FLORENCE SIUSLAW LIONS CLUB
Florence, Oregon
The Florence Siuslaw Lions Club will be celebrating 78 years of service to this community in 2025. We are excited about the mission and vision of Lions.
Lions Serve! We champion kindness in our communities and actively work to improve the lives of people. Around the world, there are over 48,000 Lions Clubs. Lions form unique friendships and meaningful connections. In 1925 Helen Keller addressed Lions at the Lions International Convention and challenged Lions to become "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness." This began a century-long mission impacting many lives through our vision-related work. Lions International has identified five primary focus areas for service by Lions worldwide. They are: Diabetes, Vision, Hunger, Environment and Childhood Cancer.
Florence Siuslaw Lions serve in a variety of ways in our community. Some examples:
- Provide vision testing and eyeglasses to qualified individuals.
- Provide hearing tests and hearing devices to qualified individuals.
- Collect donated eyeglasses and hearing devices at various locations in our community.
- Provide vision screenings to elementary school students in conjunction with the Oregon Sight & Hearing Foundation.
- Award scholarships to qualified high-school students.
- Host annual bass fishing tournament.
- Participate in a variety of local community events such as serving from our food cart at the Rhody Fest, Pumpkin Give-away, and more.
- Provide American flags to first graders in our elementary school.
- Provide service/donation to address hunger and some other needs in our community.
- Donate new books to the library for the youth in our community on important topics.
- Serve at the Free Lunch Program at the United Methodist Church.
- Club support for disaster preparedness projects.
- Lions care about YOUTH.
- We invite community speakers to our meetings to keep informed.
- Lions foster friendships with Club socials.
- AND MUCH MORE!!! WE HAVE FUN WHILE WE SERVE!
JOIN US!
We meet twice monthly the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays and invite guests to join us at the D.A.V. Hall at 1715 21st Street in Florence at 6:30 p.m. Contact Lion President Jan at 541-554-4642 for more information. We encourage visitors to come meet us and see what we do in our community! ALSO VISIT FACEBOOK PAGE: Please like it and follow us. There you will also see information on upcoming events. Unfortunately, we were unable to take down our old Facebook Page about the Lions here in Florence. If you do get on that previous old one you will see under comments a link to our new Facebook page entitled Florence Siuslaw Lions.
Please visit the Club projects page for information on used eye glasses and hearing aid donation collection box sites.
Please visit the CONTACT US page for more information on how to reach us!
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in approximately 46,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.
