February Bulletin 19D3-8-10 D8ZC: Karen Bassett 564 Lakeshore Drive, Chase, BC, V0E-1M0 kb1@telus.net 250-318-4527 D8 ZC Karen’s Remarks Wow, it’s ⅔’s through February, my apologies for the late bulletin. My home club has been very busy, planning, organizing and implementing our Winterfest for Chase. It has been very time consuming for me. I hope February is going well for everyone else too. News from all around D8, “Inspire through Service ” Nor th Shuswap Lions : Family day weekend was busy for them, with the North Shuswap Winter Festival. They had their annual Bed Races as one of their activities. Chase Lions : Family day weekend was busy for them as well, with their WinterFest. They had their annual community day with children’s crafts, cookie decorating, cake walk, crafts fair, all followed by “Smoosh” races and their Inaugural Outhouse races. It looks like fun as had by all.

Ashcroft & District Lions : Have had their 11th annual “Seedy Saturday”, and our doing Bingo’s What ’s your club doing ? Please let me know. These are just some snippets that I took from Lions Facebook pages. Does your club use Facebook. It is a great way to share what your club is doing. Don’t Forget to do your MMR’s before the 20th. April 28 & 29 will be DG Deddie Allan’s District D conference. It will be held at the Prestige hotel in Vernon. This will be the last District D conference, as we will soon be District I under the new redistricting that will happen next July 1. Mark your calendar, and plan to attend. I have Attached the registration form. My Zone Chair Visitation Schedule for the New Year, is as follows: North Shuswap Lions - March 23, 2023 Chase Lions - March 23, 2023 North Kamloops Lions - April 18, 2023 Zone Chairs? A very rewarding experience Have you ever given thought to being one? It’s an easy job. You get to visit the clubs in your Zone twice. They usually provide a meal or snacks, sometimes even a gift. The paperwork is minimal, and it really doesn’t take alot of your time. We really need Zone Chairs for the upcoming new year, 2023-2024. If interested or would like more info, please let me know.

Websites for more info and Resources:

MD19: https://lionsmd19.org District D: https://e-district.org/sites/19d LCI: https://lionsclubs.org Border Crossing: https://lionsmd19.org/newsletters.php

Contacts:

DG: Debbie Allan 250-554-1498 dandballan@telus.net 1st Vice DG: Mike Livingstone 250-497-8486 lionmichaellivingstone@gmail.com D8 Bulletin Editor: Karen Bassett 250-318-4527 kb1@telus.net Message from your Cabinet Vision Chair Together, CLERC and I, are trying to put together a list of eye glass collection locations throughout our cities and towns within our District. I need your help Please email to me all the locations that each of your clubs have an eye glass collection box. Many people call CLERC in Calgary and ask for the locations for collection boxes nearest to them. We are working on creating a data base of collection sites within each town, and District. If each club could shoot me a quick email outlining where your collection boxes are located, I can collectively forward that info over to CLERC in Calgary. Thank you so much for all you do. Inspire others through Service Karen kb1@telus.net