On Saturday, July 29th, sixty VIPs ​from nine states arrived at the Governor Morehead School in Raleigh for a summer retreat. The Envisioning Youth Empowerment (EYE) program is a week-long program focusing on mentoring individuals with visual impairments, acquiring skills for real life situations, and information on local, state and federal resources available to them. … Read More »

In case you did not know it already Lions Clubs International has a Youth Exchange Program as well.  This weekend Lions Wayne & Barbara Faber hosted the exchange students for breakfast.   “Me & Mom had a wonderful time this morning with this lovely group of Lions Youth Exchange Students. We Had them over for… Read More »

The second annual District 31S Awards & Installation banquet was held in Pilot, North Carolina on July 22nd, 2017. Now Past District Governor Lion Barbara Beltran began the remarks with a summary of the events of the past year. Two new clubs were chartered – the Ahoskie Centennial Lions Club and the Wake Southwest Centennial… Read More »

At our second meeting in July things did not work out exactly as we had planned.  Our president was out of the country and we did not have a guest speaker scheduled.  But that did not stop us from getting together and sharing a meal and having some fun like we always do.  Lion Wayne,… Read More »

It’s official!  The Wake Southwest Centennial Lions Club has now been chartered.  The installations and celebration were held on Monday, July 10th, 2017 at the Hickory Tavern in Holly Springs, North Carolina.  Lions from our club who attended included: Lions Jolene & Dale Umbenhauer, John & Joe’l Lynde, Wayne Faber and Pat Nemmers.   Past… Read More »

Past District Governor (PDG) Lion Wayne Faber writes: “Wanted to share photo of new outside patio furniture the club made a donation to last year. They did have cement type furniture but the VIP’S were walking into this and getting scrapes and cuts. The new patio furniture is more user friendly and has been being… Read More »

Our first meeting of the new club year was eventful.  Here are some notes from our meeting last Thursday night.  Secretary Lion John Lynde had everyone’s membership cards for members to pick up and sign.   Lion Greg mentioned about tickets to the Holly Springs Salamanders games; let him know if we would like to… Read More »

This weeks meeting featured the installation of our new board of directors for the 2017-2018 club year and the presentation of scholarships for four local high school students.  Past District Governor Andy Lilliston from Fuquay Varina performed the installation ceremony.  Lion Jolene gave a brief speech in anticipation of the new club year.  She has… Read More »

This evening our guest speaker was Tomeico Faison. Tomeico is an Occupational Therapist who started Therapeutic Solutions 13 years ago. She is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and started her career working in a hospital, then at Dorothea Dix and decided to open her own business and has expanded from there. Occupational Therapy involves assisting… Read More »

Despite cool rainy weather in the morning and gusty winds in the afternoon members of the Apex Lions Club still had a successful day at this years annual Apex Peakfest.  In fact the weather got so windy in the afternoon that it actually damaged our screening tent and cut short our time to provide screenings.  In total 41 screening… Read More »