Gordon Wilder Addresses
Optimist Club

Pictured above are Commissioner Gordon Wilder and Past President T. W. Floyd. Mr. Wilder presented a comprehensive report on the recent and future activities of the Vance County Commissioners and his role in events. County Water expansion, Animal Shelter plans, finance, county zoning and several other topics receiving the attention of the commissioners. It was a interesting and fact-filled speech from the long-time resident and servant of our community. Mr. Wilder gave us an optimist picture of the future of local scene. Thank you Gordan.

Pictured above is Fred Stewart who gave one of the best presentations the Henderson Optimist Club has heard lately. With significant expertise he covered the future of all types of energy in neighborhoods, cities, states and even up to the atmosphere reaching as far out as the moon. Yes, the moon!
Sharing money-saving tips, he covered a wide range of initiatives in the energy field from houses to transportation to neighborhood electric generation. Fred owns Solar Consultations, Inc. He lives near Bunn and teaches at N. C. State University and Lee Community College. He can be reached at 919-815-5578.
Thanks, Fred, for a great program.

Shown above are the manager of Wendy's and the family which owns Pino's. These are two of the fine businesses that support our Attend & Win and our Read and Win programs in local elementary schools.  Also, check out the logo for Sams Furniture. This local company ran a Christmas special that benefited our Christmas Tree Sales. We salute their out-standing civic effort. For the youth of our com-munity, we thank you all very much.

Henderson Optimists host their friends from Oxford for the latest in a long line of Christmas parties.
 

Woody Caudle announces the Optimist Memorial
Scholarship Program

Woody Caudle presents an interesting and detailed explanation of our Henderson Optimist Memorial Scholarship program. It is a program we are justifiably proud of. Through it we present two college scholarship annually worth a total of $3,000.00, to worth Vance County students.

New Members Inducted



Membership Chair Cindy Harris welcomed and installed two new club members. Second from the left Britt Sams and next to him Dale Dalton. President Tommy Haithcock and Past President Jon Dorsey complete the welcoming committee. Both Britt and Dale have already been busy with our Christmas Tree project. Welcome to the club, gentlemen.

Mrs. Jennings gives an overview of mentoring and tutoring in our schools.

Past President Bob Hubbard passes
the gavel to our 2011
President Tommy Haithcock.

Thurman Murphy receives the President's Award
and a Life Membership In Optimist International
in recognition of his 25 years of faithful
service as our Secretary/Treasurer.


Eric Pierce is named "Optimist of the Year."

For More pictures from the
Optimist Installation Banquet, Click Here.

Optimist Halloween 2011:
Good Food, Good Friends, Good Fun.

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Local Historian Mark Pace
Shares fascinating facts and connections with the club.

Mark Pace ranged far and wide over the pre-history and history of Vance County. Its birth reflects major political calculations of an earlier era that might well find a parallel in today's governmental developments. Though he maintained that Vance County would continue to grow and prosper, much of his talk charted the fame and success of people who have graduated to bigger and better things in government, scholarship and the arts. However, Mark showed how the folks who left the area often took with the the name places and architecture of their native county. As Optimists we welcome this fascinating past and hopeful future of our hometown. This .was on of the best presentations we have in a long time. Thank you Mark Pace.

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