1st Annual End Of Summer BBQ

The Door Prize from the BBQ

Many people received a call near the end of August asking them to be a part of a committee or donate items for a BBQ the Club planned to have on August 29, 2015.  Less than two weeks later Brooklyn Kings County held an end of summer BBQ at Lion Hyacinth’s home with music, a raffle, drinks and lots of food.  Despite the quick turnaround the event was a success.

We saw a lot of our members and their family and friends attend as well as donate to the cause.   The star of the event was the Pure White Hennessy.  Lion Cheryl made sure that ever person who came bought a raffle ticket or six.

The drink of choice was Shandy, we went through two cases before 6 pm.  We finally shut down when we ran out of sides around 8:30pm. 

Thank you all for coming out and if you missed this event we hope to see you at the next one.

Brooklyn Kings County Leo Centennial Service Challenge

The LEOS in front of their prepared back packs.

On Friday August 28 2015 members of Brooklyn Kings County Leos Club delivered their 10 backpacks as part of the Centennial Service Challenge.  The Leos chose backpacks for 4th grade students so each backpack contained a 3 ring binder, subject dividers, wide rule loose-leaf paper, construction paper, 2 spiral notebooks, 3 composition notebooks, 2 pocket folders, a pencil box, 4 pencils, 2 pens, a sharpener, colored pencils, crayons, washable markers, a watercolor paint set, a pink eraser, a glue stick, a bottle of glue, safety scissors, a pack of index cards, facial tissue and hand sanitizer.

Lions Centennial Service Challenge

BKCLC Members at PS 268

On Thursday September 3, 2015 members of Brooklyn Kings County Lions Club made a donation of school supplies to PS 268 (133 East 53rd Street Brooklyn NY 11203) as part of the Centennial Service Challenge.  The club donated 24 backpacks, 81 composition notebooks, 43 spiral notebooks, 39 plastic folders, 74 paper folder, 35 packs of construction paper, 37 packs of loose leaf paper, 18 packs of copy paper, 17 rolls of paper towels, 21 boxes of tissues, 3 boxes of Ziploc bags, 15 containers of baby wipes, 32 bottles of hand sanitizer, 16 bottles of soap, 2 packs of pens, 18 pencil cases, 277 pencils, 44 safety scissors, 35 boxes of crayons, 31 boxes of markers, 9 packs of dry erase markers, 147 erasers, 20 protractors, 72 containers of glue, 5 packs of post-its, 80 rulers and 25 binders for the fourth grade of approximately 100 children.  This article was submitted to the Kings and Queens for publication.

Fall Stewardship Day at Marine Park

Brooklyn Kings County at Marine Park on Saturday 10.24.15

The NYC Parks Department and the conservancy for Marine Park sponsored this event.  The event started at 9 am.  The Lions were the last group to arrive.  There were over twenty Lions, one Leo and two Cubs.   The Leo and Cub were from the Brooklyn Kings County Leos Club.  We all had to sign waivers.  In the future, we have the option of signing the waivers online in advance.  I told Sarah, the representative from the conservancy about Lionism.  She ran the Brooklyn Half that I volunteered  at in May.  The Parks Department had granola bars for breakfast. Lion Marcella picked up two Lions that were at the wrong location.  They were at the Nature Preserve on Avenue U. The morning was bitterly cold but not freezing. 

They separated all the volunteers into three groups to work.   Due to the timing, all the Lions were in the last group together.  Sarah discussed a project to redesign the trail system that will start next fall for two-year duration.   They explained that Marine Park is the biggest park in NYC, bigger than both Central and Prospect Parks.  It is over 500 acres with 12 miles of trail.  The side of the park we were working on is the more ecologically untouched portion.   We took rakes, grabbers, garbage bags and seeds.  The seeds were a mixture of three native wildflowers.  The Lions Clubs helped plant some young trees a few years ago around the back edge of the ball fields.  The trees were thriving but non-native invasive vines and exotic vegetation like porcelain berry, mugwort and bittersweet, were overwhelming the young trees.  Our aims were to clean the area of debris, rake out the invasive vegetation, lay out a layer of seeds then cover it over with some organic matter.   .

Hurricane Sandy devastated the area.  Some local students had removed the majority of the debris left by the storm so there were only smaller items left such as glass bottles, plastic bags, and other evidence of children hanging out in the park having fun.   The Lions cleaned the corner of the park leading to the trails.  In about one hour, we cleaned both areas and ran out of seeds.  We then cleaned the area between the two sections of young trees.  .We went back and for our efforts received a vegetarian or chicken wrap lunch and a free Parks Department water bottle.  We finished by 11:30 and were ready to go home.