Category Archives: Reflections

Live-Blogging From 2011 Officers Installation

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Howard Harkness

At our 2nd meeting in the new location at Homewood Suites at Jupiter and GWB Turnpike, we installed our new slate of officers. Lion PDG Frank Pickens was on hand to do the installation. The officers for 2011-12 are listed … Continue reading →

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Past District Governor Lion Rex Coppedge

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Howard Harkness

Lion Rex passed away Saturday, April 19th, 2008 at 4:30 PM. Lion Rex was a Charter Member of our club and was born on September 5, 1918. He would have been 90 years-old in September. Our club members honored him … Continue reading →

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A visit from Lion Keith Murray

Posted on April 9, 2008 by Howard Harkness

Our resident photojournalist (Lion Jack Durnin) got the following article published in the 3/29/08 edition of Neighbors.Go supplement of the Dallas Morning News: Lion Keith Murray, Lions District 2X-1 Texas Lions Camp Director, spoke to Plano Early Lions Club members … Continue reading →

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Death in the family

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Howard Harkness

Lion Don Johnson’s mother passed away this week. Please take a bit of time in the coming week to include Lion Don’s family in your thoughts and prayers.

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Ah, some action in the blog!

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Howard Harkness

Good to see some participation from the other club members. Please have patience with me while I work out some of the details. One of the things some of you have run into already is that I have set the … Continue reading →

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Different folks ‘see’ things differently

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Howard Harkness

Lion Mike Marvel (whom I have mentioned before) gave me a call today, and did me the favor of pointing out a couple of typos on the website. Lion Mike is completely blind — and one of the typos that … Continue reading →

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Plano Christmas Parade, 2007

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Howard Harkness

Well, we did it. Another successful parade. This one was a bit more work than the Independence Day Parade, but we also had more folks working, and we were a little better organized. Not perfect, but we did a good … Continue reading →

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Exciting stuff is coming our way!

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Howard Harkness

This is going to be a BIG year for our Lions Club. We have established ourselves as the experts for running Parades in the city of Plano, and in addition to hosting the Independence Day Parades from now on, we … Continue reading →

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Traffic spike!

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Howard Harkness

One of the members asked me today about whether I could tell who has visited our website. The short answer is “no”, but there are some things that I can tell about the visitors — one being what site they … Continue reading →

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This is *OUR* blog

Posted on July 21, 2007 by Howard Harkness

One thing that I did not emphasize as strongly as I should have at the meeting this morning — this is not *MY* blog, it is *OUR* blog. I can help folks with how to enter stuff here, but there … Continue reading →

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