April was an active month for the Maben Lions Club.
Amy Harrison, zone chairman for Eupora, Maben and Starkville Lions clubs, came to the Maben meeting on April 23 to induct our new member, Waymon McCain, and to install the new officers for the coming year beginning in July.
The officers for the coming year are Shawn Nygard, president; Rose Graham, vice president; Jane Collins, secretary; and Ed James, treasurer. Other officers are Earl and Nellie Blade, Stewart Martin, Sheryl Perkins, Marlene Thomas, Joann Ford, Patricia White and Joe Ann Williams.
Earlier in April Amy held a zone meeting at Trace-Way Restaurant in Mathiston in the regular Maben Lions Club meeting room. Attending were Rob and Jane Collins, Joe Ann Williams, all of Maben and Matthew and Christa McGrew of Houston, who serve as president and secretary of the Maben Branch of Chickasaw County.
Maben is sponsoring a new club in Chickasaw County that has five members at present. As soon as they reach a membership of 20 they can be chartered as their own Lions Club.
In the meantime, the branch members were active in manning the Lions of Mississippi promotional tent at the Flywheel Festival, a bright yellow tent that housed a sight screening machine operated by Beth Brandon and Dawn Davis of the Houston School District.
Both are school nurses who are members of the branch and are delighted to be able to use Lions of Mississippi equipment to test eyesight in their schools. At the festival they were able to test over 60 people, each of whom was given homemade cookies as a treat and reward for being tested.
In other activities last month the Maben Lions collected over 1,000 reusable eyeglasses, paid for two individuals to receive eye exams and eyeglasses, and made monetary gifts to Lions Clubs International Fund to help with disaster relief within the state of Mississippi as well as contribute to worldwide efforts to alleviate blindness, address the needs of the environment, hunger relief, diabetes and childhood cancer.
