As it has become a tradition, our club provides a scholarship to Lions Camp counselors selected by the camp staff.Ā Ā On July 12th, members of our club traveled to the Texas Lions Camp in Kerrville to attend the Awards Night and participate in the celebration.Ā Ā As part of the ceremonies a $1000 scholarship was awarded and presented by our club to each of 5 camp counselors.
The award began in 1936, when the New Braunfels Jaycees, under the leadership of Pete Nowotny, successfully negotiated the sale of Landa Park to the City of New Braunfels. The New Braunfels Jay-cees and Mr. Nowotny were responsible for turning out the vote in order to pass a bond that funded the park purchase. In…
District Governor Mike Smith requested support from the local clubs for New Braunfels resident Katie Philips who is disabled and in need of financial assistance. Katie recently was forced to relocate her mobile home when the previous mobile home park was sold. After relocating to a new park, her home was not in compliance with…
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Students from Spring Branch Middle School of the Comal ISD participated in our Lions Club Peace Poster contest.Ā Ā The student with the 1st place (overall winning) poster advances to the district level and could eventually advance to the international level to be selected as having created the best poster in the world for Lions…
Our Installation and Awards banquet was held June 15th at the Emmie Seele Faust Library building.Ā Ā We were honored to have International Director Lion Ernesto āTJā Tijerina and his wife Lion Juanita.Ā Lion āTJā conducted the installation ceremonies as well as talked about some of his rewarding experiences as a Lion and provided guiding words…
On Sunday morning, August 20th, several club members volunteered to help with a cleanup and organization the day after a sales event at Habitat for Humanity’s local ReStore.Ā Our club also made a donation of $400 for studs toward Habitat’s local housing projects. Lion Bob Oldham, Lion Chere Billings, Lion Wendy Drush, ReStore staff member,…