Every year the Lions Club donates stuffed toys and animals to the Jacksonville Fire Department and Police Department. Emergency personnel and crews take these donated toys to accidents and other emergency situations involving children, to help calm and comfort them.
Top photo, left to right: Lou Mayersky, Tony Antonides, Dick Cobb, Jack Pfeifer, Bill Lupton, Karl Eddings, Nick Nichols, Jim McCleland, Bill Hanlin.
The Jacksonville Lions also assisted at this year’s Chinese New Year Festival by sponsoring and working the famous “Dragon.” Children lined up at the Courthouse Grounds to take their turns climbing, sliding and bouncing through this popular jump house.