Lion Mike Jones juggles many hats while serving!

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Mike Jones is a busy Lion.  He serves two Lions Clubs.  Mike joined the Wimberley Lions Club even though it was some distance from his home at Canyon Lake.  He reliably works parking lot number 1 starting at 6:00 a.m. every Market Day.  Mike is also a founding member of the Canyon Lake North Shore Lions Club founded last fall.  He is actively involved with that club.  He has sponsored five kids for this summer's Texas Lions Camp, four from Mountain Valley Middle School and one from Rebecca Creek Elementary. 


Mike is a prostate cancer survivor and is sponsoring a fishing tournament to fund prostate cancer education.  The information is below.  If you can't participate in the tournament, consider going to the fish fry.


See you there!

Canyon Lake, TX Fishing Tournament

Fish Fry

Fish fry will begin at 3 pm at Little Jacob’s Creek Park.  The fish fry is open to the public.  All are welcome to stop in and get a plate.  Asking for a $10 donation per plate of Fish, Fries, coleslaw and water/tea/coffee.

Raffle

Raffle tickets will be sold on site for prizes.  Some of the raffle prizes include:

Aviation Academy New Braunfels Introductory Flight in a Cessna 172

Veracity Aviation New Braunfels Helicopter ride over Canyon Lake

The Tackle Box Rod & Reel

Guided fishing trips

Mike Jones $100 Walmart Gift card

Tournament Details:

Launch site and weigh in for the tournament will be from Little Jacob’s Creek Park.  This is an open team tournament with $100 entry fee per team.  Which includes beg bass fee of $10 per team.  60% of entry fee will be given as prize money paying a minimum of 3 places.  The other 40%will be donated to the US Too Prostate Education.

Tournament is a shotgun start at 6 am with final weigh in at 3 pm.  Results and prizes for tournament awarded at the Fish Fry benefit, beginning at 3 pm – Little Jacob’s Creek Park, Canyon Lake, TX.

Consolation prizes will be drawn for non-placers.

For additional information call 830-935-3414 or email travis@canyontacklbox.com  or come by the Tackle Box!

Not all donations are reported as donations

The Wimberley Lions Club is proud of its accomplishments in how it has donated so much money in its 40 year history.  But, not all donations are are run through the books as a donation.  When an organization ask for a donation where the Lions Club has no budget, often a vacant booth is offered to the organization so they can earn funds with their own fund raising effort with the booth.  Nearly every Market Day, there is one or two organizations asking for a pro bono location to sell raffle tickets, cookbooks, or tickets.

This last Market Day, an unusual request was received.  Kathleen Buhanan faced with hospital expenses for one of her sons that she was unable to pay ask for a small spot to draw Caricatures.  We had fun posing and helping her get some funds.  Here you see our Lion Boss.

Then there was the famous Past District Governor Dave Slider drumming up business for this talented artist.

And is her drawing of the author, yours truly.


If you are looking for that unique gift for someone you can contact Kathleen at her website www.artisticgrip.com

Lion of the Year Nomination is Special

Each year at this time, members of the club who has been honored by being awarded Lion of the Year gather.  They look over the roster and select members who they think have contributed much to club service that they should be recognized as a Lion of the Year.  This is a fairly easy task since so many Lions do so much.  The difficulty of this tasks come in bringing the number of nominations down to just a few.  The really hard job is left to the club members to select one of these well deserving Lions as the LOY recipient.  This task is so difficult because each has done so much but in different ways.  Like they say with the Academy Awards, its the nomination that counts.

Annette Harrington is a true dynamo for the Club, bringing her highly developed skills as a writer, organizer, and meeting facilitator to the many committees with which she is involved. She facilitates every meeting of the Market Day (MD) Management Committee. She planned and organized every facet of the “$3 million Celebration” Meeting last November that brought us international recognition. She chairs the MD Promotion Committee, and has been appointed to the position of MD Publicity Manager. Annette continues to serve as an Ambassador, organizes our MD Directories, writes every MD Vendor Newsletter, assists with annual booth leasing, manages the matrix for the Donation Committee, and serves as our Tail Twister. Most of all, Annette brings a high level of energy, enthusiasm, and willingness to take on the “hard stuff” with every project.

Beverly Nesmith has been a Lion since joining in 2005. This year, as First Vice President, she has shown great leadership in chairing the Donations Committee and the Nomination Committee. She also serves on the Membership, Scholarship, Special Events and Ambassador Committee and is a valuable contributor on each one. Bev is also a Concession Manager at Concession 6 with all of the related responsibilities for that position. She serves as an Ambassador where she visits 40 vendors each month. Bev has contributed her own time and talents in providing graphics and Lion banners for Market Days when they are needed. She will become our Club President in July and exemplifies the Lion’s motto “We Serve” by doing anything asked of her with absolutely no hesitation.

Billy Broyles after moving to Wimberley, delivered for “Meals on Wheels” for several year before joining the Wimberley Lions. Billy joined about 5 years ago, and started helping then Lion Freddie Jordan with the Lion Tamer duties of setting up and putting away the meeting paraphernalia. For the last two years he has been our Lion Tamer, he is the backbone of our membership meetings. He serves on the Board and also manages all three of the parking lots at Lions Field. He is responsible for staffing from pre- dawn till 4PM, collecting money, and checking on the welfare of his workers. Billy serves on the Special Events Committee and has been an Ambassador for Market Days for 2 years. Billy puts a lot of time and energy in his jobs.

Jerry Mackin has been a member since 1997. During that time he has been an active member and head manager at BBQ (serving area). As Concession Manger, Jerry has organized the running, scheduling of the serving area as well as customer service. Jerry has served on the Long Range Planning Committee, Lion’s Development, as well as Donations Committee. Jerry serviced many years on the MHSU Board of Directors as well as being the Chairman for 2 years.  Jerry has helped to organize our yearly trips to the Texas Lions Camp in Kerrville. Last year he received the Life Membership to that same camp.  Jerry has shown loyalty and consistency to make the BBQ a very profitable concession.

Lion Larry Thomas awarded Outstanding Lion!

A well deserved Lion Statue went to the Larry and Carol Thomas home.  Larry has been a Lion since 1997 working at Market Days at various tasks, increasing membership on the Membership committee, and preparing for special event activities.

Larry retired in 1996 from a career in Real Estate Mortgage & Investing where he fulfilled the position of President/CEO of a Division of Henry S. Miller, Equity Management Corp, and Falcon Group.  Larry and his wife of 45 years, Carol, have three grown children all with successful professions.

Larry has had tough time with his health.  A stroke forced him into an early retirement and have plagued him since.  He is recovering nicely from his last stroke and we are all looking forward to his regular attendance at meetings and work at Market Days.

Looking back and how we have come so far

 Patrick Cox spoke to our club March 2, Texas Independence Day.  He shared some of the history of the Wimberley Lions Club. This allowed us to enjoy some of the early days that many of us lacked first hand experience.  Pat joined the Wimberley Lions in 1975 and became President of the club in 1979.  This was when the Wimberley Lions Club was celebrating its tenth year in existence.  The club had already accomplished much.  It had successfully moved the Market Days from the square to the first portion of Lions Field.  The concession (now known as # 1)  had been built. The pavilion was being erected but the Bar-B-Que was out in the open.  The bonds individual Lions had purchased were being retired or donated back to the club.  1979 was the first year the club gave a scholarship and sponsored a foreign exchange student.

One of the biggest problems then as is now, how to raise the needed donation funds and to equitably distribute them to the overwhelming needs of the community.  Even then, there were Lions lobbying for their favorite for emergency services, youth & education, and community services like the library.   Then as it is now, Texas Lions Camp is high on the list of funding priorities.  This photo shows Jim McCronklin and Dr. Bill Daniels presenting cowboy boots to a foreign exchange student from Germany.  Bill Daniels later became a District Governor and is a member of the San Marcos Noon Lions Club.  Bill will be inducted into the Texas Lions Hall of Fame this June at the State Convention.

This photo is of Bob Gweynn, Edne Mitchell, and Pat Cox.  Bob was one of the long time backbones of the Wimberley Lions and Edne was the volunteer librarian along with many other civic activities.

Pat mentioned that while he has served on the Board of many organizations, his first experiences on a Board of Directors was with the Wimberley Lions Club.  He learned from that experience.

Dr. Patrick Cox will be discussing his latest book Come to Order: How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics in Wimberley at WIC's May 10 lecture series.  He is Associate Director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at UT Austin and a member of the Board of Directors of the Perdernales Electric Coop.

Tail Twisting Exceeds Expectations!

The Tail Twister duties are to promote fellowship, fun and laughter, encourage good feelings, life and enthusiasm in the meetings. They shall impose and collect the fines at the meetings.  Much of the success of the meetings will depend upon the Tail Twister’s resourcefulness in , making the members forget, for a time at least, their business and any worries they may have.  The Tail Twister will break down any reserve which might exist, and draw the members together in closer friendship.

Lion Annette Harrington performs all of these duties while bringing new twists to each meeting.  She gets audience participation with skits or contests that are often germane to current holidays.

Here are Lion Russel Cox and Lion John Estepp in a contest with their buzzers to punch when they think they know the answer.  The prizes are authenticated by the famous phrase "As Seen On TV"

Annette and Lion Scott have lived in Wimberley since 1999.   Annette grew up in Baytown and graduated from, what was then, Southwest Texas State, now Texas State.  Her work has been mostly in sales and marketing.  

With the boys out of the nest, Scott and she are owned by two miniature schnauzers, Ruffles and Miss Lucy Brown. Miss Lucy was bought (illegally) at Market Day in November 2008. Annette was sent to deal with a day renter selling puppies and she solved the problem by buying the last one!

Lion Pioneer Kaye Cook passed away

One of the last Charter Members of the Wimberley Lioness Club passes away.  Kaye worked on Lion projects with her husband, Lion James. when women were not permitted in Lions.  Past District Governor Dave Slider presided over the Wimberley Lioness Club Charter Night during his term as District Governor in 1985.  Kaye was one of its leaders.  Lion Kaye continued her leadership role as the Lioness club merged with the Wimberley Lions Club.  Kaye worked on the Donations Committee and wrote the club newsletter for many years.  Kaye was recognized by her club by her Outstanding Lion Award, Life Membership of Texas Lions Camp, and being named a Melvin Jones Fellow.

Kaye did not restrict her volunteering to the Lions, she worked with the Crisis Bread Basket as a volunteer, a recruiter of volunteers, and as a member of their Board of Directors.  Kaye was an active member of the Chapel of the Hills Church and served on its Benevolent Committee.