STUDENT SPEECH CONTEST - Leader Marge and Jim

It is Done! Congratulations!

Many Thanks, Marge Bunyard, Jim Ousley , Jerry Venz (for taking photos),and all Club Members, Judges, and Audiences

February 3, 2009 Tuesday at Florentine Restaurant - Saratoga
12 am - 2pm

Speakers: 4 - 5 Saratoga High School student
Subject: Water - Is CA going to be left high and dry?

Thank you for giving a helping hands.

Lions Diabetes Lunch - Leader Marge Bunyard

Many Thanks, Marge

Lions Diabetes Lunch on Sat Jan 31

Wyndham Hotel, 1350 N. 1st St, San Jose

No Host Cocktails-11:00, Lunch- 12:15

Cost: $45.00 each--food is good.

Make checks to Diabetes Luncheon.

Lions yearly hire great stand-up comedians to entertain us...a real treat!

The donated prizes for drawings are really special. Tickets are $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00.

Proceeds go to send diabetic kids to camp to teach them to cope with diabetes.

Send your check for $45/person. Why not add $5.00 for each lunch to get 3 raffle tickets?

Thanks Saratoga Lions for giving a helping hand

Flag Days - Leader Elaine Clabeaux

Many Thanks, Elaine and all participants.

Lions Flag Days with our Local Schools Schedule

Blue Hills School Feb 25 at 10:15am at the Flagpole 70 children

Teacher: Sarita Burbank

Marge and George Bunyard

Foothill School Feb 12 at 1:30 pm at the Auditorium 60 children

Teacher: Sheridan Kurtz-Fenster

Dean James and Bob Louden

Sacred Heart School Feb 20 at 9:40am First Grade Classroom 36 children

Teacher: Patty Bliss

Shirley and Bob Cancellari

Marshall Lane School Feb. 23 Two sessions 1:00pm, 1:20 pm Office 100 children

Lions:Pete Kramer, Marlene Duffin,Hugh Hexamer and Jerry Venz___________________________________________

Teacher: Kimberly Jones
Christa Mc Auliffe School 38 student. Feb 27 1:00 pm Office
Lions: Berdan Mardinly, Sema Oktay, Elsie Riddle

Thank you giving a helping hand.

Hands on Project - Leader Elsie Riddle

Hands On Project : To celebrate Christmas of hospitalized kids at Kaiser Hospital,
Materials : Some gifts for children,
Sponsor: All Saratoga Lions,

Thank you for giving a helping hand.

President.

Thanks Bob Louden

Our Club Member and Past President Bob Louden accomplished the following Lions activities this week:

1) Assembled all of the pieces needed for the Fund Drive mailing 11/4 at a cost of about $275

2) With lots of help ( Marlene, Dick, George, Marge, Bob) mailed out 170 Fund Drive letters on 11/5

3) Filed the Saratoga Lions Charitable Foundation income tax return on 11/6

4) Petitioned the Post Office and got the combination to our PO Box which I will manage in the future.

Many thank you's

Berdan Mardinly
President.

A.J. Robinson Mobile Screening project - Leader Elsie Riddle

Dear Saratoga Lions: Congratulate yourself! One more of our projects is done successfully.
Project: The A.J. Robinson Mobile Screening Unit and Saratoga Health Fair


Date: November 1, 2008
Time: 9am - 12am
Location: Saratoga Senior Center - 19655 Allendale Avenue, Saratoga California 95070



Purpose: The A.J. Robinson Mobile Screening Unit is a mobile trailer outfitted for providing health screenings that may highlight risks for blindness or vision problems. The trailer is also outfitted to be used for hearing screenings.

Health screenings provided for 40 people

A Million Thanks, 1. Saratoga Lions Club Members:
Dr. Robert Mastman, Marlene Duffin, Elsie Riddle, Berdan Mardinly, Angie Fredric, George and Marge Bunyard, Emily Lo, Bob Cancellieri, Lois Ferber (from Almaden Super), John Costere, Hugh Donagher , Bob DeUnger

2. Volunteer Nurses from the El Camino Hospital, Charles A Smart, Yvonne Chu,
3. Susan Huff (Director at the Saratoga Senior Center), 4. AJ VAN Robinson.

We helped people and we had fun.



Thank you for giving a helping hand.

Berdan Mardinly

President of the Saratoga Lions Club.

Finished and supported projects since August till October

Congratulate yourself!
Our Finished and Supported Projects:

1. Backpacks - Marlene Duffin, Bob Louden, Shirley cancellieri,Jim Ousley,
2. Newsletter - www.saratogalion.blogspot.com - Berdan Mardinly,
3. Taste of Saratoga - Rose Marie Dippel, Emily Lo, Nesli Yilmaz, Marlene Duffin, Jery venz, Shirley Cancellieri, Berdan Mardinly,
4. City of hope - Marlene Duffin,
5. White Cane Days - Nesli Yilmaz, Belinda Silva, Marge and George Bunyard, Bob Louden, Dean James, Christine Connor, Paul Zics, Jery Venz, Wilfred Hirschman, Marlene Duffin, Dilek Toprak, Berdan Mardinly

A Million thank you's

Berdan Mardinly
President of Saratoga Lions Club
"Success will be ours, not mine"

White Cane Days Project is Done - Leader - Nesli Yilmaz

One more project is done. Monies collected are used to support programs and services for people who are blind or visually impaired as well as for sight conservation. Nesli Yilmaz was the leader of this project .
We appreciate her big effort.
Belinda Silva helped her for this organization.

Our Location was at Gene's Fine Foods market in Saratoga,
Days : October 5th - Saturday, October 6th - Sunday,
Time: 12 - 2pm and 2pm - 4pm
Volunteers: Shirley Cancellieri, Paul Zics, Marge and George Bunyard, Bob Louden, Dean James, Jery Venz, Christine Connor,



And Other volunteers:

Wilfred Hirschman

Marlene Duffin

Dilek Toprak
Berdan Mardinly,



A Million Thank you's


Berdan Mardinly - President

Taste of Saratoga - Art and Wine Festival-DONE

Picture is taken by Jerry Fenz. Sent by Kathi Fenz. Thank you Kathi and Jerry.
Hello Saratoga Lions,

Our club story for joining the Art and Wine festival of Saratoga in last minute:
Wow! What a club.
Yesterday, we had a busy Board and regular meetings. I will send an email about our meetings later but now, I would like you to know about our last minute event.

Yesterday at the club meeting, we decided to join " Taste of Saratoga" event on Saturday 9/20 (September 20th, 2008) between 10 am - 6pm.

We brainstormed about the event.

1. Rose Marie Dippel took over responsibility of booth in the event between 11 am to 3pm for Saratoga Lions Club. Rose Marie - A million Thank you's
2. I and Emily Lo went to Saratoga Chamber of Commerce to get permit for having a booth.
I got all the documents. Emily - A million thank you's
3. I went to Rose Marie Dippel House to give all documents from Chamber of commerce.
4. Marlene Duffin was going to send information about our club to Nesli Yilmaz ? Marlene - A million Thank you's.
5. Nesli was going to take copies of flyers and bring to the event. Nesli - A million Thank you's.
6. Jerry will take pictures during the event. Jerry - A million Thank you's
7. Emily and Rose Marie will be there to set up our booth.
8. I can stay with Rose Marie from 11 am to 12 am.
9. Rose Marie will represent us at the Saratoga lions Club booth between 11am to 3pm.
10. Rose Marie Pick up the banner of Saratoga Lons Club from Elaine today.
Elaine was keeping the Saratoga Lions Club banner for the convention.
Elaine - A million thank you's.


http://www.saratogachamber.org/taste_of_saratoga.htm

TASTE OF SARATOGA 2008
Fine Art and Wine Festival
14485 Big Basin Way - Saratoga, CA 95070
Saratoga Lions Club Space #113 ( through 4th street)
between 10am - 6pm.
this picture is taken by a Chinese newspaper reporter (it was also featured in the newspaper today as well). - Sent by Emily Lo. Thank you Emily.
what did we do at the event ?
1. Emily and Rose Marie went to the event area (Saratoga Down town) before the festival start to set up the booth around 9 :45 am.
2. Nesli left the club flyers.
3. Emily and Rose Marie represented our clubs at the festival until 12:50 pm.
4. Berdan was there around 12:50pm and stayed with Rose Marie until 1:50pm.
5. Shirley would like to work for this event.
6. Around twenty people at the Art and Wine Festival would like to support our club projects and they added their contact information to our list.


Volunteers: Rose Marie Dippel, Leader,
Marlene, send information to the club secretary for flyers,
Emily , helped to Set up the club booth,
Nesli , brought flyers,
Elaine, Provided our club banner,
Jerry, took the our club booth's picture,
Berdan, stayed with Rose Marie Dippel between 12:30pm to 1:50pm.
Shirley, would like to work with us.
Chinese newspaper reporter,
MANY THANKS to our volunteers.

Thanks for your support,

President.


"Success will be ours, not mine"

Back Pack project - Done

Purpose: is to help " Homeless School Kids" program of San Jose Unified School District.
Marlene Duffin, Bob & Shirley Cancellieri, Bob Louden represented Saratoga Lions club and Jim Ousley and Chris Conner helped us for this project.


A million Thank you's .

Marlene said about back pack project;

"The Saratoga Lions Board approved the backpack project several meetings ago

Saratoga Lions club almost paid to the South San Jose Lions Foundation....the Almaden Super Lions Foundation account for this project. Almaden Super Lions purchased supplies for 900 backpacks. They have a member that owns a large building in Santa Clara so that was the location for the trucked in school supplied and backpacks. Chris Conner, of our Club, made arrangements with San Jose Unified School District to pick up some of our allocated back packs for their homeless school kids program and I took the rest of our back packs for Bob Louden to deliver to 2 schools in the Campbell School District. Chris and her friend as well as Bob & Shirley Cancellieri were working on the backpacks Sunday. Chris said she would be at the meeting on Tuesday to update the Club. There were at least 50 Lions working Sunday as many Clubs purchased backpacks for their local school kids."

Step Out walk to Fight Diabetes - Let's do it.

Purpose: you are playing a key role in the American Diabetes Association's mission to find a cure for diabetes. To save lives. And to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Let's do it. Saratoga Lions Club will support "Step Out walk to fight Diabetes" project. Our team: 1. George Bunyard, 2.Marge Bunyard, 3.Marlene Duffin, 4."your name here".
A million thank you's.
Please let us know your feelings after the walk.

Date: October 12, 2008 Location: Arena Green For more information, call 1-888-DIABETES or Contact

Available Route(s): 1.5 mile, 5K or 10K (run/walk) Registration Opens: 8:30 AM Event Start Time: 10:30 AM Run Start Time: 10:00 AM Walk Start Time: 10:30 AM

detail information:
http://stepout.diabetes.org/site/TR/StepOut/StepOut557058010?pg=entry&fr_id=5374

" Success will be ours, not mine"
Saratoga lions Club President