Welcome New Lion Charley Gould

We are pleased to announce that Charley Gould was inducted to Cambridge Lions during our 2/18/2008 meeting. Charley was sponsored by Lion Roger Gotcher and inducted by Lion Tom Cahoon. Welcome Charley! photo: Roger Gotcher (on left) with Charley Gould.

Historical Tourism On The Rise

Gary Williams, author of the book Historic Tours of Ohio was the guest speaker. He informed the club of several interesting facts about Ohio including the fact that Ohio was the first state settled by legal, free settlers of the new American and started the western movement. Local historical tourism is on a rise due to gas prices and high cost of travel. There are over 100 historical sites in Ohio. His book is a field guide for planning a trip. The chapters include the following Ohio subjects: Indian mounds, battlefields and forts, Underground Railroad sites, civil war generals, Presidents, authors, scientists, inventors, and a montage of other facts about transportation, outdoor dramas, and homes. Gary has written other books including Gliding to a Better Place, Forts of Ohio, and Spies, Scoundrels & Rouges of the Ohio Frontier. Pictured are Gary Williams, left, and Progam Chair Terry Losego.

Fran Taylor speaks about Cambridge Main Street

Fran Taylor from Cambridge Main Street spoke to the Lions about their efforts to make Cambridge an attractive place for people to come. Fellow Lions Tom Davey and Bryant Ficken are members of her Board of Directors. The Main Street four-point approach consists of organization, promotion, design and economic restructuring. In the past year Main Street spent $664,325 toward improvements for downtown Cambridge including improvements to Theos, the Performing Arts facade, relocation of Dominos and a new coffee shop business. Sixteen Lions in attendance at Mondays meeting have helped this year with a downtown project. Many plans are in the future for downtown Cambridge including historic building restoration specialists, Building Docotors, coming to diagnose buildings over 55 years of age and a statewide Main Street meeting in November. Cambridge also qualified for a half million dollar grant that will bring new lamp posts, bike racks, benches and speakers for music in the future. Pictured are Program Chair Ron Guthrie and Fran Taylor.

You can find more information about Cambridge Main Street at their web site http://www.downtowncambridge.com/

Operation Smile

Dr. Brent Harris was the guest speaker and showed us slides and explained Operation Smile. Operation Smile's volunteer medical professionals travel around the world to treat children suffering from facial deformities. Volunteer doctors perform approximately 4,100 surgeries in a week. Their efforts mean new smiles for thousands of children. Dr. Harris has traveled to Venezuela, Peru, India, Nicaragua and China volunteering his time and expertise. He shared his experiences and photos of patients and observations of the countries he has visted. The before and after slides of the surgeries were amazing to witness!

For more information about Operation Smile follow this link. www.operationsmile.org