March 6th Regular meeting. Program: Kelly Atwood, Director of Development, Equest Therapeutic Horsemanship, will explain what Equest does and how they serve the community. Kelly joined the Equest team in the summer of 2009. She came to Equest from the American Heart Association where she was a Corporate Market Director for Start! Dallas. At AHA, she focused on corporate sponsorships and recruitment of corporate fundraising teams for the Start! Dallas Heart Walk. Prior to her time at the American Heart Association, Kelly was a Campaign Manager for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light the Night Walk. Equest, an internationally recognized not-for-profit organization, enables children and adults with disabilities to gain mental and physical freedom in order to leave the bonds of their disabilities behind and interact in a world of which they could not otherwise be a part. Equest, founded in 1981 as the first therapeutic riding center in Texas, annually serves 450 children and adults with a wide range of mental, physical, emotional and learning disabilities with equine assisted therapy and rehabilitation. In addition to offering therapy services, Equest was the first teaching facility for certifying professional therapeutic riding instructors. Certified instructors trained at Equest have a global impact by teaching at other therapeutic riding centers locally and around the world.

March 20th Regular meeting. Program: Christopher Hackett, former morning host of WRR 101.1, will be speaking about putting videos on websites. Christopher spent almost 20 years on the radio in the Broadcasting business, on KDMX Mix 102.9, 92.5 KZPS and most recently, as the morning host on WRR Classical 101.1 FM. The topic is "Why not use that old camcorder you've got in the closet to make some money and help promote your business?" I'll bet we will learn things that might come in handy on our own club website. If you know somebody who is trying to build (or improve) a website, invite them!

April 3rd Regular meeting. Program: Russ Riddle, presenting a program entitled "GET GALVANIZED(tm)" (sample YouTube video) -Healthy bodies, minds and spirits require activity; they otherwise rust. This session will stir your team to action and preserve its success!

April 17th Regular meeting. Program: (TBD)

May 1st Regular meeting. Program: (TBD)

May 13th-14th MD2 State Convention, El Paso, TX. Join us if you can to cheer for Sam Scott at the state contest.

May 15th Regular meeting. Program: (TBD)

Meetings of the board of directors are open to any Plano Early Lions Club member.

Sam Scott has won the Student Speakers Contest for the 2nd year in a row! See the PELC Roar! for details.

The Plano Early Lions have unanimously voted to support the candidacy of Lion Ken Gleason for the position of 2nd Vice District Governor 2010-2011.

If you have any eyeglasses or eyeglass cases you would like to donate, take them to any of the convenient drop-off points.

If you discover any community needs that we as Lions can address, please let us know!