Imagine being blindfolded and led around through the downtown area of a busy city by a dog without ever having interacted with the dog before and without training as a visually-impaired person. That is what Darleen Wheelington, newly-appointed governor of the Lions Club’s 7-L District, recently experienced during a training day at a Leader Dog for the Blind orientation session in Rochester, Mich.

Wheelington was the guest speaker at the weekly meeting of the Lions Club on Wednesday where she described her experiences and even had a special guest of her own: Helen Keller, a 14-week-...