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January 2015
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
DISTRICT 35-0 REGION 3 ZONE 7
www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/oviedowintersprings
Message From Lion Dennis Dulniak - President
Nona’s Eagle Creek Golf Club
Weekly Bingo on Thursday nights – 6:45 pm St.
Alban’s Church Hall on SR 436 (Aloma Ave.)
Monthly Eye Clinics on the 2nd Wednesday at
the Orange Blossom Family Health Center
$1,000 Book Scholarships to graduating Seniors
at Oviedo, Winter Springs and Paul J. Hagerty
High Schools
Eye glass and hearing aid collection from over
40 Central Florida sites along with the
subsequent sorting by teams of Lions and other
volunteers
So how about it? If you are interested in hearing more
about the Oviedo-Winter Springs Lions Club or
Lionism, willing to do more for your community and
join forces with over 1.3 million other Lions worldwide
for our common “We Serve” motto ... come meet with
us, join our Pride and share in the joys and satisfactions
we continue to deliver to our communities. We need
your support, commitment and active involvement ...
please accept my invitation. RSVP and questions
welcome: Lion Dennis Dulniak, call 407-971-9966 or
e-mail dennis.dulniak@ucf.edu.
Yours in Lionism,
Lion Dennis Dulniak
President 2014-2015
Please Join Us On February 3, 2015
elcome One –
Welcome All ... share in our
Lions Service!
I am truly proud of the work and
contributions our Oviedo-Winter
Springs Lions Club continues to
perform, accomplish and deliver
throughout the Central Florida region!
Though relatively small by Lions standards (just
under 30 members), we continue to “Strengthen the
Pride” with the addition of our newest Lions
Elizabeth Savage and Maria Palo and recent Missouri
transfers Lions Pat and Joe Schulte. We most
welcome visitors and prospective members to attend
one of our meetings as my guest or in conjunction
with an
invitation by a fellow Lion who has accepted Joe
Preston’s “Ask 1” challenge,
our Lions International
President; in fact, we’ll even buy your first dinner
with us. We meet each 1st and 3rd Tuesday night at
6:30pm for Pride Social and 7pm Meeting at the Twin
Rivers Golf Club Grill, 2100 Ekana Drive, Oviedo.
Among our latest Club projects:
3
rd Annual Charity Golf Tournament at Lake
t our regular Oviedo-Winter
Springs Lions meeting on
February 3rd our guest speaker will
be the Founder of Fairways for
Warriors. Since we were able to host
12 Wounded Warriors at the 3rd
Annual Golf Tournament, it will be
interesting to learn about the organization and how they help
Warriors to have a better quality of life. Please join us at our
meeting.
We usually have a speaker the first Tuesday of the month.
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Oviedo-Winter Springs Lions
2014-2015 Club Officers
President: Lion Dennis Dulniak 407 971-9966
Immediate Past President: Lion Ted Erion
1
st Vice President: Lion Pat Stamm
2
nd Vice President: Lion Vish Punit
3
rd Vice President: Lion Charles Sheaves
Secretary: Lion Denise Garland
Treasurer: Lion Vern Hysell
Membership: Lion Dot Myers, PDP
2 Year Director: Lion Dee Hulbert
2 Year Director: Lion Tom Conaughty
1 Year Director: Lion Paul Schwimmer
Lion Tamer: Lion Ann Goodwin-Erik
Tail Twister: Lion Dee Hulbert
Appointed Club Positions:
Bingo Chair: Lion Tom Conaughty
Book Scholarship Chair: TBD
Budget Committee Chair: Lion Ted Erion
Charity Committee Chair: Lion Pat Stamm
Chaplain: Lion Richard Challis
Eye Chair: Lion Paul Schwimmer
Eyeglass Collection Chair: Lion Dee Hulbert
Golf Tournament: Lions Pat Stamm & Ted Erion
Gumball Machines: Lion Jack Elliott
Lions Pride Day Chair: TBD
Publicity: Lions Dianne & Bill Christian
Sunshine/Pride Chair: Lion Ann Goodwin-Erik
White Cane Chair: Lion Ted Erion
35-O District Governor
Lion Carolyn Lloyd
321 298 4223 lioncarolyn@gmail.com
35-O 1st Vice District Governor
Lion Jacquie Tripp
386 316-5810 lionjtripp@hotmail.com
35-O 2nd Vice District Governor
Lion Steve Hilaire
407 715-1422 stevehilaire@yahoo.com
Region 3 Chair
Lion Norman Orel
386 427-0217 thetinka@aol.com
Zone 7 Chair
Lion Ted Erion
407 366-0761 tederion@yahoo.com
District Website: www.lionsofflorida.org/35-O
Multiple District 35 Website: www.lionsofflorida.org
Lions International Website: Lionsclubs.org
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Oviedo-Winter Springs Lions Club.
Lions Dianne & Bill Christian
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hank You Twin Rivers Golf Club in Oviedo
for allowing the Oviedo-Winter Springs Lions
Club to meet at your restaurant twice a month. The
service and food is super.
LIONS INTERNATIONAL
Code of Ethics
TO SHOW my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious
application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of
service.
TO SEEK success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as
my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own
self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of
questionable acts on my part.
TO REMEMBER that in building up my business it is not necessary
to tear down another’s; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true
to myself.
WHENEVER a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position
or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
TO HOLD friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true
friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to
another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service
in the spirit in which it is given.
ALWAYS bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my
state and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in
word, act and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor, and
means.
TO AID others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to
the weak, and my substance to the needy.
TO BE CAREFUL with my criticism and liberal with my praise, to
build up and not destroy
2014 OWS Lions Community Service Highlights
eing a Lion is more than just a title. The Oviedo-Winter Springs
Lions Club works hard to give meaning to the Lions motto “We
Serve.” The Lions of Oviedo-Winter Springs perform many services
to the community in a variety of areas including: sight, hearing,
scholarships, attending meetings and fundraising to support the
various community service activities. An audit of the time spent in
delivering these services and raising the money required to make it all
happen reveals some impressive results. A listing of the major service
activities and the fundraisers with the corresponding hours devoted to
make it all happen is tabulated below:
Eye glass collection 115 hours
Eye glass sorting 225 hours
Lions Eye Clinic 480 hours
Hearing board 350 hours
Book Scholarship 40 hours
White Cane Day 100 hours
Bingo 900 hours
Golf Tournament 410 hours
Pride Day 160 hours
Meetings (local club) 1100 hours
The numbers are estimates based on the crew size, the duration of
the activity and the frequency of the activity. These numbers do not
include attendance at District, State and International Lions meeting
which includes events such as District meetings, State conventions,
Governors Conference, etc.
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roject Right to Sight is an entity of Florida Lions
District 35-O. Project Right to Sight conducts a Lions
Community Eye Clinic each month at the Orange Blossom
Family Health Care Center located at 252 North Orange
Blossom Trail, Orlando, Florida. Effective operation of a
day at the Clinic requires between 8 to 10 volunteer Lions
to process patients, pull the glasses from inventory and
transport them to the Clinic. Lions Eye Clinic patients
receive a Doctors eye exam and are usually fitted with
glasses on the day of the exam. In 2014 the Oviedo
Winter Springs Lions Club funded 168 patients at $25
each at the Lions Community Eye Clinic. A typical Clinic
day fits 30 to 35 patients with glasses at no cost to the
patient. The $25 is for the Doctor. The glasses are
reconditioned used eyeglasses collected as part of Project
Right to Sight used eye glass collection program.
Project Right to Sight Lions go to great lengths to
provide good quality glasses to their patients. A basic
criteria used by the Lions is, “If you would not put the
glasses on your own face throw them away.” On
average the Lions retain 46 per cent of the glasses
collected. This means that in order to provide the 30,000
pair of good glasses each year the Lions need to collect
and sort 66,000 pairs of raw stock. Project Right to
Sight has provided an average of 30,000 pair of
reconditioned used eye glasses to patients worldwide
each year since 1995. That requires a lot of hours
collecting, sorting, packaging and transporting.
Volunteer Lions are always welcome to assist.
The Oviedo-Winter Springs Lions Club has played a
major role in the development and continued support of
the Lions Community Eye Clinic since its opening in
2006. This clinic is available for use by all Lions Club’s
eye patients in Multiple District 35- O.
Project Right to Sight & the Oviedo - Winter Springs Lions Club by Lion Ted Erion
t the District 35-O Cabinet meeting on January 17th, Lion Mary Yochum from the
Florida Lions Conklin Centers presented Lion Ted Erion with a Life Member Award
for his “Generous and Dedicated Support.” We are so proud of Lion Ted who has received
multiple Awards from Lions International, the Multiple District, District 35-O as well as
club awards. A TRUE LION Thru and Thru. Thanks Lion Ted for showing the true
meaning of “We Serve.”
Congratulation Past Oviedo-Winter Springs President Lion Ted Erion
What is the Conklin Centers for the Blind?
heir Mission is to help children and adults who are blind with additional disabilities
be independent and contributing citizens.
Their Purpose: To help our students to discover and develop their true potential through training and support. Each student is
unique in their abilities and needs, yet they all share the same vision – to be productive, contributing members of the
community. They want to work and have their own home or apartment. They want to be in charge of their life, to make
decisions for themselves. They want to live with dignity.
At the Conklin Center we teach daily living and vocational skills that our adult students need to live on their own and offer
lifelong supported employment and supported living services to ensure long-term success.
The Center’s Early Intervention “Blind Babies” Program helps blind and visually impaired infants and toddlers develop the
skills they will need to successfully enter pre-school, kindergarten and elementary school ready to learn alongside our non- disabled children. The Center works directly with the families of these children in their homes so they can provide an
enriching learning environment that encourages independence early on.
Their vision for the future is to reduce dependence on institutional or homebound care.
For more about the Conklin Centers for the Blind go to www.conklincenter.org.
Our Club’s Annual Holiday Party held on December 16, 2014
ur Annual Holiday Party
was held at Stefano’s
Trattoria in Winter Springs.
“True Lions Fellowship” was in
full swing with most of our club
members present, as well as their
spouses, significant others, and
guest. We had wonderful music
provided by , and Tasty Italian
Cuisine.
A perfect way to celebrate the
Holiday Season with friends.
King Lion Dennis
Dulniak & wife Nancy