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- Published: 09 July 2018 09 July 2018
Butterfly Garden and Storage Totes
Essex Junction, Williston and Jericho-Underhill Lions joined forces at the Green Mountain Lions Camp to plant a butterfly garden. Many thanks to Lions Loreen Teer, Betsy MaGee, Gia Vadnais and photographer Dave LaRose. They even managed to pick one of the hottest days of June for their efforts. I’m not going to make any wisecracks about July 1st and where some folks may have decided to raise their two permissible plants, but I do want to point out a striking similarity between these two photos below. Thank you for the green thumb efforts.
Not to be outdone Lions Mary Shields, PDG Ken Emery, and Jackie Dutil, also made the trek to Cabot and the Green Mountain Lions Camp where they cleaned and reorganized the large storage closet. It was a mess due to mice feeding on Lion Cindy Berg's homemade Corn Toss bags, along with other munchies they found in what, until recently had been their winter nest. Hopefully come autumn the mice will find access a lot more difficult with the new plastic storage containers. For added insurance we added a supply of Lavender Dryer Sheets to help ward off the rodents.
As luck would have it, a few empty plastic containers were re-routed to the Craft Center! Lion Gia was all smiles. Before leaving for home, Lions Mary and Jackie made an attempt to neaten up things at the pond and added two additional boxes of fun water sports items to the lean-to for the youth to enjoy. Lion Jackie writes “We weren’t a ‘cool’ looking group after six hours in 90 something degree Temps, so we opted out of being in the pictures. (-: But we were feeling pretty ‘cool’ to have accomplished it for the campers and the District”.
Photos Below: Left is the storage locker "before", Center photo shows the new bins, Right photo is the storage locker "after".
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- Published: 08 July 2018 08 July 2018
Barre Lions Cook up a weekend
Story by Barre King Lion Judy Cookson: Wow, what a busy weekend for the Barre Lions Club! We started off at 6AM Saturday June 30th with a delicious breakfast for community members. Many thanks to Lions Brian Calderara, Bob Brault, Charlie Livendale, Rick Theken, Nate Bucknam for helping out. Sunday July 1st we provided lunch for the incoming campers and their families at The Green Mountain Lions Camp in Cabot. Everything went well and the campers and their families, and the staff and other Lions loved our meal. Thanks to Lion Paul for shopping and to Lions Moe, Charlie, Bob Brault, Bob Sager, Tina and her sister Kat, Rick and Mark for doing the work.
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JERICHO-UNDERHILL Lions beat the heat with their annual Strawberry Social fundraiser. The basement of the United Church of Underhill was the coolest – and sweetest place in town during the recent heatwave June 30th. Lions Dave Crane, Cindy Berg, Loreen Teer, Dave Williamson, Jerry Adams, Mike Munson, Denis Beloin, Russ Rexford, Marge Alden, and Essex Lion Betsy MaGee prepared 64 quarts of strawberries from Mazza’s Berry Farm and paired them with homemade biscuits topped with real whipped cream. Over 100 folks turned out to beat the heat and share in the sweet fun.
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- Published: 29 June 2018 29 June 2018
LIONS “Opening Eyes” at Vermont Special Olympics Summer Games
Health professionals and volunteers from across New England gathered at the University of Vermont to provide comprehensive health screenings for children and adults with intellectual disabilities at the Special Olympics Vermont Summer Games on June 2nd. A Special Olympics partnership with the Lions Club International Foundation supported vision care for the participants. In total, 118 volunteers provided 563 health exams in one day.
At the Special Olympics Vermont Summer Games at the University of Vermont on June 2nd and 3rd, dental, vision, and hearing exams were offered to all Special Olympics athletes. Through Opening Eyes athletes have access to vision screenings. Custom glasses and sunglasses are made available as needed at no charge to the athlete.
Of the 435 athletes competing in the 2018 Special Olympics Vermont Summer Games, 242 received a dental screening and 17 of those were identified as needing urgent follow-up dental care. 153 received an audiology screening, and 168 received a vision screening. This represents a 23% increase over the previous year and an all-time record for Healthy Athletes screenings.