8:30 Registration
8:55 Call to Seats
9:00 Gavel Falls

Guest Speaker – Gary Michels “Turn it up a Notch”

During lunch there will be an informal discussion on “How to Acquire New Members” facilitated by Leadership Chair Karen Fillmore, Membership Chair Jim Goodheart, Extension Chair Larry Hidalgo, Retention Chairs 1VDG Ray and 2VDG Liz, and Orientation Chair Bob DeUnger.

Santa Clara Valley Blind Center
101 N Bascom Ave
San José, CA

Click here for Agenda

The second District Cabinet meeting will be held at the Prunedale Grange, 17890 Moro Rd., Prunedale, CA, Saturday, November 7, 2009, starting at 8:30 with refreshments and sign-up.  Meeting will start promptly at 9:00 and go until 1:30.  Lunch will be provided for $10 by Prunedale Lions Club and they will be serving tri-tip and chicken.  There will be two training sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.  Click here to download the agenda for more details. For those giving reports please do so in written format to CST Jean Westcott with a copy to me. All Lion members are encouraged to attend and learn about what is going on in our District.

SPECIAL THANKS to the Hospitality Committee, Frances Maglalang and Sandy Hanner, for arranging for the Continental Breakfast and to Prunedale Lions Club for providing lunch. Please mark your calendars for the next District Cabinet Meeting to be held on February 20, 2010.

The deadline for publishing any articles, news, pictures or announcements for YOUR newsletter, All Points Bulletin, is October 25 for publishing November 5.

Team Lions for Hope joined 1,400 walkers in San Francisco on a beautiful, sunny day for the third annual City of Hope Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer.  Our team raised almost $8,000, but we have until the end of the year to raise our goal of $10,000.  In these economic times, it’s hard to raise funds, but breast cancer doesn’t go away in hard times.  City of Hope needs our help now more than ever, so please go to www.tinyurl.com/2009lionsforhope and donate your City of Hope dollars specifically for breast cancer research.  It affects 1 out of 8 women, and all of us when it’s a loved one or dear friend.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so please help us achieve our goal.  It will benefit City of Hope, it will benefit Lions, and it will benefit all the women we know who have bravely battled this disease.

It was my honor and privilege to be one of four California District Governors to be given the Quick Start Ginkgo Award by International President Eberhard Wirfs, and one of 57 governors worldwide.  This special recognition was for 2009-2010 district governors who extended clubs before August 30th, 2009 and was presented by International President Wirfs at the USA/Canada Forum in Memphis, Tennessee.  Each district governor that qualified received a special plaque and a mention in LION Magazine.

Congratulations to IPDG Marlene Duffin, PCS Karen Fillmore, RC Hugh Donagher and the team of coordinating Lions of 4C6 for qualifying 4C6 for the Quick Start Ginkgo Award by chartering the Mountain View Silicon Valley Lions Club and the Willow Glen Lions Club before August 30, 2009.  Click here to read IP Eberhard Wirfs’ full article.

We received a copy of a letter District Governor Ken Ibarra sent to Lions in District 4-C4 encouraging them to participate and support the City of Hope Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer in San Francisco on October 3 at Justin Hermann Plaza for a leisurely easy walk along The Embarcadero for 3 miles.  Click here to read Governor Ken’s letter to members of District 4-C4.  With their participation we can show what Lions can do in support of a cause as important to all Lions as defeating breast cancer in our lifetime through research and treatment at City of Hope, an LCI-sanctioned project.  Go to www.lionsforhope.com for more details.

In keeping with our “Going Green” efforts, our District Newsletter, All Points Bulletin, will be distributed electronically by Region and Zone Chairs, and Club Presidents and Secretaries.  They will be responsible for making sure Club Members are aware of the link to download or, if they do not have access to computer or e-mail, making sure they get a paper copy.  We are introducing a subscription for those who wish to be guaranteed that the newsletter will be mailed directly to them.  The cost is just $5 for the year, four issues, to cover the cost of printing and mailing.  Checks should be made out to District 4C6 and mailed to CST Jean Westcott at 4000 Rio Rd., #34, Carmel, CA 93923.

Click here to download the September 2009 copy of All Points Bulletin.  Happy reading!

Click here to view the minutes of the first cabinet meeting held 7/26/09.

Reminder: All newsletter articles and pictures must be sent to CST Jean Westcott at gwestcot@aol.com no later than August 27 for publishing September 5.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in the success of the Installation of Officers and the Cabinet Meeting this past weekend in Santa Cruz at the Elks Lodge: to PDG Larry Hidalgo for all his hard work in putting together the program; to CST Jean Westcott for help with the agenda; to my club, Scales of Justice, for greeting guests and taking tickets; to CST Jean Westcott and RC Maureen Moore for the table decorations; to Lion Suzie DeUnger for preparing the visiting guest gift baskets; to RC Hugh Donagher for assistance with media; to Dr. “Doc” Christine Vigil for District photography; to Lion Carla Evans for the program printing; to ZC Gerry Stasko for the ticket printing; to RC Maureen Moore who arrived at 7:30 am to help set up the room and was in charge of being sure everyone signed in and helped with cleanup; to ZC Bud Westcott who arrived also at 7:30 to help set up the room and was in charge of selling Directories and Pins all day and helped with cleanup; to ZC Maria Suber who helped with the Directory and Pin sales; to PCT Lila Johnson who handed out the President/Secretary packets; to PCST Jim Goodheart who manned the badge pickup desk until he had to work as Tailtwister; and to Five Star Catering for the wonderful menu Saturday night.

Many thanks go to PID Dr. Bill Iannaccone for taking time out of a busy schedule and making my installation a most memorable one, complete with props.  The marble horse head statue will be with me at all District meetings.  Thank you for your inspiring and informative message to the Lions of 4-C6.

And thank you to my visiting District Governor, Marty Van Zandt from 4-C2, for traveling all the way from Eureka to be with us.  Thank you for being part of an enjoyable weekend and for the kind words you imparted to the members of our District.

I’d like to especially thank Santa Cruz Host Lions for providing the refreshments and beverages and for taking the time out of your Sunday morning to set it up for the cabinet meeting. Early arriving Lions were grateful for the coffee, juice, doughnuts, muffins and fruit.  I neglected to thank you at the cabinet meeting and I wish to convey my sincere appreciation for a job well done.

Thanks go to our presenters in the cabinet training sessions:  PDG Steve Brown for President training; RC Hugh Donagher for Region and Zone training; Lion Tim Musselman for Secretary/Treasurer training; and PCT Lila Johnson for White Cane training.

And thank you, Lions of 4-C6, for participating in the cabinet meeting and training.  You are the spokes that keep the wheels moving.  I look forward to serving with you as your District Governor in this Lionistic year and carrying out the theme of International President Eberhard Wirfs “Move to Grow.”