SAN PEDRO LIONS CLUB -- 82 YEARS OF COMMITMENT <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> April 7, 2005 Calendar April 5th - 6:30 pm - Southern Region Student Speaker Competition. El Pollo Inka Restaurant, 1425 West Artesia Blvd., Gardena, CA. April 7th - 12:10 pm - Regular meeting. Ante's Restaurant, 729 South Palos Verdes St., San Pedro, CA 90731 April 14th - 7:00 pm - Board meeting. Location TBA April 21st - 12:10 pm - Regular meeting. Ante's Restaurant, 729 South Palos Verdes St., San Pedro, CA 90731. April 28th - 6:30 pm - Tri Club meeting with the Harbor City/Lomita and Wilmington Lions Clubs. 6:30 pm Social. 7:00 pm dinner. Ante's Restaurant, 729 South Palos Verdes St., San Pedro, CA 90731. Passing PDG Eddie Keyse just informed me that Lion Frank Trani has passed away. Frank Trani had been a loyal member of the San Pedro Lions Club for over fifty years. He will be missed. Our prayers and thoughts are with the Trani family. We will have further details when they are available. Mr. and Miss San Pedro Contest The start date for the Mr. & Miss San Pedro Scholarship Contest for teens and young adults between the ages of 16 to 25 years of age is less than a week away! The contest begins April 11th and will run through May 25th. Your help is needed! If you know of any prospective contestants, for further information, or to help in this great contest where "everyone wins", please call Lion Dave Staley at 310-833-5780 or Lion Sandra Prebanda at 310-514-2629. Call today; your help is needed to make this contest a great success! - Dave Staley May Membership Meeting There will be a membership orientation and education meeting and dinner on May 5th at Ante's Restaurant. All aspects of Lionism will be discussed. It is extremely important that all San Pedro Lions Club members attend this meeting. Please mark your Calendar now and reserve Thursday evening, May 5, 2005 for this event. District Convention The 4-L3 District Convention will be held on May 12th to 15th at the Santa Maria Radisson Hotel in beautiful Santa Maria, California. This year's convention is within easy driving distance with a beautiful trip up the coast. For further information and a registration form, please contact Lion Tom Dorsey at 310-831-6245. Downhill Race The 2005 Charity Downhill Races will be held on Sunday, August 24th. It looks like this year's event will be the best yet! The Downhill Race committee is already hard at work seeking program ads, sponsorships, cars and drivers. Your help is needed! Please contact Lion Eddie Keyse at 310- 833-2444. SightFirst OKs US$2.6 Million in Grants LCIF approved 24 SightFirst grants for US$2.6 million in January. The grants will help hundreds of thousands of people in 13 nations preserve their sight or have their vision restored. The grants fund cataract surgeries, upgrade Lions' eye hospitals, expand ophthalmic training programs and control eye disease such as trachoma. Recycling for the City of Hope We are continuing to collect and recycle bottles and cans for the City of Hope. Please save your recyclable aluminum cans and glass and plastic beverage bottles. You can either bring them to a meeting or call Lion Tom or Lion Susan at 831-6245 to arrange for pick up. We are starting a new program to recycle printer ink and toner cartridges to raise even more money for the City of Hope. Each recycled cartridge will result in $1.00 being donated. Please start saving your used cartridges now. Further details will be posted in an upcoming The Lions Tale. From the President's Computer You can contact Lion Susan or me at 310-831-6245. Our Fax number is 310-831-6076 or send e-mail to tomd@sanpedro.net. Thank you.