We Serve
Since our inception in 1983, the men and women of the Carrollton Evening Lions Club (“CELC”) have been serving our community and lending assistance to our neighbors in need. We have worked on a variety of service projects in Carrollton, as well as throughout the Metrocrest and in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch and Lewisville independent school districts.
CELC is one of the most active Lions Clubs in Texas District 2-X1 — a large geographic area that covers Dallas, up to Allen, across to Commerce, down to Maybank, across to Ennis, over to Waxahachie, and back to Dallas.
Service projects include:
- Providing free vision clinics at Vivian Field Middle School/Farmers Branch for Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD students
- Collecting used eyeglasses
- Sponsoring physically challenged children at the Texas Lions Camp in Kerrville
- Supporting the Lions Sight & Tissue Foundation
- Assisting visually impaired children at the Sports Extravaganza held in Irving
- Hosting youth from abroad through the J.C. Hyer Lions Youth Camp
- Motivating kids with special needs through aviation supporting Challenge Air for kids and friends … and more!
— Join Us —
CELC meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Marshall’s B-B-Q (Directions). If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work helping the less fortunate within our community, please join us at our next regular meeting to learn more about what we’re all about.
Club Leadership Team – Elected Officers
President: Lion Kellie Hickmam
First Vice President: Lion PDG Joe Gerhart
Second Vice President: Lion John Laemiein
Secretary: Lion Jay Finlinson
Treasurer: Lion Richard Kaiser
Tail Twister: Lion Debra Cantrell
Lion Tamer: Lion Sherry Downes
Director 2024-2026: Lion Elias Georgopoulos
Director 2025-2026: Lion Elias Georgopoulos
Chair – Membership: Lion PDG Joe Gerhart
Chair – Marketing/Communications: Lion John Laemiein
Chair – LCIF: Lion Jimmy Horiates
Appointed Committee Chairs
Chair – Community Service Projects: Lion Chuck Silber
Chair – Fundraising: Lion Jay Finlinson
Chair – Low Vision and Eyeglasses: Lion Joseph Montag
Chair – World Services for the Blind: Lion Joseph Gerhart
Honorary Directors
Director – Lifetime: Frank Pickens II
Director – Lifetime: Lion Joseph Montag
Director – Lifetime: Lion Joseph Gerhart
Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in approximately 46,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.
