In 1917, the Lion Clubs were created, the first one by Melvin Jones in Chicago, Illinois.  Malad’s Lion Club was organized in 1923 and will be having a 100 year.

Celebration on April 27th.  Lion Clubs have been formed throughout the world, made up of individuals concerned about the community they live in to help provide service projects to help make their communities better.

The last article was about some of the accomplishments done for the city of Malad.  This article covers some of the projects the Lions have been involved  
with along with the schools in the district.  A few of them have been on going during most of the years.  A lot of you may remember starting school, and during the first couple of years having your eyes checked at school by the Lions Club.  Through the years, there have been students that ended up needing glasses, and at times the Club has helped purchase the glasses for them. 

One of the current projects right now is having the fourth and fifth grade elementary school classes write patriotism essays. The club picks the top three winners in each class and gives them a cash prize. Here again, some of you who still live here were possible winners in this patriotism program. The club just finished doing this contest again and here are the current winners:

4th grade

  1st.  Cassidy Schrenk

  2nd.  McMcall Clark

  3rd.  Alyssa Seamons

5th. Grade

  1st. Wheeler Smith

  2nd. Arianna Stoddart

  3rd. Tandon Redd

Some of the other activities undertaken by the Club, since it became a chartered supporter of the schools:

1947  Sent the High School band to Salt Lake.
1962  Sponsored a grade school basketball tournament.
1977  Gave $300.00 to the school for a score board.
1987  Sponsored the building of the football and track field at the Malad High School, where during the week of Oct 11th,  a group of farmers and businesses showed up with their dirt moving equipment to get the project done. It was estimated that this saved the district $125,000, and all because the Lions Club thinking it could be done, it was.   This was sponsored and spearheaded by Myron Jones.

                                                                     MYRON JONES
   There are those who said it couldn’t be done
   But Myron Jones said, "It out to be, and I think it can.”
   So to  the Lions Club he submitted a plan
   To make a track and field as soon as we can
   It’s needed at the high school for our youth to play
   So, Let’s make a plan
   There’s equipment to plow and to dig,
   Tractors and carryalls, the dirt we can move
   Let’s ask for volunteers and the equipment to use,
   And drivers I’m sure we can find, if only we try
   The club said, “go ahead.” And go he did
   Early on a fall day, the equipment arrived
   Men hailed each other as they loaded and scattered the ground
   To make the field level for the boys to run around
   In seven days, 15,000 cubic yards of dirt were moved
   The north end lowered 12 feet and the south end raised by 9
   To complete a task that needed to be done.
   And, it all started, because Lion Jones said, “I think it can.”

1988  Plans were made to put a sprinkler system and grass sod on the new field.
1989  Lions help sponsor and fund the building of the original oval track that surrounds the football field.
       

When the middle school was built, the lions provided the labor to install all the sprinkler pipe for the surrounding lawns, again saving the school district funds that could be used somewhere else.

2000 Built new rest rooms at the football field under direction of Rex Robbins.

These are a few of the major activities that were done for the citizens who were educated at our school system.

We just currently decided to participate with the elementary principal on a weekend food program.

The current Lions President is Don Swartz  208 479 7095.  If you would like to find out more about Lions, Please contact Don.

Lions Club Presents $500 to Malad Elementary

As a joint celebration of the “first 100 days of school” and the Lions Club’s 100th year anniversary in Malad, representatives of the Lions Club presented a check for $500 to the school at its schoolwide assembly in February.  This month, the Lions Club will again visit the school, this time to recognize and award the winners of the Patriotism contest they sponsored.  The winners are listed in the article above.