Lion Rick Robinson, President

THE LION ROARS

NEWSLETTER OF THE EASTGATE LIONS

MARCH, 2016

LION RICK ROBINSON, PRESIDENT

UPCOMING EVENTS

MARCH 2: Regular meeting, 6:30 pm, Garden Center, Pioneer Park. The program will be presented by the Director of the VA Hospital.

MARCH 16: Business meeting, 6:30 pm, Garden Center, Pioneer Park. A board meeting will precede the meeting at 5:30 pm. All board members should be present.

MARCH 26: Easter egg hunt pancake breakfast 6:00 am, Garden Center, Pioneer Park. We will provide a sausage and pancake breakfast to the people participating in the annual Easter egg hunt in Pioneer Park. We will serve from 6:30 to noon. More information at the March 2 meeting.

APRIL 6: Regular meeting 6:30 pm, Garden Center, Pioneer Park.

APRIL 8 – 9: District F convention, Red Lion Motor Inn, Pasco, WA.

A MESSAGE FROM LION PRESIDENT RICK

Thanks to all of you for making our 25th crab feed the best ever. A huge thank you to our scouts. Lion Glen and I are going to meet with the scout leaders to offer them a few more dollars so we can get them to make our crab feed a dedicated event for them each year. Without their help we cannot put this event on.

We will be putting on a new fund raising event this year with a pancake breakfast the same morning that the Exchange Club puts on the Easter egg hunt at Pioneer Park.

Again, thank you for helping us pull off another successful crab feed.

That’s it.

Lion Rick Robinson, President

MARCH BIRTHDAYS

March 9: Lion Donna Laizure March 29: Lion Mike Howell March 29: Lion Gwen Gobel

A new Lion and two old veterans are our honorees this month!!

MENU FROM CHEF LUCY’S HASH HOUSE BISTRO

March 2nd will be lasagna!! March 16th the meal will be corned beef and cabbage!! Thanks to the Irish for this seasonal treat!!

MESSAGE FROM DG VIVA METZ

With the start of the New Year it is time to be thinking about electing new officers for 2016-17. Please get your nominating committee together and select Lions who are truly interested in serving as a club officer. DO NOT JUST PUT SOMEONE IN A POSITION WITHOUT ASKING THEM. It’s important to get people who want to serve as officers so that your club remains strong and active.

All new club officers are obligated to attend club officer training by June 30, 2016. Officer training will be available to all clubs in each zone. Thus far, club officer training for Zones F-4,5&7 will be held in Troy Idaho, on June 16th. Training for Zone F-8 will be held in Washtuca on April 30th. Other times and locations will be announced at a later date. Your club officers can attend any of these officer training sessions.

There is a possibility that your new club officers will be able to take the club officer training online. More information will be coming as details are worked out.

WANTED ZONE CHAIRPERSONS: We are in need of Lions to step up to serve as Zone Chairpersons in six of our eight zones. Qualifications for Zone Chairperson are that you must have served as either a club President or club Secretary and you and your club be in good standing with MD-19 and Lions International. PLEASE, PLEASE strongly consider stepping up and serving one year as a zone chairperson. For more information contact Paul Kauzlariach 509-949-9704 or your current zone chairperson. This will be an experience of a life time.

REFLECTION ON THE PASSING OF LION ED BAUSTIAN

It is with sad hearts that we reflect on the passing of Lion Ed. He was a good lIon and a genuinely nice person. He will be missed. At the March 2 meeting we will hold a remembrance moment for him.

STUPIDUM ERRATUM CORRECCTUM

Your editor has egg all over his face !! I forgot to congratulate Lion Dale Peck for his Melvin Jones Award, the highest in all of Lionism. So, Lion dale, please accept my apology and forgive the oversight. You are very deserving of the award.

USELESS FACTS YOU HAVE NO REASON TO KNOW EXCEPT FOR CURIOSITY SAKE

The first house numbers appeared in 1463, on the Pont Notre-Dame in Paris. A California law makes it illegal to shoot any game bird or animal from an automobile - except a whale! Surprisingly, Jupiter – the largest planet in the solar system – has the shortest day of all the planets. Jupiter completes a rotation on its axis in less than ten earth hours. The deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikul in Russia. At some points it is more than a mile deep. Although the Romans took baths and had excellent plumbing facilities for hot and cold water more than 2000 years ago, the habit of bathing died out during the Middle Ages. Baths were usually taken only on a doctor’s request. Even the US did not get its first bathtub until 1840. The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra was Greek by ancestry and had not a drop of Egyptian blood in her veins. The famed Queen of the Nile was descended from a line of brother-sister marriages, and she herself married two of her own brothers. Even when you are standing still, you’re actually traveling at incredibly high speeds. The earth is revolving at the speed of 1,000 miles per hour, and orbiting the sun at the speed of 66,700 miles per hour. People begin to shrink after the age of 30. (Boy, I wish I could shrink by about 50 lbs.!!) A mother cod can lay as many as 5 million eggs at a single spawning – of which only a half dozen usually survive. If all the cod eggs produced live fish, there would be no room left in the ocean for water. In 1970, a limbo dancer from the West Indies, Theresa Marquis, limboed her way under a bar only 6 ½ inches above the ground. Try to match that record!! ( I would but the cramps would kill me and, anyway, there is not enough beer in the world to make me even try it!!) The fastest dog in the world is either the greyhound or the saluki, depending on whom you talk to. The greyhound has been clocked at 41.7 mph. The Moscow to Beijing run on the Trans-Siberian Railroad is the longest rail journey that can be made without changing trains. A human being sheds skin continually, replacing it with an entire new outer layer once every 28 days. Gazelles, prairie dogs, wild asses, and many other animals never drink water. They have a special chemical process which transforms a part of their solid food into water. The largest clams in the world weigh close to 500 pounds. Beards were once placed under government control in Romania. Whiskers could be worn only if the owner secured an official permit and paid the appropriate fee. The invention of the first mechanical clock has been attributed to I’Hsing and Liang Ling-tsan of China, circa 725 A.D. Since their formation over 10,000 years ago the Niagara Falls have eaten their way 7 miles upstream. If they continue at that rate, they will disappear into Lake Erie in 22,800 years.

THE LIONS OF WALLA WALLA EASTGATE PROUDLY SERVING THEIR COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD COMMUNITY FOR 60 YEARS