Tuesday - November 30, 2004

 

Lion #2 won the Tail Twister’s pot this week with 28 members present plus 2 guests. Lion Javaine Furnatter, with the Jonesboro Noon Lions Club, was a guest of Lion Brad Baker and Mr. Greg Chance, with KASU, was a guest of the club.

The proceeds from the Lions Auction have been distributed to the three Jonesboro Lions Clubs, with each club contributing $500 to Dyeann’s House, $500 to LWSB, and $1,000 to Mid South Lions Sight and Hearing Service.

 

Lion Bryan Ulmer reported a local Boy Scout troop collected over 100 pairs of used eye glasses for contribution to our used eye glasses project.

Lion Charles Hartwig announced that the winners of the Peace Poster Contest was Dylan Miller from Fox Meadow School and Travis Johnson from the Nettleton Intermediate School. Dylan Miller’s poster was awarded 3^rd place in the District Peace Poster Contest out of 507 entries. Cash prizes were awarded to the 1^st, 2^nd, & 3^rd place winners of each school. Dylan Miller and Travis Johnson each received $50.00 and the 2^nd and 3^rd place winners each received $25.00 and $15.00 respectively. Thanks to Mrs. Laura Kessinger, Art Teacher at Fox Meadow and Nettleton for judging the contest.

Lion Janine Helman was admitted in to the hospital Monday for kidney stone ailment. Remember her in your prayers and we wish her a speedy recovery. It was good to see Lion Bill Hester back in our den after undergoing thoracic surgery.

If you are planning to attend the Christmas party on December 14^th, you need to pay Lion Ken Helman or Lion Vern Drake for your reservation. The cost of the meal and show is $18.35 per person. The club will have to pay in advance for the meals.

Lion Bill Dickens says we have plenty of pecans to sell and we need to spread the Christmas spirit by giving pecans to our friends. The decanters make great gifts.

Our program this week was given by Mr. Bruce Burrow, developer of our new Mall at Turtle Creek. He and his assistant, Christy Gibson, had a video presentation of the new mall, which is a total of $100 million investment with 750,000 sq. feet of retail space. It is predicted that the mall will have a total of 1,500 jobs and have a net of 900 new jobs. Projected sales of $225 million annually is expected from the retail businesses in the mall. The target date for the JC Penney store opening is September 2005, with the rest of the mall opening in the spring of 2006.

Next Tuesday our program will be Kristine Blondidillo with the new ASU Bioscience Center.