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The Bismarck Prairie Rose Lions Club is preparing a custom cookbook featuring favorite recipes from our members. We would like to include taste-tempting recipes from other Lions Club members throughout North Dakota

Please submit one to five of your favorite recipes so you and your Lions Club will also be represented in this cookbook

Your name along with your Lions club name will be printed with each of your recipes

Attention All District Lions Clubs

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Promoting Your Club

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Convention Presentation Dialogue

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Lions Orientation

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Here's a project idea. Help members become more involved in Lions. Learn more about the 5NW Rookie Lion Award and Roarin' Lion Award

Minot Flood Relief Update

Around 25 Lions met on August 10^th, 2011 at Morelli’s Distributing in Minot to put together cleaning kits that was purchased with the $10,000 LCIF Emergency Disaster Grant. Lions from Hooterville, Minot, Minot Magic City, Minot Plum Valley, Elgin Dakota, Sawyer, and Mandan Dacotah worked side by side for about an hour. (Many people doing a little bit can make a large impact in a short period of time). New friendships were formed and old friendships renewed. The Minot Daily News and KX News were on hand to record this Lions event.

Lions District 5NW applied for and was approved for a $10,000 emergency grant through Lions Clubs International Foundation. Emergency Grants provide up to $10,000 to districts that are impacted by natural disasters that has affected at least 100 people, including tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and tsunamis. Lions District Governors may apply for these funds to assist with immediate needs such as food, water, clothing, blankets and cleaning supplies. LCIF typically awards more than $2 million in Emergency Grant funding each year. Our district received the maximum award that is given for emergency relief

Watch for articles regarding the Lions at work for the flood victims of the Minot area! Better yet, get involved! Follow this link to see more.

LIONS CLUBS OF MANDAN LEAD EFFORTS TO FEED VOLUNTEERS IN THE 2011 FLOOD FIGHT

On May 25, 2011, Lions Kevin and Pat Vannett of the Mandan Dacotah Lions approached Mandan Mayor Tim Helbling with the idea of organizing food for all of the volunteers that would be needed to fight the flood. He replied “that would be awesome”. The Mandan Dacotah Lions board of directors quickly acted to approve the project and Mandan Lions Club President; Jeff Erickson called his club for workers and within THREE hours Kevin and Pat had organized donations of water, food, and tents. The grills were lit and our journey began.

Setting up to feed the volunteers in the 2011 flood fight are Lion Bill Schott of the Mandan Lions and Lion Kevin Vannett along with his son Matt, and Lion Marcy Moore of the Mandan Dacotah Lions

Because of the working relationship that all of the Lions of Mandan have with business in our community, those businesses quickly got on board to support this project. Many businesses stepped up to the plate when asked to help. Many called us to ask “what do you need, we want to help”. This was truly a community wide event where every church, organization, business and private person united in the fight to save our city.

Bismarck Lions President Kay Link (left), helps coordinate the community volunteers in the chuck wagon during the flood relief efforts in Mandan

Soon to be Lion, Cindy Sandvick and other community volunteers serve food to our National Guard and the sandbag teams during the “Race to Sunrise” all night sandbagging event held at the Raging Rivers sandbag site in Mandan from 10 p.m. June 1st to 6 a.m. June 2^nd

The Red Cross soon came by and was quite impressed with the organization that was in place. They soon were calling to see where their volunteers could help us. We were able to assist them in finding the areas of our community where their trucks could go, but we could not. The Salvation Army soon was on the scene and again they depended on the local Lions club to help them get to the places that were without food and water.

For the next twelve days, the Lions of Mandan continued to be Beacons of Hope for the community. At one time there were Lions members from six clubs from both sides of the river working side by side. What a great example of cooperation and understanding.

Lions Pat and Kevin Vannett who organized the efforts to feed flood fight volunteers in Mandan are looking a little pooped at 2:00 a.m. on June 2^nd

Thank you to all of the Lions Clubs from across North Dakota who sent financial support and manpower to assist the Bismarck/Mandan area. You are truly Beacons of Hope.

These cookbooks will be professionally published by early fall, 2013 and contain special artwork and tidbits of interest

It is sure to be treasured by Lions and others for years to come

Click here for the recipe submission and cookbook order form