By now hopefully all you Lions Club members have received your club supplies catalog. If you have, would you kindly flip to page 46 and 47 of the catalog so you can put a face with the names you have come to know over the past few years. You can also see some of our favorite lions club pins and lions club coins we have produced this past year. Another item I would like to draw your attention to is the new Wipe It Now! cleaners we have introduced to our product line.
These Wipe It Now! cleaners are another great Lions fundraising idea that you can easily double your investment on. This item will allow for a customized full color imprint of your design to be put on our stock circle and square shaped pieces. They are easily applied to your cell phones and can be reapplied multiple times. They are great for not only screen cleaning, but eyeglass cleaning as well (no more rubbing your glasses on your shirt!). This microfiber is a very versatile piece, and very easy to clean. For more information on these pieces please
contact us here!
Now that you know what we look like, feel free to stop by our booths at the upcoming conventions in Seattle and Anchorage and say hey to a friendly face.
Lions Pins and Arkansas are two things you don’t usually think of together, but we’ve been hearing a lot about both lately. We are currently working with the Arkansas Lions Club to provide Lions Club Pins. The custom Lions Pins will be worn at their yearly parade.
We also saw a tweet from
our Twitter friends
39DollarGlasses, to a
blog post they wrote about an Arkansas Lions Club hosting a benefit for the blind. Proceeds from the 12th Annual Jamie Bray Memorial Golf Classic will go towards providing eyeglasses to the less fortunate and funding donations to several organizations, including Lions World Services for the Blind.
Chairman Lion Marty Faggetti said, "We have been truly blessed here in our community to have great support by local golfers, many very good and some who only play one time each year to help pay for sight-related services.”
More than likely you will see Lions Pins at the Arkansas golf tournament and during the parade. Whatever the type of Lions Pin you need, and no matter what state you live in, we know that Recognition Services can
help with your custom Lions Club Pin project.
Lions Club International is known worldwide for helping the blind. From eyeglass donation boxes to free vision screenings, the Lions Club has helped the blind and vision impaired since Helen Keller challenged them in 1925. You have known about the sight programs, but did you know that Lions also help to support and train Lions Pilot Dogs?
There are many Lions Clubs in Ohio and elsewhere that have helped Pilot Dogs Incorporated. Lions Clyde R. Tipton and Dwight Swepston, members of the Tri-Village Lions Club, presented a motion in 1960 at the State Convention of Ohio Lions to adopt Pilot Dogs as a state project. This became reality at the 41st Convention and Pilot Dogs was granted permission to be known as “Lions Pilot Dogs” by Lions Club International. Over 500 Lions Clubs now support Pilots Dogs and their services to the blind.
They also have an Alumni Association that meets annually in Columbus, Ohio. Owners of guide dogs that have graduated from Pilot Dogs get together to exchange information, knowledge, experiences and to new learn about new training techniques and technologies.
As member Truie Davis told us, “We try to promote a better understanding among the general public of the value of guide dogs to those who are visually impaired, and to promote the acceptance of persons using guide dogs to all facilities and means of transportation open to the general public.”
We manufacture custom lapel pins for Pilot Dogs Incorporated to present to their alumni association members. They also use the lapel pins to thank Lions Clubs for their support and to anyone else working to support Pilot Dogs Inc. You can
support Pilot Dogs here, and then
contact us with your idea for a custom made lapel pin.
Helen Keller Lions trading pins are the perfect way to remember that historic day in 1925 at the Lions Club International Convention in Cedar Point, Ohio. That was the day Helen Keller delivered a speech requesting that Lions Club members vow to assume the title of the
Knights of the Blind.
Below is a segment of the speech Helen Keller delivered:
"The American Foundation for the Blind is only four years old. It grew out of the imperative needs of the blind, and was called into existence by the sightless themselves. It is national and international in scope and in importance. It represents the best and most enlightened thought on our subject that has been reached so far. Its object is to make the lives of the blind more worthwhile everywhere by increasing their economic value and giving them the joy of normal activity.
Try to imagine how you would feel if you were suddenly stricken blind today. Picture yourself stumbling and groping at noonday as in the night; your work, your independence, gone. In that dark world wouldn't you be glad if a friend took you by the hand and said, "Come with me and I will teach you how to do some of the things you used to do when you could see?" That is just the kind of friend the American Foundation is going to be to all the blind in this country if seeing people will give it the support it must have.
You have heard how through a little word dropped from the fingers of another, a ray of light from another soul touched the darkness of my mind and I found myself, found the world, found God. It is because my teacher learned about me and broke through the dark, silent imprisonment which held me that I am able to work for myself and for others. It is the caring we want more than money. The gift without the sympathy and interest of the giver is empty. If you care, if we can make the people of this great country care, the blind will indeed triumph over blindness.
The opportunity I bring to you, Lions, is this: To foster and sponsor the work of the American Foundation for the Blind. Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness; no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided? I appeal to you Lions, you who have your sight, your hearing, you who are strong and brave and kind. Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in this crusade against darkness?"
Today, over 85 years later, Lions Club members still keep their commitment to Helen Keller by continuing to advocate the cause behind the
Knights of the Blind title. The Lions Club wants everyone to see a better tomorrow by supporting sight programs and services including vision screenings, eye banks and eyeglass recycling. With March being National Eye Donor month it becomes a priority for Lions Club members to remember and renew their commitment to Helen Keller and the blind. Custom Lions pins can be worn to remind members and the general public about the Lions Club International’s efforts in Helen Keller’s memory.
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