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 »
For the second straight year the weather did not cooperate with our scheduled family fun night. Lion Tony had to make the call to move the meeting from the Kelly Road park to the CC Jones building due to the threat of rain. It was still a chance to have family come join us at a… Read More »
The 2017 NC Lions State Convention concluded earlier today in Raleigh. By all measures it was a successful event. Below are some notes I took during the weekend. At the banquet on Saturday night there were a number of awards given out as is customary. One of our Apex Lions, Lion Larry Jordan, received… Read More »
Way back in 1979 the Apex High School Track Team and the Apex Lions teamed up to create a fundraiser for the track team. Ever since then the Apex Lions have been making this event possible by handling all of the behind the scenes work to make it as successful as possible. We handle all… Read More »
This evening was Melaney Stein from the North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services Division of Services for the Blind (DSB). Melaney is one of two DSB social workers for all of Wake County. That’s a lot of area for two people to cover! Melaney began as a social worker for the blind on January… Read More »
