The Idaho Edition of MONOPOLY
Game is here! It is a fundraising effort for the
Idaho / E. Oregon Lions Sight and
Hearing Foundation to create a legacy for sight and hearing
conservation for the state of
Idaho. Just image what
Idaho would be like without our foundation like it was back in 1969 –
people waiting for years for a cornea transplant, those in need not
getting the medical treatment for sight and hearing conservation, no
new sight screening equipment for checking the eyesight of school age
children.
What we do today can ensure that
we, as Lions, leave an inheritance that our great grand children will
get a benefit from. Imagine now what that legacy could be by providing
a “PERMANENT GIFT OF SIGHT” for the state of Idaho – an everlasting
location for our foundation and eye bank, a fully outfitted eye bank
with modern equipment, the most up to date sight and hearing screening
equipment, a Mobile Screening Unit that can be operated on a more
frequent basis, the ability to provide most people in need with the
sight and hearing surgeries and procedures they require. We need to
raise $250,000 to make this vision happen.
What this fundraiser will
do!
First, it will raise funds for
the permanent location.
Second, it will promote what our
Foundation and Lions Clubs do for our communities.
Third, it will raise awareness
of the needs for the State of
Idaho for Sight and
Hearing.
If you have not had a chance to
see the game, please take the time to see it. It is a high quality
game that is fully authorized and licensed by Hasbro. In other words,
it is a true MONOPOLY game and not a cheap knock off. It is something
that we, as Lions, will be proud of. It shows off the natural beauty
of
Idaho, has a little bit
of its history, its symbols, its major Universities, and its major
industries. It makes a great gift to send to friends and relatives
that no longer live in
Idaho and as a keepsake
in our homes to share a game and time with friends.
There is an insert booklet in
the game box. This booklet has information on our foundation and what
services it provides. It also has what our Multiple District and our
local Lions Clubs have done in community service projects over the
years, from building parks, cooking meals, having huge fundraisers for
those in need, working with our youth, and the many more projects to
numerous to type about here.
What can I do to help out?
Promote and sell the game to all
your family, friends, church members, work mates, community, and
anyone else you can think of. This game will only be available for a
limited time and the more we promote and sell it – the greater the
amount of funds we can raise. Lets not just sell this game to us Lions
– we need to raise the funds from our community, because if we only
raise the funds from us Lions, we will never make it.
Find retail locations that will
sell the game for us. The more we spread this game around, the greater
the chance we will meet our fundraising goal.
Get this fundraiser mentioned on
your local TV stations, radio stations and in the local newspapers.
List all the locations locally where the game can be bought.
The cost of the game – it is
$35.95 direct and $30.00 even for resellers. Yes – you can go buy a
MONOPOLY game cheaper than that, but you can’t buy one customized for
the State of
Idaho and help with this
worthy fundraising effort.
I would like to thank all of the
Lions that have not only bought the game for themselves, but have gone
out and sold to many people and have found retail locations to sell
even more. Gaylon Gneiting is doing a bang up job around South East
Idaho. DG Bob Flowers is out selling everyone else in this effort.
There are many more that are helping out and so little space to
mention them, but both Gaylon and Bob are examples for all the rest of
us.
We need to sell approximately
20,000 games to reach our goal. That may seem like a large number, but
if you think about it, there are 2,000 Lions in our Multiple District
and if each one of us sold just 10 games, we would meet our goal. 10
games is not that hard to sell.
Please help out with this
fundraiser – call or talk with your District Governor, your Sight and
Hearing Trustee, your club president and tell them you want to be
involved.
