It's March for Meals month, and Haley Seale will come by to give us an update on MOWNCT and to get some more support for our local Meals on Wheels.
Midlothian Assistant CityManager Clyde Melick gave an update on population and various projects approved by the city at our meeting on March 4th.
Newly sworn in County and District Attorney Lindy Beaty spoke to us on February 25th, and talked about her reorganization of her office and staff that has been going on for just over a month. She has been working toward the priorities of her office, which oversees and prosecutes criminal offenses in Ellis County.
Alexis Tackett, Library Director of the new Midlothian Public Library located in the brand new Municipal Building, filled us in about this new facility, which will take over the community library functions from the Meadows Library.
Our own member Chief Carl Smith presented our program on February 11th, showing a drone video of the new facility scheduled to open in late spring this year. This is going to be a beautiful and state of the art public safety facility. We look forward to being able to tour sometime before much of it becomes off-limits to the public.
We learned some more about the entertainment available at La Moderna Field in Cleburne and the upcoming season for the Cleburne Railroaders Baseball Club, an affiliate of Major League Baseball. Thanks to Rory Niewenhous for his presentation. Here is the presentation of the children's book honorarium with President Don Ellis.
\\Alex Cervantes gave our program on January 28th, aided by another worker in Animal Services, Trinity Peel. We learned more about what they do every day and some of the ways animals wind up in the shelter.
For many years we have been buying children's books suitable for elementary school libraries and using them as honorariums for our speakers. We'd concentrated on just one or two schools but now are spreading out to the entire district.
I'm shown here making the presentation at McClatchey Elementary School to their librarian, Anthony Norris.
Before Cammy gave us information on new procedures at Meals on Wheels, President Don asked her to share her vocational / classification talk, so she did that. Even club members who gave a program get a library book donated in their name.
I presented a program about my work as a volunteer pilot for Angel Flight South Central on December 10th. I talked about why there is such an organization, how missions are posted and accepted, and the actual flight planning for these missions. Angel Flight pilots pay for their aircraft expenses as well as fuel out of their own pocket. It does take effort to maintain the structure for screening patients and other compassion flight uses, as well as maintain waivers and communication, so those staffers are paid, just like most non-profits.
Many of us enjoyed supporting The Salvation Army's Christmas efforts by Ringing The Bell on December 7th at Kroger. We staffed the kettle from 10 a.m. to about 6. The kettle and other equipment were a bit late in arriving, but we still went to work getting folks to drop in a little cash.
Don Ellis and others took a few pictures, and I'll continue a few below.
Our RYLA Campers made an enthusiastic presentation at our meeting on June 25th at Beef 'O' Brady's. Addison, Jorja, Jackson, Shelly and Zoe told us all about their experiences and had a presentation as well as a slide show and even a QuickTime movie.
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