The 65th Annual Athlete of the Year recognition awards banquet will be held this year at the Prom Center on May 12 and begin at 12:00 noon.

Minnesota Gophers Assistant Men’s Hockey Coach John Hill will be the featured speaker.  Once again Jeff Grayson will do the honors as Master of Ceremony.

For further information contact Ken Detviler at KenDetvil@aol.com or call at 651-45....

The April issue of the LCI Convention Host Committee Newsletter is now online at http://www.lionsmd5m.org/2009LCIConvention/2009-04.pdf

You can order Beach Boys Concert tickets at $20 each (proceeds going to LCIF) for people not registered for the convention at https://www5.lionsclubs.org/eventmanager/OnlineRegistration.asp?eventcode=RG7 (convention registrants automatically get a free ticket)

Information about the Twins game, cruises, golf, etc. can be found at http://www.2009lionsconvention.org/events.htm.

Over all view of events: http://www.2009lionsconvention.org/events.htm

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