Presentations made during G-A Lioness Club meeting

Jan Eppleman was recognized by Sharon Martin for her work with the Relay for Life.

The Greencastle-Antrim Lioness Club held its May meeting at the Antrim House with 38 members and four guests in attendance. Barbara Nicarry and Sharon Martin were greeters. Lioness President Marlene Duffey welcomed everyone. Lioness Betty Fisher led the singing of "America the Beautiful" and the pledge to the flag. Invocation was given by Cora Crider.

Jean Zimmerman introduced the guest speaker for the evening, Earl "Buck" Summers and his wife, Barb. Summers is owner of Balanced Living Resources, a counseling, consulting and speaking service founded in 1987. His topic for the evening was transitional stages of a woman's life interspersed with humor and his own thoughts and ideas on the subject.

One of the highlights of the meeting was the presentation of our annual medical scholarship to a local senior going into some area of the medical field. The scholarship committee, consisting of Beverly Traver, Brenda Uccellini and Crider, reviewed all the applications and selected the applicant who received the award. Crider awarded the $1,000 scholarship to Laura Smith, daughter of Todd and Rosemary Smith of State Line. Smith thanked the Lionesses and shared with the cub that she has decided to attend St. Frances University and become a physician's assistant.

Lioness Cora Crider was presented a Life Membership Award.

A Life Membership Award was presented by Traver to Crider. Crider has been a member of the Greencastle Lioness Club since 1981. She was the fifth president of the organization during 1983- 84. She is and has always been a very active member of the Lionesses. She is currently the chairperson of the Lioness sponsored dog show that will be held on Thursday, Aug. 9 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the King Playground during Old Home Week.

Lioness President Duffey thanked Nicarry, Sharon Martin, Em Uccellni, and Barb Benhardt who helped her fill 840 luminaries for Greencastle's Relay for Life.

Martin, chairman for the walkers for the Relay for Life, reported our club had 13 walkers for the relay. Those walkers included Julie Wesley, Jan Epplemnan, Nicarry, Uccellini, Phyllis Eshleman, Mary Witmer, Chris Reagan, Betty Fisher, Ann Knepper, Linda Reed, Martin, Duffey and Benhardt. Martin also announced that our club received the second place award for the team raising the most money. The club donated over $9,700 for the cancer relay. One Lioness, Eppleman, a cancer survivor herself, was instrumental in raising over $7,700 toward the club's total. She was recognized for this accomplishment and she spoke to the club about why and how she was successful in raising the money for this event.

Laura Smith received a scholarship from Lioness Cora Crider.

Eppleman, chairman for the Survivors Reception at the Relay for Life, thanked Betty Lee Fisher, Nicarry, Uccellini, Bonnie Coladonato, Shirley Shatzer, Reed, Sara Keiffer, Dolly Shoemaker, Duffey, Crider, Brenda Uccellini, and Martin, for helping set up and serve at the reception.

Areport about the Lioness Old Home Week Dog Show was given by Crider. She announced the committee made up of Nicarry, Duffey, Uccellini, Keiffer and Joann Williams, are collecting doggy treats, goodies, and toys that will be placed in the gift doggy bags and given to each dog entering the dog show. The event will be at the Citizens Pavilion at King's Playground. All entrants must be pre-registered. Entry forms can be gotten at The Echo Pilot newspaper, Carl's Drug Store and Dodie's Designs.

The Flower Show, which is sponsored by the Lioness Club during Old Home Week, will be held on Aug. 6 and 7 at the First United Methodist Church. Lioness Shoemaker and Shirley Freeman are co-chairpersons for the event. The theme for the flower show will be "For the Love of Flowers." If anyone from the community is interested in entering flowers or wants information about the types of entries and themes for each category, contact Shoemaker at 597- 7557. Betty Lee Fisher is in charge of the refreshments for this event. The membership was asked to sign up to make cookies for the show.

Incoming president Mary Witmer asked members to sign up for various committees that they would like to serve on for the next Lioness year starting in July. One of the first projects that the club will be doing is selling ride tickets for the annual Rescue Hose Company carnival during July 16-21. Club members also are asked to help bake cakes and bake or purchase other items to be used at the Cake Wheel game at the carnival. This is one of our service projects that our club does for the community.

Lioness Adera Laughlin took attendance and then read a note from Molly Moran, a reading specialist in the Greencastle-Antrim School District, thanking the club for helping to sponsor personalized books for the first grade students. Laughlin also read an invitation to our club from the Mercersburg Lioness Club to attend a picnic on July 24.

Members were reminded of the ongoing Administrative Fund project called "reading material swap" where members bring unwanted books and magazines to our meetings and exchange for a nominal fee and also to keep bringing in those pennies for our local library to continue to purchase books on tape and largeprint books. There was $30.10 worth of pennies brought in by Lionesses in April.

It was announced that our club along with the Greencastle Lions Club is sponsoring students for the PAAll State Lions Band. Our club provided $200 toward this activity.