GRAVETTE — Members of the newly formed Gravette Lions Club participated in a community beautification project at Centennial Park in Gravette during the late morning hours Saturday, Oct. 26. President and Gravette mayor Byron Warren led the group of five members and one local volunteer as they worked on the fl owerbeds and shrubbery.
Recently the club had been looking for community projects around Gravette. They decided to enhance the landscaping at the park by adding mulch to the five planting beds and pruning the shrubbery around the Desert Storm War Memorial. For approximately one and a half hours, husband and wife teams Byron and Tracy Warren and Anthony and Janene Ashlock worked with Ken Foxx and Jim Brooks to load, haul and spread mulch aroundthe park while Mayor Warren pruned the shrubs.
“We wanted to establish that the Lions Club exists in town by doing this first project,” president Warren said. “Our future endeavors are to assist our elderly citizens with work at their homes, to help the people who can’t get out and do those things themselves, such as cleaning their gutters and trimming bushes.”
The Gravette Lions Club was recently rechartered by the International Association of Lions Clubs and is looking to increase their local membership and community involvement. Anyone interested in serving his or her community by volunteering to join the Gravette Lions Club may contact club president Byron Warren at 479-787-5315.
Lions Club International is the largest service club organization in the world. Their 1.35 million members in more than 46,000 clubs areserving communities in 208 countries and geographical areas around the globe. Since 1917 Lions Clubs have aided the blind and visuallyimpaired, championed youth initiatives and strengthened local communities through handson service and humanitarian projects.
Opinion, Pages 7 on 11/13/2013