June - July 2011

During the month of June the Lions Club participate in parades in Pleasant Grove and Cedar Hills to help these two cities be aware of the Lions Club and the scholarships and programs we are involved in. We are here to serve and assist those who need a lift. Part of our mission is to the preservation of sight. We are always looking for fine men and women that want to volunteer and be part of an organization that helps people preserve their sight.

We also work with scouts that need to have an eagle project. This becomes a win, win for everybody. Glasses are gathered from the community, cleaned, read and bagged and sent to third world counties for distribution though humanitarian efforts in third world countries.

Harrison is the latest of our scouts that have worked with the Lions Club to fulfill his eagle project requirements. He did a great job gathering and processing 250 glasses.

ANNUAL HOBY DINNER MEETING 05/21/2011

Once yearly we as the Pleasant Grove Lions Club honor our HOBY scholarship youth leaders. This year we assisted Ernesto Terreros and McKinsey Veenker. They reported about their expreiences and what they learned most from the HOBY experience. They shared their plans for the future as well. We are grateful for the support of their parents. That means a great deal.

Bob Ross HOBY Leadership chairman and Dave Olpin President of Utah HOBY expressed their appreciation for the Lions Club support. They shared with us insightful information about the HOBY program. HOBY stands for the Hugh O'Brian Youth program. This program teaches leadership skills to our youth.

For those of you whose may not know Hugh O'Brian was the movie actor Wyatt Earp. He was also a great example and a man with 8 docterate degrees.

The Pleasant Grove Lions Club is pleased to be a partner in helping youth participate in the HOBY leadership program.

Ernesto

McKinsey

Bob Ross - Chairman Utah HOBY Dave Olpin - President of Utah HOBY

Working with the Boy Scouts

As a Lions Club we strive to do much in the preservation of sight. One way we do that is providing glasses to needy people in third world countries. As boy scouts look for eagle projects to do, the Pleasant Grove Lions Club has stepped up and provided a means where scouts can do an eagle project by gathering, cleaning, packaging and having glasses read so the Lions Club can see that these glasses go to really making a difference for good to those in the most need.


This is the story of 13 year old Harrison Ressler and the first Eagle Scout applicant in his troop. Harrison went around his neighborhood and collected 235 pair of glasses. He had put a box in his local library as another means to collect glasses. One family gave him 20 pair of difference sizes glasses that they had used over the years as there kids were growing up. This was a 40 hour project for Harrison. Below are pictures of him with the boxes of glasses and with his very supportive parents Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ressler.

March 18, 2011 Glassess Cleaning Project

Club members had the opportunity to clean glasses to get them ready to be read and then used for humanitarian purposes. Below shows Darlene and Milt bagging cleaned glasses. Second picture are cleaned glasses ready for bagging.

The Pleasant Grove Lions Club has done a lot in providing glasses for those in need in our local community and humanitarian needs around the globe.

Februrary 19, 2-11 Dinner and program

We always like to honor our lions that have put a great deal of service into Lionism. Milt Taylor (right), Dave Monson (middle) & Dee Mecham (absent) received their 30 year chevrons. Thanks so much for the difference you have made. Lynn Seely, president (left) presented the chevrons.

We were privileged of have the Monkey Town Cloggers perform for us. They are from the Monkey Town area of Pleasant Grove. We thank Anne Fisher
for getting this group for us.

It was our opportunity once again this year to present an individual from the area with the Humanitarian of the Year Award. Dr. David Dickerson has traveled all over the world (such as Taiwan and Peru) giving dental services to third world counties and to individuals that would never have this kind of help any other way. He takes a team with him. There are a couple of planned trips coming up this year. He shared with us video and slides of the many people he and his team served. We are so proud of the difference he has made in so many lives.
The Pleasant Grove Lions is always finding ways to improve the lives of individuals in the community. We are now looking at providing scholarships for students in the local area for Boy and Girls State, HOBY leadership program and college educational persuits.