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State Of The Town 2014

Tonight was Lion Bekki’s last meeting as our club President! We thank her for a great year of leadership and accomplishments as a Club of Excellence. Apex Mayor Pro Tem Gene Schulze was our guest speaker this evening.  He said the Apex Town Council just finished passing a budget for the town for the next… Read More »

2014 Scholarships and Installation

What a great night! We presented 4 outstanding students with scholarships tonight. Three were from Apex High School and one from Panther Creek High School. Pictured here are Lion President Bekki Bennett, Sneha Venkatraman who will be attending UNC Chapel Hill for Business, Rachel Abramczyk who will be attending NCSU for Business, Kathryn Layne Smith… Read More »

Our Newest Additions

Pictured here (L to R) are Lions Horace Johnson, Michael Nunez, PDG Andy Lilliston, Marc Nieto and Lion LeeAnn Moffitt. Lion Michael was sponsored by Lion Horace and Lion Marc was sponsored by Lion LeeAnne who has only been a Lion herself for a few months now. And we even had another application turned in… Read More »

Roadside Cleanup

Apex Lions Club Road Side cleanup, as a memorial to Lion Dr W.C. Mills Jr, was conducted on Saturday May 3. This project was championed by Lion WC for many years before his death. We would meet at his house on Green Level Church to begin the pickup there not far from the entrance to… Read More »

Apex Peakfest 2014

The Apex Lions Club participated in Peakfest 2014 on Saturday May 3rd. The NC Lions Vision Van was used for the screening. It was a beautiful day and a large number were in attendance for the fest. In 6 hours, 10AM-4PM, our club provided vision and hearing screening to 65 Peakfest attendees. This was the… Read More »

Apex Means Business

Our guest speaker this evening was the new Executive Director of the Apex Chamber of Commerce, Stephen Xavier.  Stephen is originally from Providence, Rhode Island and currently lives in Chapel Hill but plans to move to Apex in the next few months.  He is the author of more than 40 articles in business publications and… Read More »

Mans Best Friend

Thank you to our speaker this evening, Jack Thorpe and Bella from NC CERT (NC Canine Emergency Rescue Team). NC Cert is a 501(c) corporation serving North Carolina and the surrounding states providing highly skilled search & canine teams 24 hours a day. They respond to requests from law enforcement, emergency management and other official… Read More »

Almost Cookin’ Now

Tonight Lion Horace went over the list of those who will be there to serve for the Annual Apex Lions Club Fish Fry. We also went over the list of duties needed to be complete for set up of the event. Our group applauded our Lions who were able to assist in set up the… Read More »

A Lot Going On

For our first meeting in March, we had a lot of different things going on.  First, we had a special guest.  Pictured to the left is Nathaniel who is a local high school student.  Nathaniel needed an idea for his senior project and came to realize that almost everyone in his family wore glasses.  He… Read More »

Oh What A Night!

What a night we had this evening!  This was our annual joint meeting with the Fuquay Varina Lions Club (who we sponsored many years ago) and that is always a special night.  But on top of that this year we also had District Governor Sandy Scarlett as our speaker AND we installed 6 new members… Read More »