Ari­ma San­ta Rosa Li­ons Club held its in­stal­la­tion of the Board of Di­rec­tors at the au­dio-vi­su­al room, La Hor­quet­ta North Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, on June 18. The past pres­i­dent, who will al­so serve on the Board, gave an overview of the club's suc­cess­ful fund-rais­ers and ser­vice ac­tiv­i­ties some of which were as­sist­ing youths, the el­der­ly, vi­su­al­ly im­paired and dis­abled peo­ple. New­ly-in­duct­ed pres­i­dent Jen­nifer Mis­sette said: "With my vi­sion in­flu­enced by my be­liefs, we will em­brace the In­ter­na­tion­al Pres­i­dent's theme 'I Be­lieve' for the fis­cal year 2011 - 2012."

Mis­sette said her goals were:

• strength­en­ing and re­tain­ing mem­ber­ship by each mem­ber adopt­ing a fel­low mem­ber and tak­ing care of each oth­er as if they were fam­i­ly. This is our club and we are fam­i­ly.

• In­crease ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion with young peo­ple and work with them as ser­vice part­ners. The light will shine in pub­lic view in the en­tire com­mu­ni­ty.

• Adopt­ing a class in a school to nur­ture and work with them to­wards their full po­ten­tial.

• Ex­pand­ing our ser­vice to new heights by at­tract­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty in our com­mu­ni­ty in the form of a con­tri­bu­tion to the en­vi­ron­ment. She end­ed her ac­cep­tance speech by say­ing "as we em­brace each oth­er as fam­i­ly we would achieve our goals." The theme, "Let the light shine on."

Af­ter at­tend­ing gen­er­al meet­ings and three ori­en­ta­tion ses­sions Beu­lah Gar­cia was in­duct­ed in­to the club by Jan­ice Beck­les. The func­tion end­ed with the pre­sen­ta­tions of 30 chairs to the school's au­dio-vi­su­al room, care sup­plies to an ill el­der­ly per­son and two Li­ons, James Rob­ley and Jan­ice Beck­les, re­ceiv­ing their Melvin Jones (Founder of Li­on Clubs) Fel­low­ship plaque and lapel pins.