Monday night the Fillmore Lions Club held their Annual Speaker Contest. Pictured (l-r) Speaker winner Roberto Munoz with Nick Johnson, Marissa Dorantes, Jovanny Bravo, Darian Binkley, Wesley Brecheen.
Roberto Munoz, a senior at Fillmore High School, took first place for a third year in a row at the Fillmore Lions Club Speaker Contest.
On Monday, February 6 the 75™ Annual Lions student speaker contest was held at the scout house with over 50 Lions, speakers, friends and family present.
The topic on which they spoke about was “What could the America of yesterday teach the America of tomorrow?"
Roberto Munoz wins his third Lions Club speech contest in a row. Robby, a senior at Fillmore High School, he will move on to speak against other winners of Lion's Club contest at the zone 8 contest probably in Camarillo. The date and exact place were not available at this time. Robby won $75 and will move on in his quest to win over $21,000 in college scholarships. Robby has applied to Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, U.C. Berkeley among other schools. Bill Edmonds, Lions Club speaker contest chairman, credits F.H.S. drama teacher Josh Overton and English teacher Jennifer Fitzpatrick for the success of the contest this year. Five of the speakers were from Ms. Fitzpatrick’s sophmore English class. The other speakers were Nick Johnson, Marissa Dorantes, Darian Binkley, and Wesley brecheen and Jovanny Bravo. All are tenth graders except for Wesley who is a ninth grader.
The judges for the contest were the Rev. Dr. Harvey Guthrie, Dr. Cynthia king and Pat Alto. Rev. Guthrie and Ms. Alto were former speaker contestants and winners themselves. Dr. King is an instructor at Cal State Channel Islands.
