- April 25, 2024
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A member of the Ormond by the Sea Lions Club is named a fellow by international foundation; an eighth-grader tries to raise $3,900 for community service; and, hospital fundraiser reels in $50,000-plus.
BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
Lion Mary Yochum internationally recognized
The Lions Clubs International Foundation has named Mary Yochum, of the Ormond by the Seas Lions Club, a Melvin Jones Fellow, the foundation’s highest honor.
Yochum received a plaque and pin from club president Frank White.
Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization with more than 1.3 million members, uniting about 46,000 clubs in 205 countries.
Help an eighth-grader raise $3,900 for city perks
Cody Carrier, an eighth-grade student at Ormond Beach Middle School and a local Boy Scout, is requesting donations from companies and individuals in order to place three historical interpretive panetls in Tomoka State Park.
Including text, photos and graphics, the panels will be mounted on aluminum pedestals, built into concrete slabs that will be made by scouts. The panels will describe the statue of Chief Tomokie, at the end of the peninsula at the park; Mount Oswald, the British Land Grant plantation and house built over the Nocoroco site; and, the Sugar Mill Ruins, 1.9 miles north of the park, on Old Dixie Highway.
The project is estimated for completion in September.
Checks can be made to Friends of Troop 403: Cody Carrier Tomoka Eagle Project, 18 Cameo Circle, Ormond Beach, FL 32174. Call 846-7714, or email [email protected].
Hospital raises more than $50,000 at fashion show
About 400 residents attended last month’s Project Hope fashion show, hosted by Florida Hospital Memorial Foundation, at the Ocean Center, 101 N. Atlantic Ave., raising more than $50,000.
“We were amazed by the outpouring of support,” said Trace Pendry, Florida Hospital Memorial Foundation Executive Director. “(The funds will) support Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center’s Comprehensive Cancer Center and our future Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.”
This year’s eighth annual event featured fashions for men, women and children, by Dillard’s. Eyewear was provided by Millennium Optical. All of the models’ styling was performed by Stylist Online, a national network of personal stylists and home of The Style Dial.
