Due to the bad weather, we are canceling tonight’s meeting to ensure everyone stays safe. Please take care, stay warm, and we’ll see each other again at our next meeting in March.

Apex Lions Club had the pleasure of hosting Lion Glenda Grant, a member of the Wake Forest Lions Club, as our guest speaker this evening. Glenda is a retired RN and moved to Wake Forest in 2007 from Hickory, NC. During the course of her career, she even helped deliver some babies! Glenda served as… Read More »

We were recognized again this year for our support of Leader Dogs For The Blind. Here are some excerpts from what they had to say: “Dear Apex Lions Club, What a year it has been so far! Thanks to your unwavering dedication, Leader Dogs for the Blind has achieved incredible milestones. Today, I’m thrilled to… Read More »

Early in 2025, The Apex Lions Club was back doing what it does best – SERVING OTHERS! We made our first donation of the year to providing snack for the underprivileged students at Olive Chapel Elementary School. Without our support many students of low income families would not be able to eat a snack when… Read More »

That is the clever tagline for the Apex Gardening Club. This evening our guest speaker was Sandra Gudenkauf and she shared some history, stories and lots of photos from the club. Sandra used the events of a typical year in the club to share the things they do and sprinkled in some stories about members… Read More »

Last night our own Lion Paul Dean provided a presentation associated with the Lions International program on diabetes prevention. He described the recent growth in Type 2 Diabetes among our youth. Paul, who is an Assistant scoutmaster for our local Scouting USA troop, noticed more scouts entering the troop were Type II diabetic and started… Read More »

It’s Christmas time again! This week we had Roger Repp back again to provide our Christmas message and music. Roger has a Masters of Divinity and does a fantastic job of integrating the message and the music along with a bit of encouragement to get the crowd to sing along as well. The key scripture… Read More »

At least once each year we get a visit from the District Governor. This evening we were visited by this club year (2024-2025) District Governor Jim Tobolski. Jim grew up in Chicago and worked as a teacher, then in the Railroad business selling box cars for many years until he retired. Now he lives in… Read More »

In some ways this year’s Anniversary Banquet was a little different from recent years. This was the first year we did not have our food booth at the State Fair. But it was also similar because Lion Horace Johnson was our master of ceremonies once again. He started off by informing our members that sales… Read More »

We got a call from the Cary Lions with an opportunity! They received late notice that the Wake County government was organizing an event called Western Region Community Resource Day on Saturday, November 16th. In previous years the Cary Lions performed free vision screenings using a borrowed screener. But this year they were unable to… Read More »