Club Meeting 7-29-21

7-29-21 Zoom Club Meeting [recording]

• The Lion's Club is sponsoring Wreaths across America at the Family Life Church in Erwin on Aug 7th from 1-5pm. No admission charge.
• Grant Requests from our District approved by the Rotary Foundation:  This includes $2k to ARTS council for the  Lighting the Way Forward project 
• Ernie read a koala card thank you from a student that we provided books for through our literacy project.
• Bill Boland updated the club on the Cherry Blossom Trail. We have received $10k check from Corning Enterprises to pay for the landscape architect. Also received the invoice from Hunt Engineering for the architect that we will pay with the grant.

Don Creath gave the club a synopsis of his time working on Community Service Projects throughout the Corning area.  The two biggest projects that he highlighted were the up grading of the Veteran's Memorial Park on Park Ave in the city of Corning and the First Responders Honor Park in Gang Mills.

Phase II of the Honor Park will be dedicated on 9-11-21. The upgrade will include a metal statue of a firefighter rescuing a child by Barbie the Welder of Erin, New York and a walkway around the statue dedicated to the memory of Father Lew Brown.

Anyone interested in donating to either the park or to the memory of Father Lew can send a check to the Crystal City Parks Foundation, 101 Columbia St. Ste. 100, Corning, NY 14830.  Make the appropriate designation on the memo line. You can also purchase a commemorative paver; see the information here.

To hear and see more of the presentation select the link at right: Meeting recording.