THE LIONS ROAR REINCARNATED

Edited by Mark Ripplinger

Photos by Don Wood & Mark Ripplinger

July 7, 2008

Lions President Mark Miller

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE (July 7th)

Fellow Lions, today we honor some of our members and we install our new officers. I would like to commend all of our members on a great year! We have done a great job of serving our community in supporting the expansion of the Falls Aquatic Center, our CF Schools Emergency Bucket program and now our support for flood relief. We could not do this without the work and the support of our members. So take a bow and stand proud.

We Serve ……… Mark Miller

TODAY’S MEETING (July 7th)

Installation of New Officers and Annual Awards

COMING ATTRACTIONS

July 14th … Deb Umbdenstock, UNI Gallagher-Bluedorn Artist Series

July 21st … David Stoakes - CF Schools Superintendent - Elementary Boundary Changes

BIRTHDAYS ANNIVERSARIES

Fred Abraham – July 13th Sherri & Dave Greenwood – July 11th

Mark & Nancy Miller – July 11th

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Board Meeting – Location and time to be announced.

LAST MEETING (June 30th)

Rita Congdon, Education Coordinator, Cedar Falls Historical Society, spoke to the club about the various facilities operated by the Historical Society. The Victorian Home/Carriage House is furnished with artifacts dating from 1880 - 1900. Each year the Society commits time and resources in their search for appropriate household items and interior design as well as exterior care and landscape. The Carriage House addition was completed in 1992. Built to resemble the exterior of an early carriage house. The addition houses exhibit galleries, the society offices, a research library and archives, and collection storage. The research library and archives includes early county probate documents, photographs and business records, and general historical records of Cedar Falls. The Wyth House was acquired the in 1979 as a bequest from Dorothy G. Wyth who gave the house in memory of her parents, George and Alice Wyth. Dorothy's bequest also established the Wyth House trust fund. The income from the trust fund has made possible the restoration, furnishing, landscaping and maintenance of the Wyth House and the Viking Pump Museum. Bennington Township Schoolhouse #5 (Little Red School House) is representative of the more than 9,000 rural schools that once dotted the state. Consolidations eliminated these one-room schools by 1966, but this building survives as a reminder of early education in Iowa. This school house was built in 1909, replacing an older building. It originally stood in the center of Bennington Township, four miles east of U.S. Highway #63 on the Dunkerton Road and then two miles North, near St. Johns Lutheran Church. In 1925, the Behrens Brothers built a “gas” station on land that had been purchased at the intersection of 14^th and Waterloo Road in September 1924. The station was operated by the Behrens Brothers from 1925 to 1945. The Behrens Brothers -- Rapp Station was moved on July 21, 1993 from it's original site at 14th Street and Waterloo Road to the present location at First and Clay. This move was a collaborative effort by the Cedar Falls Historical Society, the Cedar Falls, Tourism and Visitors Bureau and the Trolley Trackers Quester Chapter #1113. The Ice House Museum features an outstanding display of the items used in cutting, harvesting, storing, selling and the use of natural ice. The 600 square foot display area for tools and implements used to cut natural ice was completed in 1991. A large mural showing the Cedar River in winter forms the background for a "frozen" river where tools of the trade are displayed. Blocks of "ice" are stacked as they would have been in the ice house with the tools used by the men who delivered ice to homes and businesses throughout the area.