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CLUB NEWS Centerville Club Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser for Centerville Food For Tots In November, the Centerville Lions Club partnered with the Miamisburg Lions Club in participating in the Southwest Ohio District Lions Club Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser. The money raised by the Centerville Lions Club will be donated to the Centerville Food For Tots Program. Bill’s Donut Shop Celebrates 50th Anniversary - Centerville, Ohio Recently, the Centerville Lions Club met in Bill’s Donuts Shop on Far Hills Avenue in Centerville. The Lions were presenting a plaque honoring Bill’s Donuts for 50 years of business and service to the community. President Paul Letcher, gathered the Centerville Lions, and the owners and managers of Bill’s Donuts together in the main dining room. Faye Elam, the wife of the entrepreneur Bill Elam, accepted the honor with her children, Jim Elam and Lisa Elam Tucker at her side. Faye Elam told of the beginning of the business which started in Dayton on North Main Street in October 1960. The business expanded to two more locations in Dayton. They then sold the Dayton shops and started Bill’s Donuts in Centerville on Main Street in 1967 next to the old Centerville building. In 1979 the shop moved to its present location on Far Hills Avenue.Entering the shop by the back entrance, which is what most customers do because of the location of convenient parking, the hallway wall is covered with pictures of Little League teams sponsored by Bill’s Donuts. At the end of the hall to the right are booths where the Lions convened and had coffee and you know, donuts. To the left is the counter seating and a bit farther is the display case with all the different kinds of donuts, 60 different varieties. Every day Bill’s Donuts bakes and processes 100 dozen donuts and it is even more on weekends. Customers come in and leave with bags of donuts for the office, special occasions or to munch on all day. One local man purchased several bags for his annual bear hunting trip to Canada. No, humans didn’t eat all the donuts, most were carefully placed where hungry bears could find them. The hunter bags a bear every year he goes hunting. How about that, Bill’s Donuts are used as bear traps. If you are wondering what else they are used for, excess donuts go to nursing homes and other community activities such as schools and our outstanding police force.
Centerville Lions Sponsor Washington Township Baseball Team Batter-up!! Again this summer, the Centerville Lions Club sponsored a little league team made up of 4th and 5th graders. In Remembrance of Centerville Lions Club Members Lion Virgil Battenberg (2011) Lion Loren Gute (2011)
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