FLORENCE SIUSLAW LIONS CLUB
Florence, Oregon
Thanks to all who worked so diligently to make the Lions sponsored Car Show 2024 during Rhody Weekend a great success this year!! It took many hours of car show enthusiasts help and planning, as well as our own Lions. And, thanks to all who turned out in support! We enjoyed our Bass Fishing Tournament on June 1 & 2 of 2024 at Siltcoos Lake!! A fun success! And, we recently served hot dogs at both Darlings Marina Youth Bass Fishing Tournament and at the Boys & Girls Club Fly-In event.
The Florence Siuslaw Lions Club will be celebrating 76 years of service to this community in 2024. 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 bass fishing tournament.
- Participate in a variety of local community events such as Rods N Rhodies, Pumpkin Give-away, and more.
- Provide American flags to first graders in our elementary school.
- Provide service/donation to address hunger and need in our community.
- Donate new books to the library for the youth in our community on important topics.
- Sponsor the Car Show on Rhody Weekend at the Middle School.
- Invite community speakers to our meetings to keep informed.
- 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.
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.
