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PHOTO COURTESY JENNIFER WHITE Learning the ropes — Junior Service League Provisional Class members, from left, Ashley Schairer, Dana Campbell, Pate Henderson, Noelle Starling, Jennifer White, Michelle Lee, Carmen Goldberg and Jamie Sadler gather at the league’s Road Rally May 10. The women are in their first year with the league, and had to put together a themed spring social for all active members and sustainers, the Road Rally.
PHOTO COURTESY WENDY WILSON New Lions Club chartered — Area Lions Club members Mike Watson and Dave Llewellyn, both of the new Deltona Lions Club; Past District Gov. Warren Erdman; Port Orange Lions Club President Ray “Rocky” Siracusa, also a past district governor and certified Guiding Lion; Guiding Lion Wendy Wilson of the DeLand club; incoming Deltona Lions Club President Dennis Jefferson, holding the gong and gavel; Orange City Lions Secretary Bob Metz; and Lions Harris Custer and Maureen Avellino, both of the Deltona club, attend a recent ceremonial presentation of the banner, gavel and gong. The Orange City club, with Darryl Madewell as president and Vince Delaso as treasurer, sponsored the Deltona club, which was formed within three days and chartered Jan. 23.
PHOTO COURTESY JACK FORTES Checking out the boat— Central Florida Sea Scout leaders meet at the DeLand Naval Air Station Museum to view the PTF3 boat being worked on by the local Sea Scouts and museum personnel. Skipper Jon Bemis, third from left, hosted the group. Others in the photo are Danielle Goad, boatswain of the Leesburg group; Dave Scruggs, skipper of that group; Samuel Kalvin, a boat-worker; and Glenn Pena of Merritt Island, who represents the Central Florida Council of Sea Scouts and is vice commodore of the group.
PHOTO COURTESY MARY AGUSTA Honored for service above self — Four Townes Rotary President Vincent Agusta, center, presents the club’s 2008 Service Above Self Award to Karen Devane of GIFTS, as 2007 award-winner Sandra Wilson of Gateway Center for the Arts looks on. Devane was honored for her dedication to education and literacy, one of the focuses of Rotary International. Wilson recently received $2,000 from Rotary to support the center’s building project.
PHOTO COURTESY JENNIFER WHITE The winners! — Team Double Hook, made up of, from left, Alex Ford, Vincetta Ford, Sharon Smith, Susie Batten, Dale Batten and George Smith, is the winner of the Junior Service League Road Rally May 10. Each team was sent on a scavenger hunt by car to gather things and do funny tasks at different locations around DeLand.
Junior Service League prepares new members
posted Jun 30, 2008 - 9:45:59am
Association for Widowed Persons
The Association for Widowed Persons will meet at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 13, in the Fellowship Hall of First Presbyterian Church of DeLand, 724 N. Woodland Blvd. Doors will open at 2 p.m.
All widows and widowers are invited to join us as our guests.
The program will be about Hospice, and will be presented by Alberta Corcoran, a nurse at the Port Orange facility.
Association members and guests plan to dine, after the meeting, at Mainstreet Grill, 100 E. New York Ave. in Downtown DeLand.
For more information, call (386) 789-5832.
— Robert A. Ferris
Ballroom Dancers
The Blue Springs Ballroom Dancers Chapter of USA Dance will meet Sunday, July 13, at the Wayne G. Sanborn Activities Center in Earl Brown Park, 751 S. Alabama Ave. in DeLand.
Swing-dance lessons with instructor Bonnie Myers begin at 5 p.m., and general dancing follows 6-9 p.m.
The theme is “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” and disc jockey Rob Cofinco will provide the music.
Admission costs $6 for members and $10 for nonmembers. For more information, call (386) 734-0187 or (386) 736-6863.
— Patsy Mitchell
Democratic Club of Southwest Volusia County
The Democratic Club of Southwest Volusia County will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 3, at the Deltona Community Center, 980 Lakeshore Drive.
The guest speaker will be Lisa Walker, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August. Walker will give a presentation on the Florida Democratic delegate situation, how it happened, and what will happen at the convention.
All Democrats in the Deltona, DeBary, Osteen and Enterprise areas are encouraged to attend this meeting and others on the first Sunday of each month.
For more information, e-mail Ed Gable at gable_edward@yahoo.com, call (386) 789-5656, or visit the club’s Web site at www.swvcdemocrat.org.
Institute of Noetic Sciences
The West Volusia/DeLand Chapter of the Institute of Noetic Sciences will have a lecture and discussion on “Crop Circles — Crossovers From Another Dimension” 1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 6, in the DeLand Area Public Library auditorium, 130 E. Howry Ave.
The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information, call Maggie at (386) 451-9208.
Deadline for submitting Club Notebook items
The Beacon’s Club Notebook appears in the Midweek edition. Submissions must be received by 5 p.m. Monday to appear in the following week’s Midweek edition. Items may be faxed to (386) 734-4641, mailed to 110 W. New York Ave., DeLand, FL 32720, or e-mailed to margie@beacononlinenews.com.
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