By NANCY KARRICK
Special to Atmore News
The Atmore Lions club held its installation of new officers at its meeting on June 18 at the Atmore Community Hospital Mayson Auditorium.
Club President Joyce Petty opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and Mike von Keyserling said the blessing. Lions Bobby and Linda Ziglar from the Gulf Shores Lions Club and Andrew Garner from Atmore Advance were introduced as visitors.
Following lunch, Lion Linda Ziglar gave a brief history of the Atmore Club, stating that it was formed just eleven years after the national organization. She then reminded members that early Atmore Lions worked for mosquito control, numbering of houses along the streets, building Greenlawn Hospital, and having one of the first lighted football fields in southwest Alabama, all of which were forward thinking for their time.
She then installed Billy Blair as Lion Tamer, Anne Hetzel as Marketing / Social Media chairman, Mike von Keyserling as Service Chairman, Patty Davis as Member at Large and also Eyesight Chairman, Andrea Beasley as Treasurer, Gregg Akins as Secretary, and Joyce Petty as President.
President Joyce announced that the Club had been asked to feed the cancer children at Camp Smile on Monday, June 23. We were requested to serve them tacos and a dessert. Members discussed how to do the tacos so that children could easily eat them. Also discussed was the amount of meat needed for 160 children. Lion Mike von Keyserling offered the use of the kitchen and heat trays from First Methodist Church, and members volunteered to go to Mobile and serve and clean up on Monday. Lions will also go to Camp Seale Harris in July to cook for the diabetic children at their camp.