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 »
Early in October we had a visitor from Lake Lure, NC. Monica Faherty, secretary of the Lake Lure Lions Club was is in because her home at Lake Lure was without power. Since we knew in advance that she was planning to join us we sent out a notice to our membership to collect items for her to take back with her when… Read More »
Born in 1947 on a snowy night in Oswego, NY, he resembled his father so much that the nurses claimed he was a “chip off the old block” and he has been known as Chip ever since. He graduated from St. Paul’s Academy in 1961, and went on to attend Oswego’s Catholic High School, graduating… Read More »
This evening our guest speaker was North Carolina Lions President Wayne Faber. It helps that he happens to be a member of our club, of course! He shared some updates about the efforts in western North Carolina. Camp Dogwood has become a hub for storing supplies and Tammy Thomas has done a phenomenal job of… Read More »
I honestly did not think I would be saying this! But the Apex Lions were actually back at the NC State Fair in 2024. Well, some of us, anyway. We were contacted by the Raleigh Jaycees to assist them with their Turkey Shoot event. As with many volunteer organizations the pool of willing volunteers seems… Read More »
On Monday, October 21st, Lion John Lynde served at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic School performing free vision screenings. This was organized by Lion Joe’l Lynde who is a teacher at the school. Nurse Wendy coordinated the students of first, third and fifth grades to make this process as efficient as possible. Before lunch time we… Read More »
Apex got a new Fire Chief two years ago and this evening he was our special guest speaker. Chief Tim Herman came to us from Garner where he was in the Garner Fire Department for 26 years and was the Chief for the last 12 of those years. Tim started off by informing us that… Read More »
Lion William Jennings “Bill” Booth, Jr. was born July 10 1934 in Apex, near his dad’s Apex Lumber Company mill. Lion Bill graduated from Apex High School. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a proud Tar Heel. Rumor has it his blood was Tar Heel blue. While at Chapel… Read More »