RestonReston Page 8 Robin Dodd (stage name Robin Rex) hosted and performed at Café Montmartre, Saturday, July 8, and was in charge of hiring and planning for the show. 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Most of the members of the Herndon Community Leo Club are from in 1917. families that recently immigrated to the U.S. from Nepal. ‘Knights Of The Blind’ Celebrate ‘Crusade Against Darkness’ th as her university’s president of the Cyber The Reston Lions Club celebrates its 50 anniversary. Leo Club, which provide volunteer and lead- ership opportunities to Leos while they are By Fallon Forbush moved to Stafford in 2001. She found com- in college. The Connection munity in the club and became an involved and engaged participant, making her way DEL. KEN PLUM (D-36) also joined the he Reston Lions Club celebrated to serve as the governor of the Lions of Vir- celebration and made remarks about the its 50th anniversary at the Hid- ginia District 24-A region this year. club’s work over the years and his experi- Tden Creek Country Club in “I was the new person in town,” Kenavan ence volunteering alongside its members. Reston on Wednesday, June 7. said. “I was invited to join some activities “I have been very impressed over the “Our actual charter date is May 12 and from there, I just decided that I wanted years, for many years, with the work of the [1967], but June 7 [1917] is the actual to be a Lion.” Lions Club here in Reston and the Herndon birthday of Lions Club International,” Chuck Kenavan said she and everyone in the area,” Plum said during the event. “After Griffith, vice president of the Reston Lions room that evening celebrating the anniver- that experience in southwest Virginia, I’m Club, said during the celebration. “It was a sary dedicated their time to help others and doubly impressed.” 100 years ago to date in a ballroom that were better off for it. It was through her He was speaking about helping with the the existing clubs approved the constitution service that she met her husband, Tom. Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps in and bylaws to join forces to create the or- And it’s through her service with the club Wise, Va. RAM’s yearly clinic in Wise pro- ganization we know today.” that she gets to carry on meeting the chal- vides those in need with free health care. The century-old Lions Club International, lenge that was given to the organization so Members of the Reston Lions Club travel to with 46,000 combined clubs across the many years ago to help the visually im- Wise to volunteer for the three-day event globe with more than 1.4 million members, paired. each summer. gives the organization the position to claim “I am delighted to be here across the bor- “It’s a very poor region,” Plum said. that it is the world’s largest service club der, into Reston,” Town of Herndon Mayor “When I got there on Thursday to help set organization. Lisa Merkel, joked in her remarks to the Photo by Mercia Hobson/The Connection up that weekend of activity, I left about 7 crowd of Lions. “I am just delighted to be Don French of Reston completes an o’clock in the evening and the clinic wasn’t THE 50-YEARS OLD Reston Lions Club in front of so many stewards of volunteerism information form to receive his open until 7 o’clock in the morning. When is a group of men and women who volun- who make things happen in our commu- free vision and hearing screenings I drove out, there was a mile-and-a-half of teer in Reston, Herndon, Great Falls, nity.” from the Lions Clubs at Herndon’s cars of people in their cars waiting to get Chantilly and Oak Hill. While the group is The mayor told the audience that she was Friday Night Live! concert series on into the clinic the next morning. That’s how involved in numerous projects, initiatives delighted that the Reston Lions Club helped June 9. Chuck Griffin, vice presi- desperate situations are.” and fundraisers, it is best known for its work establish a club for students at Herndon dent of Reston Lions Club, helped He applauded the group for their efforts helping the blind and visually impaired High School. These students, known as French complete his form while to serve each summer in Wise and for rec- through its free sight and hearing screen- Leos, participate in the Lions Club Herndon Town Councilmember Bill ognizing that people are in need in their ings and eyeglass recycling. International’s Leo Club Program. McKenna watched, learned and own community in Fairfax County. Its passion for hearing and vision is no “The young men and women in the club waited his turn. “Not just in Wise County, in fact in our own coincidence. The mission goes back to the at Herndon High School are making such a community, there are people who don’t have club’s roots. difference in their community at such a they bring to the big-hearted group of Leos the resources they need to live a quality life In 1925, Helen Keller addressed the Li- young age,” Merkel said. “I just want to tell and Lions. that they might enjoy,” Plum said. “And you’ve ons Clubs International Convention in Ce- you how impressed I am with all that you Surabhi Khanal, who will be attending made up the difference in many ways.” dar Point, Ohio, and challenged its mem- all have done.” Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., in the fall, Members of the Reston Lions Club’s Mo- bers to become “knights of the blind in the Many of the students who are part of the started her own nonprofit organization, bile Health Screening Van program will be crusade against darkness.” Leo Club are recent immigrants, according MedLove, Inc. The organization seeks to conducting free vision and hearing screen- Since then, the organization’s clubs to Anne Ryan, who is in charge of member- provide survivors of human trafficking with ings for both children and adults at around the world have worked to aid the ship for the Reston Lions Club and advises medical help and social support, hence its Herndon’s Friday Night Live! outdoor con- blind and visually impaired. the club’s Leo groups. name: “Med,” “Love.” cert series this summer, which runs through Sally Kenavan became a Lion when she The students often have big ideas that While she is at school, she will be serving Aug.