Lions Club Celebrations- 2018

                      2018 - Lions Club Celebrations

Lions International, celebrating 100 years…Carrollton, Ga. Lions Club celebrating 85 years

Lions Club International is the largest service club organization in the world. Our 1.4 million members perform valuable service in 210 countries and geographic areas around the globe. Lions are friends, family and neighbors who share a core belief: community is what we make it.

MISSION STATEMENT: To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs.

Beginning in 1917 Melvin Jones (a Chicago business man) asked a simple and world changing question: what if people put their talents to work improving their communities.  100 years later, Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service organization. 

The Carrollton Lions Club is celebrating its 85^th anniversary in 2018. Look around your community, you’ll be able to see Lions projects along with many more that are not so visible that has changed so many lives for the better. Whether it’s a seeing-eye dog, a person assisted with glasses or hearing aids. Maybe a natural disaster, we’ve been there lending a hand, sometimes financial aid or sometimes in assisting those in need of food and temporary shelter or to clean-up in the community.

As Lions around the globe take on a new endeavor of research to help eliminate the dreadful disease of diabetes, it will mark another milestone in the history of Lions Club International.

In 2015, our international president challenged our members around the world to serve 100 million people by the time we celebrate our centennial year (2018). Well, we not only met that goal but actually doubled it. In only two and a half years since that “call to service”, Lions International has helped over 200 million people around the globe and we’re not done yet!

If you or if you know of someone who may be interested in being a part of such an organization visit: www.carrolltongeorgialionsclub.org or contact any of the following board members:

Don Chappell – President                         dchappel@bellsouth.net               770-832-3182

Joe Harris - Immediate past president   joe@multi-pest.com                       770-834-0811

Kristy Allison – Secretary                          kristy.allison@bankozarks.com    770-214-7107

Ann Fazio – Treasurer                               gstann@bellsouth.net                    770-832-2439

Steve Minor – Vice president                  sminor@tisingervance.com           770-214-5108    

Richard Tisinger Jr – Vice President       rtisingerjr@tisingervance.com      770-214-5112

Jerome Johnston – Vice President         jerome.johnston@cemc.com        770-830-5738

Tom Jackson – Director                            liontomj@yahoo.com                     770-832-0114

Vedat Gunay - Director                            vgunay@westga.edu                       678-839-3710

Fred O’Neal – Director                             fredo3162@yahoo.com                  770-832-2141

Dave Knight – Director                             dknight@jsmithlanier.com            770-214-3625

Please remember our annual BBQ May 04 to be held at the old city gym at Lions Safari Park.