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On Friday night at the Neosho Civic, the East Newton chapter of the Leo Club hosted its installation of new officers and members.
The Granby Lions Club recently sponsored the new Leo Club for young people ages 12-18. The officers are as follows: Ashley Burns, president; Tarena Larkie, vice president; Mallory Whitman secretary; and Emilee Clubbs, treasurer.
With family and friends in the audience, the members took their oaths.
“I thought that it would be a good idea to join the Leo Club: it is always good for college and I want to help other people in our community,” Whitman said. “As secretary, at every meeting, I take notes. Later, I type them up on the computer to take them to the next meeting and read them. That way, we have a memory of what we had at the last meeting.”
As treasurer, Clubbs keeps track of where the money goes and the bank account. She encourages others to join.
“It is a lot of fun,” she said. “I enjoy it a lot.”
Burns oversees the meetings, including the old and new business. She, too, encourages others to join.
“We have a great group of kids, but it would be great to have more and do more,” Burns said.
Currently, the club is involved with raising money to assist the Faithful Friends Animal Shelter of Newton County and fund cleanup projects around Granby, Neosho and nearby communities.
“We love animals, we help our community, so we want to help our communities animals too,” Burns said. “We are trying to gather dog food, cat food and cleaning supplies for the facility so they can get a head start. It is going great so far.”
Just recently, the club received a $250 donation from someone in New York and they will put it toward animal shelter.
But there are other projects for the club’s members.
“Now that it is spring, we will probably raise money by car washing, clean up the highway,” said Burns. “In the winter, we did the ‘Coats for Kids Drive’ and that ended up great. That was cool to get coats gathered for the kids, it was mainly for little kids who don’t have coats.”
The reason for joining the club was simple for Burns: to help out.
“I just love doing it, because that is the least that I can do, take a little bit of my time to support our community when they need it,” she said.
On Friday night at the Neosho Civic, the East Newton chapter of the Leo Club hosted its installation of new officers and members.
The Granby Lions Club recently sponsored the new Leo Club for young people ages 12-18. The officers are as follows: Ashley Burns, president; Tarena Larkie, vice president; Mallory Whitman secretary; and Emilee Clubbs, treasurer.
With family and friends in the audience, the members took their oaths.
“I thought that it would be a good idea to join the Leo Club: it is always good for college and I want to help other people in our community,” Whitman said. “As secretary, at every meeting, I take notes. Later, I type them up on the computer to take them to the next meeting and read them. That way, we have a memory of what we had at the last meeting.”
As treasurer, Clubbs keeps track of where the money goes and the bank account. She encourages others to join.
“It is a lot of fun,” she said. “I enjoy it a lot.”
Burns oversees the meetings, including the old and new business. She, too, encourages others to join.
“We have a great group of kids, but it would be great to have more and do more,” Burns said.
Currently, the club is involved with raising money to assist the Faithful Friends Animal Shelter of Newton County and fund cleanup projects around Granby, Neosho and nearby communities.
“We love animals, we help our community, so we want to help our communities animals too,” Burns said. “We are trying to gather dog food, cat food and cleaning supplies for the facility so they can get a head start. It is going great so far.”
Just recently, the club received a $250 donation from someone in New York and they will put it toward animal shelter.
But there are other projects for the club’s members.
“Now that it is spring, we will probably raise money by car washing, clean up the highway,” said Burns. “In the winter, we did the ‘Coats for Kids Drive’ and that ended up great. That was cool to get coats gathered for the kids, it was mainly for little kids who don’t have coats.”
The reason for joining the club was simple for Burns: to help out.
“I just love doing it, because that is the least that I can do, take a little bit of my time to support our community when they need it,” she said.
