The following awards were presented at our regular meeting Monday, June 1
Lion of the Year: Paula Klein, Rookie of the Year: Karna Nelson
Three Melvin Jones Fellows were named: Mel Olson, Tod Dahle, and Mona Tedford.

The highlight of the day was the presentation made to Paxton, a young man who has significant vision loss. The Fargo Lions spearheaded the fundrainsing to provide him with a new laptop and camera system that will allow him to continue his educaion and have fun like every other kid.

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Fargo Lions Club President 2009-2010

Paula Klein

The Fargo Lions Club is North Dakota's first Lions Club: celebrating its 87th year of service in 2008! We meet on Mondays at Noon in the Radisson Hotel located in downtown Fargo. Individuals interested in being invited to attend a meeting should contact any club member. We welcome you to explore the pages on this website to learn more about our club and what Lions are all about.

Link to the North Dakota Lions Web Site: ndlions.com

• To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
• To Promote the principle of good government and good citizenship.
• To Take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
• To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
• To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
• To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors.

• To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious aplication to the end that I may merit a reputation for qualityof service.
• To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as 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 another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
• Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubts against myself.
• To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
• Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
• To Aid others 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.