Greenbrier Lions Club helps with flag installation

GREENBRIER Have you ordered your American flag for your front yard yet?

The Greenbrier Lions Club will not only furnish a flag for your front yard, but will come and install it for you. All you have to do is call. Lions Clubs International (LCI) is the world's largest secular service organization. Although the club in Greenbrier is small, they exemplify the national motto, "We Serve."

Greenbrier Lions focus on programming related to sight conservation and a scholarship program for worthy students in the local community. Lions focused on work for the blind and visually impaired when Helen Keller addressed the Lions International Convention in 1925 and charged them to be Knights to the Blind. Greenbrier Lions fund eye glasses for anyone who needs them. Counselors at the Greenbrier schools refer youngsters in need to them. Anyone, of any age, is free to apply directly to the Lions if they are in need of eye care or glasses. All funds raised by Lions Clubs from the general public are used for charitable purposes and administrative costs are kept strictly separate.

The Lions place flags in the front yards of many households in Greenbrier as their major fund-raising activity for only $30.00 per year. The flag is placed in a sleeve in the ground before every major holiday concerning armed forces events and about 10 holidays, including Memorial Day, Presidents Day, Flag Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. This is one of their activities that helps to improve the community. They even remove the flags for you a few days after these major events.

Much of the focus of Lions Clubs International work as a service club organization is to raise money for worthy causes. The Lions hold three major fund-raising events each year: their flag campaign, a catfish supper always on the Saturday after Sept. 11, and they help the community with the Greenbrier Christmas parade. Their catfish supper will be Sept. 12 this year. They also patrol a portion of Highway 65 in Greenbrier to help keep it clean.

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Greenbrier Lions Club meets every second and fourth Monday each month. They will be awarding two $500 scholarships to two students at their next meeting at 7 p.m. Monday. The two students are Brittany Suitt, 18, who is going on to the University of Central Arkansas, and Bradley Lorenz, 18, who will be attending the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville this fall. They just graduated from Greenbrier High School.

Those who would like to join the Greenbrier Lions Club, apply for eye-glasses or purchase the flag program for your front yard should call Todd Ryals at 501-581-7750. Lions welcome any individual to membership, regardless of age (as long as you are at least 18), gender, political or religious affiliation.