OCR Text |
Show r I j v v v I LION PREXY Wendell Farr is the new president of the Bountiful Lions Club. each month at 7:30 p.m. for a dinner meeting. "The club meets at Servus Drug in Bountiful Boun-tiful during the winter and at the clubhouse at the rifle range in warm weather," he said. "The club holds a yearly turkey shoot at the rifle range and a golf tournament annually to raise money for club charities. "IN ADDITION, the club sponsors a boy and girl each year to Boys State and Girls State, sponsors free medical clinics, picks up used eyeglasses eyeglas-ses and hearing aids to held the needy, donates Braille typewriters type-writers and other devices to help the blind, provides scholarships scho-larships for deserving youths and conducts other charitable activities," Farr said. :: BOUNTIFUL - Wendell Farr, a commercial loan officer at Zions First National Bank, has been elected president of the Bountiful Lions Club. A BOUNTIFUL Lions Club member for the past eight years, Farr has served as treasurer, director and vice president of the club. He will serve for a year as presdient. His goals, he said, include setting up lights at the Lions Club rifle and pistol ranges near the 'B' in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains east of Bountiful so target shooters can use the ranges at night. THE TRAP shooting range is already lighted and Wednes-I Wednes-I day night shoots, from dusk to ' midnight or later, are held weekly, he said. His other goals for the coming com-ing year include bringing water to the Lions clubhouse at the range, building a 50-yard black powder range for muzzle loading load-ing rifle and pistol shooters and building club membership. A MEMBER and past president presi-dent of the Lake View Rifle Association in Bountiful, Farr is active in the Boy Scouts of America and teaches hunter safety classes for the Division of Wildlife Resources. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, target shooting, reloading ammunition, skiing, swimming, swim-ming, sailing and canoeing. Nature photography is another of his hobbies. FARR GREW up in Ogden, graduated from Ogden High School in 1950 and spent two years in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific during the Korean War. He attended WSC and the U of U where he studied banking and finance. Employed in banking and finance fi-nance for more than 25 years, Farr has been with Zions First National Bank eight years and works in the bank's Sugar House office. HE AND his wife, Andrea, who is past president of the Bountiful Lady Lions Club, have three boys, Mark, 18; Shaun, 12; and Jason, II. "There are approximately 1.3 million Lions Club members mem-bers in the world in 150 countries," coun-tries," Farr said. "The word lion stands for Liberty Is Our Nation's Safety." HE SAID his club meets the second and fourth Mondays of |