Plano Early Lions Roar!

Our Club unanimously endorses Lion Ken Gleason as a candidate for Lions 2X1 2nd Vice District Governor.  For his brochure, we took this picture, with Lion Ken saying “I Want You…to Vote for me”.

We had really good attendance at our club meeting on August 15th, probably from many members wanting to see and hear from State Student Speaker Contest Winner Sam Scott.

Here is Sam presenting his winning speech, “Drug Abuse – Paradise Lost”, which he presented successfully at the Club, District, and State level competitions, earning scholarships totaling $4000.  And since he was only a junior, he gets to try again this year, hopefully to add to his scholarship winnings.

Past District Governor Kathy Fletcher inducted our newest member, Lion George Hamilton, at our meeting on August 15th.

I had the privilege of riding in the August 1st (First Annual) Plano Fun Ride. This was a fund-raiser for the Relief Nursery of Collin County. Right now, the RNCC is having some problems with their website, but I’ll post a link when it comes back online.

The club helped with volunteers at the ride, and we all had a good time. When I found out that they had enough volunteers, I just paid the entry fee and did the 5-mile ride (ok, I’m a wimp, but next year, I’ll go for the 10-mile ride). I did manage to finish fairly early, because I wanted to get back before it started raining. Lion Karen snapped this photo of me just after I got to the finish line. I took some pictures of her, but she didn’t send them to me (claimed they didn’t turn out or some other lame excuse — she’s just camera-shy). The weather held out for us, even long enough for me to run some errands for the ride organizers afterwards.

Lion Karen Marks is the member that got the club interested in helping with the Fun Ride.