Each weekly meeting, The Grants Pass Lions Club
strives to have a guest speaker from the community
Grants Pass Lions Club had a special treat for
the Tuesday Nov. 17 meeting. Pictured above are the Josephine
County History Players. A group from the Josephine County
Historical Society. Their presentation gave an in-depth account
of the history and occurrences on how Oregon became a state. Accounts
from the Indian maid Sacagawea who assisted Lewis and Clark, to Dr. McLaughlin
named and dreamed "Father of Oregon" and Jessie
Applegate, responsible for a safer southern route to the Pacific
Northwest. To learn more about the Josephine County Historical Society,
contact http://www.josephinehistorical.org/
(541) 479-7827
Joel King (left) the newest member to join
the Grants Pass Lions Club is also an officer of the County Forest
Service. Mr. King made a dramatic presentation on the process of handling
conflict, stress, power control and competition among people in various
situation. Whether it be at work, church or with the Forest Service,
the effects are the same as pointed out by Joel with the graphic
demonstration below. To learn what they are doing below, contact
Joel at twobeanies@clearwire.net
This week's honored guest is Roger
Brandt retired from the forest service. Rogers passion is to
recreate the traveling of the old Redwood Stage road which connected
Crescent City California with Kirbyville Oregon from the 1840's to the about
1922 This was the main route before highway 199 was built. The traveling
tour takes about 6 hours and be traveled with most automobiles. To
learn more about this tour and scheduled times, contact Rodger at 541 582
4316 or enter Redwood Stage Road in your search browser (Google)
Today's guest, August 25,2009 touches a
special nerve with this site's web master. Lion Barbara and web master
Lion Michael are proud to introduce Mr. David Tolly of Tolly Media
Group,LLC Mr. Tolly offers a very unique service of printing and self
publishing. The Tolly Media Group,LLC offers classes on how to become
your own publisher of your specialty. To learn mre about becoming a
self publisher, contact David at 471 2215 or visit them on the web. www.tallymediagroup.com
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Lion President Fred Hyde welcomes Jeff
Hyde (No relation) to the August 11 2009 Grants Pass Lions Club
meeting. Jeff is president of Evergreen Bank. Mr. Hyde is an
instrumental administrator of the bank's affordable housing program call
"Homeward Dreams" This program of home purchases allows
qualified persons to buy quality new homes at a substantially reduced cost.
To learn how this program can work for you, contact Evergreen Bank
at 541 479-3351. P O Box 2020 Grants Pass OR
97528
Lion Linda got us a real treat
this week. Please meet David James of Greenleaf Industries.
Greenleaf Industries is a provider of garden plants for the home
gardener. Vegetable, flowers, ornamental shrubs are gown for sale to
the public. They are grown and attended by employees who are mentally and or
physically challenged. To learn more of Greenleaf's many more
services, contact David www.greenleafindustries.org
541 474 0571
This week, Lion Linda Friebus wants us to meet Barbara
McCain a woman with a special mission. Barbara's daughter has an awful disease
called Crohn. Barbara will be joining a support group to raise
awareness of this disease by riding a bicycle for three days to cover 210
miles.
Joining us this week our guest speaker is Win
Howard Win is the C E O of Three Rivers Community Hospital in
Grants Pass Oregon. Mr. Howard gave us an impressive update
A great big Hi Five from Lion Linda Friebus to Steve
King, Volunteer Local Program Coordinator for Josephine County Oregon
Special Olympics. Special Olympics provides year round sports programs
for individuals with intellectuals disabilities ages 8 years old and
older. To learn more contact Steve jocoso402@msn.com
Visit the website www.soor.org
Lion Linda Friebus welcomes Denise Dillard
Relay for Life Josephine County Event Chair. A most worthy organization in fighting
for a cure for cancer. Relay for Life is a national movement to raise
funds for the victims and sufferers of cancer. To learn more on how
you can help or receive help, contact Denise at
541 659 2601 email her deniserelays@hotmail.org
Check out the website www.jocorelay.org
April 14, 2009 the Grants Pass Lions Club is privileged
to welcome Russell Long the administrator for the Josephine County
Library system. Mr. Long is responsible for the demanding task of
negotiating with County officials and school boards in finding solutions to financial
agreements in funding the libraries of Josephine County. At present
the library in Grants Pass in opened only 20 hours a week.
