Catherine Elbakidze
The Signal Mountain Lions Club awarded Catherine
Elbakidze the Signal Mountain Lions Club Charity Scholarship LEO award winner for 2016, from funds raised by the Lion's Club charity events. Catherine, better known as Katie, has also won the state of Tennessee Lions Club LEO award of the year.
Ms. Elbakidze will be attending Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. Her field of study is pre-med and biology.
Ms.
Elbakidze has been a very active member of the Signal Mountain LEOs. She has participated in the Signal Mountain LEO Club blood drives, cards for the elderly project, Bachman Community Center Spring Festival, Special Olympics, student assistance programs at school, Lions Club fundraising BBQ, theater programs, Ronald McDonald house activities, hygiene products collection for the needy program, and sewed 128 blankets for kids with cancer at TC Thompson Children's Hospital. This is not an all inclusive list of her volunteer activities.
This $2,000 Signal Mountain Lions Club Charity LEO award is paid in increments of $500 per year of enrollment. These scholarships are part of the ongoing work of the Signal Mountain Lions Charity which is a separate entity from the Signal Mountain Lions Club. These scholarship awards are made possible by the people in our community who buy the raffle tickets from our car raffle and the Lions Club BBQ. That is how we do what we do. This only happens because of the Signal Mountain community's support.
The Signal Mountain Lions Club Charity has also awarded two Signal Mountain Charity Scholarship Awards this year for $3,200 each, as well as the separate $2,000 LEO Club Scholarship Award.
One mission of the Lions Club is to provide young people with the opportunities for learning and for community service through activities that help them achieve their future goals and to help them become contributing members of society. The Lions Club and LEO Club motto is "We Serve".
The Signal Mountain Lions Club wish to thank all of those persons who support our outreach efforts by contributing to the Signal Mountain Lions Club fundraising events. If you have an interest in learning more about the Signal Mountain Lions Club or becoming a Lions Club member, please see our website: http://smtnlions.org/.
In addition to these scholarships, the Signal Mountain Lions Club works to fulfill the club motto, “We Serve,” in many other ways including the Fourth of July fireworks display, grants to Signal Mountain Social Services, Signal Mountain Fire and Police Department Fund, Walden’s Ridge Emergency Service, Signal Mountain Public Library, Mountain Arts Community Center (MACC), Bachman Community Center, Lone Oak Community Center, Hamilton County Sight Service and “KidSight” photo vision screening program for children from one year to six years.
100% of the funds raised by the Signal Mountain Lions Charity program are used for outreach programs and do not fund any Lions organization infrastructure costs. All contributions to the Signal Mountain Lions Charity programs are used to meet charitable and outreach needs of the Signal Mountain community.