The Exchange Club of Lake Highlands honored Lake Highlands seniors Sea Lonergan and Sarah Rener recently as Youth of the Year for 1992-1993.
They were selected from 16 Youth of the Month winners previously selected by the school’s faculty. Selections were based upon completion of a questionnaire and creation of an essay on a subject selected by the National Exchange Club.
The winners received a certificate of accomplishment and a $250 savings bond.
Sea Lonergan ranked fourth in his class and was captain of the basketball team. He placed second at a recent science fair and received a national mathematics award.
Rener was a three-year member of the choir, where she was an officer for two years and participated in three musical productions. A three-year member of the Girls Service League, she was the service co-chairperson her senior year. She was a member of the National Honor Society, Student Council and Students Against Drunk Driving.
The Lake Highlands Exchange Club is a neighborhood civic association that focuses on community service. The club meets most Fridays at Galveston Island Restaurant, Skillman and Royal, at 7 a.m. For information call Bob Eckert at 340-0030.
Old Town Retailer Donates China Service
Staff, volunteers and clients of the AIDS Resource Center gathered for lunch recently to honor Earl Lynn Buckman, owner of the Ivy House in Old Town, Lovers and Greenville.
Buckman recently donated a Wedgwood service for 144, plus serving pieces, to the Resource Center.
Buckman made the donation to boost the spirits of AIDS clients who participate in “Chez Louise,” the hot meals lunch program whose moniker was coined by former client services manager Bill Hunt, who died last year of AIDS.
Founded in November 1992, the hot meals program serves 300 to 400 meals each month.
“As a non-profit organization, we rely completely on grants, foundations and individual donors,” says Karen Estes, Resource Center special projects manager.
“Such a tremendous, out-of-the-ordinary, fine gift as this should not go unrecognized. We are proud that someone believes those folks who are HIV positive deserve the best.”
Save the Children Receives $5,000 Grant
The Dallas field office of Save the Children recently received a $5,000 grant from Target Stores to support the agency’s “A Woman’s Place” program and the annual Magic of Children event.
“A Woman’s Place provides training in construction skills for single female household heads so they can obtain jobs paying enough to allow them to care for their children,” says Margaret Koons, Dallas program director for Save the Children.
Teaching English as a Second Language
White Rock Literacy Associates, a community service volunteer group dedicated to improving the quality of life for foreign newcomers through a no-charge English language teaching program, is forming classes of adult family members of English as Second Language students. One-on-one tutoring also will be provided.
Immigrant school-age children of school age learn English in our school system, but their parents and other adult family members need outside training, organizers say.
If you are interested in participating in the program, which includes reading, writing and speaking English, call Jack McMahon at 321-2461.
Local Ironkids Compete in Triathlon
Four neighborhood residents competed in the 1993 Ironkids Triathlon sponsored by the Rainbo Baking Company recently at Lake Highlands North Recreation Center.
Volunteer staffing for the event was provided by the White Rock/Lake Highlands YMCA. Following the race, Rainbo donated $2,000 to the YMCA.
Lake Highlands participants and finishing times include: Girls Senior Division, Natalie Ross, 46:55; Boys Junior Division, Christopher Karnes, 27:04; Zachary Wolf, 29:06; and Glenn Goodrich, 34:49.