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Area Lions club gets $10,000 for flood assistance

[l-r] Pocahontas Lions Club Secretary/Treasurer David White and President Brenda White receive a $10,000 Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) check from Lions District 7-0 District Disaster Relief Chair Pat Snodgrass.
Credit Charles Hartwig, District Public Relations Chair

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This press release comes from the Arkansas Lions Club, District 7-0:

The Lions service clubs of Northeast Arkansas in Lions District 7-0 have received an emergency $10,000 grant from the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) to help flood victims.  District 7-0 Governor Bill Levins of Jonesboro said that the funds are being distributed in the Pocahontas area with the assistance of the Pocahontas Lions Club.  Levins indicated that the grant is an example of how Lions carry out their motto of “We Serve” during their centennial anniversary of the service organization – which is the largest one in the world.

The initial assistance to flood victims in the Pocahontas area provided by the Lions of District 7-0 came in the form of the district’s disaster relief trailer being used to distribute personal health and safety items, including flashlights, as part of the organization’s ALERT project, led by Past District Governor Pat Snodgrass of Jonesboro.

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.