Fayetteville Lions ClubClub News & Events
Calendar for Lion Year 2022-2023. View as webpage or PDF File.
Upcoming Activities
Guest Speakers. Some of our meetings include a guest speaker and are open to the public. Some upcoming speakers:
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Date: Apr 16, 2024 Speaker: Open House Topics: Who are the Lions? |
Date: May 21, 2024 Speaker: John Woodall Topics: F/LC Museum |
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Date: Mar 5, 2024 Speaker: Cary Sullivan Topics: Fabulous 50's Show |
Date: Mar 19, 2024 Speaker: Charlotte Hooper Topics: Old Time Christian Outreach Center's Mission |
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Date: Feb 20, 2024 Speaker: Chelsea Harris, TN DHS Topics: Independent Living Program, Services for Blind & Visually Impaired |
Date: Feb 20, 2024 Speaker: Drug Essay Winners at District Level Topics: Reading of winning essays |
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Date: Jan 23, 2024
Speaker: Britt Dye, CEO of FPU Topics: FPU Operations Overview |
Date: Feb 6, 2024 Speaker: Sara Jo Pierce, Carriage House Players Topics: Building Remodel |
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Date: November 21, 2023
Speaker: Nathan Browning, Dir of Fayetteville Parks & Recreation Topics: Observations/Plans for P&R |
Date: January 9, 2024
Speaker: Sheriff Joyce McConnell Topics: LC Sheriff's Dept News |
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Date: September 19, 2023
Speaker: Wanda Sutherland Topics: LC Imagination Library |
Date: October 3, 2023
Speaker: Stacy Allen of Pedi Shack Topics: Foot Care |
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Date: Aug 15, 2023
Speaker: Chief Barry Pendergrass Topics: Fayetteville Police Department News |
Date: September 5, 2023
Speaker: DG Benny Maggart Topics: District & International Lions News and Goals |
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Date: July 11, 2023
Speaker: Jeremy Thompson Topics: LCHS Falcon Club News |
Date: July 18, 2023
Speaker: Sonya & Tim Ellis Topics: FHS Tiger Touchdown Club News |
Time: 6:15 PM with
speaker presentations beginning at approximately 6:30
Location: Fayetteville-Lincoln County Senior Citizens Center
at 908 W. Washington Street. The meetings include a buffet supper. If you want to join us for
the meal as well as the talk, meal cost is $10.00 payable to the Lion
Treasurer at the time of the meal.
Please let us know you are coming by contacting our
Membership Director, Chris
Ross, (931) 623-3763,
LionChrisRoss@gmail.com or
President,
Blake Copple, (931) 433-3657,
fayettevilletnlions.comms@gmail.com.
Please leave your name and phone number in case we need to contact you
for changes.
Past Local Activities
Please see our Facebook Page (click here) for news of the Fayetteville Lions Club.
Our 2023 Fayetteville Lions Club Scholarship Winners were (L to R):
-- Julie Mitchell graduated from LCHS and will attend the University of Alabama-Huntsville to study accounting. She then intends to return to Fayetteville to work in real estate.
-- Autumn Schwartz graduated from LCHS and plans to attend UT Southern with an initial field of study in history and chemistry, then forensic science. Her career goal is forensic criminology lab work with an agency such as the FBI.
-- Stewart Barnes will pursue a field of study in food science at UT-Knoxville. He is interested in development of new food
products.
Wishlist Gifts to School Teachers.
Food and Drink Tabs Donated to Ronald McDonald House of Nashville.
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Kid's
Park Picnic Pavilion (A Lions Legacy Project). One
of the Lions Spring projects was to lead the build of a new picnic
pavilion at Kid's Park. It was constructed on the South side of the park
to provide better sight-lines to the various play apparatus. The Lions
paid for lumber, electrical and roofing materials and led the overall
initiative. The construction was handled by Lincoln County inmate work
crews. (more
photos)
Support
to Construction of the New G4 Community Garden.
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This city wide project was later abandoned, but it was not for lack of
the Fayetteville Lions contributing effort to the initiative!
Recycling!
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Adopt-A-Highway. The Fayetteville Lions have adopted
two miles of US 64 East (Winchester Highway) starting at mile marker 18
near Lincoln Farmers Co-Op and extending to the Frito-Lay Production
Facility . Our final Quarterly cleanup event of the Lion year was
held on June 15th, 2019.
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Eyeglasses Recycling.
On March 5, 2019, Eyeglasses & Hearing Aid Chairperson Mark Kelso handed off 440 pairs of used eyeglasses to Committee Member Cal Perkins ( photo ) for transport to the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, specifically to the Student Volunteer Optometric Service to Humanity (SVOSH) organization. The club also made a monetary donation to that student organization for Lion Perkins to deliver.Throughout the year SVOSH cleans, sorts, uses an instrument to
classify by prescription, and packs the eyeglasses into travel
containers. Then each May they conduct mission trips to Central and
South America and the Caribbean. In 2017, 91 SVOSH members and 22 staff
doctors divided into 8 groups and traveled to Belize, Colombia, Costa
Rica, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Nicaragua and performed
6,917 eye exams and gave out 8,076 pairs of prescription spectacles and
non-prescription sunglasses!
Chapel Re-Dedication at Lincoln Medical Center
At the Re Dedication, a plaque from the original 1970 effort was reinstalled in the current chapel, and new lamps, new flowers and new upholstery for the prayer kneeling bench were introduced. A new podium was provided courtesy of Higgins Funeral Home. Also courtesy of Dr. Dan DeJarnatt, three bibles were provided including a New International Version, a King James Version, and a Spanish Language Bible. Dr. DeJarnatt is one of the eye doctors that helps the Lions Club on a regular basis by conducting reduced rate eye screening and providing glasses to those who apply for assistance through the Lions Club.
See photos.
Special New Lion Induction.
On September 1st, 2015 we were thrilled to induct into the Fayetteville Lions Club four former members of the Fayetteville Lioness Club. Jean Pittenger, Mattie Sheaks, Pat Smith and Myrna Reed have a combined 66 years of service to the community as Lionesses! |
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The Abernathy-Lions Log Cabin Stage at Stone Bridge Park.
The Stage had its ribbon-cutting on May 27, 2015. See front page article and photo in the Elk Valley Times. The inaugural use of the stage was on Jun 4th for the first Music in the Park concert of the season.
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The Fayetteville Lions were the project sponsor and will pay all materials costs while Larry West and Primeland Construction has donated the construction labor. Several other businesses in the community helped in other ways. See some construction photos.
Fayetteville Lions Assist in Lincoln County Tornado Recovery Efforts. The Fayetteville Lions manned a station at the Tornado Relief Command Center (former Ford Dealership in Park City) from May 10 through 17th. We were able to access a limited amount of Grant funding from Lions International in assisting with unfulfilled needs that the Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency requests our help with. This included procurement of items such as wheel barrels, shovels, rakes, tarps, as well as distribution of WalMart cash cards to assist those in immediate need for items not available at the relief center.
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The club has also teamed with other organizations with monetary donations to address the ongoing needs of tornado victims. We made donations to South Lincoln Elementary (for office and school supplies), Flintville Elementary (to assist Special Needs Students impacted by the tornado, photo), the Fayetteville/Lincoln County Good Samaritan org (for food supplies and utilities assistance, photo) and the Hands of Mercy Outreach Center.
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In addition, the club agreed to help from our own local club funds and a generous member donation, with at least one unique project that did not meet eligible criteria of Lions International funding or that of any other funding source that EMA had reached out to. A resident of Gray’s Lane just east of Park City was basically cut off from the outside world due to a tornado related flash flood on April 28th. The wheelchair bound resident lives at the end of a private lane that crosses a creek about 30 yards in front of his house. Vehicle crossed over a culvert topped with a concrete cattle guard. During the storm a large log floated down the flooded stream and turned the culvert bridge into an effective moat. Lion Marshall Arney, currently the longest serving member of the Club, volunteered to lead the repair effort. He made a contract with Curber’s Inc., a general contracting company owned by Mr. R.L. Kent. Mr. Kent agreed to do this job at a very reasonable cost and with this agreement and a very generous donation of some of the needed material ,the job was accomplished in short order.
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Finally, the club accelerated processing of requests for eyeglass replacement for tornado victims; the normal request for assistance form was used and the normal criteria for determining financial need and lack of insurance or TennCare applied.
Lions Make Final Payment for the Don Davidson Park/Lions Club
Softball Complex.
Early on the Recreation Board board did not have the funds for maintenance of the complex so the Lions helped provide maintenance funds for several years. Just after the fields were built, the Elk river flooded covering the fields and swamping the concession stand with 6 feet of water. The Club was heavily involved in reseeding the fields using Lions member owned machinery. The three pavilions in the park were built in the 80's by the Lions who helped bare the expense with funds and manual labor.
In the 80s and 90s the Lions Club hosted an annual slo-pitch softball State championships with Men's and Women's Divisions. At its height, more than 100 teams participated and additional fields at Lynchburg and Hazel Green were used.
District Governor Sam Muse Sworn In.
We were very proud to report that Fayetteville Lion Sam Muse was sworn in as District 12S Governor at the Lions International Convention in Chicago on 2-6 July, 2007. Lion Sam became only the third Lion from the Fayetteville Club to become District Governor, following in the footsteps of Lion Pangle Stewart, PDG 12-I 1968-69 and Lion Larry Robertson, PDG 12-S 1988-1989 and State Council Chairman of Governors 1989-1990. Lion Sam's work with the Leo Clubs was known throughout the District. His dedication to the Lions Club was indisputable.
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State, National & World News
Lions-Measles
Initiative Pilot Program to Protect 41 Million Children from Measles.
The Lions and LCIF have joined a world-wide effort
spearheaded by the Measles Initiative to protect
children from measles – a leading cause of childhood
blindness. This special Lions-Measles Initiative pilot
program will take place in four African countries –
Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mali and Nigeria. The
Lions-Measles Initiative pilot program is being funded
in part by a US$400,000 grant to LCIF from the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. LCIF is providing an
additional US$300,000 to support the project.
Read more about the initiative and view a video here.
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