Special Recognitions:

• Three Over-$100-in-One-Shift Club Recognitions go to:
  • Charlie and Marcia Holpuch, who collected $167.88 at Red Rooster on Saturday.
  • George Hibbard, who collected $111.00  at Tom & Rays, also on Saturday.
  • Jack Peters, who collected $110.07 at Safeway on Wednesday evening.

Charlie Hertel and Barbara Barry just missed $100 by only a tiny bit each.

• The Bert Lahr Special Award for Most Courageous Lion goes to the five Lions who worked four-hour shifts in order to fill the unassigned shift that followed them: these Lions were: Jack Peters, Charlie Hertel, George Hibbard, and the Holpuchs.

Here are the wonderful Damascus Lions who gave unselfishly of their time for one or more storefront collection shifts (multiple shifts in parentheses): Babb (First Time!!), B. Barry, Davidson, Davis, Dennell, Gladhill, Gosnell, C. Hertel (2), Hibbard(3), C. Holpuch (2), M. Holpuch (2), Mahylis, Mallack, Molesworth, Peters(2), Rogers, W. Schwab, Snapp, C. Stone, Ch. Stone, Suddath, B. Warfield, J. Warfield, Washington. Special thanks go to our reliable Managers of the Day: Bill Mahylis, Ken Phillips, and Del Mayhew…and to our ever-meticulous Money Counters: Del Mayhew, Gary Rogers, George Hibbard, and Vi Hibbard (George’s wife).

As always, when patronizing the Damascus establishments which support White Cane (CVS, Safeway, Tom & Ray’s, & Red Rooster), please express your gratitude to the management for allowing White Cane Lions to do our work there. They are critical to our success. Thanks.

Saturday,March 19th 2010, from 7 am to 11 am
at the
Damascus United Methodist Church Dining Room.

For Tickets, to Volunteer or for more information – contact:
Lion Joy Schwab 301-253-3294 or
Lion Sue Suddath 301-253-3434

Early Saturday morning the food and drinks were prepared.  Bake Sale/Craft Table items were accepted. Helpers during the day were Lions Barbara and Tony Barry, Fran Burlas, Martin Carr, Ann Davis, Alice Denell, Bernie Duplan, Donna Feuillet, Chris Fletcher, Mary Frances Gosnell, Charlie and Tammy Hertel, George Hibbard, Su-Ling Huang, Charlie and Marcia Holpuch, Tom Jackson, Bill Mahylis,  Wayne Marr, Ray Molesworth, Bob Newlin, Jack Peters, Ken Phillips, Dee and Rusty Reichmeider, Gary Rogers, Joy and Warren Schwab, Lee Sellers, Bob Snapp, Roy Stanley, Carol and Charlie Stone, Sue Suddath, Midge Tench, Mike Thornett, Bobbie Warfield, John Washington, Eloise and “Tuck” Woodfield,  Joann Woodson and Cheryl Wyatt.  Leos from Middle and High Schools were Elizabeth Barry,  Jonathan B (?), Chrissy Basvino,  Amanda Clomar,  Sarah Connor, Melanie Johnson, Makey Murdock, and (?) Pats.  Other volunteers were Candice Hertel and David McReynolds.    We served 278.  After all bills are paid, we will announce the profit.

Special thanks to those who sold tickets.

The Bake/Craft Table received item donations from Lions and Partners in Service were Barbara Barry, Tess Gladhill, Mary Frances Gosnell, Irene Hardy, Candice Hertel, Marcia Holpuch, Tom & Jonnie Jackson, Helen

Mahylis, Ray & Jennifer Molesworth, and Jack & Frann Peters, Ken & Sue Phillips, Carol Richards of Carol’s Creations, Gary Rogers, Joy Schwab and Bobbie Warfield. Bake/Craft Table profit was $400.00. Maybe the best ever!

Lions Joy Schwab and Sue Suddath thank you all for making this event a successful one.  We hope we have remembered all those who helped.  If not please let us know.

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After all the shaking of the bushes for ticket sales and basket sponsors, we started Friday night with all expenses paid in full.  So whatever was spent that evening was profit and that was a good feeling.  That good feeling could only come from the selflessness of individual Lions who sponsored baskets, sold abd bought tickets and rendered their time and energies on Thursday and Friday night.  Thank you, Lions, so much for your support.  Should anyone who sponsored a basket need a written receipt,, please contact Lion Mary Frances.  Letters and acknowledgement of sponsors/donations were mailed to non-Lions.  Should you see Fireman Ronnie Watkins, thank him for being our bingo caller.  And also, Fireman Mike Zeigler, thank him for taking care of our games of chance as well as helping with bingo winners on the floor.  There were also other fireman who helped with setting up of the tables and chairs as well as putting the chairs away. They made it easy for us!

Lion Tess Gladhill filled the baskets with the help of Mary Kay and Tastefully Simple consultant’s donations.  Lions Su and Shye donated a basket of wine and accessories and Lions Rusty and Dee donated a wheelbarrow full of wine, autumn décor , cheeses and accessories which was a separate raffle. Partner-In-Service, Jennifer Molesworth, worked packaging the bingo game cards and Special cards as well as did all the mailing of the fliers.

We sold 130 tickets for our bingo, 22 Lions put in approximately 200 hours on the project and we earned a profit of $4900.  WOW, Can’t believe it!

Thanks to all of you, Lions and Partners-in-service, for your support.  You are the best!

Download the Basket and Pottery Bingo Flyer - Oct 2010

Mark your calendars for Friday, October 8, 2010!  That is when the Damascus Lions will sponsor their annual Basket Bingo to benefit the V. Ray Simpson Scholarship Fund.   DOWNLOAD INFORMATION FLYER

Damascus Volunteer Fire Department Activities Center
10211 Lewis Drive
Damascus, Md

Doors open at 5:30 pm – Games begin at 7:00 pm

Food by the DVFD will be available to purchase.

Tickets are $20.00 in advance and $25 at the door – this includes 20 games and 4 specials. 

Bring a pair of used eyeglasses or hearing aids for the Lions to recycle and receive a FREE game and a chance to win a Retired Small Boardwalk Basket filled with Mary Kay products donated by King Lion Marcia Holpuch.

Filled Baskets – Raffles – Door Prizes

Tables will be reserved – Advance Reservations Recommended.

For reservations call Shirley Barnard 301-829-2474 or Lion Mary Frances Gosnell  301-829-1002

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Download the Pancake Breakfast Information Flyer

The Damascus Lions Fall Pancake, Sausage & Scrambled Egg Breakfast will be held on:

Saturday, October 16, 2010, from 7 am to 11 am
at the
Damascus United Methodist Church Dining Room.

For Tickets, to Volunteer or for more information – contact:
Lion Joy Schwab 301-253-3294 or
Lion Sue Suddath 301-253-3434

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What a great year it was dipping ice cream at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair on Tuesday,  August 17, 2010.  The Damascus Lions Club, along with the Damascus High School Leos, the Baker MS and Rocky Hill MS Leos, and all the partners–in–service did an outstanding job. Tuesday was senior day at the fair and Damascus sold $8,020.57 worth of ice cream. 

Thank you to Lion Doug and Lion Gerta from Laytonsville who ran the ice cream parlor during the week in the pm shift and to our very own lion Gary Rogers for his am shift work, in running the parlor all week.  

 Also I would like to thank all the Lions who went to the dairy barn on Saturday mornings before the fair started and made the building look so nice. Thank you to the Lions Barry (Barbara & Tony) for stocking all the ice cream into the bins with me on Wednesday before the fair started. 

I would like thank my wife, Lion Tammy, for giving instructions to all the young Leo volunteers all day behind the counter and for help run the ice cream parlor.  And I would like to thank my family who are always involved in our club activities. I would also like to thank the Leo advisers and all their efforts bringing the kids to the ice cream parlor.  Without them this would not have been the great success that it was. Our Damascus Lions Club members turned out in great show of support this year and I would like to thank all of them. It is so nice to just have people stop in and visit for the day, it means a lot!!! 

I did some calculations and we had over 75 people come in and work in the ice cream booth that day. There were 450 man hours spent running the ice cream parlor. Our lions club will bring in $1,667.00 for our single day at the fair. What a great job we all did. Thank you for your continued support.

What started out as a rainy morning turned out to be a pleasant afternoon. But by the time the rain cleared the car show had been cancelled & half of the flea market vendors decided not to come out. We did collect our money because it was a rain or shine event that was prepaid. So we ended up with 41 spaces sold for $820.00 plus a $20 member donation.

The club also had a flea market space and due to the “HIGH PRESSURE SALES PERSONS” at our space we were able to walk away with $401.50 off of our donated goodies from our Lions. Lion Gary Rogers had brought out the Lion Pins donated by Lion Margaret Duvall from Lion Rodney’s collection. Some of these were also sold to bring in a nice sum of money for the club, not included in the above amount of money.

Worker Lions include Jerry Mallack, Bernie Duplan, Su Huang, Joy Schwab, Warren Schwab, Mary Frances Gosnell, Midge Tench, Marcia Holpuch, Gary Rogers, Chris Fletcher, Wayne Marr and Tess Gladhill.

Thanks to all who helped to make this a great success again.

Monies collected are used to support programs and services for people who are blind or visually impaired as well as for sight conservation.

History of the White Cane

In 1921, James Biggs, a photographer from Bristol, England became blind following an accident. Because he was feeling uncomfortable with the amount of traffic around his home, he painted his walking stick white to be more easily visible.

In the United States, the introduction of the White Cane is attributed to Lion George A. Bonham (Peoria Lions Club). In 1930, he observed a man who was blind attempting to cross the street with a black cane that was barely visible to motorists against the dark pavement. The Lion offered to paint the cane white to make it more visible. By 1931, the Peoria Lions Club approved the project and white canes were made and distributed. The Peoria City Council adopted an ordinance giving the bearers the right-of-way to cross the street. The news of the club’s activity spread to other Lions Clubs, and the white cane became known by the blind and sighted alike as a means of identifying the safe mobility needs of the visually impaired. In 1931, Lions Clubs International began a program promoting the use of White Canes for people who are blind.

Also in 1931, in France, Guilly d’Herbemont recognized the danger of blind people in traffic and launched a national “white stick movement” for blind people. She donated 5,000 white canes to people in Paris.

While the White Cane is commonly accepted as a “symbol of blindness”, various countries have different rules concerning what constitutes a “cane for the blind.” In the United Kingdom, for example, the White Cane is recognized as being used by visually impaired persons; if the cane has two red bands added, it indicates that the user is deaf-blind. In some areas, the cane is yellow.

In the United States, laws vary from state to state, but in all cases, those carrying white canes are afforded the right of way when crossing a road and when in a public place.

(This information is from the Lions Club International Website)

The Damascus Lions Club will serve ice cream on Tuesday, August 17th.  Don’t forget to stop by and see us!