P C L Bulletin
Peninsula Council of Lions Clubs
District 4-C4
Volume 67, Issue 5
Together We Make A Difference…
January 5, 2015
Message from PCL President Chris Cheshire
Redwood City Sunrise Lions Club
1168 Adams Street
Redwood City, CA 94061
Cell (650)703-1113
[email protected]
San Carlos Lions Club
900 Cherry Street
San Carlos, CA 94070
Cell (650)450-0990
[email protected]
San Mateo Lions Club
1026 Tenth Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94402
Cell (650)868-4021
[email protected]
Millbrae Lions Club
1075 Vista Grande
Millbrae, CA 94030
Home (650)697-6346
[email protected]
Palo Alto Lions
568 Matadero Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Cell (650)444-6264
[email protected]
SSF Golden Gate Lions Club
673 Lisbon Street
Daly City, CA 94014
Cell (650)346-3954
[email protected]
Happy New Year Lion Presidents, Members, District Governor and
Officers.
Hope your holidays were filled with the best of everything; and wish you and your
families a very Happy New Year.
Several PCL Board members worked through the holiday season preparing letters of
information, application forms and invitations for the upcoming Police and Fire
Award Dinner which you should receive about the same time you receive this
newsletter or shortly thereafter.
Please read through the information and share it with your club members. Also
included in the mailing is information in regard to placing ads in the Police and Fire
Award Banquet Program Book. We would like to encourage all Clubs to consider
placing an ad in the book, even if it is a smaller one. Not only do these ads financially
support the Award Banquet but they also support and recognize the efforts of the
agencies of your local community by you, the local individual Lions club. We thank
everyone who has placed an ad in the past and appreciate everyone’s consideration
and participation in placing an ad in this year’s program.
Through the efforts of PCL Treasurer and Palo Alto Host Lions Club Past President
Nick Marinaro we have engaged Dr. Ellen Kirschman Ph.D., a clinical
psychologist and author, as this year’s Police and Fire Award Banquet Key Note
Speaker. Dr. Kirschman is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of
Police, the Society for the Study of Police and Criminal Psychology, the American
Psychological Association, and the International Association of Women in Law
Enforcement. Among her many achievements for her distinguished contribution to
the practice of police and public safety psychology, she is the recipient of the
California Psychological Association's 2014 award. She is the author of the award
winning I Love a Cop: What Police Families Need to Know, I Love a Fire Fighter:
What the Family Needs to Know, and lead author of Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know (2013). Her debut novel, Burying Ben: A Dot Meyerhoff
Mystery (2013) is about police suicide told from the perspective of the psychologist.
We are extremely honored to have engaged Dr. Kirschman and look forward to her
presentation.
Presidents Message Continued on Page 3
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From The Bulletin Editor
Reminder to All Club Presidents
It is your responsibility to forward the PCL Bulletin and Calendar
to all members of your club. Thank you.
Save the Date for PCL
50th Anniversary Police and Fire Awards
Friday, March 20, 2015
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Foster City
January 26
February 23
March 20
April 27
May 18
June 22
Burlingame
Peninsula Special Interest
PCL Police & Fire Awards Dinner
Half Moon Bay
Millbrae
Redwood City Sunrise
**Police & Fire Awards Dinner replaces March meeting**
PCL Past Presidents
2013-2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
2009-2010
2008-2009
2007-2008
2006-2007
Ora Seyler
Paul Larson
Mario Benavente
Rudy Pedagat
Toni Nava
Rick Ochsenhirt
Bob Wilson
Al Hernandez
2005-2006
2005-2004
2002-2003
Jack Van Etten
Al Thomas
Doris Grason
2001-2002
2000-2001
1999-2000
Bill Robertson
Al Russell
Betty L. Gould
SSF Golden Gate LC
Millbrae LC
San Bruno LC
SSF Golden Gate LC
Burlingame LC
SSF Host LC
Brisbane LC
Redwood City
Sunrise LC
Burlingame LC
Palo Alto Host LC
Redwood City
Sunrise LC
Atherton LC
San Carlos LC
Half Moon Bay LC
1998-1999
1997-1998
1996-1997
1995-1996
1994-1995
1991-1992
1990-1991
1989-1990
1988-1989
1987-1988
1985-1986
1978-1979
1976-1977
Tony Montes
Millbrae LC
Bill Hickock
Redwood City Sunrise
Laura Werner
Menlo Park Live Oak
John LaDuca
Millbrae LC
Steve Picchi
Half Moon Bay LC
Mal Stonewell
Foster City LC
Paul Cademartori San Carlos LC
Mike Markovich Daly City Gateway
Pat Battaglia
Redwood City Sunrise
Jim Mona
Pacifica LC
Jim Stanaway
Millbrae LC
Rich Picchi
Half Moon Bay LC
Chuck Gillingham Pacifica LC
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Presidents Message Continued from Page 1
At the November PCL meeting, it was announced and then publicized in the December newsletter, there will be a
discussion and vote at the January PCL meeting regarding a raise in the cost of a PCL dinner meeting. Only the Club
President or their designated representative will be eligible to vote; giving each club ONE vote. This discussion and
vote is in response to it becoming more and more difficult to find a venue that can offer a menu cost of $25.00 or
less per person. This change, if passed, will go into effect next year.
I also want to impress upon you the importance of an “RSVP” to attend our dinner meetings. We want as many
of you who can join us, however, in order to have enough food and table settings, we need your cooperation in letting
us know you will be there. John has made making a reservation very easy- just a “click away.” So “click away,”
give him a call or drop him an email-please! It would make all our lives much easier!
I look forward to seeing you at the January meeting in Burlingame.
Enjoy your month
2014-2015 Peninsula Council of Lions Officers
(Left to right):
Treasurer Nick Marinaro, Secretary/Bulletin Editor PDG Mike Simonini,
President Chris Cheshire
1st VP Scot Marsters, 2nd VP John Gill
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Know Your 2014-2015 PCL Clubs & Presidents
Bay Area Special Olympics LC
President Rosalind Castillo
2nd Wednesday 6:30 PM
Menlo Park Live Oak LC
President Jim Bigelow
1st & 3rd Wednesday 7:15 PM
Redwood Shores Lions Club
President Virgil Sadsad
1st Tuesday 6:30 PM
Belmont Lions Club
President Bill Fowler
2nd Tuesday 12 PM
Millbrae Lions Club
President Calvin Chin
1st & 3rd Wednesday 7:15 PM
San Bruno Lions Club
President Brian Rogers
1st & 3rd Tuesday 7 PM
Brisbane Lions Club
President Walter Long
1st, 2nd, 4th Tuesday 7:30 PM
Pacifica Lions Club
President Steven Hansel
3rd Monday 7:30 PM
San Carlos Lions Club
President Curtis Wright
2nd & 4th Thursday 6 PM
Burlingame Lions Club
President Erik Winkler
Thursday 12:10 PM
Palo Alto Host Lions Club
President Ben Director
1st, 2nd & 3rd Tuesday 12 PM
San Mateo Lions Club
President Elaine Borland
2nd Thursday 7 PM
Daly City Host Lions Club
President Bradley Roxas
1st & 3rd Wednesday 12:10
PM
Peninsula Special Interest LC
President Bill Britter
1st & 3rd Monday 7 PM
San Mateo Metro Lions Club
President Johnny Tu
2nd Thursday 6 PM
Peninsula Veterans Lions Club
President Edmund Bridges
1st Tues & 3rd Mon 6:30 PM
SSF Golden Gate Lions Club
President Helen Casaclang
2nd & 4th Tuesday 7:30 PM
Redwood City Sunrise LC
President Marilyn Schappert
Wednesdays 7:15 AM
South San Francisco Host LC
President Bruce Tognetti
1st Tuesday 7:30 PM
Foster City Lions Club
President Amor Traceski
2nd & 4th Tuesday 7:30 PM
Half Moon Bay Lions Club
President Clayton Jolley
1st & 3rd Monday 7:30 PM
Know Your 2014-2015 District Governor & Vice District Governor
District Governor Jack Van Etten
Burlingame Lions Club
[email protected]
2nd Vice District Governor
Rod Mercado
SF Host Lions Club
[email protected]
1st Vice District Governor
Macy Mak Chan
SF Chinatown Lions Club
[email protected]
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LIONS ETHICS
TO SHOW my faith in the worthiness of vocation by industrious application to the end that I may
merit a reputation for quality of service.
TO SEEK success and to demand all fair remuneration of profit for my just due, but to accept no
profit or success at the price of my own self respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or
because of questionable acts on my part.
TO REMEMBER that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down others. To be
loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
WHENEVER a doubt arises as the right or ethics of my position of action towards my fellow man,
to resolve such doubt against myself.
TO HOLD friendship as end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of
the service performed by one to another, but true friendship demands nothing but accepts ser- vice
in the true spirit in which it is given.
ALWAYS bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my un- swerving loyalty in word, act as deed;
to give them freely of my time, labor and means.
TO AID my fellow man by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my
substance to the needy.
TO BE careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise. To build up and not destroy.
LIONS OBJECTIVES
TO CREATE and foster a spirit of “GENEROUS CONSIDERATION” among the
peoples of the world through a study of the problems of international relationship.
TO PROMOTE the theory and practice of the principles of good government and good citizenship.
TO TAKE an active interest in the civic, social, and moral welfare of the community.
TO UNITE the members in the bonds of friendship and mutual understanding.
TO PROVIDE a forum for the full and free discussion of all matters of public interest, partisan
politics and sectarian religion alone excepted.
TO ENCOURAGE efficacy and promote high ethical standards and professions: provided that no
club shall hold out as one of its objects financial benefits to its members
This Bulletin is published by PCL Secretary/Bulletin Editor
PDG Mike Simonini. Please feel free to send flyers and photos of your club to
[email protected]. Thank you.