NEW BOOK AUTHORED BY FELLOW APEX LION PAUL DEAN –  SUPPORTING THE UNEMPLOYED AND UNDEREMPLOYED Fellow Lion Paul Dean is proud to announce the release of a fantastic book, Careering – How To Find And Maintain Meaningful Work In Today’s Economy (“The Careering Book”). In this book, Paul and Co-Author Dana Gower outline steps that all Lions and others can take… Read More »

We welcomed a new member to our club this evening.  Lion Joe Salvas was a Lion before for more than 10 years but had left lionism for a few years.  Now he is back and a member of the Apex Lions Club.  Pictured left to right are PDG Lion Andy Lilliston, Lion Joe Salvas and… Read More »

Most of you have heard by now that Apex High School is scheduled to be rebuilt next year. Our speaker this evening was Dr. Diann Kearney, Principal of Apex HS. Diann is originally from theGreensboro and has a degree from NC State as well as UNC. While attending graduate school at UNC Wilmington she met… Read More »

This evening our special guest speaker was Officer Kris Shuart (email) of the Apex Police Department Community Policing Division.  Kris has been a police officer for 3 years and joined the Apex Police Department about 3 months ago.  He started off his remarks by emphasizing that he was with us this evening not just because… Read More »

This week our guest speaker was Denise Wilkie.  Denise is a retired teacher of nearly 30 years at Apex High School.  She grew up in Zebulon and now lives in Apex with her husband Rick and they have two grown daughters.  As a young adult Denise won an award from the Raleigh Host Lions club which… Read More »

To kick off our new year we had the company of Lori Towner for our first meeting in July. Lori joined WWCM in April 2014 as the part time Development Director. She has been a resident of North Carolina for over 20 years, living in Western Wake County for most of that time. She is… Read More »

Tonight’s meeting marked the beginning of the transition from one club year to the next.  As secretary, Lion Nick Somma, gave a summary of the accomplishments of the year under the direction of President Lion Chris Norcross.  Here are just some of those accomplishments: 937 Eye glasses collected $11,650 Financial assistance to Visually Impaired People (V.I.P)… Read More »

Our first meeting in June had a financial theme woven throughout.  The evening started with recognizing our four scholarship award winners.  Pictured left to right are: Jessica Haynes who will be a culinary student at Wake Tech, Savannah Dupree who will be attending UNC Chapel Hill and plans to choose between Education and Communication degrees, Caroline… Read More »

Our guest speaker for the second meeting in May was the Executive Director of the Apex Chamber of Commerce, Shannon Flaherty. Shannon is an Airforce veteran and grew up traveling the world as an “Army Brat”. She has lived in NC for 10 years and moved from Nash County to Apex to take a job… Read More »

President Pat Leonard of the Zebulon Lions club invited Apex Lion John Lynde, District 31-S IT Committee Chair to present a program this evening. Unlike most of the other District Chair positions, the IT Committee Chair is not often requested for programs. Most likely that is because technology is a topic that does not interest… Read More »