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Membership Corner MAP: Membership Action I’m delighted to share with you information from IPDG Sally Kenavan on ways to increase membership! Lion Joe Dear Lions—We have just moved into our 3rd quarter for Lion Year 2018-19 and many Clubs have not recruited any new members! Do not despair—there is a MAP-Membership Action Plan that was published by former GMT-D Tom Kenavan, and he has granted me permission to give you some of his wisdom. A membership event was held that resulted in a 69% increase in Club Membership!! I was there, and the Club did an amazing job. They set the date and each member invited a friend, neighbor, husband or wife, church member, golfer, and/or college friend. Not a single member arrived without a guest. They room had beautiful blue table clothes on the tables, a small buffet line with beverages was available, and the entire room was set up with collages, tri-fold boards of service pictures, and a large professional tri-fold from Lions Clubs International about the Peace Posters winners. Lions were proudly walking their guest around pointing out the service projects and answering questions. A small table over on the side had their Lions Club Brochures and a stack of color LCI membership applications. The Clubs guests retrieved both brochures and applications and many signed-up at the event. A guest speaker talked about the roles of Lions from around the world and mentioned that “Where there’s a Need, There’s a Lion”. IT WORKS!! YOUR CLUB CAN BE JUST AS SUCCESSFUL—"YOU JUST HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE BOAT AND INTO THE WATER”. Invite more women and young professionals. Clubs have learned the value of women, as they now represent about 34% of our population in District 24-L. Women are excellent communicators and offer excellent beneficial leadership qualities to Clubs. Our new International President Gudrun Yngvadottir is the first woman to assume the helm for our 1.4 million Lions. The Women Leaders have started “New Voices” where each lion tells her story of service and dedication. You are invited to tell your story and be inspired. Go to: www.weserve.org/newvoices IPDG Sally Kenavan GMT-Specialist for Women and Families Sallykenavan1108@gmail.com District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 Yours in service, Joe Angsten GMT Membership Orientation & Retention New Member Orientation j g41164@verizon.net 703-368-1096 13

Do you have questions about Visitations? Visit valions.org and click on Administrative Forms and then 2018-2019 Visitation Requirements for a two-page instructional guide that will answer most of your questions. For a Participation Award, you must make 12 visits and all clubs in your Zone must be part of those 12. Keys to doing a successful visit include: Call the club you want to visit to verify location, time, whether there is a meal and acceptability of the date to visit. Clubs with 29 or less members need only one member to make a visit. Clubs with 30 or more members need two members to visit; visiting a club 50 or more miles away (your house to club visited) requires only one member to make a visit. Make the visit and share what your club is doing and learn from what their club is doing. Report the visit to your club Visitation Chair date of visit, name of club visited, purpose of visit, names of visitors. Your club Visitation Chair will report all club visits to 24-L not later than July 31, 2019. We’re here to answer your questions! Contact one of your District 24-L Visitation Co-Chairs: Lion Marie Davis 1457 Mandolin Dr. Grottoes of Virginia 24441 Misjenny1@verison.net Lion Hal Ladehoff 136 Abraham Ct. Woodstock, VA 22664 pahala@shentel.net Have an OPEN DOOR policy invite other Clubs to visit and learn about your service projects and fundraisers! District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 14

District 24-L Lions Blue Ridge Service Area Sight and Hearing Mobile Screening Unit (SAHMSU) The District 24-L Sight and Hearing Mobile Screening Unit is available for use by all Lions Clubs in Blue Ridge Service Area of Virginia. The Blue Ridge Service Area is what was called District 24-C last year. SAHMSU is a truck and fifth wheel trailer unit. The trailer has two vision screening stations, two hearing booths with new state of the art audiometers. There is also a consultation area where technicians review the results of screenings with the client who was screened. A separate room at the front of the Unit with a second glaucoma screener that can be set up if the client load requires. This room is often used for KidSight screenings using the SPOT vision camera that is on SAHMSU. This room also allows a Sight and Hearing Technician to speak with a client who has either a sight or hearing issue so that they can be properly referred to their local Lions Club for possible assistance if they are unable to pay for a follow-up with an eye care professional or audiologist based on the results of their screenings. As a result, SAHMSU has been referred to as “The Magic Bus”, even though it is not a bus. But, because of the support from Lions of Blue Ridge Service Area in District 24L who volunteer as screeners, technicians, registrars and drivers, Lions do make the miracles happen – identifying those who have vision and/or hearing issues and helping them get follow-up care. Let’s take a look at the basic operating expenses for SAHMSU. SAHMSU is housed in a specially built garage in Weyers Cave. The building is climate controlled to protect the vision, hearing, and glaucoma equipment on the Unit as well as keeping the truck and trailer out of the weather. This allows the Unit to be “on the road” almost every week of the year, bringing free sight and hearing screenings to schools, day care centers, nursing homes, county fairs, wellness festivals, and even a community parade or two. It is a beautiful unit with large Lions logos to show that it is a Lions Sight and Hearing Screening Unit. Our wonderful volunteers Lions serve as drivers, technicians, and screeners make sure the Unit gets to screening events and is properly staffed at each event. And, there are always opportunities for Club Members to get certified to be Technicians and Drivers. A CDL is not required to be a driver but experience driving a 5th Wheel camper to trailer is very helpful. Like any vehicle, both the truck and trailer need to be inspected, tires need to in good condition and insurance policies for both the trained volunteer drivers and the truck and trailer are required. Diesel fuel needs to be purchased to run the truck. Propane needs to be puchased to run the generators when SAHMSU can’t be connected to electric power. The vision and hearing equipment needs to be calibrated annually to ensure that the results of screenings are accurate. Continued next page District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 15

District 24-L SAHMSU (Continued) Last Lions Year, the hearing equipment was upgraded to more reliable Maico audiometers. One new audiometer is installed at each hearing booth and a third is “portable” and can be used on the Sight and Hearing Unit or carried into a “quiet room” in a school or day care center. This year all the vision machines were replaced with Titmus V4 state of the art vision screeners offering additional testing capability and improved testing accuracy. Each client who is screened is given a copy of their screening with annotations as to whether they should see an eye care professional, hearing care professional or their doctor based on the results of their screenings. We do a daily count of number of clients seen, total vision screenings, total vision referrals, and total vision anomalies; total hearing, total hearing referrals, and total hearing anomalies; total SPOT screenings, total SPOT referrals; and total glaucoma tested, glaucoma referrals. These stats are provided to the Sight and Hearing Mobile Screening Unit Board of Directors and provide continuous validation of the 501(c)(3) status. The positive impact that SAHMSU has made to members of our community is very impressive. In calendar year 2018 forty-five (45) individual Sight and Hearing events were staffed by more than 350 Lions volunteers. Volunteer drivers drove SAHMSU more than 4000 miles to ensure that screening events could be conducted in communities across The Blue Ridge Service Area. As a result more than 4,500 people are recorded as receiving sight, hearing, glaucoma, and/or SPOT vision screenings. SAHMSU technicians referred more than 340 people for follow up hearing care, 300 for follow-up vision care, 20 for follow-up glaucoma care, and 20 young children for follow-up based on SPOT vision screenings. Together, the Lions of District 24C Sight and Hearing Mobile Screening Unit and the Lions Volunteers who staff the screening events made a staggering and positive impact in the lives of children, youth, and adults. It takes funding from all our Clubs as well as a lot of dedication on the part of individual Lions volunteers from our Clubs to keep SAHMSU on the road, serve as Technicians, Drivers, and Screeners and enable Lions Clubs in the Northern Shenandoah Valley to provide free sight and hearing screenings. Enclosed you will find a banner patch for your donation to SAHMSU during Lions Year 2017-2018. We hope you will continue tradition of support to SAHMSU in Lions Year 2018-2019. Club or personal donations can be mailed to the SAHMSU Treasurer Lion James Golladay, P.O. Box 159, Stephens City Virginia 22655. Because of your Lions Year 2018-2019 donations, your clubs, technicians, screeners, registrars, greeters, and drivers will continue to hear from those we screen endless “thank yous”! Lion Greg Hart, SAHMSU President 775 Wadesville Road Berryville, VA 22611 540-955-6229 g.hart@erols.com District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 16

Woodbridge Lions Club Coat Drive On January 5, 2019, Woodbridge Lions Club President Chet and Lion Dee Pfeiffer visited the home of Mary Robles and presented her with a club Certificate of Appreciation for her donation of approximately 100 handmade hats for adults and children. Mary is the mother-in-law of Lion John Relph and made the hats for the club's coat drive (October to December 2019). The hats, along with many winter-wear items, were provided to the Prince William Area Free Clinic in Woodbridge, Virginia. The club was amazed by Mary’s contribution and her dedication to help those in need. Woodbridge wants to also thank all Lions and Lionesses from the Montclair, Lake Jackson and Manassas Host Lioness Lions Clubs for their partnership in donating a total of 445 pieces of winter wear to keep those less fortunate in our community warm during the winter. (L to R) Lion John Relph, Lion Dee Pfeiffer, Mary Robles (Lion John's mother-in-law) and King Lion Chet Nolf. Great service, Lions! District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 17

Lions Unite To Help End Blinding Retinal Diseases Since 2006, Lions across the country have supported the Foundation Fighting Blindness national VisionWalk program. The Foundation is the world’s largest non-governmental, non-profit organization spearheading research for cures and treatments to end sight-robbing diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. In Virginia, former District 24-A and 24-D have played a significant role in this national effort and even worked together in an annual friendly district-to-district walk challenge. This year, the No.Va VisionWalk will take place on Sunday, May 5, 2019, at Cameron Run Park in Alexandria. Our No.Va Chapter goal is to raise at least 137,000. The VA Beach walk is set for Sunday, April 7, 2019, with a goal of at least 76,000. VA Lions can support either of these walks through online or mail-in donations and can also have club teams done as a virtual or on-site team on walk day. I will once again be setting up the No.VA District 24-L Team and am happy to serve as the point of contacts for questions from Lions in former Districts B, C, E, & F. I can host a group conference call if that is a convenient way to share information on a club, zone or region level. I will be sending out an update soon about next steps for those interested. Please see the VisionWalk flyer on the following page of Paw Prints. Kelsey is our wonderful Event Director and is listed on that flyer, however we prefer that all questions from Lions be directed to me personally. For any mail-in donations, it will be best to send them to me at the address below, with checks made payable to the Foundation Fighting Blindness. I hope you will join us this year. Exercise, fundraising and fun — what more could a great Lion Day have to offer?! Save Sunday, March 10, it will be our No.VA walk luncheon kickoff, details TBA. Lion Davida Luehrs, District L Co-Sight Chair 703-742-8043 home 703-819-8621 cell davidaluehrs@gmail.com 11902 Winstead Lane, Reston VA 20194 District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 18

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To: All District 24-L Lions Clubs 1. Are you doing enough to help the Visually Impaired in your Communities? 2. Are you familiar with the TVIs (Teachers of the Visually Impaired) in the schools in your communities? 3. Have you sponsored a student for the “Joe Lipomi” Scholastic Grant available through the VLEIF? 4. Do you know that VLEIF is willing to assist you in helping deserving and eligible individuals that need help due to vision impairment? 5. Do you know of any facilities or practitioners that are helping the visually impaired and have you shared this information? The questions above should also be a part of your community needs assessment. VLEIF is working to help you help others. Ed “Woody” Woodard, PDG VLEIF President Woodywoodard@cox.net Ph: 703-314-0889 District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 22

VLEIF, Inc. c/o Sandi Armendaris, 7623 Virginia Ave, Falls Church, VA 22043 Virginia Lions Eye Institute Foundation 1. Do you know what we do? Invite us to your Club/Region/Zone Meetings so we can inform you as to what we do, and how we help those with vision related issues. 2. Besides the Scholarship Grants that we offer, we also support the Lions Eye Clinic, and the Virginia Low Vision Learning Center in Alexandria. We are also working to expand Low Vision Services in Northern Virginia. 3. Check out our “Joe Lipomi Scholarship Grant”. Please check your communities for scholarship applicants. Applications plus detailed instructions and requirements are featured on our VLEIF Website. http://vleif.org/ Please send in applications as you get them, no need to wait for deadline. 4. We now have board approval and a budget set aside to assist clubs that may need help meeting the needs of people with vision-related problems, trying to enhance the quality of their lives. We will work with the clubs and Special Needs Chair to help when needed. This will be on a case-by-case basis as needed and within our budget constraints. Please contact us when you need help. 5. Please consider including us in your budget. We are only able to do what we do because of donations by the clubs and individual Lions. We are a 501(c)3 Organization, and part of the federal government’s Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFCNA), so giving is very easy. Thanks to one and all for your support, and we plan to continue trying to help those with vision-related problems improve their quality of life. Sincerely, Ed “Woody” Woodard, PDG, President VLEIF Board Cell: 703-314-0889 E-Mail: woodywoodard@cox.net District Representative for VLEIF is: Lion Sheryl Bass Cell: 703-314-4278 E-Mail: s.l.bass@verizon.net District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 23

In July of 2017, Virginia House of Delegates passed HB 1408 Student vision screenings; requirements for certain students. PID Hauser Weiler, District 24-L Sight Conservation Chair, provided the information on the next four pages in hopes that it will clarify that regulation and the impact on the Lions Club Kidsight sight and hearing screenings performed by our District. www.LionsKidSightUSA.org District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 24

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Where can you join fellow Lions for exciting training, seminars and FUN?! That’s right — the 2019 USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum in Spokane, Washington! See the next page for speakers and entertainment information! Individual Registration: http://members.lionsforum.org/ Lions Facebook Registration/Information: orum/ videos/613697925731675/ Pre-Forum Area Tours: -forum.php For any questions, please contact District 24-L USA/Canada Forum Chair LuVan TranVanDon (Tranvandon1@yahoo.fr or 703-962-0322) District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 28

See complete information at https://lionsforum.org/keynote/ District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 29

Voyage of the Glaciers on the Island Princess Cruising for a Cure Alaska July 2019 in support of the Foundation Fighting Blindness Departure date: July 17 2019 from Vancouver on Princess cruise lines. Alaska land extension packages available, you can customize and plan what works for you. Ocean view (cabin with a window) 2,024 per person based on double occupancy 3,155.28 per person for cruise and land option for 3 nights with hotel and train Balcony cabin 2,274.00 per person based on double occupancy 3,405.28 per person for cruise and land option for 3 nights with hotel and train *** Group offers a 50 on board credit *** Inside cabins can be requested *** Passports required Voluntary Lion donations can be made to FFB by mailing a check payable to FFB and mailed to Davida Luehrs 11902 Winstead Lane, Reston VA, put Cruise for a Cure in the memo. Online donations can be made by visiting www.visionwalk.org and type in No.VA Lions in the team search box. Direct Team link is www.fightblindness.org/goto/NoVaLions Contact me if you have any questions. All donations will be part of the Sunday, May 5, 2019, 14th No.Va VisionWalk and will count towards the Lions team total. Tax deductible receipts will be provided by the Foundation Fighting Blindness. If you are interested, contact Davida Luehrs by phone at 703-742-8043 (home), 703-819-861 (cell) or davidaluehrs@gmail.com. Helle Hamilton from Travel Leaders in Fairfax, VA will be our booking agent for the cruise and can also book airline tickets or any trip extensions you want to include. Helle may be reached at 703-459-9683 or hhamilton@TLTravelAgents.com. Deadline: These cruises usually sell out months ahead. To guarantee a space and this rate, it is best to book as soon as possible, with a small deposit. Cruise must be paid in full by May 1, 2019. District 24-L Paw Prints — FEBRUARY 2019 30

NORTHERN VIRGINIA LIONS MOBILE SIGHT AND HEARING SCREENING UNIT, Inc. A 501(c)3 Corporation – CFC #37060 Since 1976, We are there when you need us!!! Book us for Sight & Hearing Screenings: 24-Hour Van Scheduling – Lion Jim Alexander – Home: (540) 658-0469 Cell: (703) 475-1692 email: Vanscheduler@yahoo.com Check us out at: http://24alionsmobilescreening.org/ Our Van is funded by donations from Lions Clubs, Schools, Individuals and Corporations. Donations should be made payable to: Northern Virgini

34 Information on advertising in Paw Prints District 24-L PAW PRINTS February 2019 IN THIS ISSUE This month's SPOTLIGHT LOV's JAMES BLAND MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION In February and March of each year, Lions Clubs across District 24-L hold the annual James Bland Contest. Since 1948, Lions of Virginia (LOV) Clubs have spon-