2. Click here to go to our website Call to Order – President Sam McGrew presided over the meeting and led in the Pledge of Allegiance.

3. Invocation – David Hunter: We thank thee, Lord, for this food, and ask Thy protection from little things that sting and fly and bite or creep and crawl about whether on six legs, eight or a thousand. Amen. Vittles – Greek chicken, rice, mixed vegetables, rolls and butter, Apple Dumplings, tea and coffee.

4. Attendance – 20 members, and our speaker. Guests – None. Birthdays – None. Lions Report – Paul Coleman, a past president of the Champaign Lions Club, passed away last week. Our Club will be establishing a donation to the Champaign Lions Charities in his name.

5. President Sam then handed us a card to sign for Paul’s family.

8. Lottery – We all held our breath as the winning ticket number was read out…..

9. and Marvin Paulsen was the lucky winner.

10. $9.00 was his this day.

11. Announcements – President Sam McGrew asked Marvin Paulsen to report on the Lions Illinois Screening bus, which be at the Frances Nelson Health Center on June 9.

12. “There is a sign-up sheet for the Lions Diabetic Retinopathy and Hearing Screening. We need volunteers for helping with the screenings.”

13. Sam also reported that $2,153 was collected for Tootsie Pop Day.

14. Program – Rich Suchomski introduced our speaker, Dr. May Berenbaum, Professor and Head of the department of entomology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Berenbaum received her B.S. degree with honors in biology from Yale University and a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University. She has been at the UIUC since 1980 and is the Swanlund Chair of Entomology. Professor Berenbaum has produced over 230 scientific publications and 35 book chapters. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 2014 received the National Medal of Science in a ceremony held in the White House. She is devoted to teaching and fostering scientific literacy through formal and informal education. In 1984 she started the “Insect Fear Film Festival,” and this past February was the 33rd annual festival. She spoke on “Mosquitoes and Zika.” She is President of the Entomological Society of America.

15. Dengue and possibly Zika are two current mosquito-borne diseases. Dengue infection is 20 times more common than the flu. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals on the planet, killing 725,000 people yearly.

16. It has been a while since we have had a mosquito crisis.

17. What is a mosquito? There are about 3000 species.

28. They have a strange 6-part proboscis (syringe to suck blood).

29. Not all feed on blood, such as the elephant mosquito, which feed on other mosquitoes.

31. The males feed on nectar and pass pollen to certain flowers.

35. When they bite, they first inject anticoagulants and anesthetizing agents, which are foreign proteins, so after the mosquito leaves there will be an itch.

36. Species Aedes are the problem mosquitos. They have unique black and white stripes.

37. Yellow fever is caused by the Dengue virus. These are arthropod borne viruses. The virus must first get into the gut and then into the salivary glands, from which it is delivered into the human upon its bite.

41. There is a 20-40% mortality rate with yellow fever, with as many as 20,000 dying along the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878.

43. Soon after, there were dedicated efforts to clean up areas in which mosquitoes breed.

44. In 1937 a vaccine for Yellow Fever was developed. In 1947 they tried to eradicate the Aedes but it was unsuccessful.

62. Fonda Bowden gave the second reading of names of those nominated to serve as officers for next term.

63. Tail Twister – Omer Benn asked Paul Kunkel to carry the bucket.

64. Paul stepped right up and took the bucket

65. He fined Sam McGrew for something;

66. Marvin Paulsen for having won the lottery;

67. Weldon Garrelts for something;

68. Omer bragged about his granddaughter flying a plane similar to one he had flown years earlier.

69. And he paid for it

70. He then auctioned off Asparagus spears from Marvin’s garden.

71. Sam bought the first bag

72. and David Lin bought the second

73. Lenny Gray bragged about the Cubs winning 8 straight games.

74. and paid for it

75. May 18 - Kip Pope - Trip to Antarctica Greeter: Byron Balbach Click here rsuchomski@yahoo.com to email Rich Suchomski and let him know what you would like to see in a Lions Club program some time.rsuchomski@yahoo.com Coming up

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