reading Action Program

MD 29 RAP Chair: Deborah Delaney

I know that everything is different now because of Covid 19, and I realize that clubs are

not able to function in their normal way. With schools operating on varied schedules and

online classes, it’s difficult or even impossible to make contact with school children. Howev-

er, there are still ways that your club can participate in the Reading Action Program. For ex-

ample, you can still order dictionaries for third graders through The Dictionary Project

www.dictionaryproject.org and have the teachers pass them out to students along with a la-

bel/flier about your Lions club. Or, you can order chapter books for individual classes

through The Scholastic Book Club. Work with a teacher at your school to order the books for

you at a discounted price while earning points for their classroom.

If and when this pandemic is behind us (let’s pray that it’s soon), your club might consider

trying one of the following project ideas:

Help with an afterschool reading program

Read to children at local libraries or schools

Read or record books on tape for the blind and visually impaired

If I can assist you with any of these project ideas, please email me at

dadelaney1950@gmail.com, and I’ll be glad to help.

Fellow Lions – I have recently been in contact with Anita Graham, social worker with the

WVU Medicine Children’s Pediatric Blood and Cancer Center.

Many of you (about 90) individually or as a club donated $50 Visa Gift Cards to their

“Camp in a Box” project, when their annual summer camp was cancelled and it had to be

held virtually. You may also remember that we donated a “car full” of snacks to the

Children’s Pediatric Blood and Cancer Center during the Leadership Retreat last January.

The generosity shown by our MD29 Lions was very helpful and very much appreciated

by the affected young patients and their families.

Anita is now collecting $25 Visa Gift Cards as a holiday project to assist the families of

children who are undergoing treatments during the holiday season, to be used for food,

gas etc. Imagine yourself in such a difficult situation, with a sick child, trying to cope

with the stress, worry and expense involved. This is an easy and worthwhile service

project, and I think many Lions will be interested in assisting.

If your club or you as an individual Lion would like to participate, please purchase a $25

Visa Gift card (or cards) at a vendor of your choice, and please activate it by paying the

small fee involved.

We hope to collect the cards by the middle of November, if possible. The cards can be

sent to me at 191 Ridgeway Drive, Bridgeport, WV 26330. Questions may be directed to

me at 304-203-2006 or at cinwa130@gmail.com. If you or your club would prefer to

send the cards directly to Anita Graham, let me know and I will provide her address.

Childhood Cancer is one of Lions Clubs International’s global initiatives, and this will

assist children and families affected here in West Virginia. #KindnessMatters #WeServe

Thank you!

Lion Cindy Glass

Past Council Chair

On the past three Saturdays, members of the Scott Teays Lions Club have been in the

Huntington Bank parking lot in Teays Valley selling Chick-fil-A meals. And they plan to

be there again on Saturday, October 3rd. They have been there between the hours of 11:00 am and

1:00 pm and each Saturday they sold out thanks to support of the community and friends. Each

Saturday, the mix of members working has changed, meaning that all members are participating.

The club needed to work together on a project and this one has been good for the members. They

were unable to sell Christmas trees last year because they couldn't find any trees and the Putnam

County Homecoming was cancelled due to COVID-19. Both of these activities are big fundraisers for

the club. See you Saturday, October 3rd. Thanks for your support.

Bill Hensley 304-757-8599

Lions Luther Cope and Tom Owens wait on a customer

at the Lions Chick- fil-A meal sale.

Lions Tom Owens, Luther Cope, Bill

Hensley, Larry Frye, Harold Walker and

Steve Biron

Lion Luther Cope and Larry Frye wait on a

customer while other Lions prepare the Chick

-fil- A meals.

Lion Bill Hensley dressed as the Chick fil A cow

invites customers.

“FLAGS FOR HEROES”

The Mt. Olivet Lions will proudly display 110 American

flags from November 8th through 16

th in honor of VETER-

ANS DAY at the Mt. Olivet Community Park.

If you did not already sponsor a flag for our 2020 Display,

and wish to do so, please contact Lions Paul/Phyllis Am-

rhein at pamrhein25@comcast.net to receive information

on how to become a sponsor. Your flag will then be

among those special HEROES we honor.

Information on our VETERANS DAY PROGRAM will be available soon on our web page ( https://e-clubhouse.org/sites/mt_olivet/ ) and on our Facebook Page (Mt Olivet Lions).

Happy Autumn fellow Lions of West Virginia!!!!

Soon, the leaves will begin their annual color show. Our

thoughts will soon turn to cooler weather, Trick or Treat,

Thanksgiving, and the end of the year with Christmas and New

Year’s. I think I can speak for many in saying that I will be hap-

py to see 2020 finally end. Thankfully, the end of the year gets

closer each passing day.

I want to begin by sending kudos to DG Charolette Henson in

29C and each of her respective Club secretaries. Her Clubs have

had 100% membership reporting to LCI for July and August. Please keep up the good report-

ing!!!!

While it is important to report service projects, it is just as important to report our member-

ship numbers. LCI and the districts base your Club’s international and district dues on the

numbers that are reported to LCI. December and June are the two most critical months to

report membership. Dues notices based on those numbers go out in January and July. If any

Club secretary or Club administrator has issues with making monthly membership reports to

MyLCI, please contact me or your district GST and one of us will be happy to show you how

this is easily done. Whatever we need to do to help will be done. We serve!!!!!!!!

Lion Dan Heintzman, MD-29 Global Service Team chair

PLEASE PLACE STAMP HERE

29 L Newsletter DG Ron Grubb

Newsletter Chairperson, Lion Kathy Syphers

77 Raven Avenue

Wheeling, WV 26003