Welcome!

Welcome to the Horsham Lions Club!! Who are the Lions anyway? Where is Horsham? What's in Horsham? CLICK HERE to see our eyeglass dropoff locations! CLICK HERE to download our newsletters!

We meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, at 7pm. at the Horsham Days Inn located at 245 Easton Road, Horsham, PA 19044.
We welcome new members! Come help us help the community, come learn what Lions are about, come apply for membership!
More information?
Email us at Andy@HorshamLions.com
or call Lion Andy Weiss at 267-714-8884.

Lions sponsor 2011 Horsham U10 Intramural Soccer Team

The Horsham Lions Club was proud to sponsor a 2011 Horsham Soccer team, shown in photo is Coach Bill Rivkin and his son.

2011 New Member Inductions

We are excited to induct two new members in December. District Governor Paul W. Barndt, Sr. was on hand to perform the induction ceremony, which corresponded with our annual Horsham Lions Holiday Party. This year, Otto's Brauhause (right next door to the Horsham Days Inn) catered our holiday event. New Lions Joni Hazim and Alex Wray were surrounded by their family and new Lion friends as they joined the ranks of the World's Largest Service Organization. Both members are excited to continue their community service as part of the Horsham Lions family.

2011 Toys for Kids

Again this year, the Horsham Lions Club participated in the Horsham Chamber of Commerce toy collection. New for the Chamber this year is that a local nonprofit organization, Concern 4 Kids, was the beneficiary of all chamber toy donations. Learn more. To the left is a photo of the generous donations our members gifted to local children in need.

2011 Horsham Lions Club Scholarship Winners

During a June 2011 ceremony, the Horsham Lions Club awarded a total of $2,500 in three different scholarships to 2011 high school graduates from Horsham Township. And the winners are ... Left: Anthony Caporizzo receiving his award.

Margaret “Claire” Murphy, an upcoming Virginia Tech student, earned the Horsham Lion Club’s $1,000 Max Hankin Memorial Scholarship. Murphy has volunteered for the Future Business Leaders of America and was her class vice president at Hatboro-Horsham High School. She also served on the student council and student advisory board. Outside of school, Murphy played soccer and danced. She's volunteered with youth groups and at Ronald McDonald House, Relay for Life, Philabundance, SPCA, and many other organizations. Anthony Caporizzo, a La Salle College High School graduate, won a $750 scholarship and will attend Syracuse University this fall. Caporizzo said he plans on studying biomedical engineering and hopes to become a surgeon. He's been a church youth group leader and was on the youth advisory board for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Caporizzo has been a Boy Scout for many years. In school, he was in the National Honor Society, and participated in varsity bowling and basketball. He was also the school's mascot for football games. Caporizzo has made service trips to Bolivia (in 2009) and to a Navajo reservation in Arizona (in 2010). “While in Bolivia we painted a house we raised money to build,” he said. “We also spent many hours in the hospitals playing with the orphaned children.” Along with about 30 others, Caporizzo said he helped with building efforts in Arizona too. The team refinished a recreational gym so people would have a place to play indoors during the rainy season. Caporizzo and some friends also put a roof on a house and built a stone pathway to the door using stones collected from a mountain. “This work helped me get along with other people,” he said. “I have always been independent, but having to work with other people and having to be able to trust them will help me in school and in the workforce.” Matthew Jevit, who plans to attend Duquesne University this fall, won a Horsham Lions’ $750 scholarship. Jevit spent three and a half years working to reach the highly respected level of Eagle Scout, and has received numerous accolades via the Boy Scouts. “I realize the importance of giving back to the community and, seeing that my troop is located in Hatboro, I organized the restoration of a section of York Road in Hatboro’s downtown area,” he said. “This included weeding, mulching and planting flowers around the trees on York Road.” Jevit has also volunteered for Key Club and local soup kitchens. He is an altar server at his church, and has been a summer day camp counselor for four years. Jevit served as a guide for the National Youth Leadership Training, where he taught leadership to a small group of scouts. A lover of the natural sciences, Jevit said he wants to be a high school science teacher. “I realize I like teaching people and I am probably better suited to teach rather than do field research,” Jevit said. “I figured that teaching was a way to enjoy the sciences, but still be active throughout the day.”

Help the Horsham Lions Club win $10,000 to $50,000!

SmithPrints, Inc., a local screen printing, embroidery and promotional products company, has nominated the Horsham Lions Club in the . . . Gildan "I Support" Program hosted on Facebook. For every Softstyle T-shirt (Styles 64000 & 64000L) Gildan sells this year, they make a donation to this amazing competition. The charitable organization that gets the most votes will WIN $10,000-$50,000! It is FREE and EASY to vote, just click on the logo or on the link above. You can vote up to 5 TIMES!

If you have any questions or concerns about this contest, please contact Tara Smith (of SmithPrints, Inc.) -  Tara@HorshamLions.com or 215-622-8545.

With your help, I know we can WIN, and continue making a difference in our community and our world. Please take a few minutes and vote today, so that we make it into the TOP TEN charities.

Horsham Day Volunteers Needed!!!

The Horsham Lions Club is in need of volunteers to help our fundraiser during Horsham Day. We need help both at our Dunk Tank, as well as under the food tent, selling sandwiches and ice cream. Click Here for full details about volunteering, and to sign up for a timeslot. We are a nonprofit, all of us are volunteering our time to raise funds for the blind and sight-impaired. We help buy seeing-eye dogs, we help pay for eyeglasses and eye surgeries. We give scholarships every year to community-minded students who are active volunteers. Want to learn more? Scroll down!

Cow Plop Bingo . . . HERE'S THE SCOOP (yes, pun intended)

Congratulation to our first annual Cow Plop Bingo Winners: RED: 1PM Tom Oakes - Sold by Bingo and a Movie WHITE: 3PM Kathy Kingston from Mid-Atlantic Family Restuarants (McDonalds) - Sold by VOSH BLUE: 5PM  Alison Kahli from Greater Hatboro YMCA - Sold by Horsham Rotary

Dunk Tank VICTIMS Wanted!

The Horsham Lions Club is in need of VICTIMS to sit in our Dunk Tank on Horsham Day, June 4th. Kids, wouldn't you love to dunk your teacher or principal? Teachers, step in the tank as an incentive for your kids to do extra credit. Officers, dunk your lieutenant! Dunk your boss, neighbor, or mother-in-law! Last year, you could dunk a lawyer! Make a wager with a friend, the loser goes in the tank. Is it a sin if you dunk a priest, minister, or rabbi? So here's what you have to do: Figure out who you want to dunk. ANNOY THEM until they agree to sit in the tank.

Then, have them contact the Horsham Lions Club at Andy@HorshamLions.comor 267-714-8884.

Need some ammunition to get them to agree? Tell them about the Horsham Lions. We are a nonprofit, all of us are volunteering our time to raise funds for the blind and sight-impaired. We help buy seeing-eye dogs, we help pay for eyeglasses and eye surgeries. We give scholarships every year to community-minded students who are active volunteers. Just half an hour in the tank can raise money to help all these causes.

Click Here to see photos of our 2010 Dunk Tank Victims. Click Here to see photos of our 2009 Dunk Tank Victims. Click Here to see photos of our 2008 Dunk Tank Victims.

Membership Night!

Save the date! Thursday, January 20th, 2011 we will hold our 159th annual Membership Night at TNT Amusements in Southampton, owned by Lion Todd Tuckey. See the attached flyer. Last year we had a great time playing all the old pinball games, listening to the old jukebox, and enjoying snacks and drinks with folks from the community. We even snagged a new member or two from the event! All are welcome. The entrance fee is to sit and listen to me talk about what Lions are about, and why you should be one! (Without making goofy faces!) Please RSVP if you can make it! Click Here for the Flyer

Thanks to everyone who came out for our 2011 Membership Night!

Cow Plop Bingo Tickets Available!

The Nonprofit Roundtable in conjunction with the Greater Horsham Chamber of Commerce will be conducting a Cow Plop Bingo at the next Horsham Day. All nonprofits who are members of the Nonprofit Roundtable are invited to participate in the planning and selling tickets, and may thus share in the proceeds. What is cow plop bingo? Simple. A grid is laid out across an empty field. Bingo players purchase tickets, each assigned to a specific square on the grid. A cow is released onto the field. Wherever the cow “plops”, the ticket holder for that square wins! Tickets are now available! Every $10 ticket holder has the chance to win $1,000 at one of three cow-plop events during the day. LIONS: The fundraising profit from this ticket sale is potentially tremendous. For every $10 ticket you sell, the club will get back up to $9. What other fundraiser have we done where the profit margin is 90%? So come to the next meeting on January 6th, get a handful of tickets, and do your best to sell them!

Upcoming Speakers

Please contact us if you'd like to attend either of these speaker meetings!

	Our February 3rd guest speaker will be a representative from PECO to discuss their Smart Ideas program, which helps customers reduce their energy usage.
	Our March 3rd guest speaker will be a representative from Visiting Angels. The topic will be elder care, including how to elder‐proof your home for safety, and ways to get support when you need it.

Pride of Scottsdale Lions

We finally got around to emptying our eyeglass collection box located at the Days Inn front desk, and what do we find at the very bottom? We found a Lions business card left there by Lion Bill Keyburn from the Pride of Scottsdale Lions Club back in April! Apparently Lion Bill had been a guest staying at the hotel in April, and saw our collection box. His note on the back of the card said he was sorry he missed our meeting. We’ve written to the Arizona club and thanked him for the surprise note left in our box. Would you like some Horsham Lions business cards to hand out during your travels? We have hundreds left, professionally designed and printed on durable laminated cardstock. Just ask Andy or Tara for a handful! Click for Pride of Scottsdale Lions Website

NYT Article on Low Vision

A tip-of-the-hat goes to Lion Tom Burgess for bringing this New York Times article to our attention. From the December 27th issue, comes an article titled “Just Because One’s Vision is Waning, Hope Doesn’t Have To”. It’s a very inspiring article encouraging those with vision problems to keep striving for solutions that work for them. There are many tools and tips that people simply don’t know about, such as injections or stem cell therapy. The medical community appears to do a lot to prevent or cure blindness, but little to assist those with low‐vision problems. The article goes on to report that unfortunately, insurance coverage is lacking in the area of vision disabilities. Coverage and support is more available for veterans than for nonveterans. CLICK FOR FULL ARTICLE

Ron Mintz

This photo of Ron comes to us from Hazel Downes, his longtime friend. She asked us to share this photo with you. Click for the full-size photo We’ve received notes of sympathy from various friends of Ron’s via email. Thank you to all for sharing your memories with us.

2010 Christmas Party

CLICK PHOTOS TO SEE MORE! Here is just one (blurry) photo of about a dozen taken the night of our 2010 Christmas Party. Full size images can be found HERE We had 17 Lions in attendance, and with spouses the headcount came to more than 25. The room was tiny but we all got cozy and had a great time. District Governor John Holland was our guest speaker. He came to praise us for continued growth, and introduce his governor’s project, providing needed “comfort supplies” for our troops in the Middle East.

The “Happiest Couple” award goes to Todd & Pam Tuckey, below!

THANKS to Days Inn for hosting our meetings, and for spearheading the Toys for Tots campaign!

More Eyeglasses!

In November, the Horsham Lions Club donated another *518* used eyeglasses, which will be cleaned, repaired, and given to those in need in developing countries. This brings our total to over *5,700* eyeglasses since 2006!

Remembering Ron Mintz

It is with heavy heart that we must report that longtime Horsham Lion Ron Mintz passed away at his home on Friday, November 12th.  It was Ron's wishes not to have an obituary, funeral, or memorial service.  There was no notice in the newspapers.  Ron was one of the founders of our yearly golf tournament, which has been a tremendous fundraiser over the years.  He was also a member of the Horsham Park and Recreation board.  He had been appointed by the Governor to serve on the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, and proudly served in that role for 25 years.

As you may know, he's been divorced from his wife Minna for some time.  Ron had no children. 

We've spoken with Hazel Downes, Ron's personal assistant and dear friend for 40+ years.  Her grief is deep, and I'm sure your sympathy will be appreciated.  She is compiling a collection of anecdotes, stories, memories, and photos of Ron, and asks that you contribute whatever you feel belongs in this collection.  Send submissions to the Lions (contact information above), and we will make sure Hazel gets them.

Help us remember Ron for all the good works he did with joy and happiness.

Lions Provide Thanksgiving Dinners

The Horsham Lions Club has purchased $300 worth of Thanksgiving Dinners for several local families in need. Lion John Campisi has been delivering these meals on behalf of the Lions for many years.

White Cane Day 2010

White Cane Day was held on Saturday, November 6th at the Wawa in Horsham. We had overwhelming support this year, with upwards of 8 Lions working at the same time! What a change from years’ past! We had our largest one-day collection ever on that day, thanks to the help of the Lions who came out to help. We handed out literature, coloring books, and even managed to interest someone in attending one of our meetings that day! Pictured L to R are Elena Logiovine, President Tara Smith, and Carlo Logiovine. Below are photos of Steve Girone, Amy Reichenbach, and Ted and Shirley Truver.