Together We Can “Catch Our Limit”

July/August - Lions magazine

Happy Summer Fellow Lions,

Are you satisfied in your Lionism? ... ”Catching your Limit”

     As we enter a time of renewal and get past our long Covid winter I really feel like this is going to be the best year ever. I love fishing and will be using a lot of fishing analogies such as “Catching your Limit”.

     My goals this year are simple, first of all FUN: Lets have FUN in all we do in service because otherwise what’s the point? Second, GROWTH: I see a year filled with growth like we’ve never seen before. The needs are bigger and people are needing purpose in their lives so all we have to do is invite them to join us. Third, COMMUNICATION:  As some of you know I’m a bit of an over communicator but I think its important for everyone to know what’s going on, so expect a phone call….. or 6 😊. And finally, back to FUN: Again, if we don’t have fun then what’s the point!?

     So, as we go through Summer and into the Fall does your club have service projects lined up? Are you meeting? Are you reporting? Do you have a plan? We cannot accomplish greatness alone so find a friend and go out to find more friends to be a part of the greatest service club in the world. If you need help call me, text me, email me as I’ll be fishing with you. Together we can “Catch Our Limit.”

     When you are raising money do you feel satisfied? Or when you are testing at the neighborhood school and find a child with a great need of glasses are you satisfied?  When you made that mask or flipped a burger or just helped your neighbor-friend are you satisfied? You just gave someone a pair of glasses, picked up a piece of trash, fed a homeless person, helped a child go to college…….ARE YOU SATISFIED?!  We do so much and can do so much more if we only had more people to help. So now go find a friend. Just one and invite them to be a LION because it is so satisfying. Go out, “Catch Your Limit”, and have FUN doing it.

     The actual goals I am sending to LCI are that we are going to start 2 new clubs, strengthen the clubs that are struggling, increase our clubs to more than 75% reporting ( I think we can do better than that) and have 100% of clubs giving at least a little to LCIF as they have helped us so much. We have a great GAT team to help us reach these goals starting with 1VDG Kerith Vance, 2VDG Ed Glad, PDG Bert Diamond GLT, PDG Terry Bowman GMT, Fae Lloyd GST, and our Zone Chairs 1 Ray Montgomery, 2 Ed Glad, 5 Mary Karter, 6 Fae Lloyd, and 7 Steve Studer-Carrie Bartley. How can you help you ask? Well, that’s easy. Just start telling everyone you meet about how much fun it is to be a Lion. We can’t do it without you so help us to “Catch our limit” this year and in the years to follow.

 Yours in Service DG Super Doug