Dave Olmsted has been with the Arnprior Lions Club for so long, he’s served ten separate terms as its president. They’re one-year terms of office, and Olmsted has been a loyal member going on forty-two years now. But there is a member with more seniority; a fifty-six year club veteran tells Dave, buckle up; you have to keep being elected president until you get it right!
When Dave joined, at the invitation of a friend circa 1984, the Lions had their own clubhouse at 77 Madawaska Street.
The Lions organization is secular, and apolitical- and that means their motto, “We serve” can benefit the greater good for the most people.
Here’s Lion Dave Olmsted.
By Rick Stow