Owensboro Lions Club

2017 Soap Box Derby

Jacob Leonard, a 13-year-old eighth grader at College View Middle School, placed third in the World Championship Local Masters Division Race marking the fourth consecutive year an Owensboro car has had a chance to win it all. Read more...

Derby Race Schedule

May 4 - Driver information form due for local race
May 12 - Soap Box Derby registration and photographs 8-11 AM
May 26-27 - Race to Remember (Rally Race)
June 2 - Trial runs and impound
June 7 - Soap Box Derby Banquet, Immaculate Parrish, 6 PM
June 9 - Local Soap Box Derby Race
June 10 - Local Soap Box Derby rain date
July 21 - 81st First Energy All-American Soap Box Derby Race and National Super Kids Classic®, Akron, OH
August 11-12 - Summer Rally Race
September 8-9 - Fall Rally Race

Note: Open track/practice: first Saturday of the month (March 3 through November 3)

MEETINGS

1st & 3rd
Tuesday's
Noon
Owensboro Country Club
400 Byers Ave.

Upcoming Activities
August 7 - Scholarship presentations (Bart Darrell, KWC; Father Larry Hostetler, Brescia University; Mike Rodgers, KCTCS; Eric Scharf, Wendell Foster Center; Judy Rouse, WKU)
August 21 - SPEAKER: Abigail Adler, Ronald McDonald House of Ohio Valley
August 27 - Lions Club Board meeting at Briar Patch, 6 PM
September 4 - SPEAKER: Keith Cain, Daviess County Sheriff (meeting at Old Hickory)
September 18 - SPEAKER: Harry Pedigo, St. Benedict's Homeless Shelter
September 24 - Lions Club Board meeting at Briar Patch, 6 PM
October 5 - Fourth Annual Drive 4 Sight Golf Scramble (for Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation), 11 AM EDT, Bardstown Country Club, 130 Maywood Avenue, Bardstown, KY. Information: JenniferHunt@kylionseye.org or 502-583-0564 or visit https://www.kylionseye.org/2018golf.
October 20-21 - Reid's Apple Festival
October 22 - Lions Club Board meeting at Briar Patch, 6 PM