Fellow Lions:

Starting a new year brings membership to mind. This is the best time to think about building your club’s members. We always know that whenever there is a chance to ask those friends, relations, and fellow members of our community to join we are serving our community better. This is the time and season that people think about making those New Year’s resolutions in favor of making their world a better place to live in.

I would hope that you can display your clubs progress this past year and show “all” that what you do for your community every day is just what they may aspire to do also. We are so proud of your every day accomplishments in this district. You have come a long way in service to others these past 6 months. Please let others know what you do, and do not be shy in asking folks to join your success train. The key is ASK, there is not one of you that are Lions today, do to this one fact, you were simple asked to join. We would also be proud to see those new Lions at our Multiple District Convention in April!

I am sure that you will enjoy Governor, District 49A, Jerry Blackburn’s hair being dyed gold and purple much more because of the work you do now to bring in more members. Your Lions load will be lighter and you will get new ideas and talents in your club that will allow you to be more diverse and flexible in your future challenges. We will have an open house on March 6th in Fairbanks, from 6-9 pm to give all your new members a great orientation about our wonderful organization. You can see the flyer above explaining that day. Please think about an open house in your community!

“Knights of the North”, we should be proud of our past and our future, for we have the chance now to make the future so bright, someone’s dark past, so different, a blurry vision so clear, a child’s darkness, cold & hungry, so positive with what we offer. We care, so we serve, that is a powerful way to live! Keep up the great work you do.

Lion Bill
District 49B Governor 2009-10