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Club Presidents / Secretaries --

How old is your car? Most of us would not want to take a long car trip in a 30 year old vehicle - particularly not one that has been trundling about on Arizona's rural roads for thousands of miles each year.

Our Arizona Lions Mobile Vision Van has served us well, taking professional vision care to every corner of the state. But it has been on the road for more than 30 years and we really are holding it together with duct tape. It is time for a change - to a new unit with today's new vision care equipment.

Your club can help fund a new Arizona Lions Mobile Vision Van - and
it doesn't have to cost you a dime.

Tucson Breakfast Lions Club is spearheading a brand new project that can benefit clubs all over the state. As you will see from the names on the steering team - the project already involves several clubs - and now your club can get into the fun too.

This year, riders in the El Tour de Tucson bicycle race will be able to register through Lions Cycle for Sight - and raise donations for the Lions. All proceeds of the
Lions Cycle for Sight this year will be used to fund that new vision van.

What your club can do -----

  • Share with friends - Encourage members to share information about Lions Cycle for Sight with bike riding friends in Arizona or anywhere in the country.

  • Link - Link from your website to the El Tour page on the District website - that way people interested in El Tour will see your information too. The link is http://www.lionsarizona.org/md21-b/eltour.htm

  • Take info to Media - Help get information about El Tour out to media sources in your community - we will give you a news release you can take to the newspaper or radio or tv. You get the publicity - Lions Cycle for Sight gets more donations.

  • Seek contributions - Identify a Lion or non-Lion rider and go out as a club to seek contributions for the ride from local businesses, churches, individuals interesting in preserving vision or helping children to succeed.

  • Challenge - Set up friendly competitions to see which local organizations can raise the most donations for their own riders - fraternities, police vs firemen, military units, neighborhood associations. Or challenge another Lions club to a friendly competition yourself.

  • Sponsor a rider or riders to ride in El Tour as a club (then come on down and cheer them on!) This one might cost you some money - but it could be a good way to raise your profile in the community - and fun for your Lions to be part of this huge event. You may even want to arrange to field a tandem team - one sighted rider and one low vision or blind rider on a tandem bike. (And there will be special honors for any Lions club that raises $1,000 or more for this cause.)

Great way to get good publicity for your club.

El Tour is America's largest perimeter bicycling event and offers something for cyclists of all ages and abilities. Your participation will make you look current and "hip" -- a good way to attract younger people to do something with your club.

Time for the Lions to get involved

Rotary International has been part of El Tour for two years - last year they raised about $35,000. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has raised $2.6 million over the last three years.

With your club's help, we can use Lions Cycle for Sight as a vehicle for raising the money Arizona Lions need too.

Want more info?

Learn more about El Tour and how Lions can be involved. A speaker will magically appear at your club on request. Call ____________________.

Download your registration form and pledge sheets here

Learn how to field a tandem team with a nonsighted rider from your community - contact Scott Hulburt at shurlburt@SAAVI.us

To get pr materials custom made for your local media, email KarenLSell@aol.com.

To get help linking from your website to the district El Tour page, call Loren Larsen at 520 299-3165.

Thanks - we look forward to seeing your team in El Tour this year.

Lions Cycle for Sight steering team
Dominic Dominice, Patty Lacy, Naran Patel, Scott Hurlburt, Reese McNeil, Barbara and Don Daily, and Karen Sell