District 7 - N
Crossett Lions Club
Arkansas United StatesClub Number:003790
This Page address: http://crossettar.lionwap.org
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| District 7 - N Arkansas United States |
| Club Address: P O Box 164, Crossett, AR 71635 This Page address: http://crossettar.lionwap.org Mail To | |
Mondays, 12:00 noon (except holidays)When:
Where:Becky Robert\'s Country Vittles, corner of 3rd and Main Streets, Crossett, Arkansas| Name | Office Tel | Home Tel | |
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| Secretary | (870) 364-6448 | ||
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| Membership Chairman | (870) 500-5572 | (870) 364-8553 |
Do you live in the Crossett area? Would you like a way to make new friends and, at the same time, serve your fellow man? Come check out the Crossett Lions club. We have a lot of fun as we help the needy of our community and our state. Informative guest speakers keep us abreast of the latest news and happenings in our world. Contact any Lion member or drop us an e-mail at rreves@cei.net.
Check out the new playground equipment that has been installed by the Crossett Lions Club at the City Park. There is now a special swing for disabled children!
May 4 and 5, 2009 The 42nd Crossett Lions Club Radio/TV Auction was held at the First United Methodist Church in Crossett, Arkansas. 146 merchants in Crossett and Hamburg areas donated 189 items with a total retail value of over $11,300. These items, sold to the highest bidder, raised approximately $7,000. The Crossett Lions Club will use these funds to support the community causes of Boy Scouts, Project Graduation, Ashley County Single Parents, eyeglasses for the needy, scholarships, Ashley County Skilled Workcenter and many more. Thanks go to KAGH-FM 104.9, Media 3 cable TV, Windstream, Methodist Church, Ashley News Observer, Q-Lite 99.5 and all the donating merchants.
May 21, 2008 Please welcome a new member to the Crossett Lions Club. Her name is Vickie Rowe. She is an administrative assistant at Link Investments in Crossett. We are glad to have Vickie in our club, and we congratulate Lion Billy Bell for bringing Vickie into the Lions organization.
July 7, 2008 Lion Steve Mansur received the Crossett Lion of the Year award from Lion Bill Gilbert. Lion Steve is being honored for his outstanding work in organizing the very successful auction held earlier this year, and for his entertaining performances as tail twister.
Mr. John Mount and Mr. “Red” Wells were honored by the Crossett Lions Club for their tremendous efforts and great progress in furthering the work on the building of the Wiggins Cabin Historical Site.
Sept 10, 2008 Lions District Gov. Linda Nickell presented a certificate to Crossett Lions Club Secretary Bill Runyan for the club’s help in buying new playground equipment for the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock.
Oct 4, 2008 The Crossett Lions “Go Fish” project was held on Saturday October 4, 2008 in the Crossett City Park. 58 children were provided with equipment to catch catfish. 500 worms were used for bait. The catch rate was very very high.
Note: The catfish are already scheduled to be delivered the 1st Saturday of October 2009. We look forward to another successful "Go Fish"
Oct 6, 2008 Lion Bill Gilbert invited Ashley County Judge Emery Austin as our guest. Judge Austin told us that Ashley County was declared a disaster area due to damage from Hurricane Gustov. FEMA, state and county funds are being used to repair the damage. Also, herbicides are being used to control roadside vegetation rather than mowing. A 75% reduction in vegetation control is being realized.
October 27, 2008 Mrs. Cheryl Rabalais urged us to vote for a tax initiative to help support the Ashley County Medical Center hospital. The 25 cent sales tax on each $100 of purchases will provide an estimated $600,000 to be used for depreciation and continuing maintenance. The ACMC received the 2006 award for #1 of 75 Arkansas hospitals being evaluated. Ms. Rablais related several outstanding examples of excellent patient medical results from treatment received at the ACMC.
October 29, 2008 The Crossett Lions Club volunteered to refinish the Crossett Boy Scout Hut. Much scraping was done to remove old loose paint, followed up by the application of high quality primer and top coat paint. A very nice door was donated and installed, as well as some replacement of deteriorated boards. It really looks great. Go by and see it!!!!!
11/3/2008 Lion Chad Davis, Coach Cody Malloy, Clarence Malcolm, Sha’neil People, Josh Gibbs, Sha’nae People, Britney Bowen, Coach Kris Dejarnett and Lion Donald Flentroy. The basketball coaches and players told us of their high hopes and expectations for the coming basketball season. They will all be working hard to improve and maintain team defense, the aggressive pursuit of loose balls, and good shots vs. bad shots. In addition they will emphasize life lessons such as self-motivation, good body language, respect, punctuality, conscientiousness, academics and being good role models.
November 10, 2008 Lion Chad Davis invited Crossett Athletic Director Todd Ledford to speak to us. Coach Ledford has just now completed a 5 win-5 loss Crossett football season, and has already began preparing the program for next year. His program will be a continuation of this year’s program, starting with a 7th grade and continuing through grade 12, of building a winning team structure as well as teaching discipline and good character. His program will stress academics, being well mannered, punctuality and daily accountability.
December 1, 2008 At the Lions Christmas Party, on this date unwrapped gifts suitable for a child 3 – 12 years old were donated to the Crossett Junior Auxiliary’s Angle Tree Project.
December 5, 2008 The Crossett Lions Club served chili at the Crossett Downtown Christmas Celebration. Fellow Lions and Lionesses donated chili and/or volunteerdd to help man our booth.
January 5, 2009 Lion David Bell brought Larry Cantley to our meeting. Mr. Cantley spoke to us about his preparations for the upcoming summer sports season and proposed improvement plans for the Crossett Sports Complex. Thank you Lion Bell and Mr. Cantley.
February 2, 2009 Lion Bill Gilbert invited Mr. Johnny Bolin to speak to our club about the continued effort to improve infrastructure in the Crossett area, especially those efforts related to highway improvements.
February 9, 2009 Lion Linda Goodwin invited Ms. Ramona Sawyer to speak to us about her activities as Gifted and Talented Program Coordinator for the Crossett Public School System. Ms. Sawyer told us of some of the outstanding academic accomplishments of Crossett students, and administration plans for continued assistance for student achievement improvement.
Feb 9, 2009 Please welcome a new member to the Crossett Lions Club. His name is Jeremy Martin. We are glad to have Jeremy in our club, and we congratulate Lion Dee Smith for bringing Jeremy into the Lions organization.
February 23, 2009
Please welcome a new member to the Crossett Lions Club. His name is Chris Hammond. Lion Chris works for the Abiding Faith School. We are glad to have Chris in our club, and we congratulate Lion Barry Burchfield for bringing Chris into the Lions organization.
Lion Tony Hendrix informed us that this year’s USA/Canada Lions Leadership Forum would be held September 24 – 29 in Memphis, Tennessee. Lion Tony says the two such forums he has attended have been very very interesting and informative. He encouraged members of the Crossett Lions Club to attend.
March 9, 2009 Lion Roger Reves invited Ms. Jamie Rindt to speak to us about the LIFE CHOICES program in Crossett. Life Choices is a faith based non-profit organization that provides pregnancy tests, some counseling, education and some supplies to pregnant women and those with recently born children. The education is provided by classes, pamphlets and videos based on “Focus on the Family”. The supplies, such as car seats, diapers, baby beds, blankets, etc., can be acquired in two ways: 1. From free donated items. 2. By earning credits through the attendance of classes and studying of the written and video materials. Last year, they had 100 clients and 139 client visits.
June 1, 2009 Lion Bill Gilbert invited 
Mr. Johnny Bolin, a representative of the Arkansas Good Roads/Transportation Council to speak to our club. The Good Roads/Transportation Council indicates that Arkansas school busses travel 35 million miles annually; many on narrow 2 lanes, for regular routes, field trips and sporting events. Teresa Walsh of Crossett is on the board of directors of this council.
Mr. Bolin reported that the Arkansas Act 374, dated 3/11/09, created the Arkansas Blue Ribbon Committee on Highway Finance. Also, The Arkansas Highway Commission gave approval, dated 3/13/09, for 103 road and bridge improvement projects totaling $421 million dollars. Some of this money will come from the stimulus money created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ARRA. He reported that the Crossett Public School System would receive approx. $1.5 million from the ARRA.
More info can be found at: www.ArkansasHighways.com www.recovery.arkansas.gov and www.agrtc.com and www.betterroadsbetterfuture.org.
The Crossett Lions Club officer installation banquet was held June 22 at 6 p.m. at the Country Vittles Restaurant. New officers are: Ed Gilbert-president, Sherri Hendrix-treasurer, Bill Runyan-secretary, Bill Gilbert-lion tamer, Chad Davis-past president. Board members are: Billy Bell, Tony Hendrix, Joe Mason.
We also proud to say that one of Crossett's own Lions Club member, Donald Flentroy is now District 7N govenor.
Crossett Area Chamber of Commerce
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Page created at 2005-07-20 and Last updated at 2009-07-01.