So we are here today with Lion David. Can you tell me when you became a Lion and why you started.
I became a line about 40 years ago in California when I lived there and a friend of mine asked me to go with him to a meeting and I didn’t know what meeting or whatever and I went and it was a Lions club meeting and I kind of stuck around that point and have been a Lion most of the time since then and that’s over 40 years ago.
Wow. So how many clubs have you been in, do you know?
I’ve been in two one, two, three, four, five different clubs across the country as my job is taking me around the country. I’ve been Club president six times and five different clubs. So I’ve been involved in a District Governor and I’ve been a council chairman which is sort of over the district Governor’s so I’ve been around and had some fun doing it. It’s a wonderful organization.
Can you tell me since you’ve been around for 40 or so years, why did you stay?
I enjoy giving back to the community. I have been able to help things such as taking care of cemeteries, building handicap ramps. I taken the trips to Peru and Mexico on eyeglass missions, and I just love helping people that are less fortunate than we are. There’s so many out there that need help and we have the ability to do that. As a Lion Club member you have the opportunity to work together. You can do so much more as a team than you can’t as an individual, and that’s what Lions Clubs do.
So true. So if there was somebody that was kind of on the fence of whether they want to join a Lions Club or not, is there a piece of advice you would give them?
I would ask them to go with me out to a service project and see where we actually help people. Going to a meeting is going to a meeting, but going out and actually seeing where the rubber hits the road is the big deal. Whether it’s just we just recently completed a clean up out at Fort Vancouver the park out there to kind of help do things that need to be done. It’s heartwarming to go out there and see a group of people doing things for betterment of things other than themselves.
That’s awesome. Great. Thank you for your time today, David.
Thank you Dotty. Bye.
