Did you know that diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S.  according to CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)? This evening our guest speaker was an outstanding educator Lion Earl Hunter. Not only is Lion Earl the President of the Fuquay-Varina Lions Club he is also the Diabetes Awareness chair… Read More »

Beth Wood is a Certified Public Accountant in her fourth term as North Carolina’s elected State Auditor. She is a long-time public servant with nearly 30 years of auditing experience, having worked in the Auditor’s Office for nearly 10 years before her election in 2008 and also in the State Treasurer’s Office. Before that, she… Read More »

We had an amazing speaker this evening! Darlena Moore (aka “Mountain Girl”) shared her own personal story and how that has become a 501c3 non-profit organization to provide scholarships for foster students. Darlena was born in the mountains of North Carolina. Her family was poor but happy. Her mother was a single mother of 5… Read More »

Apex Lions joined forces with CAPA (Citizens Assisting Police of Apex) to host the Apex Annual Fish Fry. This is a long standing event to raise funds to go back into the community of Apex. That tradition will continue. Both the Lions and CAPA strive to make Apex A Better Place to Live. The Community… Read More »

We had the pleasure of welcoming three new members into the Apex Lions club this evening. Roy Millar has been with us for a couple of months and has been actively attending meetings since he joined us. Roy is sponsored by Paul Dean. Next we had Sharon Hall join us. She is the wife of… Read More »

Every year for as long as any of us can remember we have invited the kids from the Governor Morehead School for the Blind to visit our food booth at the NC State Fair for a meal on us. That is just one way we support the blind and visually impaired in our communities as… Read More »

We had been collecting gifts for the children at UNC Pediatric Clinic in Raleigh. We delivered the donations today to the pediatric manager.  They were very thankful and appreciative of these gifts for the kids! We hope this can make them smile and know they are loved and not forgotten on Christmas!

This evening our special guest speaker was Pastor Jon Utley from Pleasant Plains Baptist Church in Apex. He delivered a very encouraging Christmas message that was linked to our Lions Motto: “We Serve!” Interestingly enough, he did some research on our organization in preparation and presented us with a question that actually stumped us. I… Read More »

Well, it wasn’t exactly how we planned it. But our speaker for the meeting this evening canceled at the last minute and we were unable to find a replacement. So our song leader Lion Chip Pierce stepped in and shared some holiday spirit by bringing his Karaoke system to the meeting. After our Tail Twister… Read More »

We had so much to celebrate again this year! To begin with this is our 84th anniversary! And we made it a good one with lots of service activity this past year despite the challenges we all faced. One big thing we did since the COVID shutdown was to team up with Western Wake Crisis… Read More »