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Tag: Windy City Lions

  • Thanksgiving Basket Project

    Thanksgiving Basket Project, the first project for the Chicago Windy City Lions.

    Thanksgiving Basket Project, the first project for the Chicago Windy City Lions.

    As previously posted, Brenda and I are now members of the Windy City Lions Club. This Thanksgiving was the first scheduled project, were a handful of families were selected to receive a full Thanksgiving dinner, based on their own interest and taste. 

    While Brenda and I were not able to be an active part of this project, it was a clear success and made us both very happy to have joined the club. We are planning on being part of a project in the next two weeks with Lens Crafters where children who need glasses will be examined and fitted for glasses. 

    During this time of economic uncertainty, it’s really nice to put some efforts into helping others that are really in need of more. 

    You can find out more about the Thanksgiving project and see some photos by visiting the club website at www.WindyCityLions.org.

  • The Windy City Lions


    Club Officers of the Wind City Lions Club

    Since 1993 I have worked on video projects for the Lions Clubs International Foundation, based here in Oakbrook IL. Projects include convention videos, on-site editing and news magazine shows, always highlighting the good that Lions members do around the world and for their community. Brenda has worked on the same projects since the late 1990’s (it’s good to be young).

    While becoming a Lion myself wasn’t anything I had thought much of in the beginning, it’s hard to deny that over the years it just kind of gets into your blood stream and before you know it you’re compelled to help others. For the last several years, many of us that work on the Lions projects have talked about not just joining a club, but starting our own. It took a lot longer then we had expected, but we finally did it. 

    One of the main reasons we did it now after all of this time is that the current President of Lions, Al Brandel, offered to sponsored our group and really pushed to get it done during his time in office. He was even kind enough to make a special trip to Chicago to be there for our Charter Night Dinner.

    So now Brenda and I are members of the Chicago Windy City Lions Club, along with 40 other friends and colleagues. Below is a video that we created for the charter night dinner to introducer our group to the people that were there. You may see a few people that you recognize. 

    For more information on the group, visit our new website at www.windycitylions.org.

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