Milpitas Executive Lions Club

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SAVE THE DATES:

May 14, 2013 at 9:00 AM at the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisor Chamber located at 70 West Hedding,  San Jose, CA.

May 21, 2013 Tuesday, 7:00PM at Milpitas City Council chamber, 2nd floor, 455 East Calaveras Blvd. Milpitas, CA.

For over 80 years individual Lions clubs and districts in the United States, Canada and other countries has been collecting used eyeglasses to be donated to needy people throughout developing countries. In October 1994 the Lions Eyeglasses Recycling Program was adopted as an official service activity of the Lions Clubs International. In 2012-13 Lions clubs received more than 3,235,917 pairs of reusable eyeglasses.

Eyeglass recycling boxes are distributed by District 4-C6 Clubs in different. Lions members volunteer their time and services by collecting used eyeglasses for donation, cleaning, repairing, classifying and distributing them through other Lions Clubs hosting optical missions in various countries.

Thank you to all the clubs for your continuously supporting this project.

Milpitas, CA— Piedmont High School senior Az Dyer won the Milpitas Executive Lions Club Student Speaker Contest this week. It is the 76th annual Lions of California Multiple District Four and the Lions Student Speaker Foundation sponsored statewide competition.

Dyer was chosen to compete at the Zone level by judges, Diane Bonbright, Catering Manager of Beverly Heritage Hotel, Bill Ferguson, President of Sunnyhills Neighborhood Association and Randy Garcia, Executive Director of Piedmont Adult Day School. This year’s challenging topic is “How do we create and keep jobs in America?”

The Zone level contest will be held at 6:00 PM on Monday, March 4, 2013 at the Brandon’s Restaurant of the Beverly Heritage Hotel in Milpitas, CA.
The purpose of this contest is to provide an opportunity for competitive public speaking among students on a subject of vital interest to the contestants and to the American people as a whole; to stimulate self-expression and independent thinking; to present to the public through the student speakers contests the problems surrounding the maintenance of this commonwealth as a free nation; to consider the means at our disposal of meeting the present and future world problems.

Over $21,000 can be won through multiple levels of competition and more than $103,000 in scholarships is awarded annually to high school students. Dyer has four more levels to compete to get a chance to reach the state finals in June 1, 2013.

L-R Diane Bonbright, Az Dyer, MELC Student Speaker Winner, Bill Ferguson and Randy Garcia

You’re invited to participate or attend our club Student Speakers Contest for 2012-2013 on February 18, 2013 at Brandon’s Restaurant of the Beverly Heritage Hotel located at 1820 Barber Lane, Milpias, CA. This year the Lions of California Multiple District Four are proud to sponsor the 76th Student Speakers Contest.

The challenging topic for this year’s contest is “How Do We Create and Keep Jobs in America?”

Open to all high school students. Over $21,000 can be won through multiple levels of competition.$103,000 in scholarships awarded annually.

For more information visit the website: http://studentspeaker.md4lions.org/

Contact: MELC at (408)430-7830 or send us an e-mail to milpitaslions@gmail.com