Our guest speaker for this evening came all the way from Michigan! She had already planned to be in North Carolina for our Mid-Winter Convention so we asked her to visit our club as well while she was here. Lion Beth Slade is the Director Of Philanthropy For Lions Engagement at Leader Dogs For The… Read More »
It’s always good to have a visit from the District Governor. For our first meeting of the new year we had just that. DG Lorraine Dixon visited us in Apex and shared some of her thoughts and vision for this year. Her focus is on vision and she shared her reasons why. Her Grand daughter… Read More »
This year we decided to start a new Christmas Tradition. Since we will no longer have a State Fair celebration as an opportunity to invite spouses to a banquet dinner we have decided to make our second meeting in December a full on Christmas Party! So Lion Joe’l had a fun time decorating the room… Read More »
For our first meeting in December we had a sing-along with Lion Chip and his Karaoke machine.
Normally for our second meeting in November we have a State Fair celebration. This hear we did things a little different. Past District Governor Allen Swaim visited our club to give us a word of encouragement. Since we learned the news that the State Fair was tearing down “restaurant row” and we would be losing… Read More »
Our guest speaker this evening was Nancy Panko. Nancy is an author and a founding member of NC Scribes which was started 12 years ago and is now based in Fuquay Varina. There are currently 15 members and ten of those have written 61 stories in Chicken Soup For The Soul. Sincen there are hundreds… Read More »
Girl scouts named Kendra akd Kali joined us this evening to talk about their service project with Guiding Eyes. The girls wrote this themselves and I am simply submitting it for you to enjoy. My sister Kali and I are Girl Scouts with Troop 3106. We are Cadettes working on our Silver Award Project. We… Read More »
The Apex Lions Club has been providing snacks for the underprivileged students at Salem Elementary and Olive Chapel Elementary Schools in Apex for the past few years. It is gratifying to help these young children without funds to have a snack to eat when the other children who have money eat their snack, both mornings… Read More »
Our Club’s 86th birthday is coming up this Saturday. And, if you have not heard, we are losing our food concession stand at the State Fair after 80 years! So we decided to have some of our most experienced Lions tell some tales of their youth and things that they remember about our club from… Read More »
Once again this year the Apex Lions Club performed free vision screenings at Touch-A-Truck. We had a tent setup outside with information about Lions clubs and we sent people into the gymnasium to get screened. It’s important to do the screenings inside because it requires a slight dilation of the eyes which can only be… Read More »