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Next Club Year
Movers and shakers of the Stewartstown Lions Club
gathered at D&D Scarborough’s conference room in late April to
organize activities for the coming club year, which begins on July 1. The
club has 24 dinner meetings per year, two per month, usually rotating
between five area churches where various church groups prepare and serve
family-style meals. This year, the schedule includes a picnic at the
borough recreation center, a journey to watch the Harrisburg Senators
play, a Christmas party complete with Santa Claus, a road rally ending up
at a secret local restaurant, a scout night at the Hopewell Fish and Game
Club, and a ladies’ night to celebrate the Club’s upcoming 70
anniversary. The annual pasta dinner held at Naylor’s Winery always
seems to be a big drawing card and has been scheduled again for the coming
club year. Officers-elect for the 2002-2003 year are: Bob Sechrist,
President; Drew Doxzon, Leon Saubel, and Ron Lingenfelter, Vice
Presidents; Dr. Reg Gemmill, Treasurer; Tom Keesey, Secretary; and William
Kaestner, Membership Chairman. Outgoing-president Fulton Lytle will put
his newly gained experience to use by serving on a number of committees.
In addition to the semi-monthly meetings, the
Stewartstown Lions engage in a number of activities to raise funds that
are used in community-benefit projects. Foremost is the twice-annual sale
of BBQ chicken dinners in June and October. In July, members will spend a
week manning the BBQ-pork sandwich booth at the firemen’s carnival, and
a good part of the late summer is taken up planning and conducting the
August golf tournament at Pleasant Valley Golf Club.
Beneficiaries of these activities are the area boys and
girls sports clubs, school libraries, scout troops, college freshmen, and
a number of residents of all ages who need eyeglasses and hearing aids but
are unable to pay for them. The Lions Club is open, by invitation, to
everyone of good character. Those looking for a way to increase their
social enjoyment while simultaneously serving their community, may call
Lion membership chairman Paul Runkle at (717) 993-2927.
Submitted by: Tom Keesey, Secretary
(717) 246-0504 Keesey@att.net
Road Rally Enlivens Stewartstown Lions Meeting
Last Tuesday’s Lions Club meeting covered 33 miles
and two states. It began on the parking lot of the Stewartstown
Presbyterian Church when 32 Lions and spouses, four to a car, participated
in a road rally. The cars departed the lot at three-minute intervals, each
with a set of instructions as to where to drive and a fill-in-the-blanks
sheet of paper calling for items of information that had to be obtained
during that drive. The mystery of why a series of eight cars stopped at
the Eureka Fire Company bell while someone from each car measured the
distance from the bottom of the bell to the brick beneath it is now solved
- that measurement was needed to fill in the first blank. Other required
information was the date of installation of the two churches at the Mt.
Olivet intersection with Plank Road, the number of crosses on the face of
Grace Church farther down Plank Road, the pastor’s name of a church in
Shrewsbury, and similar pieces of information on churches down the
Susquehanna Trail, into Maryland, and west to Mt. Carmel and Foreston
Road. The last item to be found was at the Friendly Farm Restaurant near
Upperco, where Lion William Kaestner and his wife, Linda, recorded the
time of arrival of each car, noted its mileage, and collected the sheets
of information for marking. Time en route, mileage driven, and correctness
of the recorded information all played a part in determining the rally
winners.
And the winners were…Lion President Fulton Lytle with
Lion Don Scarborough, and their wives, Genie and Jane. In last place was
the team of Lions Ron Lingenfelter and Bill Liggitt with their wives,
Norma and Mae, all of Stewartstown. Dinner reservations for rally
participants had already been made for family style dinners at the Family
Farm Restaurant.
Submitted by Tom Keesey
Secretary, Stewartstown Lions Club
(717) 246-0504