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 | At the July 21, 2010 meeting at the Frankenmuth Lion Haus, the Club awarded four scholarships. Pictured (L to R) are: Marsha Weiss, Matthew Hiles, and Samantha Hawkins. Ashley Hool was also awarded a scholarship but was unable to attend. (see article on Meeting Page) |
 | Sitting on the Lions Club Float in front is Lion Wava Cirisan, who was the chairperson for the float construction. Sitting in the back is Lion Bill Mossner along with Michelle Trudell, wife of President Jeff, with their son, Troy. In Lion Costume is Lion Dennis Isken |
 | Lions Wava and Bill again waving to the parade crowd |
 | Leader Dogs in the parade, including Macy, a 7 month old golden retriever puppy, being led by long term puppy raiser, Brenda Lemke, sister of Lion Cheryl Loeffler |
 | Lion Ron Schury is passing out candy along the parade route |
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 | Sponsored by Membership Chair Louie Weiss (L), President Jeff Trudell (R) inducts new Lion Member Connie Collier at the May 19, 2010 Lions Club Meeting |
 | At the April 7, 2010 Lions Club Meeting, First VP Lion Bart Blegen, left, presented Dr. Sherry Baker, with a gift for the program she presented about the CrossRoads Counseling Ministries in Frankenmuth (See Meeting Page for details) |
 | Lion Mark Pankner was the Guest Speaker (L) for the January 6, 2010 Lions Club Membership Meeting. Mark leads the Junior Achievement Organizaton for Northern Michigan. Pictured with Mark is long time friend, Lion Jerry Thompson (R). |
 | Lion President Jeff Trudel is welcoming Linda Lewis just prior to her induction as a Member into the Lions Club at the January 6, 2010 Meeting |
 | Pictured just after her induction into the Lions Club is Lion Linda Lewis (R). Next to Linda (R to L) is guest Kathy Weiss and her husband, Membership Chair Lion Louie Weiss (Webmaster Tom Ryan apologizes for this fuzzy photo taken on his cell phone) |
 | Karalee M. McKinstry was the presenter at the November 18th meeting. She is a recruiter for the Michigan Community Blood Center. Bart Blegen is shown giving Karalee a Bronner's gift for her presentation. |
 | Lion Membership Chair Louie Weiss, sponsored new Lions Club members, Mike Lewis and Larry Collier at the November 18th meeting |
 | At the November 4, 2009 Lions Club Membership Meeting, Kate Farris and Mike McMean represented the Boy Scouts of America. |
 | Also at the 11-4-09 meeting, Ms. Randy Roberts (center) was inducted by President Jeff Trudell (right) and sponsored by Membership Chair, Louie Weiss (left). |
 | Lions Club Members who were in attendance at the 11-4-09 meeting with Perfect Attendance being recognized by former President Kathy Schlegel (left). To the right of Kathy are: Lions Les Roth, Mary Schury, Audrey Fischer, Bob Farris, Gene Fischer, Mary Ann Farris, Margie Ellis, Louie Weiss, and Jeff Trudell. Missing due to an oversight was W. Don Zehnder. |
 | Jerry Maurer and Erv Banes relaxing after grilling all the steaks with the help of Dave Hiles at the September Meeting and annual Steak Fry. The steaks were out of this world. thanks to everyone who made the Steak Fry a success. |
 | Marge Ellis, Jean and Jack Fields, and Dave Hiles working on deserts at the Steak Fry. |
 | Blegen Brothers, Lion Bart and soon to be Lion Jon. |
 | Volunteering at the September'2009 Meeting and Steak Fry, Mary Lou Wilson and Judy Hiles had key roles for this annual event |
 | New Lion Skip White and wife Sue. Sue may need more encouagement before she will join. |
 | New Member Kathy Schattily and her husband, Rick. Rick is also considering joining the Club in the near future. |
 | Prospective Members Val Lee and Randy Roberts. |
 | New Lion Kathy Schattily with son Brian. Brian was a very active volunteer at the Lion Haus for the Bavarian Festival. |
 | Webmaster Tom Ryan and his wife, Christine are caught by camera at one of his rare apperances at regular meetings. Tom is busy with his work schedule, but dedicates time to maintaining the Club web site. |
 | The two new Lions members, Skip White and Kathy Schattily, are flanked by sponsor Don Zoller; and Lions President Jeff Trudell, who is standing in for Kathy's sponsor, Bill Varney. Jon Blegen is peeking through through in the back. He promised to join the Lions next month. |
 | New Lion Member, Jeff Cirisan, is shown being inducted at the July 15, 2009 membership meeting by Lion Membership Chairman, Louie Weiss. Also, shown pinning Jeff is his sponsor, Lion Herb Zeilinger. |
 | At the July 15, 2009 membership meeting, Lions Scholarships are being presented to four recent graduates of Frankenmuth High School: Elizabeth Dalton who will be studying Public Relations at Grand Valley State Univerisity: Matthew Wolf, who will be studying pre-med at Saginaw Valley State University; and Matthew Cramer, who will be studying Finance at the Michigan State University. Receiving the newly designated Harold Little Lions Scholarship is Alexander Farris. |
 | The speaker for May 20, 2009 Meet was Matt Schneider who is pictured with Kathy Schlegel (See Article on Meeting Page) |
 | New Lion Member, Judy Jewell, is shown with her sponsor, Bart Blegen |
 | The new officers for the 2009-2010 year are shown in front of the Lion Haus. In the middle in yellow are new Lion President Jeff Trudell accepting the gavel from outgoing President, Kathy Schlegel. |
 | From the April 15th meeting of the Frankenmuth Lions featured Judy Zehnder Keller (Left) who gave a very interesting talk and video about the Hubinger family and the Cheese Haus. Judy was introduced by Lions Club President Kathy Schlegel (Right). (See Meeting notes) |
 | In the picture from the April 15th meeting is the newest Frankenmuth Lions Club Member, John Strader (Center) was was inducted by Membership Chairman, Louie Weiss (Left) and his sponsor, Jerry Maurer (right). |
 | At the February 19, 2009 Frankenmuth Lions Club Meeting, Allison Claerhout, Community Education Associate, presented a video on the Michigan Organ Donors Registry. Allison is pictured receiving a glass mug from Frankenmuth Lions Club 1st Vice President, Jeff Trudell (See Full Article on the "At the last Meeting" page under the Meeting & News Category) |
 | Pictured from the February 4th Frankenmuth Lions Club 55th Anniversary celebration are: Charter Members Pete Simon and Dick Krafft, with current President Kathy Schlegel after the two Charter Members blew out the candles on the Frankenmuth Lions Club 55th Anniversary birthday cake. The other two living Charter Members, Ray E. Weiss and Arnold Baker, were unable to attend the celebration. |
 | Pictured at the Frankenmuth Lions Club Anniversary are the Presidents of the Club that attended the celebration with a cake used for dessert along with ice cream after a steak dinner. Seated (L to R) are: current President Kathy Schlegel, and Dick Moreau (holding the plaque which was unveiled that night) , Marilyn Little, and Elmer Pete Simon. Standing (L to R) are: Erv Banes, Robert Farris, Jerry Thompson, W. Don Zehnder, Bill Mossner, Dave Wigley, Bill Varney, Dick Krafft, Chuck Belsky, Don Zoeller, and Herb Zeilinger. |
 | Frankenmuth Lions Club Membership Chair Louie Weiss was honored with the prestigious Melvin Jones Fellow Award. Pictured (L to R) Louie's wife Kathy; Louie, and current President Kathy Schlegel |
 | At the reception table for collection for dinner and the 50/50 for the 55th Anniversary of the Frankenmuth Lions Club (L to R) are: Marilyn Banes, Dennis Iskin, and Judy Hiles |
 | Dick Moreau holding the Past Presidents plaque with the names of the presidents for the 55 years of the Frankenmuth Lions Club |
 | Pictured are Members of Frankenmuth Lions and their guests at the 55th Annivrary Celebration |
 | Celebrating the 55th Frankenmuth Lions Club Anniversary |
 | Enjoying the festivities of the 55th Frankenmuth Lions Club Anniversary Celebration |
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 | Pictured is Guest Speaker at the January 21, 2009 Lions Club Meeting was Major Wayne Rustem (L) of the Saginaw Salvation Army, along with Lion Bill Varney (R) who has been spearheading the fund raiser for the Frankenmuth Lions for over 10 years. (see Article on Meetings Page) |
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 | The Lion's latest member, Wava Cirisan, was inducted by membership chairman, Lion Louie Weiss at January 21st 2009 Meeting. Wava's Sponsor is Lion Herb Zeilinger. |
 | Wava Cirisan with sponsor Herb Zeilinger at the January 21st 2009 Meeeting. Lion Wava has already volunteered to help with the screening of pre-school children for eye defects this sping along with Lion Mary Lou Wilson and Lion Don Zoller. |
 | July 2008 Meeting Perfect Attendance Award winners were presented at the July meeting. From (L to R): Les Roth, Art Loeffler, Bob and MaryAnn Farris, Kathy Schlegel, Herb Zeilinger (who presented the awards), Bill Mossner and Louie Weiss. Dick Moreau was camera shy from this picture but was in attendance. There were a number of other members who had perfect attendance, but did not attend this meeting. |
 | (L-R) Herb Zeilinger, who sponsored new Member, Dave Hovis, and Louie Weiss, who inducted Dave at the July Scholarship Meeting at the Bavarian Inn on July 16th. |
 | May 7, 2008 Lions Club Meeting The program was led by Alex Farris and Dan Haubenstricker talking about the Frankenmuth Sister City Exchange Program. Alex (on the left) was one of Frankenmuth's representatives to Guenzenhausen last summer. Dan is the Chairman of the program. Kathy Schlegel, First Vice President of the Lions Club who chaired the meeting, presented a gift to Alex for his presentation |
 | The newly installed officers of the Frankenmuth Lions Club |
 | April 16th Meeting Speaker was Eugene Kociba, horticulturist at Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance. He spoke on lawn and tree care. The program was very timely and interesting to the Lions. Eugene is holding a gift President Herb presented him after his speech. |
 | Lion Louie Weiss is shown presenting the Frankenmuth Lion's Banner to Bonnie Lee, president of the Lions Club of Orange Beach, AL. Louie made up three meetings there in February and March while vacationing at Perdido Key in Florida. |
 | 4-02-08 Meeting Frankenmuth Chief of Police Don Mawer spoke about the services to Frankenmuth residents as well as police technology utilized in vehicles and on the web |
 | 3-19-08 Meeting Ms. Jennifer Petrous is in the Group Sales Department for the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau; and spoke on the revitalization of downtown Detroit. |
 | At the January 16th Lions Club meeting, Dick Krafft greets our program presenter for the evening, Sheila Stamiris, who is the Frankenmuth Downtown Development Association Director |
 | Jim Gruber chatting with Audrey and Gene Fischer before the dinner |
 | Margo Ellis, tail twister, asks the question of when the Lion Haus was built of Chuck Bellsky. Bill Varney and Don Zehnder wait their turn for paying the fine for not knowing the answer, 1971. |
 | Dave Hiles is pondering over the same question while Mary Lou Wilson is thinking about it also. Kim Whalen, sitting next to Mary Lou, was a former Lion for a short time. He was a guest for the evening and introduced the program speaker. Kim had relinquished Lions Club membership because of conflicting schedules. |
 | Marilyn Little sits with Rhonda Jeffrey, wife of Lion Jim Jeffrey, who is in rehabilitation at Covenant Hospital at the present time (Best Wishes, Jim!). At the same table is Dennis Isken and Dick Krafft. |
 | MaryAnn Farris seems to be blowing bubbles while Bob Farris, Wayne Jackman, and Mark Panker seem not to notice. In the background is Jerry Blohm and Dan Adams. |
 | Mary and Ron Schury chatting with Cheryl and Art Loeffler at registration table. |
 | Louie Weiss accepting a "Membership Excellence Year-Round Growth" pin from Lions Club President Herb Zeilinger for sponsoring new members last year. |
 | Sheila Stamiris, DDA Director of Frankenmuth, gave a very interesting program on America in Bloom. Frankenmuth was the recipient of the prestigious first place award for the most beautiful city with a population less than 5,000 in the entire USA for 2007. |
 | Herb presented Sheila for her presentation. Sheila credits her committee that worked with her on this event along with the entire community for keeping up the beautiful town as well as the surrounding residential districts and agricultural areas that blend in with the community to make this a most desireable place to live in and visit. |
 | On November 8th, Twelve Lion members participated in a recently initiated Walk By for the passing of long time Lion member, Mel Gricar, who died on November 5th |
 | Jamie Furbush from the Frankenmuth Chamber/CVB presenting a power point on Key Ingredients: America by Food (see details on Meeting & News Page) |
 | October 17, 2007 Lions Membership Meeting Lions Pam Bernreuter at the piano and Gene Fischer as song leader have added some zest to our organization by opening and closing our meetings with some group singing |
 | The program speaker at the October 17, 2007 meeting was John Blehm who had an interesting talk about the Fowl Fest recently held at the Kern Pavilion. He was introduced by Lion Audrey Fischer. |
 | Club Presidents Diamond Award 2006/2007 Presented to Immediate Past President Chuck Bellsky by current President Herb Zeilinger Presented because the club achieved positive net growth for membership during the year |
 | Lion Membership Key Presented to Membership Chairman Louie Weiss by President Herb Zeilinger Presented because this individual has successfully opened the door of Lionism to at least two individuals |
