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| El PASO Downtown Lions Club |
Vol 67 #34 March 5, 2010 Editor Bill Fields
The final one third of the reign of Lion King
George began at the start of today’s meeting. (For
those Lions sitting at the back table, this means
that he has served 8 of his 12 month term.)
Lion Bender led the invocation, Snodgrass the
pledge and Boyd the choral group. The week’s
history lesson was presented by PP Stoner or was
that PP Siegel? Anyway Wilt Chamberlain scored a
bunch of points on March 2, 1962, the National
Anthem written by F. Scott Key in 1814 was
adopted by Congress on March 3, 1931 and Time
magazine’s first issue was on March 3, 1923.
Health and Welfare:After a few kind words for the
editor, Lion Littlefield asked that we remember
Lions Edwards, Enriquez, Poer, Gene and Penny
Reimer, and McGuirk in our prayers. He also
acknowledged Lion Seitsinger attending our
meeting. Please add PP and Sec. Moreno’s mother
who returned home from the hospital this week.
Guests included Paddy Littlefield, Jo Leroux and
Rosalie Meraz.
Announcements: for the week included float
cleanup day held on March 6th, the
Transportation committee meeting at Luby’s on
Chelsea at 11:30 on April 3, District Convention
on April 16 and 17 In Odessa, Dinner with the
Miners on April 20th, State Convention on May 13
to 15, and Golf tournament on July 7.
March Madness will be ushered in with EPDTLC
Campaign day next week on March 12th at our
meeting. A full slate of candidates is almost in
place and Lion Boss has advised that serious
speeches will not be tolerated. Col.Irene Dickerson
US Army will speak at our meeting on May 14.
This week’s program emerged when Lion Arias
strolled (No, PDG Bill used that last week) floated
(no PDG Bill used that last week, too) shuffled to
the podium to introduce Susie Byrd who
introduced our speaker, Veronica Escobar, who
introduced her mother Isabel. Susie wanted to
know what a Lion Tamer did and Lion Robinson
did a masterful job of holding her in bay by using
a chair.
Now let me see if I have got this straight. Our
bylaws do not allow politicians who are running
for office to speak to our club. Veronica won a
majority of votes in the Democratic Primary so
there will be no runoff. She does have opposition
from Jaime Perez in November, but that doesn’t
count. Hmm, maybe that should be addressed in
our bylaw updates.
Veronica is very positive and said she considers
elected office a privilege. She talked about the
huge shortfall of funds from our State and
municipalities and she considers her most
important task is to move towards consolidation
of different entities i.e. the police and sheriff’s
departments and as would be expected, she wants
to raise property taxes. She pointed out that UTEP
is raising tuition and many of the 9 school
districts will want to issue new bonds.
Thought for the Day :Before the meeting came to
a close Lion Favor threw out a couple of good
stories and Lion Dwyer raffled 10 prizes to Lions
and guests who always win.
March birthdays: Romie Arvizu 3/3; Dick Schwein
3/6; Jim Lawrence 3/7; Ted Bender 3/24; Kelly
Wiseman 3/24.
The final one third of the reign of Lion King
George began at the start of today’s meeting. (For
those Lions sitting at the back table, this means
that he has served 8 of his 12 month term.)
Lion Bender led the invocation, Snodgrass the
pledge and Boyd the choral group. The week’s
history lesson was presented by PP Stoner or was
that PP Siegel? Anyway Wilt Chamberlain scored a
bunch of points on March 2, 1962, the National
Anthem written by F. Scott Key in 1814 was
adopted by Congress on March 3, 1931 and Time
magazine’s first issue was on March 3, 1923.
Health and Welfare:After a few kind words for the
editor, Lion Littlefield asked that we remember
Lions Edwards, Enriquez, Poer, Gene and Penny
Reimer, and McGuirk in our prayers. He also
acknowledged Lion Seitsinger attending our
meeting. Please add PP and Sec. Moreno’s mother
who returned home from the hospital this week.
Guests included Paddy Littlefield, Jo Leroux and
Rosalie Meraz.
Announcements: for the week included float
cleanup day held on March 6th, the
Transportation committee meeting at Luby’s on
Chelsea at 11:30 on April 3, District Convention
on April 16 and 17 In Odessa, Dinner with the
Miners on April 20th, State Convention on May 13
to 15, and Golf tournament on July 7.
March Madness will be ushered in with EPDTLC
Campaign day next week on March 12th at our
meeting. A full slate of candidates is almost in
place and Lion Boss has advised that serious
speeches will not be tolerated. Col.Irene Dickerson
US Army will speak at our meeting on May 14.
This week’s program emerged when Lion Arias
strolled (No, PDG Bill used that last week) floated
(no PDG Bill used that last week, too) shuffled to
the podium to introduce Susie Byrd who
introduced our speaker, Veronica Escobar, who
introduced her mother Isabel. Susie wanted to
know what a Lion Tamer did and Lion Robinson
did a masterful job of holding her in bay by using
a chair.
Now let me see if I have got this straight. Our
bylaws do not allow politicians who are running
for office to speak to our club. Veronica won a
majority of votes in the Democratic Primary so
there will be no runoff. She does have opposition
from Jaime Perez in November, but that doesn’t
count. Hmm, maybe that should be addressed in
our bylaw updates.
Veronica is very positive and said she considers
elected office a privilege. She talked about the
huge shortfall of funds from our State and
municipalities and she considers her most
important task is to move towards consolidation
of different entities i.e. the police and sheriff’s
departments and as would be expected, she wants
to raise property taxes. She pointed out that UTEP
is raising tuition and many of the 9 school
districts will want to issue new bonds.
Thought for the Day :Before the meeting came to
a close Lion Favor threw out a couple of good
stories and Lion Dwyer raffled 10 prizes to Lions
and guests who always win.
March birthdays: Romie Arvizu 3/3; Dick Schwein
3/6; Jim Lawrence 3/7; Ted Bender 3/24; Kelly
Wiseman 3/24.
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