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Center to host Lions Club vendor and craft show

The banquet hall at the East Liverpool Area Community & Learning Center has been the site of many events in the past year. (Submitted photo)

EAST LIVERPOOL–

The East Liverpool Lions Club is presenting a vendor and craft show that will have something for everyone.

The event will be held at the East Liverpool Area Community & Learning Center on Saturday, May 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The craft show will be held in the Banquet Hall at the Center. Lion Cathy Grafton is the event chairman. Admission is free. There will be a chinese auction and a 50/50 raffle during the day.

The Lions Club plans to have over 20 booths loaded with crafts and specialty items to appeal to everyone, regardless of age and interests. Booth items for viewing and sale will include the clothing line LuLaRoe, Magnabilities and the Paparazzi Jewelry booths, Young Living Essential Oils, Mary Kay Cosmetics, bottle and cork crafts, handmade crochet treasures as well as many other handmade items, Tupperware, Party Time Mixes, Fairy Garden Novelties, creative wreaths, fancy flower pots, unusual pet supplies and much more. Come and see all of this for yourself.

When the Southern Columbiana County United Way decided not to hold its annual spring craft show this year, the Lions decided to take over the project. Diane Johnson of Southern Columbiana County Area United Way has worked with the Lions Club in the planning and hosting the project. Diane has shared her knowledge and experience in holding other events that will help insure success for the Lions Club show. The Banquet Hall has been the site of several other craft shows since the Center first opened in May 2016.

The banquet hall at the East Liverpool Area Community & Learning Center has been the site of many events in the past year. (Submitted photo)

The Banquet Hall is located on the ground floor of the Center. It is a fully-handicapped accessible and equipped facility with plenty of convenient parking in the main parking lot. Additional handicapped parking is available at the rear entrance to the Hall. At the rear entrance where there is a loading apron for dropping off handicapped individuals at ground level. Wide hallways accommodate wheel chair bound visitors.

The main parking lot of the Center can be accessed by a driveway located at the intersection of McKinnon Street and Anderson Avenue and also from a driveway off Maine Boulevard that intersects the main entranceway to the East Liverpool High School building.

Food will be available for sale provided by the Hope Christian Fellowship. Beverages will be sold by the Lions Club. Proceeds generated from the project for the Lions will be used for their community projects, including sight preservation.

The local Lions Club supports the Melvin Jones Eye Care Foundation, the Ohio Lions Eye Research Foundation, the Ohio Pilot Dog program and diabetes research programs associated with eyesight difficulties. The local Club is active in testing the eyesight of students in the public school system. The Club then assists them with expenses in connection with resolving vision problems.

Chairman Cathy says that the local Lions Club hopes to make the vendor and craft show an annual event in the community. When not working on Lions Club projects, Cathy Grafton manages the downtown office of Home Savings Bank in East Liverpool.

The Lions Club became a full-time tenant at the Community Center in June of 2016. The local Lions Club hold its meetings semi-monthly in the Farmer Bank Conference Room at the Center on Wednesday evenings. The Lions welcome prospective members who might be interested in joining with them in their extensive work on behalf of the local community.

Carol Monday is presently serving as president of the East Liverpool Lions Club. Monday recently assumed the vacancy in office of club president when the then elected president relocated out of state. Carol will assume full term as president of the Club in June which is the position to which he was elected last year for 2017-18. He has been a member of the East Liverpool Lions club for seven years.

Since moving to East Liverpool, from Pompano Beach, Fla., in 2000, Mr. Monday has been active in various volunteer positions in the community. He is presently a Hospitality Volunteer at the Community Center. Carol is involved with the local Masonic Temple including the Scottish Rite Commandry, which involves travel on behalf of the Masons from East Liverpool west as far as Zanesville. He is a past master of the Scottish Riddle Lodge. Mr. Monday is a retired Army Sergeant Major after 33 years and also he retired from the U.S. Postal Service after 25 years of employment. He is a graduate of Liberty University, where he had majored in Business Management. Carol Monday and Lion Pat McAtee are planning a June 2017 wedding. Pat is also a volunteer at the Center.

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