2d Annual Golf Tournament
2d Annual Golf Tournament Highlights
River Crossing Golf Club
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
All proceeds support initiatives in the
Bulverde Community - WE SERVE!
New
Officers Installed for 2012-2013
Bulverde,
Texas June 7, 2012. Lion Jim Barr
installed new officers for the 2012-2013
term during a ceremony at the BLC Annual
Banquet on June 7th, 2012. Over
50 members and guests attended the event at
the Bulverde Senior Center. New Lion
President Lewis Kreutler thanked outgoing
President Joe Hamilton for his superb
leadership and his efforts which
strengthened the club. Newly elected BLC
President Kreutler reflected on last year's
accomplishments and challenged the club to
continue to increase membership to enable
the BLC to do more for the community. New
officers are (L to R) President Lewis
Kreutler, Vice President Tom Hotaling,
Secretary Tim Hering, Treasurer Dave Menig,
and Tail Twister Mason Burgess.
Kerrville, Texas March 3, 2012.Eight members of the Bulverde Lions Club
traveled to Kerrville and combined their talents
to build a fence at the Texas Lions Camp (TLC).
This is the weekend when Bulverde Lions Club
members helped prepare the TLC in Kerrville to
receive the over 1600 kids with special needs
during the summer. TLC provides, without charge, a
camp for physically disabled, hearing/vision
impaired, and diabetic children from the State of
Texas, regardless of race, religion, or national
origin. The programs available at the camp are
designed to help campers learn to make social
adjustments, become more self-confident, and
develop a positive self-image. In response to the
disabling polio epidemic that swept the country
decades ago, the Lions of Texas conceived and
constructed the Texas Lions Camp. Pictured here
are Bulverde Lions (Left to Right) Jerry Steward,
Joe Hamilton, Joel Selko, Bob Tennis, Jose
Fernandez, Lewis Kreutler, Red Wanek, and Mark
Kirchoff. For more information about TLC, click on
this link: Texas
Lions Camp. Photo
by Lion Mark Kirchoff.
BLC
Supports Friends of Matthew Wright
Bulverde, Texas Nov 10, 2011.
The Bulverde Lions Club (BLC) accepted
mementos of appreciation from the “Friends
of Matthew Wright Benefit” for
assistance rendered during a fundraiser held
October 7-8, 2011 at Anhalt Dance Hall in
Spring Branch Texas. In 2009 Matthew Wright
was attacked and beaten sustaining a serious
brain stem injury in 2009 while breaking up
a fight between a guy and girl he did not
know. Matthew is now paralyzed, and cannot
speak, eat, or drink. Despite two brain
surgeries, comas, multiple infections, and
paralysis – the Friends of Matthew Wright
continue their great efforts to seek medical
treatments and they are optimistic about
improving his quality of life. Matt’s
emotional and physical ability to take on
major surgery takes strength and courage
from some unknown reservoir he seems to
possess. Fundraisers provide the means to
continue in this struggle. Funds raised on
October 7-8 will be used to defray expenses
for Matthew’s medical treatment. Pictured
here are (L-R) BLC President Joe Hamilton,
Patti Prescott (FMW), Susan Bradley (FMW),
BLC Lion George McNew, and BLC Lion Tom
Hotaling.
In
1917, Melvin Jones, a 38-year-old
Chicago business leader, asked a
simple and world-changing question –
what if people put their talents to
work improving their communities.
Almost 100 years later, Lions Clubs
International is the world's largest
service club organization, with 1.35
million members in more than 46,000
clubs and countless stories of Lions
acting on the same simple idea: let's
improve our communities.Lions are members of the world’s
largest and most active service club
organization in 206 countries carrying
out the Lion's motto - "We
Serve."
The
Bulverde Lions Club was founded in
1969 and is classified by the Internal
Revenue Service as a 501(c)(4) - Civic
league and Social Welfare
Organization. All funds raised by the
Bulverde Lions Club from the general
public are used for charitable
purposes, and administrative costs are
kept strictly separate and paid for by
members. Funds raised by the Club are
donated toward projects that benefit
the local community. The Bulverde
Lions Club Foundation also operates as
a charity that qualifies as tax-exempt
under Section 501(c)(3) that provides
scholarships and funding for medical
assistance. The following is a list of
some of the ways that we are able to
provide assistance:
· Scholarships to local High School
Graduates
· Vision Testing for area children
· St Jude’s Ranch for Children
· Equipment funding for the local
Volunteer Fire and EMS Departments
· Cub Scout Pack & Boy Scout
Troop #548
· The Comal County Junior Livestock
Show
· The Texas Lions Camp for Physically
Challenged Children
· The Texas Lions Eye Bank
· The Bulverde Community Center
· Anhalt Hall
· Comal County Junior Livestock Show
The Bulverde Lions Club participates
in a wide variety of service projects
that meet the international goals of
Lions Clubs International as well as
the needs of the local community
through its network of dedicated and
selfless volunteer members of the
Club.Membership is by invitation,
though individuals are rarely turned
away, and meetings are conducted on a
bimonthly basis.The Bulverde Lions Club works
actively throughout the year in
planning and conducting their Annual
Wild Game Dinner at Anhalt Hall in
Spring Branch, Texas.The Annual Wild Game Dinner
serves delicious exotic food and hosts
live and silent auctions consisting of
dove hunts, fishing trips, premium
guns and many other assorted fishing
and hunting items. We are a small
chapter of Lion’s doing big things
within our community since 1969!
We
care, and demonstrate that caring
through our
service to our Community and to our
Nation - LIONS!
Thanks to all
who made the 37th Annual Wild Game Dinner a success!
Bulverde
Jubilee - Sept 15, 2012
Pumpkins
for St Judes Ranch
2012
College Scholarship Recipients
Spring Branch, Texas
May 7, 2012. Five students at Smithson Valley
High School each received $2000 college scholarships
at an awards ceremony from Bulverde Lions Club
member George McNew. Individuals selected by the
Bulverde Lions Club Scholarship Committee were
finalists from among 100 applications considered.
The criteria used to select these deserving
recipients included academic achievement,
leadership, creative accomplishments, strength of
character, community service and financial need.
With nearly 1.5 million members serving in 200
countries, the goal of the Lion’s Club is to
establish a difference at both the national and the
local levels. Offering Lions scholarships is just
one way the Lions Club assists at the community
level. Historically, the Lions have strongly
stressed the importance of community service and
strive to improve their local communities in a
variety of manners. Providing Lions club
scholarships to deserving youth is just one such
example of the way local Lions work to provide
community service. The Bulverde Lions Club
Foundation operates as a charity that qualifies as
tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) that provides
scholarships to deserving young men and women in the
Bulverde Community each year. Pictured here (Left to
Right) are Smithson Valley High Seniors Harleigh
Hill, Travis Haecker, and Whitney Young with BLC
Lion George McNew. Students not pictured are Andrea
Navarro and Brittni Case. Congratulations Seniors!
St.
Judes Ranch for Children. The Bulverde Lions Club supports St.
Judes Ranch for Children. If you have items you
wish to donate you can contact Lion Jerry Steward
at (830) 228-5660 and he will get the items to St.
Judes Ranch for Children. Your generosity and tax
deductable donation will be greatly appreciated.Click
here to lean more about donating to St. Judes Children's
Ranch.
Known
as the “Front Porch of the Texas Hill Country,” it's no
secret that Bulverde is a place where people value neighborly
behavior. One local group, the Bulverde Lion's Club,
exempli es that spirit through its charitable activities
benefiting the St. Jude's Ranch for Children. Located 12 miles
northeast of Bulverde on Ridge Creek Lane, many Bulverdians
may not even know the ranch is there. But it's home to 38
children, age 5 and up – all state of Texas foster children
who have been abused, neglected or abandoned. Read
more at this link: (article appearing in the
Spring-Summer 2012 edition courtesy of Bulverde-Spring
Branch Community Circular Magazine).
