A Monthly Publication of the Grafton Lions Club Lions’ Gazette 2017-2018 Issue 05 November 2017 Grafton Lions Club P.O. Box 0211 Grafton, WI 53024 www.graftonlions.com John Gassert – President 262 375-1395 [email protected]Collin Schaefer – Secretary 414 801-1542 [email protected]John Gassert – Treasurer 262 375-1395 [email protected]Dan DeLorit - Membership 414 236-1361 [email protected]Bob Hoffman – Newsletter 262-377-9325 [email protected]Lions International www.lionsclubs.org Wisconsin Lions www.wisconsinlions.org District 27-A2 www.lionsdistrict27a2.org WI Lions Foundation www.wlf.info Prez Sez November is a month of thanksgiving as well as the holiday of Thanksgiving. Ralph Marston said “Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.” I challenge all of you to think about what we should be thankful for and give thanks to those around you. Thank you for allowing me to be a member of a group of individuals who are willing to help others and live up to the Lions moto “We Serve.” Thank you all for your friendship and kindness. I have made many new friends thanks to all of you. Thank you everyone who helped this past month in our many service projects, the Vision Screening, the food drive for Family Sharing, and other projects. Please give your thanks to the chairs and co-chairs of those great projects. I know that I will. Oh, by the way, did you know that November is Diabetes Awareness Month? So why is this important to the Lions? Well, as Helen Keller’s Knights of the Blind, we should know and learn more because the leading cause of blindness in the United States is diabetic retinopathy. As I learned from WebMD, an actually reliable internet source, diabetic retinopathy affects the vision of more than half of the 18 million people diagnosed with diabetes age 18 or older. Think about that. That means that about two in every one-hundred in the US are at risk of becoming blind as a result of diabetes. Diabetes and blindness are two of the five major service areas of the Lions Club International. So, I am challenging all of you to think of ways we can address this dreaded affliction. How about the Diabetes Awareness program that we sponsor in the spring? John Krueger has done a wonderful job in getting the program started. Let’s help John and make it a great program and help as many people avoid the terrible effects of diabetes with early detection and referral. Thank you for being a Lion and happy Thanksgiving, Lion John Gassert Your 2017-2018 Club President
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A Monthly Publication of the Grafton Lions Club
Lions’ Gazette 2017-2018 Issue 05 November
2017
Grafton Lions Club P.O. Box 0211 Grafton, WI 53024 www.graftonlions.com John Gassert – President 262 375-1395 [email protected]
Collin Schaefer – Secretary 414 801-1542 [email protected] John Gassert – Treasurer 262 375-1395 [email protected] Dan DeLorit - Membership 414 236-1361 [email protected] Bob Hoffman – Newsletter 262-377-9325 [email protected] Lions International www.lionsclubs.org Wisconsin Lions www.wisconsinlions.org District 27-A2 www.lionsdistrict27a2.org WI Lions Foundation www.wlf.info
Prez Sez
November is a month of thanksgiving as well as the holiday of
Thanksgiving. Ralph Marston said “Make it a habit to tell people thank
you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of
anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find
many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have
more of it.”
I challenge all of you to think about what we should be thankful for and
give thanks to those around you. Thank you for allowing me to be a
member of a group of individuals who are willing to help others and live up
to the Lions moto “We Serve.” Thank you all for your friendship and
kindness. I have made many new friends thanks to all of you. Thank you
everyone who helped this past month in our many service projects, the
Vision Screening, the food drive for Family Sharing, and other projects.
Please give your thanks to the chairs and co-chairs of those great projects. I
know that I will.
Oh, by the way, did you know that November is Diabetes Awareness
Month? So why is this important to the Lions? Well, as Helen Keller’s
Knights of the Blind, we should know and learn more because the leading
cause of blindness in the United States is diabetic retinopathy. As I learned
from WebMD, an actually reliable internet source, diabetic retinopathy
affects the vision of more than half of the 18 million people diagnosed with
diabetes age 18 or older. Think about that. That means that about two in
every one-hundred in the US are at risk of becoming blind as a result of
diabetes. Diabetes and blindness are two of the five major service areas of
the Lions Club International. So, I am challenging all of you to think of
ways we can address this dreaded affliction. How about the Diabetes
Awareness program that we sponsor in the spring? John Krueger has done a
wonderful job in getting the program started. Let’s help John and make it a
great program and help as many people avoid the terrible effects of diabetes
with early detection and referral.
Thank you for being a Lion and happy Thanksgiving,