“Among terrible years, 2019 was bad but 2020 won. Then 2021 followed, and was like 2020 too.”

2022 Carnival Grant Recipients Announced

Here are the community organizations which will be re-ceiving funding from our 2022 Carnival & Raffle. Funds are generally available after the Carnival revenue is reconciled, and usually must be disbursed by September. The grand requests are initially screened by the Communi-ty Betterment Committee (CBC), then approved by the Board and finally voted by the full membership. The entire process runs from September to December, and then is formally an-nounced in January the day before tickets go on sale. 2022 projects are: Clifton Christian Church Food Bank, Facility Addition / Remodel, $25,000; Community Hospital, Cancer Center, $25,000; CMU, Physician Asst. Program building, $25,000; Central High School, (Geometry in Construction), outdoor workspace, $10,000; R-5 High School, outdoor kitchen, $6,400; Gateway-Unaweep Fire Dist., wildfire brush truc, $6,215; Orchard Mesa Middle School, classroom libraries, $5,650; Family Health West Foundation, Galileo rehab equipment, $5,000; Dos Rios Elementary, P.E. equipment, $4,180; Central High School Green Team, Campus Garden, $4.000; Orchard Ave. Elementary (Neurodiversity classroom), beam interactive indoor playground, $4,000; Dual Immersion Academy Preschool, playground fence, $3,500; Monument Ridge Elementary, 5th grade gifted & talented, $1,000. A list of these projects, as well as many of our past grants, will be available at club meetings to use in your sales.

Ticket Sales Locations Listed A full schedule of approved (by each location) places we will be selling raffle tickets during the Carnival selling season. While this is for any member, this is particularly useful for Rookies and others who do not have their own list of previous buyers. Jan. 8 & 9, 11 a.m.to 2 p.m. — Fruita City Market Jan. 15 & 16, 11 a.m.to 2 p.m. — Orchard Mesa City Market Jan. 22 & 23, 11 a.m.to 2 p.m. — 24 Rd City Market Jan. 29 & 30, 11 a.m.to 2 p.m. — Horizon Drive Safeway Feb. 5 & 6, 11 a.m.to 2 p.m. — Redlands Safeway Feb. 12 & 13, 11 a.m.to 2 p.m. — Fishers Liquor Barn

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Board of Directors: President………..…….....……Angela Wetzel 1st Vice Pres. ……….….....…Shawna Grieger 2nd Vice Pres…........................Randy Kendall 3rd Vice Pres………………...Dr. Laurie Stein Secretary………….................…Carlos Baldo Treasurer……………………....Meghan King Tail Twister…….……….…...Andrew Weber Lion Tamer ……….…...............Julian Henao Director………...…….……...…Phil Onofrio Director…………………...………Dan Sites Director………………..…..................vacant Director…………...……..…Scott Feddersen Membership Chair……….….Brad McCloud

April 1, 2020

Bookcliff Country Club — Noon

CLUB MEETS EVERY TUESDAY Bookcliff Country Club — Noon Board meets the fourth Monday of every month

Newsletter Editor: Reford C. Theobold Song leader: Alan Workman Pianist: Hugh Plumleigh Chaplain: Brad Higginbotham Executive Secretary: Deb Moesser

Trivia Challenge This month’s theme is a old movie stars. Your challenge is to identify this iconic film duo. This is the last photo of them together, taken in 1956 just before the one on the right died. The prize is again a delightful treat from Enstrom’s (7th & Colo-rado). Entries are by email only — no phone calls, texts, letters, or telegrams. Winner chosen from ALL correct entries. Random drawing for winner will be at Li-ons on Jan. 11. You must be pre-sent to win. Send your answer to: GJLionsTrivia@aol.com

Trivia Answer (Dec.) The December question was to identify the Top 40 hit par-odied in the photo illustration here: The song, as many Lions fig-ured out, was Free Falling by Tom Petty. The parody lyrics would be “She’s a good girl, loves her llama, loves Cheezits and asparagus, too.” Lions who got the right answer and were in attendance on Dec. 14 (when trivia was pre-empted by Spouse’s Day) Karl Clemons, Brian Cole, and Leonard Little. Karl was the winner in a random drawing. Also correct were Brad Higginbotham, Scott Feddersen, Brian Hollingsworth, and Nick Beightel. Carlos Baldo and Joe O’Connor made a noble effort, but missed out.

Program Calendar: Jan. 4 — ticket handout Jan. 11 — GJ Airport (Angela Padlecki) Jan. 18 — Mesa County Veteran Services (Anthony Lee) Jan. 25 — Foster Alumni Partners (Kim Raff)

Greeters Schedule: Jan. 4 — Hannah Manley & Dana Hansen Jan. 11 — Matt Soper & Andrew Weber Jan. 18 — Todd Rowell & Brad McCloud Jan. 25 — Beau Flores & Brad McCloud

Email additions or corrections: Executive Secretary Deb Moesser at gjlionsclub@gmail.com Website: www.GJLions.org Facebook: Grand Junction Lions Club https://www.facebook.com/gjlions

Jan. 4, 2022

Board of Directors: President………..……………....…Dan Sites 1st Vice Pres. ……….….........Andrew Weber 2nd Vice Pres…............................Phil Onofrio 3rd Vice Pres………………......Nick Beightel Secretary………….................…Carlos Baldo Treasurer………..…………......Meghan King Tail Twister…….…….….....Lori Mizushima Lion Tamer ……….….............Willard Pease Director……….....……...Shane Allerheiligen Director………………………...Sarah Colvin Dir./Immediate Past Pres........Shawna Grieger Dir./Distant Past Pres. ……..…Angela Wetzel Membership Chair……….….Austin Erickson

Warehouse 2565 — Noon

Reford Theobold, Newsletter Editor

Hugh Plumleigh, Pianist

Alan Workman, Song Leader

Brad Higgenbotham, Chaplain

Deb Moesser, Executive Secretary

Liberty, Intelligence Our Nation’s Safety

A reminder that you can put a credit card on file to pay dues monthly.

New Carnival Booth Revealed The Gifted and Talented 5th grade class of Monument Ridge Elementary are the winners of our Carnival Booth Con-test. These guys and gals came up with a booth they call Sports Bounce. None of these kids have been to a carnival before but are looking forward to this year. We had 20 entries trying to win and received some great ideas. The winners receive $1,000 to buy school gym equipment and the runners up receive a few of the attached Monopoly Money, convertible at carnival for $1 worth of game play.

Sports Bounce Booth cre-ators from Monument Ridge Elementary (above) submitted the winning en-try. Teacher Meredith Thornhill’s class posed with Dan Sites and Austin Erickson. The prize money for some students is at right.

Random Acts Inspire Creativity Several Lions had unique stories to tell about their use of the $100 for a random act. Past President Gregg Palmer, who introduced this tradition back in 2004, was in an auto parts store where he watched a young man counting out a pile of change to be able to pay for some new brakes to install himself. When Gregg approached him in the parking lot to give him the $100 bill, the young man was overcome with emotion. Sarah Colvin is a CASA volunteer, who are advocates for children in the court system. She gave her $100 to a grandmoth-er who is also in CASA for gifts for the kids she works for. Andrew Weber gave his $100 to a man who has struggled with employment and finances, and whose wife just learned she has cancer. He hoped to pick up his spirits this Christmas with the gift. Karl Clemons gave his $100 bill to Samantha, a single mother of two so she could buy food and Christmas gifts for her two children. She told Karl “God bless the Lions.” Lori Mizushima, along with some other Lions, got new tires for Sandra who was unable to pay for them. Lore got Big O to sell them to Lori and the other members at cost. Big O added a swag bag of treats for the kids, and then the Lions added a $200 gift card from City Market for groceries. Sandra also expressed deep appreciation to the GJ Lions. The GJ Lions are well-known for their major projects around the community, but in 2004 Gregg intro-duced this new way to impact area with these smaller-scale individual efforts to spread the spirit of the sea-son.

Carnival Calendar Jan. 4 -- Ticket Handout Sit by teams till Carnival and bring your dollars $1/Lion

to go to top selling team Jan. 10 -- Ticket Captain Dinner at Fiesta Guadalajara on 7th & North Ave. 6:30pm Feb. 18 -- Carnival Set up 2 Cakes per Lion or $50 fine NEW THIS YEAR, bring Country Store item. We’ll

ask everyone to bring an item aligned with Gil’s shop-ping list for Country Store to fill those bags.

Feb. 19 -- Carnival and Parade We need all able-bodied Lions to work Carnival

We’ll have some volunteers but please plan on being there.

Breakfast at Pufferbelly 7a.m.

Parade 1 p.m.

Carnival 5 p.m. - NO CRANSTONS

After dinner 8:30 p.m. Blue Moon Feb. 20 -- Clean Up All rookies required from 20/21 and 21/22 season or be

billed $50 Mar. 11-- Ticket reconciliation deadline April 1 -- RSVP for banquet April 15 -- Banquet Banquet qualifiers. $1,000 worth of raffle tickets and be

reconciled by 3-11-21 Please mark these important dates on your calendar

No First Friday in January There won’t be a First Friday event for January to cour-

age everyone to spend more time selling tickets. That official decision was announced by Austin Erick-son, the First Friday guru.

In 1928-29, John C. Page was President of the GJ Lions. In the 1920s, Page was becoming a recognized expert in water and reclamation, and in 1929 he was appointed second in command for the new project that would eventually be named Hoover Dam. Early in 1936, Page3s was promoted to Engineering Manager for the US Bureau of Reclamation and by 1937 was appointed by Pres. Roosevelt as the Commissioner for the Bureau. He spent 7 years running the agency. Page’s legacy as a water manager began with Highline Canal in Grand Junction, and later Hoover Ham, Lake Mead, Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. His visions became a reality and the city built to house the work-ers for the Hoover Dam was later named in his honor as Page, Ariz.

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Past Pres. John C. Page

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It’s a New Year!

Good riddance to 2021.

Looking ahead to 1984!

Past Presidents 1. Silmon Smith ………........1921-22 2. M.N. Due ..........................1922-23 3. Fred C. Hogue ..….….......1923-24 4. German C. Fox ...….….....1924-25 5. J.J. Hamilton .………........1925-26 6. Harry P. Smith .....…….....1926-27 7. C.J. Bradfield ……............1927-28 8. John C. Page .....…..…......1928-29 9. F.C. Martin ....……...........1929-30 10. B.H. Day ...........……......1930-31 11. O.D. Williams .................1931-32 12. Roy A. Capman …..........1932-33 13. T.W. Gardner ..................1933-34 14. Al Look..............…..........1934-35 15. P.A. Matteroli .................1935-36 16. R.B. Kel .......……….......1936-37 17. Henbly Seibot .…............1937-38 18. F.O. Garrison …...….......1938-39 19. Clinton Smith ........….....1939-40 20. Rex Howell .........…........1940-41 21. C.K. "Chet" Enstrom …..1941-42 22. T.S. Campbell ...........…..1942-43 23. C.L. Paul …….................1943-44 24. Don Severson …..............1944-45 25. R.B. Williams ..….......... 1945-46 26. Cecil S. Haynie .............. 1946-47 27. Clinton Biggs ....…......... 1947-48 28. Coe VanDeren ........…....1948-49 29. Leland Schmidt ...…....... 1949-50 30. Tom Clam. .......…...........1950-51 31. Tom Mahan ........……....1951-52 32. M.R. Douglass ......….. ...1952-53 33. Ray C. Hume ...........….. 1953-54 34. Frank Hockensmith….... 1954-55

35. D.S. Dykstra .…........... 1955-56 36. Laird K. Smith .…........ 1956-57 37. J. Garth Hall ................ 1957-58 38. Gene Ridenour …..…... 1958-59 39. Al Cornelison .............. 1959-60 40. Frank Rose ........……... 1960-61 41. W.E. "Bus" Bergman …1961-62 42. Charles S. Lumnley …..1962-63 43. Hurst F. Otto ............….1963-64 44. William E. Foster ….... 1964-65 45. Joe Lacy ......……......... 1965-66 46. Don Stacey .....……..... 1966-67 47. Dick Pond .......………. 1967-68 48. John McKean …..…..... 1968-69 49. James Robb ....…......... 1969-70 50. Robert Collins ...…...... 1970-71 51. Jimmy Eisenhauer….... 1971-72 52. Edwin G. Ruland ..........1972-73 53. Lyle Shriver ...........….. 1973-74 54. Keith Mumby ..…........ 1974-75 55. Jim Hill ..........……...... 1975-76 56. Bill Beckwith ......….... 1976-77 57. James E. Wysocki …... 1977-78 58. William E. Sullivan …. 1978-79 59. Brian Mahoney ............ 1979-80 60. Robin Cherp ...…......... 1980-81 61. James A. Leland .......... 1981-82 62. Larry C. Jones …......... 1982-83 63. Ward Scott ….............. 1983-84 64. Tom Burke ...…........... 1984-85 65. Larry Feather .............. 1985-86 66. George White ..…............. 1986 67. Denny Granum …....... 1986-87 68. Dan Griffin .........….... 1987-88

Standing Committees:

Carnival : Austin Erickson: 858-386-6020, austin@gjced.com CMU Scholarship: Bob Van Iderstine: 970-245-5424, bob@westernsloperehab.com Denise Green: 970-201-4343, gjLiondenise@gmail.com Gregg Palmer: 970-242-7690, brownsshoegjc@gmail.com Community Betterment Committee (CBC): Phil Onofrio, 970-343-2866 Phil.onofrio@gmail.com Constitution/By laws: Jim Giese: 970-245-9227, jim@gieselaw.com Finance/Accounting: Meghan King: 970-580-5692 Meghan.holdsworth@gmail.com HomeTown Hero: Mike Foster: 970-433-8374, mfoster@cbcwest.com Induction/Orientation: Dan Griffin: 970-260-7559, danrita.griffin@gmail.com JUCO: Carlos Baldo, 814-316-6708, carlangasbal@yahoo.com Trucker Reed, 970-712-6213, tory.reed@cfbmic.com Lake Powell: Austin Erickson: 858-386-6020, austin@gjced.com

Lions Clubs Relationships: Vacant (volunteers welcome) Major Prizes: Shawna Grieger: 970-260-3175, sgrieger@wcca-gj.com Membership: Austin Erickson: 858-386-6020, austin@gjced.com Newsletter: Reford C. Theobold: 970-234-0113, rtheobold@aol.com Parade: Ben Linzey: 925-437-4439 tblinzey@gmail.com Programs: Andrew Weber: 970-312-4773 aweber@grandvalleybank.com Publicity PR: Brad McCloud: 970-250-7988, brad.d.mcloud@xcelenergy.com Angela Wetzel: 970-216-0351, angeladwetzel@gmail.com Sight: Joe O’Connor: 970-640-3369, joconnor@mesadev.org Song Leader: Alan Workman: 970-243-3450, workmansells@msn.com Ticket Chair: Andrew Weber: 970-312-4773 aweber@grandvalleybank.com WebMaster: Angela Wetzel: 970-216-0351, angeladwetzel@gmail.com

69. Jim Comerford ............... 1988-89 70. Alan Workman ............... 1989-90 71. Steve Ward ……............. 1990-91 72. Jamie Hamilton .............. 1991-92 73. Harry Griff .......……...... 1992-93 74. Doug Simons ................. 1993-94 75. Gregg Palmer ................. 1994-95 76. Bob Van Iderstine ..... ….1995-96 77. Jim Verdieck .................. 1996-97 78. Illene Roggensack ..... ….1997-98 78. Carey Merola ................. 1998-99 80. Rand Taylor ............... 1999-2000 81. Bill Rohr ...........………. 2000-01 82. Tim Wollin .......……..... 2001-02 83. Mike Russell ......…........ 2002-03 84. Doug Thomason ............ 2003-04 85. Lynn Hood .........…........ 2004-05 86. Randy Pearce ....……..... 2005-06 87. Brad McCloud ............... 2006-07 88. Reford C. Theobold .. 2007-08 89. Karl Clemons ................. 2008-09 90. Josh Aubert .......……..... 2009-10 91. Ky Oday ..........………... 2010-11 92. Jefferson Baker………....2011-12 93. Denise Green……….......2012-13 94. Chris Allen……….….….2013-14 95. Jim Giese……………….2014-15 96. Ken Brownlee……..…....2015-16 97. Craig Glogowski…..……2016-17 98. Jim Nickerson……......…2017-18 99. Scott Feddersen…….…...2018-19 100. Angela Wetzel………...2019-20 101. Shawna Grieger…….....2021-21

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This is the 2022 Carnival poster. According to insiders, the artwork depicts our current President Dan Sites, as well as the Past President Twins Shawnangela. Printed copies of this poster will be available on Tuesdays.