Each year many of the
Emmitsburg community civic groups (VFW,
American Legion, Volunteer Ambulance and
Lions Club) work together to provide a
safe evening of fun for the community.
After an hour of trick or treating there
is a community parade where everyone can
show off his or her costume. The parade
starts at the west end of town and works
its way to the Ambulance building where
everyone is welcome to join each other
for some social time. The Lions this
year like many years in the past has
provided the games like bobbing for
apples. Other groups provided
snacks, drinks and prizes for the best
and the scariest costumes.
Holiday
Food Drive
This year Lion Hope
Mahoney chaired the holiday food drive.
Lion Hope called the food drive “The
Greater Emmitsburg Community Food
Drive”. Lion Hope received a
tremendous amount of help and support
from the Emmitsburg Elementary School,
CASS, Seton Center, Trout’s Jubilee
and FEMA.
Lion Hope delivered boxes
to the Town Hall and many local
businesses for citizens to donate food.
Lion Hope picked up the full boxes and
delivered them to the FEMA campus. The
staff at FEMA donated a room for the
Lions Club to store and separate the
food. After Lion Hope delivered the boxes
of food to the FEMA Campus she then
separated the food in to 53 baskets. On
December 18, 2000 many Lions members
joined together to deliver the baskets.
Children’s
Christmas Party
On December 16, 2000 the
Lions Club held its annual
Children’s Christmas Party. The
party was held in the Emmitsburg
Ambulance Company building. Though the
weather outside was frightful everything
inside was delightful as approximately 80
children made wonderful Christmas
ornaments. The Emmitsburg Cadet Girl
Scout Troop did another fantastic job
again this year providing the equipment,
tools and chaperons for the making of
Christmas ornaments. Maggie the clown
came back this year to talk and joke with
the kids. After her show, Maggie did face
painting for over 60 of the kids. Because
of the huge turn out of kids this year
Maggie the clown was forced to extend her
scheduled hour show and face painting in
to two hours. While Maggie was face
painting, Santa came to visit. Many of
the kids sat on Santa’s lap to give
him their last minute Christmas gift
list.
As the kids visited Santa
and sat upon his lap Lions Club members
took free photographs of the children and
presented the picture to the parents.
Even though it was a cold rainy and icy
day outside many hearts were warmed with
the Christmas Spirit inside the
Emmitsburg Ambulance building. While
children where waiting to have their face
painted or to visit with Santa Lions
members served over 150 hot dogs and 6
gallons of hot chocolate to the children,
parents and their friends. The Emmitsburg
Lions club would like to thank the
Emmitsburg Cadet Girl Scout Troop, Maggie
the Clown, Santa Claus and the Emmitsburg
Ambulance Company for their help and
support in providing another successful
Christmas Party for the local children.
We
Serve The Community
Mr. Daniel Carroll,
District Executive Boy Scouts of America
has asked the Emmitsburg Lions Club to
sponsor a new Cub Scout Troop in
Emmitsburg. At the November 8, 2000
regular meeting Mr. Carroll told the
members in attendance that he has already
found a place for the new Cub Scout Troop
to hold their meetings and he has over a
dozen interested kids waiting to join the
new club and two adults who agreed to
host as Scout leaders. Mr. Carroll
expects the new club will hold its first
meeting in early spring of 2001. Lion
members in attendance took a unanimous
vote to sponsor the Cub Scout Troop. Look
in future additions of this News Letter
for more news about the new Cub Scout
troop coming to Emmitsburg.
Tail
Twister
At the October 26, 2000
regular meeting president Lion Herb
caught many members and guest in his game
of tail twisters. Members and
guest had to pay up for not wearing a
name badge, for wearing a tie and for not
knowing who sang the National Anthem at
the World Series game the night before.
Newsletter
Newsletters will be
published quarterly and distributed at
the second meeting of the month (March,
June, September, and December). Members
not at the meeting will be mailed a copy.
