Well, we launched this blog in early 2007 and posted to it fairly irregularly. That’s what happens when you’re growing and trying out lots of new things.
Good news, though. Over the course of the year, Blogger developed some really neat new features that make it so much simpler to manage this blog (and distribute the [...]

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The opening Lions Work Day for Habitat this year took place on November 15th. President Jenn and Lion Brian were there, accompanied by six of Brian’s co-workers from Yahoo!
Back Row, L-R: Glenn Campbell, Shaunak Kashyap, Lion Brian Rountree, Rich Cirminello, Middle Row: Cecilia Treharne, Bottom Row l-r bottom: Kit Chan, Patricia Sharpley
Lions Work Days for [...]

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Race Director Joe Sparaco, himself a Palo Alto Lion, will join us for dinner on January 15th, where he will share with us a 6.5 minute movie about the Silicon Valley Soap Box Derby and tell us about the coming year’s event.

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This is a fifth-Tuesday month. That can only mean one thing: Board Meeting! Hope to see all board members there. All club members, of course, are invited. New members (Lion David, Lion Brian, Lion Suzie, LISTEN UP!) are reminded that attending a board meeting during your first six months’ of membership is a requirement of [...]

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Details and maps were provided at the last regular meeting. Those Lions needing directions or maps to the specific location within the Yahoo! campus where we will meet should contact Lion Hugh Donagher (put a dot between my first and last names and send to me at, you guessed it! yahoo.com).

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Governor Bob, First Lady Lion Suzie, Lion Brian Rountree and I had the privilege of assisting the San Jose Pioneer Lions in their sixth year of feeding the homeless at City Team Ministries in San Jose. In addition to providing these folks with a delicious homemade meal of Korean specialties, including Chicken Teriyaki, noodles, rice, [...]

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Rachel Lau, of the International Rescue Committee will address the our regular meeting on December 4th. Meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. Check out the IRC’s web site. Looks to be an interesting and thought-provoking presentation.

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Lion Jim “Goody” Goodheart (Scales of Justice), once again our Ambassador for All Things Habitat-Related (his actual title is Cabinet Chair for Habitat), will speak at the Sunnyvale regular meeting on November 20, 2008. Meeting starts, as always, at 7:00p.m. Goody is quite the motivator and a great presenter, and what a topic! Be there! [...]

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Those who planned to work at the Opening Lions’ Work Day for this year’s Habitat build were disappointed to learn the day before the planned work party that ground conditions were too wet and soft to allow work to proceed as planned on October 18th. That days’ Work Party was cancelled. The next Lions’ Work [...]

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The Lions of District 4-C6 are once again supporting and participating in an ADA-compliant Habitat for Humanity build, this time in Santa Clara. Lions’ Work Days will occur the third Thursday of each month throughout the build.
Sunnyvale Host is participating in opening day by sending a work party consisting of our club president, Lion [...]

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