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Hi Fellow Lions,

What to take to bed with you – not a joke. Put your car keys beside your bed at night!

Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors. Put your car keys beside your bed at night.

If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator.

Next time you come home for the night and you start to put your keys away, think of this: It’s a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Test it. It will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break into your house, odds are the burglar/rapist won’t stick around. After a few seconds, all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won’t want that. And remember to carry your keys while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there. This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

Would also be useful for any emergency, such as a heart attack, where you can’t reach a phone. You also might want to carry your car keys with you in case you fall outside. You can activate the car alarm and then people will know there’s a problem.

Time: 5:30 PM (unless you were late like Flash)
Place: City Park Shelter 7 (the best one of course)

Lions Jim Condon and Neal Hopkins arranged for picture perfect weather when they put together a great picnic, and along with their families grilled the best brats and burgers this side of the Poudre river. The club had to provide its own grill for a pile of food this large; the Shelter 7 grill would have collapsed under the weight of it all. With such good organization and so many other Lions and Lion’s family members pitching in, there was no shortage of buns, (lifetime supply courtesy of Herb Hoskins) condiments, side dishes and desserts!

Outside of eating and drinking, the only activities were bolo toss and the three legged race. Bolo toss* is a game one generally encounters in a senior trailer park or group camp out. It is nice to see the young get sucked in to the enjoyment it provides. Simply put, you toss a Bolo (piece of rope with a golf ball attached at both ends) toward a Ladder (usually made from PVC plastic pipes) with the hope that it will wrap around and cling to one of the individual rungs on the ladder. Which rung of the ladder your bolo clings to ultimately determine your score, or whether your toss simply “cancels out” your challenger’s. In contrast, the three legged race was run solo by Flash Alexander himself whereupon Lion’s president Bob Kitchell immediately disqualified him as he only used two of his three legs.

Notes: The skinny dip was canceled as the City Park pool was closed for cleaning following the dog swim held for two day prior.

Thursday is bring a friend to Lions Club day. Actually our friends all know about our Lions obsession and if they aren’t in it with us then they ain’t gonna be anytime soon. ERGO the next available option is to coerce an acquaintance to visit the club. Well, you may prefer another method; sweet talk, strong arm, bribe…

I use the bribe method. Usually the first thing out of my mouth is how great the desserts are at the Columbine Café. Look, we need some young energy and those warm bodies will need a lot of sugar to keep ‘em going. Works for me and I expect it should work for you.

OK, so my track record on actual sign-ups is pretty dismal. If I remember correctly, to date it is zero. I’m not proud of it but that notwithstanding I’m not about to throw in the towel. This Thursday I expect to have at least two warm bodies looking for a sugar high, maybe three.