Recently, Lions from the Rivertown Lions Club assisted in making Kenner’s Rivertown Night Out Against Crime Event a success by volunteering their time and refreshments to attendees. In conjunction with several local organizations including the city, local churches, and other non profit organizations, The Annual Night Out Against Crime event offered a great time for all who attended along with some great food and fellowship. The National Night Out Against Crime is an event observed nationwide in a multitude of communities. The event is designed to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness, generate support for local anti-crime programs, and strengthen neighborhood-police relations. Congratulations to the Lions of this great club for their efforts to prevent the evils of crime.
Our leadership seminar was a success. We started of by having demonstrations of our cubsight equipment and explanations of the process for putting together a screening. We then broke out into our sessions where we had excellent presentations given about several important jobs in the club and district. We then had a great lunch where we were entertained by the tales of Lion Curt Boudreaux. We then held sessions on submitting referrals for both the Camp and Eye Foundation.
To finish off the seminar, we had an excellent steak dinner and enjoyed the speakings of our International guest, Haynes H. Townsend, as he encouraged Lion Scruggs’ motto for the year “a Beacon of Hope”.
8-S club Algiers Lions Club recently gave their site redesign and is regualrly being updated with details from their club. Check it and all our district clubs out on their websites under the “Links” section of the website. Clubs can easily get a free easy to update site by signing up at LIONWAP.ORG. Also, if you’re a club from the district and we don’t have your site listed on the links page, please make sure to let us know and we’ll add it to the list!
Our podcast was honored to get the chance to sit down with him, now the convention got to hear his word. Check it out here.
The convention was honored to have our state’s Secretary of State Jay Dardenne join us for lunch and gave us a little politcal history lesson of Louisiana.
Members of the University Park Lions setup a live broadcast, at our state convention, where we interviewed various Lions from across the state about their clubs activities, what Lionism is, and about our state projects. The podcast was streamed here on our district website. The club had a great time doing it and this podcast offers as a great way for folks who weren’t able to make it to convention to hear what all happened and it also serves as a great way to show potential Lions what exactly Lionism is about and how they can participate in the fun and excitement.
This past weekend, the St. Bernard and Arabi clubs participated in selling Big Bass raffle tickets at the St. Bernard Crawfish Festival. There was great food, great music, and great comraderie enjoyed by all. Pictured are several Lions from around the area who participated in selling the tickets. Thanks to these Lions for their dedication and support of our State Fundraiser.
