DISTRICT GOVERNOR LION BERNICE P

To all Lions, Lionesses, Leos:
It is my distinct pleasure and honor to be serving as District Governor for 29-L for the 2009-2010 Lions year. We have a wonderful group of dedicated members, who believe in service to their local communities -especially "Service "from the Heart". It is my firm belief that the majority of our members belong to this wonderful organization because they see that our International motto, "We Serve," is evident in the projects that we devote our time, talent and monies to. We serve people, not just in our local communities, but in our District, Multiple District, country and the International community. We are in this organization, not for the "awards -but for the rewards."
We have been blessed to have assembled a great group of dedicated Lions who will be serving as District 29-L:s cabinet for the coming year. I urge all clubs to take advantage
of their expertise. Please, use and abuse us this year! I want to thank the newly appointed District Chairs and Zone Chairs for accepting this challenge. We met on Saturday, June 27th, in Wheeling for a Cabinet training led by Multiple District Leadership Chair, Past Council Chair Lion Steve Glass. It was a very productive meeting, a time to begin the bonding process for a successful team. Thanks to Lion Steve for assisting us with the training!!
I have several goals for the year including the following:
holding an extension workshop early in the Lions year; extending two new Lions Clubs and one new Leo Club; having a "net gain" of 50 members throughout the District (not including the new clubs); increasing the percentage of women members from 23% of the total to 30%. I would like to see increased support of the WV Sight Conservation Foundation and the WV Leadership School. These may be lofty goals, but they are attainable. We need to work together as a TEAM to accomplish this. We CAN and we WILL do it!

We will have our first Cabinet meeting on Sunday, August 9, 2009 at 2 pm at the Brookhaven Community Building in Morgantown. Thanks to the Brookhaven Lions Club for hosting the meeting. We are hoping to have the Multiple District Directory available at the cabinet meeting for distribution to the individual clubs. Let's keep our fingers crossed!
It is vitally important that ALL the clubs in District 29-L lend some type of support to the Dan Dague Memorial Car Show which will be held at the Cabela's Distribution Center at the Highlands outside of Wheeling on Labor Day, September 7th. We are in need of donations for dash plaques and trophies and donations of food supplies and rattle items. We need volunteers to man various areas of the show. Please contact PDG Eva Dague and 1st VDG Jeff Baxter (who are co-chairing this major event) and offer your support. All proceeds are earmarked for the WV Sight Conservation Foundation. Last year, over $20,000.00 was raised for the Foundation. We would love to be able to match those "figures, and better yet, go beyond them! We can't do it without you!
Please consider making the trip to Flatwoods January 2931,
2010 to attend the WV Leadership School. As we did last year, we will be awarding two "First Timers" with free registration for the next year's school. Be on the look out for more information regarding the school. Contact the School's chair, our very own PDG Steve Beecroft, for more information.
This is a windy message, but there is a lot to share with you. I highly encourage all clubs, zones and district chairs to send information on your activities to Lion Bob Moffett for the news-letter and to Lion Dave Ice for the website. Lion Dave and I are working on a contest for the District, involving the "First Laddie" PDG Gary. We are planning a trip for "Bubba" (as PDG Gary is affectionately known to the Northern Panhandle Lions) and some type of prize to be awarded to the winner of the contest, which will be announced at our District Conference in Wheeling in March of 2010. I will have more information in the next newsletter.
Our new International President's (Eberhard Wirfs) theme is "Move to Grow". We can accomplish his goals, using my theme "Service from the Heart". Let's have a fantastic, positive, fun year!
P.S. Please don't forget to call me or email me at bpit@comcast.net to set up your District Governor's Nights.

DISTRICT GOVERNOR LION BERNICE PITCOCK'S GOALS

FOR 2009 - 2010

(1.) 2 NEW LIONS CLUBS

(2.) CONDUCT AN EXTENSION WORKSHOP IN AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER 2009

(3.) GAIN 40 CHARTER MEMBERS

(4.) 1 NET GAIN NEW MEMBER PER CLUB

(5.) INCREASE THE PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN MEMBERS IN DISTRICT FROM 23% TO 30%

(6.) HAVE: FUN FUN FUN !!!!!