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Concession # 2 has a Long Tradition of serving the needs of

Customers

This concession has a long tradition of serving the mid-dle part of Lions Field. Starting out as a trailer for

drinks and sausage wraps. It is now an island of con-venience with clean restrooms, a pavilion for eating and

enjoying local musical talent. The menu has varied over the years trying to find the combination that ap-pealed to most of the customers. The current menu

seems to fill the bill. They offer sliced Bar-B-Que sand-wiches, turkey legs, sausage wraps, hot dogs, chicken

tenders, and french fries.

Eyeglass Recycling Wimberley Lions Club turned in another 101 pair of

glasses in August for recycling. Thanks to Lion Marian Birnie who coordinates this effort with the Sight and Hearing Conservation Committee. This work makes it possible to send glasses to Central American locations where the citizens would not be able to obtain eye cor-rection without this program,

Wimberley Lions Club

Club President Lonnie Duke

E-mail: lonnie.w.duke@gmail.com

126 Augusta Lane, Wimberley, TX 78676

Editor Dan Williams

E-mail: Dan.rr12@gmail.com

12 Palmer Lane, Wimberley, TX 78676

Road Warriors

Our monthly group of Road Warriors continues to clean up Wimberley area roads in spite of the stifling heat. Their efforts are greatly appreciated by all of the community. This group is led by Lion Frank Williams and he is very diligent about keeping it going.

Leo Club Blood Drive (Sep 2011) blood collection The Wimberley Leo Club had a Blood Drive and col-lected 46 pints of blood and 12 of those were collected from Leo's. Twenty members of the club worked on organizing the blood drive. Tasks included hanging posters announcing the drive, collecting donor names

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is divided among the Non-Profit organizations that staff the store. The agreement is for the Village Store to build this new facility at the back end of Parking Lot # 3. They will not operate the facility during Market Day so the loss in park-ing space will only be where the building is located. This should be a win win for the community providing more items sold trough the thrift shop which is out of room resulting in more funds going to the non-profits of the community. The Lions with get better utilization out its resources better serving the community.

during lunch break, and checking donors in on the day of the drive. This was a very successful drive and we will host another drive next year. Pictured are Leo Chair Lion John Stark our Youth Campaign and Leo Savanna Martorrel.

Lions and Village Store sign lease agreement.

Martha Knies and our Lion Boss Lonnie signed the lease for the Village Store at the last Market Day. The Village Store is to raise money to build a new community thrift store. Profits from this operation

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Lion Lane is Awarded for New Members

Lion Lane Hartsock is presented a pin for recruiting five

new members for the Wimberley Lions Club.

Meal Reservations Procedures

New Members of the Wimberley Lions Club

New Member Name Email Sponsor Committees

Don Anderson Don-charli@austin.rr.com Stan Luczkowski Greeter

Carol Josephson cljosephson@gmail.com C. W. Burns Greeter/Mobile Health

E. J. Josephson Edgar.josephson@gmail.com C. W. Burns Mobile Health

Frank Walker sailpancho@aol.com Jack Burke Scholarship/Mobile

Health

Judy Walker jbellwalk@aol.com Jack Burke Mobile Health/sight Con-

servation

Lion Rebecca Stoian explains the new procedures

for getting correct email addresses and how to be

sure you have a meeting reservation.

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Shown above are the new members and their sponsors. Left to Right is E. J. Josephson, Carol Josephson,

Gary Harlow, Frank Walker, Judy Walker, Jack Burke, Don Anderson and Stan Luczkowski.

New Members with Their Sponsors

Village Library held an Open House for Their Sup-

porting Organizations Lion Boss Lonnie Duke and Club Secre-tary Lee Gibson staffed a table to find other volunteers that would like serving with the Lions.

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Zone Meeting held in Wimberley

Pictured left to right are Stan Luczkowski, Sharon Goss, Rogers Holt, Bev Nesmith, PDG Dave Slider, Zone

Chair Les Kubena, Lee Gibson, Barry Tyler, Lane Hartsock, President Lonnie Duke and Fred Carney.

Not pictured is Dick Adams.

Zone IV-B Chair, Les Kubena, discussed DG Gary Cocanougher’s Focal Points based on his motto “Vision of

Dreams”. October/November goals will be on Sight and White Cane Day and December/January will be fo-

cused on hunger and each club is being asked to “Adopt a Family” in their community. In April, the goal will be

on the Environment and our District will be expected to plant 1,000 trees. Trees can be donated but we need

to come up with a plan to meet this goal.

The mid-winter conference will be held on January 28, 2012 in McQueeney, TX and the District Convention will

be held on April 20-21 in Georgetown, TX. The MD2 State Convention will be held in Houston from May 17-19,

2012. Les talked about the 2013 District Convention that will be hosted by our District and they will need lots

of help as it gets closer. It will be held at the Airport Hilton in Austin in May, 2013.

An interesting discussion was held about Membership, Retention, Recognition, websites and newsletters. It is

key that we keep communication open with all members of our clubs. It was a very information session and en-

joyed by all. Lee Gibson

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Market Day Cleanup

The Saturday before Market Day is Lions Field Cleanup day. The club sends out an email announc-ing it and requesting volunteers to come out and participate. That starts with coffee and donuts pro-vided - and many come a little early to visit (and perhaps discus the previous night’s football game). Field Mgr Jack Bourke sends them out with pick-up grippers and a plastic bag to collect all the small trash on the field and the parking lots. The usual turnout is 15 to 20 Lions and sometimes volun-teers from local organizations who reciprocate service with our Lions Club. One group who seem to consistently show up to help are the local Scouts. This picture is most of last Saturday’s (Sept 24th) group from Pack 127. They had 12 scouts along with their leaders (One whom is one of our newest Lion members, Dr Eric Price). They walked all over the parking lot and cleaned it up everything that wasn’t growing or tied down. And back at the field, all those stale do-nuts disappeared also.

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A Sampling of Classical Music

Two representatives of the

Mid-Texas Symphony per-

formed a sampling of classical

music.. The performers were

Eliza Thomason on viola and

Erik Daub on the piano. Dr

Eliza Thomason is the Director

of Strings & Asst. Professor at

Texas Lutheran University. Dr

Eric Daub teaches piano at Aus-

tin School of Music and SW Lu-

theran University. The full or-

chestra has over 60 members

and will be next performing at

the Community Center in New

Braunfels on October 23 at

4:00.