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HURRICANE SEASON JUNE 1 - NOVEMBER 30

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LIONS HONOR HOSPITAL DISTRICT/STRATTON

2.3.10

WITHOUT VOLUNTEERS THE WORLD WOULD LIKELY BE A VERY DIFFERENT PLACE. MONDAY NIGHT THE LIBERTY LIONS CLUB, WHO KNOWS AS MUCH ABOUT VOLUNTEERING AS ANYONE PAID TRIBUTE TO SOME NON- LIONS FOR THEIR EFFORT TOWARDS WHAT MAKES OUR COMMUNITY BETTER. KEYNOTE SPEAKER WAS SANDRA PICKETT – ONE OF LIBERTY’S MOST GENEROUS VOLUNTEERS. SHE SPOKE OF THOSE WHO DONATE THEIR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE – THEIR TIME.. FOR ONE SHE SPOKE OF HER HUSBAND- ED’S - UNCLE NOLEN PICKETT FOR WHOM THE LOCAL VFW POST IS NAMED. DURING WORLD WAR II NOLEN PICKETT HAD A SAFE STATESIDE JOB IN THE MILITARY BUT HE WANTED TO DO MORE AND, AS SO MANY DID, HE VOLUNTEERED FOR COMBAT AND TRANSFER TO THE AIR CORPS PILOT TRAINING. THEN. HE WROTE TO HIS PARENTS IN LIBERTY EXPLAINING WHY. SANDY PICKETT READ THE LETTER HER HUSBAND’S UNCLE, NOLAN, WROTE HOME BACK IN 1943. THESE ARE EXCERPTS.

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SHE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HOSPITAL BOARD MEMBER PAUL HENRY WHO SERVED ON CITY COUNCIL FOR 12 YEARS BUT THEN STEPPED DOWN ONLY TO BE CALLED BACK DURING A VERY DARK TIME FOR LIBERTY. PAUL THEN SERVED AS MAYOR THREE TERMS AND PROVED HIS DEDICATION TO LIBERTY, AGAIN AND AGAIN. NOW HE VOLUNTEERS AS A HOSPITAL BOARD MEMBER, AMONG THE OTHER HE IS THE RIGHT PERSON DURING ITS TOUGHEST TEST. .

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SANDRA PICKETT IS, AMONG MANY OTHER VOLUNTEER JOBS, A STATE AND NATIONAL VOLUNTEER – APPOINTED BY TWO GOVERNORS AND ONE PRESIDENT TO POSITIONS PRESERVING TEXAS LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES AND THE NATIONS HISTORY. LIONS CLUB PRESIDENT GREGG TURNER PRESENTED THE HOSPITAL DISTRICT VOLUNTEER BOARD MEMBERS A PLAQUE AS THE LIBERTY LIONS CLUB ORGANIZATION FOR THE YEAR THEY THEN HONORED HOSPITAL DISTRICT PRESIDENT BRUCE STRATTON WITH THE LIBERTY LIONS CLUB CITIZEN OF THE YEAR. AWARD. ACCEPTING THE AWARDS STRATTON SADIINHIS YOUNGER DAYS HE PRAYED FOR SUCCESS..

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LIONS CLUB PRESIDENT GREGG TURNER SPOKE ABOUT WHY THE LIONS THOUGHT THE TWO RECOGNITIONS WERE DESERVED.

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THE LIBERTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT NAMED ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR AND THEIR PRESIDENT BRUCE STRATTON AS CITIZEN OF THE YEAR THANKS TO THE LIONS CLUB OF LIBERTY.