GENTRY — The Lions Club installed new officers at a special dinner meeting on June 24 at the McKee Community Room in Gentry.
Lonnie Moll will take over as club president. She replaces retiring president Leoti Cox.
Roberta DeFraga is first vice president and Bob Meyer is second vice president for the Gentry club.
Marc Burden continues as club secretary; Roy Jech, as treasurer; Danny Feemster, as tail twister; and Roy Bolin, as lion tamer.
Appointed to the club’s board of directors were Randy Moll and Terry Shields for two years, and Leoti Cox and Mark Bonner for one year.
Musical entertainment was provided at the special meeting by Mark Bunce and his parents Rick and Chris Bunce.
The Gentry Lions Club meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the McKee Community Room at the Gentry Public Library.
The service organization provides eye examinations and eye glasses upon request for area residents who cannot afford the exams or glasses.
The club also donates money to the Mid-South Sight and Hearing Services and to World Services for the Blind, collects and recycles used eye glasses, gives scholarships to graduating Gentry High School seniors, handles trash pick-up along two miles of Arkansas Highway 12, and places and maintains American Flags in the city of Gentry.
The Lions have been in Gentry for 46 years and welcome new members interested in serving the community.
Education, Pages 11 on 07/07/2010