When does the blood from a Lion save a human life? How about when it comes from a member of the Conroe Noon Lions Club! That’s what members of the Club did last week with our semi-annual Summer Blood Drive. This was a good time to have the drive because the blood banks are having a shortage right now. Thank you to all the members who gave their beautiful blood for this cause.
Kudos go out to Lions Bobby Brennan and Andrew Perry, who put together our July Service Saturday Project by serving pizza and ice cream (what a combination!) to the residents of Strake Court Assisted Living. Conroe Noon Lions joined in serving these wonderful residents who make Strake Court their home. They are some of Conroe’s finest trying to enjoy their golden years and we were enriched by our visit to their home.
More Kudos go out to Lion Velvet Dove, as our ‘Lion-of-the-Month’ for May, for her great work coordinating the Spring Style Show event featuring residents of Bridgewood Farms who strutted their stuff in the latest fashions. Also, to Lions Michelle Martino and Ken Taylor, our co-‘Lions-of-the-Month’ for June, who did Yeoman’s work coordinating the installation of five air conditioners in homes for those in need suffering from the June heat. That’s what we do – We Serve!
On a more serious subject, the club heard from fellow Lion, Probate Court Judge Claudia Laird, and from 284th District Judge Kristin Bays about the need for a new courthouse in downtown Conroe. Judges Laird and Bays took turns giving Lions the bad news about Montgomery County’s 90-year-old courthouse. Built in 1936, the top two floors originally housed the Montgomery County Jail which has not been used in years. Now, with the old jail’s concrete floors buckling and regular visits from rodents in and around the building, the old courthouse appears to have outlived its usefulness for the twenty-first century as the law center for a county of more than 800,000 people. Judges Bays and Laird have been making the rounds of civic clubs (and any crowd of three or more people who will listen) to explain that there are safety and security issues that cannot be addressed properly with the current facilities.
They explained that we utilize four buildings in downtown Conroe to house our burgeoning district and county courts while we are told by the State’s Office of Court Administration that we really need eight more courts to properly handle our caseloads. Where are they going to be put? That’s the question the Judges raised but did not get an answer. They want the citizens of Montgomery County to decide how to address the problem. The Conroe Noon Lions members will now have the knowledge to participate in any decisions the community makes going forward. Many thanks to Judges Bays and Laird!
Do you want to read some more? That’s probably what the 13 people have been doing who received free reader eyeglasses at last week’s Vision Screening! Eleven club members volunteered at the Community Assistance Center to conduct screenings for those in need, who otherwise couldn’t pay for an exam or glasses, to get help in seeing the world more clearly. If you see things our way, please contact us to join us!
The Conroe Noon Lions Club meets on Wednesdays, at noon, NORMALLY at the Lone Star Convention Center. BUT, special note to Ricky Morton; our meeting next week, 7/29 will be in Willis at the N. Montgomery County Community Center! For more information about the Conroe Noon Lions Club, please visit our website, www.conroenoonlions.org, or call the club office at 936-760-1666.
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