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Global Service Team
There is scientific evidence proving doing good deeds is beneficial for your health! The enjoyable aspect of being a Lion is that we get
the opportunity to help others by doing good deeds! When you join with other Lions, these activities promote becoming more than just friends......we become family!
Lions in District 2-X1 are working hard this year. Coppell, Irving Noon, Irving DFW Indian, Oak Cliff and Dallas Filipino have all volunteered between 2,500-1,700 hours per club.
Sachse, Kaufman, Plano Collin Nepalese, Plano Evening, Dallas White Rock, Greenville, Plano Early and Grand Prairie have given1,000-to 450 hours per club.
Even more impressive, Coppell Lions have given an average of 84 hours per Lion. Irving Noon has averaged 56 hours, DFW Indian and Oak Cliff are at 48, Dallas Filipino, Sachse
and Kaufman average 27 hours per Lion.
Unfortunately, 38 of our clubs show that the average time given per member is less than 1 hour a month! We have to improve our reporting! I can see by the monthly activity reports that many club secretaries are not giving credit for your work. For example, if you have 10 Lions participating in a 2 hour event, you would report 20 Lion hours, not 0 as some have reported.
Our GST will be contacting you soon. Please be expecting contract from either myself, Tom McAlister or PDG Julia Johnson. Let's make a goal for every club to average at least 12 hours (1 hour month) per member for the year. We still have 6 months....we can do this! There are too many in need for us to fail!
PDG Mark Dean Global Servic Team District Coordinator
DISTRICT RECOGNITION OF CLUB’S GRASS ROOTS LION
2-X1 District’s recognition of “special lions” (Grass Roots Lions) was begun in 1985 by PCC John Eads who realized the need to acknowledge the “WE SERVE” attitude and the actions of deserving Lions for their unheralded Lionistic work within their clubs, community, and Lionism. The “Grass Roots Lion” Award is designed to recognize a Club’s “up and coming” Lion who has been a Lion for just five years or less, but has been exemplary to the spirit of Lionism through deeds and service to others. This is a recognition designed to honor a Lion who has not been so honored by the District previously.
Around the Annual Convention of the District, the Lions Clubs are required to send, in the prescribed Form to the District 2-X1 (see page ??), its nomination of a ‘new deserving lion’ as its Grass Roots Lion. The Grass Roots Lion Award ceremony is held at a special function, as part of the District Convention.
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