For more information about club activities, please email EdinburgVALions@gmail.com
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Edinburg Picnic in the Park
During the summer of 2024 the Town of Edinburg hosts two Friday night Picnic in the Park events with live music. The Edinburg Lions Club has a booth to sell beverages, snacks, desserts and fruit. The first one was on June 21st and the second on August 2nd.
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Cathy Ettinger, Wanda Caballero and Luther Santiful
sell food at the 21 June Picnic in the Park
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Scholarship
The Edinburg Lions Club annually award one $1,000 scholarship. Applicants must be graduating High School Seniors who plan to continue their education and currently reside within the Edinburg 22824 Zip Code area. Applicants may attend public school, private school, or be home-schooled. Applicants submit a résumé listing school and community leadership positions, activities, sports, honors/awards received, and work experience. A school transcript is not required. The application also requests responses to two short essays: What makes Edinburg a great place to live? and The importance of community organizations and how they have impacted my life.
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Socktober
During the month of October the Edinburg Lions Club collects new and gently used men’s, women’s, children’s, and infant socks for distribution to homeless and needy individuals. 1,283 pair were collected the first year, and 553 the second year. The generosity shown by our community far exceeded expectations.
There are multiple collection sites around town, including F&M Bank, the VFW, Wholesome Foods, the Library, the Post Office, Valley Baptist Christian School and St. John's Methodist Church. The club really appreciates these organization's efforts to help with this project.
One of the goals of this project is to engage organizations in our community to help distribute the collected socks and to establish an on-going relationship with those groups. The Edinburg Lions Club distributed socks through Family Promise, Search, Response, the Pregnancy Center, Shenandoah Alliance for Shelter, and the Shenandoah Community Clinic, Central Outfitters, and a Small Hand.
Club Service Chair Adam Soroka presented socks at Family Promise
Cathy Ettinger presented socks to The Pregnancy Center
Adam Soroka presented socks to Reponse
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Eye Exams and Glasses
The Edinburg Lions Club provides grants to Edinburg residents to defray the cost of eye exams and glasses for those who cannot afford vision care.
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Eyeglass Recycling
The Club has Eyeglass Recycling boxes in most churches in town, at F&M Bank, Valley Baptist Christian School, and VFW Post 2447 whre you may drop off your used glasses. There is a great demand for children's glasses and single-vision glasses, but any type of glasses are accepted, including sunglasses and readers. The Club sends the glasses we collect to the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center. There they are cleaned, screened for the prescription, sorted, and packed for shipment. They are sent throughout the world to areas where there is a need. Following an eye exam, these glasses are provided to individuals who would otherwise be unable to afford them.
Lions Luther Santiful, Cathy Ettinger, Bill Ettinger, and Charlie Ross
volunteered at the Eyeglass Recycle Center to clean, sort, and package donated glasses
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Sight and Hearing Screening
Edinburg Lions Club members volunteer each year to help with vision and hearing screening at area schools. Kindergartners, 3rd graders, 5th graders, 7th graders, and 10th graders as well as new students at the elementary, middle, and high schools are screened and notices are sent home by the schools if an issue is identified so that families can follow-up with an optometrist/opthamologist or audiologist. Thanks to the use of a camera-like Spot Scanner, vision screening is like having your picture taken. New audiometers were purchased in 2022, that hearing screening more accurate. The screening is a wonderful service, especially for the younger kids who may not realize that their vision or hearing could be improved. The program really makes the Lions Clubs visible in the community.
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Lions use the new audiometers to test student's hearing
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Brooms for Sale
A lot of people are familiar with the great quality of the Lion's corn brooms. In addition to the special events noted above, the brooms are always available in Edinburg at the Mill Gift Shop and F&M Bank. Contact Lion Randy Miller at 540-459-2785 for more information.
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Edinburg Christmas Parade
The Edinburg Lions Club partipates in the annual Edinburg Christmas Parade, passing out goodie bags to spectators.
Lions Lois Fisher, Wanda Caballero, Kathy Pietri, and Bill Ettinger, ride the float in the 2023 parade
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Route 11 Yard Crawl
Every August the Edinburg Lions Club has a booth at the Route 11 Yard Crawl. This event, which consists of over 43 miles of yard sales and business sales along the Old Valley Pike, U.S. Route 11, is a partnership of the Towns of Strasburg, Woodstock, Edinburg, Mt. Jackson and New Market, the Shenandoah County Chamber of Commerce and the Shenandoah County Tourism Office.
https://shenandoahcountychamberofcommerce.wildapricot.org/Rt-11-Yard-Crawl/
The Edinburg Lions sets up at the Edinburg Mill on Route 11, selling corn brooms and home-made baked goods. We will be back again in 2024 on August 10th.
Lion Randy Miller helped man the Yard Crawl Booth
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Edinburg Old Time Festival
The Edinburg Lions Club annually participates in Edinburg Old Time Festival in mid- September. The club had a booth at The Mill selling corns brooms, accepting used eyeglasses and hearing aids for recycling, accepting donations to help fund community service activities, and recruiting new club members. Club member, Darryl Cook, represents the club in the parade, driving his bright yellow antique pickup truck.
What really keeps us hopping is cooking and serving the traditional Pioneer Breakfast at the Heritage Center on Saturday morning. Breakfast featurs a menu of scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, sausage gravy & biscuits, and fried apples along with lots of coffee.
For Edinburg Ole Time Festival 2024 the club will be teaming with the Mount Jackson-Edinburg Rotary Club to co-host the breakfast on September 21st.
Lion Emery Reistetter wass the Head Cook for the
Pioneer Breakfast during Edinburg Ole Time Festival
http://www.edinburgoletimefestival.org/
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Speakers
The club invites special guests to present programs at some monthly meetings. Past speakers and topics include:
- Sheila Helsley Grandparents as Parents
- Greg Stockton Seniors First
- PG Coverstone Shenandoah Valley Lutheran Ministries
- Kathleen Murphy Emmanuel's Table Food Pantry
- Charles Harbaugh Access Independence
- Karen Doane Valley Health Diabetes Management Nurse
- Ellen Bowers Shenandoah County Family Promise
- Neshon Niroli Nepal Earthquake Damage
- Clarence Shubert, PhD Indonesia Climate Change Sea Level Rise
- John Adamson Historic Barns of Shenandoah County
- Luther Santiful Volga River Cruise
- Representative Small Hands (baby diapers and formula)
- Pam Murphy County Free Clinic
- Jeanne Russell County Electoral Process
- Nathan West F35 Fighter Plane
- Melinda Bates Working in the White House
- Isabel Castillo Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
- Rev. Karen Caspersen Just Because (Appreciation gifts for Teachers)
- Carla Taylor County Social Services
- Phillip Richman Boy Scout Troop 54
- Geologist County Caves and Sink Holes
- Dairy Farmer Dairy Farm Technology
- Abena Foreman-Trice Blue Ridge Area Food Bank
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