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1st Vice District Governor, Ron Mitchell of Saraland Inducts the Presidents of the York and Livingston Lions Clubs Officers of the Livingston Lions Club are: • Present-Steve Springer • 1st Vice Present-Dr. Tim Edwards • Second VP Don Lauderdale • Sec-Treasury-Glen Bridges • ail Twister-Tommy Stuart • Lion Tamer-Mike Colvin • MEMBERSHIP Chairman-Bill Ward York Lions Club: • Present-David Hatcher • 1st VP- Tom Taylor • Secretary - Bev Holder • Treasury-David Hatcher • Tail Twister-Skip Holder • Lion Tamer-Amos Bailey • Membership Chairman-Reid Vaughan Saraland Club Gives Awards At the June 5, 2012, meeting of the Saraland Lions Club, Chelsea Johnson received the Mitchell-Rubenstein Lions Club Scholars award for most volunteer hours of all Saraland High School Leo Club members.  At the same meeting Nick Patel presented a check for $7,025 to the Saraland City Schools Archery Program.  This money was raised at the annual Pancake Breakfast fundraiser in April. Satsuma Lions Club Holds Inaugural Meeting The newly chartered Satsuma Lions Club inducted 40 members at its inaugural meeting on Jan. 16, 2012, at the Satsuma Community Shelter. At a dinner hosted by the sponsoring Saraland Lions Club, representatives from the Saraland group, Eight Mile Lions Club and Lions Club of Mobile welcomed the new Lions into the ranks of Lions Clubs International District 34-C. The president of the Satsuma Lions is William “Bubba” Hamblin.

2012 Pancake Breakfast, Saraland Lions Club From left are Joe Joe McDonald, Bill Silver and Mechaley West. The fundraiser will benefit, in part, Salaland City Schools' Archery Program; Mechaley and JoeJoe are fifth-graders at Saraland Elementary School and members of the Archery Club. Silver is chairman of the breakfast.

• October 28 - 2012 - SUGAR BOWL, www.southeasterndiabetes.org/ • State rates high in diabetes

NOVEMBER IS DIABETES PREVENTION MONTH Dear Diabetes Chairperson:   As a courtesy we are re-sending this message in the event you did not receive it last week. Thank you for serving as diabetes chairperson this fiscal year! Diabetes Awareness Month is celebrated in November. World Diabetes Day (November 14) is less than 50 days away!  Please explore the rewarding service opportunities for clubs in your district.  Here's how you can participate:  Find a project:  Show support for your community and help fight diabetes.  Suggested projects are listed in the "25 Project Ideas for Diabetes Awareness and Action." Community education: Distribute educational materials to promote awareness.  Many resources are available through our LCI partners: • National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) • National Eye Health Education Program (NEHEP) • In Canada, please visit the Canadian Diabetes Association website. Community activities: Host a Strides: Lions for Diabetes Awareness event.  Resources are available for you to organize a family-friendly walk, run, dance or bicycle ride for children and/or adults in your community.  Or, you may want to work with local health care providers to organize a diabetes screening at a school or community center.  Diabetes camps:  Recreational camps enable youth and their families to better manage and live with diabetes, and they offer many service opportunities for Lions.  Further ideas and information are available through our partner, Diabetes Education and Camping Association (DECA).  Please save thus date: November 8, 2012. You can participate in the LCI/DECA Webinar, How to Get Involved in Your Local Diabetes Camp. More details to follow. WDD projects:  See the International Diabetes Federation website for other ideas to celebrate World Diabetes Day in your area!  Remember to have your clubs report their projects through the LCI online Service Activity Report!  Very soon, you will be receiving a letter from Health & Children's Services Department with more information regarding other LCI programs and campaigns.  In the meantime, please contact us at programs@lionsclubs.org if you have any questions or need additional assistance.  Feel free to forward this e-mail to your fellow Lions.  In service, Marilee Kadar, Manager Health & Children's Services Department Lions Clubs International programs@lionsclubs.org

For Immediate Release 4/15/13 LIONS GREEN TEAM HELPS THOMASVILLE’S ENVIRONMENT  The Thomasville Lions Club recently took part in a Lions Green Team initiative to help the environment with the club’s ADOPT-A-MILE clean up located on Hwy 43. The club’s efforts resulted in picking up trash along our street’s. According to Lion Jim Newton, president of the Thomasville Lions Club, “This Lions Green Team project improved the environment and our community at the same time. It exemplifies our ongoing commitment to provide a healthier and safer place to live, work and play. Lions thank everyone who contributed to and supported this important effort. You are truly helping Lions make a difference.” The Thomasville Lions Club participates in this program along with their recycle project of used eye glasses, batteries and aluminum cans on the 1st Saturday of the month . The Thomasville Lions club are a group of men and women who identify needs within the community and work together to fulfill those needs. For more information visit www.thomasvillelionsal.lionwap.org Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization with more than 1.3 million members in approximately 45,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world. Since 1917, Lions clubs have aided the blind and visually impaired and made a strong commitment to community service and serving youth throughout the world. For more information about Lions Clubs International, visit the Web site at www.lionsclubs.org.

Dixie Lions Jessie Rosa, Chuck Cole, Larry Bryant and Richard Penton prepare to install a swing in the pavilion.

Dixie Lions Roy Browder, Bill Sumners, Chuck Cole, Larry Bryant and Robert Carr hang one of the swings.

Markus, Zac, Clark, Corey, Terrance , Tarrian and Cale of the Children’s Center break in the new swings;  joined by Dixie Lions Richard Penton, Kyle Sampsell, Larry Bryant and Robert Carr.

DIXIE LIONS CLUB AGAIN HELPS INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND In March of 2016, the DIXIE LIONS CLUB again teamed up with spring-breaking Vanderbilt students to do volunteer work at the Equestrian Center of Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind in Talladega.  Pictured below, Dixie Lion Richard Penton shows the students how to pry up rebar after removing old timbers as part of a bridle path renovation project. In 2014 and 2015, the Dixie Lions and Vandy students built and painted wooden fencing at the Equestrian Center.

Lions Club holds 69th East-West high school all-star baseball game, Mobile Press Register, 5/26/2012 Lions Club Tunnel Vision 5K will take runners through the Bankhead Tunnel, Mobile Press Register, 5/1/2012 Fourth Annual Lions Club Pancake Breakfast, Mobile Press Register, 4/24/2012 Saraland Lions Club's Pancake Breakfast fundraiser is April 14, Mobile Press Register, 4/10/2012 Newly chartered Satsuma Lions Club inducted 40 members, Mobile Press Register, 1/23/2012

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