{"id":198,"date":"2012-05-08T20:45:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T00:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=198"},"modified":"2012-05-08T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T00:45:01","slug":"lions-club-honors-top-berkeley-springs-high-school-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Lions Club Honors Top Berkeley Springs High School Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions Club tonight honored the top ten Berkeley Springs High School Seniors in a ceremony at The Country Inn.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten graduating seniors and schools they will be attending are: Toni Davidson (Seton Hill), Jessica Graham (West Virginia University) , Dakota Maravelis (Bethany College), Monica McBee (Gordon College), Logan McKee (West Point), Tyler Miller (West Virginia University), Zane Mokhiber (Cornell University), Kelsey Weimer (Dartmouth College), Zachary White (Johns Hopkins University), and Rachel Wurster (West Liberty University). <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UQR4vV8OEik\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Lions Club was founded in 1917 in Chicago, Illinois by Melvin Jones.\t<\/p>\n<p>In creating the organization, Jones asked: \u201cWhat if these men who are successful because of their drive, intelligence and ambition, were to put their talents to work improving their communities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones&#8217; personal code was: \u201cYou can&#8217;t get very far until you start doing something for somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lions Club\u2019s slogan is \u2013  Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nation\u2019s Safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions Club\u2019s motto is \u2013 We Serve.<\/p>\n<p>In Berkeley Springs, the Lions Club engages in a wide range of activities, including providing eye exams, glass and hearing aids, serving meals at the Mealtime Kitchen, funding student exchange programs, Christmas cards for soldiers and the peace poster contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions Club tonight honored the top ten Berkeley Springs High School Seniors in a ceremony at The Country Inn. The top ten graduating seniors and schools they will be attending are: Toni Davidson (Seton Hill), Jessica Graham (West Virginia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}