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Fundraising & Service to the Community Apple Sale An annual event in October for the Roswell Lions Club.  Our apples are purchased from a supplier in North Georgia in 20 lb. boxes. Apple varieties sold in the past include:   Braeburn - A cross between Granny Smith and Lady Hamilton, aromatic with a sweet tart flavor. A high quality desert apple and a good eating apple.   Mutsu (Crispin) - A sweet tart apple. Holds shape well. Especially good for pies, baking apples, and applesauce.   Fuji - An all-purpose cross between Red Delicious and Ralls Janet. Aromatic with a sweet tart flavor, crisp and juicy even after storage. Good eating apple.   Granny Smith - A good all-purpose, tart eating and cooking apple. Makes delicious applesauce.   Rome Beauty - A bland apple, good for cooking, it holds it shape in pies and applesauce.   For more information on this fundraiser, email apples @ roswelllions.org Christmas Tree Sale An annual event for the Roswell Lions Club and our largest fundraiser for the year. We begin setting up our tree lot the first weekend in November. Our tree lot is located at Holcomb Bridge and GA Highway 9 adjacent to the parking lot of Stoney River Steakhouse. Tree sales begin Thanksgiving weekend. Tree varieties sold in the past include: Frazier Firs and Balsams. We also sell garlands, tree stands and mistletoe. A majority of our customers are repeat customers.    For more information on this fundraiser or if you would like to be added to our mailing list, email Christmastrees @ roswelllions.org Fly The Flag Program Join the Roswell Lions Club as we work to return old-fashioned American Patriotism to our community. We are offering a "Fly the Flag" program as a service to you and the community. We will support your efforts to fly the American flag on six of the most important national holidays each year. The Roswell Lions Club will install the display hardware at your direction and each holiday a member of our club will put up the flag, take it down and store it until the next designated holiday. When you display the flag you are letting the public know that you care and together our efforts will confirm to everyone that we believe in America and support its traditions and freedoms. The six holidays are: President's Day/February, Memorial Day/May, Flag Day/June, Independence Day/July, Labor Day/September and Veterans Day/November. Please support our participating sponsors.     Participating Companies Past & Present include: Carlson Insurance  770.992.1114 The Chandlery  770.993.5962 Fastsigns  770.993.3400 Fran Farias State Farm Insurance Agency  770.668.0222 Gallery V   Hooters-Holcomb Bridge Rd.  770.992.4540 Perry P1 Partnership  770.587.5870 Roswell Animal Hospital  770.993.9031 Roswell Auto Tech  770.992.4842 Roswell United Methodist Church  770.993.6218 R.U.M.C. DOD Youth Building  770.993.6218 Russell Fawcett  770.594.7071 Seniors Enriched Living  770.587.3750 Slope's BBQ  770.518.7000 Smith Tire  770.993.2507 Tony's  770.993.2834 Vaughan Family, LLC  770.993.4128 Woodcraft 770.587.3372 Zachery Henderson A.I.A.  770.992.3308 For more information on this fundraiser, email flytheflag @ roswelllions.org   Golf Outing Current Golf Outing - Friday, February 19th at The Golf Club at Bradshaw Farms Download 2010 Golf Brochure Previous Golf Outings 2001   2002   2003   2004    2005    2006   2008 For more information on this fundraiser or if you would like to be added to our mailing list, email Golf @ roswelllions.org Reverse Raffle Our annual Reverse Raffle and Silent Auction Dinner Dinner is held annually in May. Monies raised benefit our EyeSight Roswell program which provides eye services for those in need in Roswell. Every ticket wins a prize - the last ticket wins the Grand prize - $2,500. There are also two $500 prizes.   2009 Corporate and Monetary Sponsors:  Bank of North Georgia - Roswell branch Honda Carland - Roswell North Point Volvo - Alpharetta Auto Nation - Alpharetta Dunn Laboratories Lion Tom Phillips John Mills Ron Parker   7th Annual Dinner & Reverse Raffle to Fund "Eye Sight Roswell"                Grand Prize - $2,500          Two $500 Prizes        Lots of other prizes......   Every raffle wins a  prize   When:  Saturday, May 1, 2010 Time:  6:30 p.m. Where:  Holiday Inn, Roswell, Georgia which is located behind Olive Garden.   Raffle Tickets - include dinner, drink, dessert and raffle. Companion Tickets - include dinner, drink, dessert.   A cash bar is available. The official rules: Reverse Raffle Rules   For more information and tickets contact our Project Chairperson Past President President Alan Bethel at: (770) 643-1506 or by email at reverseraffle @ roswelllions.org White Cane Day This day is set aside each year to raise money for the Georgia Lions Lighthouse. One-third  of the Lighthouse budget comes from the money collected during White Cane Day activities throughout Georgia. Roswell Lions can be found this day, white cane in hand collecting money at Walmart-Holcomb Bridge Road, Southern Skillet Restaurant, KMart-Holcomb Bridge Road/Highway 9, Kroger-Mansell Rd/Highway 9 and First Union Bank. Please support our participating sponsors. Roswell Festival of Arts This festival is co-sponsored by the Roswell Junior Women's Club and the Roswell Visitor's Center. The club participates by assisting with the festival setup and operating a booth. Over the years we have sold various items from our booth. These include flowers, bird houses, produce, brooms and mops. For more information on this event call 770.640.3253 or http://www.cvb.roswell.ga.us/festival-arts.html   Services EyeSight Roswell In April 2004, a Reverse Raffle fund raiser was initiated by the Roswell Lions to provide eye exams and glasses to students identified with a need by the social workers in the Roswell elementary schools. This need became a project we call EyeSight Roswell. EyeSight Roswell has been expanded to include all Roswell schools.   The program has since been expanded to serve others in Roswell in need of eye care as identified by workers in social services organizations in Roswell. This includes Senior Services North Fulton, Drake House, Homestretch and North Fulton Community Charities.   To date, over $25,000 has been expended to provide eye care to more than 335 residents of Roswell. This is an example of the Roswell Lions responding to a need in the community and living the example, "We Serve". Eye Glass Recycling (as of June 14, 2008) Roswell Lions have collection boxes for your old eyeglasses at the following locations:   Eye Care. 9950 Grimes Bridge Rd., Roswell   Roswell United Methodist Church, Mimosa Street   Roswell Eye Clinic. 1190 Grimes Bridge Rd., Roswell   Roswell Branch Library. (in the Lobby). 115 Norcross Street, Roswell, GA 30075 Phone: (770.640.3075) Roswell Adult Recreation Center. 830 Grimes Bridge Rd., Roswell   Furey Family Eye Care, 250 East Crossville Rd.   For more information on this service call Lion Larry Zacharchuk at 770.642.1094 or email recycleglasses @ roswelllions.org   Roswell Adopt-A-Road   The Roswell Lions Keep Roswell Clean by picking up trash on Wileo Road every other month on a Saturday. Those participating meet at Wileo Baptist Church at 8:30 a.m. For more information on Roswell Adopt Road contact City of Roswell       Roswell Adopt-A-Stream In 1990, Lion Steve Csintyan represented our club in the implementation of the Roswell-Adopt-A-Stream project on Foe Killer Creek. We continue today testing the creek located on Hembree Rd. by the Cross of Life Lutheran Church. For more information on Roswell Adopt-A-Stream contact City of Roswell       Rivers Alive  Rivers Alive is Georgia's annual volunteer river cleanup event, held through out the month of October.  Sponsored by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Adopt-A-Stream Program, and the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, Keep Georgia Beautiful Program, and in cooperation with "Help the Hooch" and "River Awareness," Rivers Alive is a statewide event that targets cleanups across all waterways in the State of Georgia including streams, rivers, lakes, and wetlands. The mission of Rivers Alive is to create awareness of and involvement in the preservation of Georgia's water resources.   The Roswell Lions along with several volunteers from the community cleaned up Foe Killer Creek between Alpharetta Highway and Upper Hembree Road. About 40 bags of trash were collected including tires, tire rims, tennis balls, cans, bottles and other assorted pieces of trash. Results from the previous Rivers Alive cleans be seen at  http://riversalive.com/ra_results.htm

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