EAGLE LAKE — Eagle Lake Noon Lions Club sponsors one girl from Rice Consolidated High School to attend the American Legion Texas Bluebonnet Girls State each year, which is held for a week during June at Texas Lutheran University in Se- guin.
Lions Club Secretary Charles Abel, right, introduced guest speaker, Rice High School senior McKinsey Smidovec on March 23, who exuberantly related her experiences last summer as a Girls State representative. "At Girls State, we were called a ‘cit- izen.' We established our own city, county and state govern- ment. We served as members of either the House of Represen- tatives or the Senate. We were assigned to a mythical political party for educational purposes – either "National" or "Federal".
As fellow citizens, we deter-
mined our party's platform. It was so cool! We learned the du ties, privileges and responsibilities of being an American citizen through everything we did, all week long! I'll never forget the friends I made or the life-chang- ing values I learned. Thank you, Eagle Lake Noon Lions Club, for sponsoring me."
