West Seneca Lions Club

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West Seneca NY 14224

Loan Closet Donation Wish List

We are looking for the following items that are in high demand and short supply:

Wheelchairs (Manual)
Transport Chairs
Wheelchair Ramps (Aluminum)
Knee Scooters
Rollator (Seated) Walkers

The loan closet is located at 30 South Ave in West Seneca NY

Loan Closet Contact Information

eMail: Click here to send an email to the Loan Closet Committee

Phone: 716-608-5364

2023 - 2024 Officers

Chartered 1953

President	Lion Dan Reedy
Chairman	Lion Don Bray
First Vice President	Lion Steve Walter
Second Vice President	Lion Al Carroccia
Secretary	Lion Pat Silver
Treasurer	Lion Rob Manion
Lion Tamer	Lion Deb Yost
Tail Twister	Lion Chris Hart
Membership Chair	Lion Dr. David Clifford

Senior Directors	Lion Mike Yost	Lion Barry Scott	Lion Dan Dunn
Two Yr Directors	Lion Deb Scott	Lion Dave Rybak	Lion Larry Fuoco
One Yr Directors	Lion Ron Hosinski	Lion Frank Zawislak	Lion Lee Argen

If you would like to send a memorial or a donation to our Lions Club it may be mailed to:

West Seneca Lions Club
P.O. Box 752
West Seneca, NY 14224

Contact Information: 716-241-8570 or WestSenecaLionsClub@gmail.com

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Still helping others, 60 years later

by ERIC KEPPELER
Editor
Many things have changed since Jimmy Reidy first joined the West Seneca Lions Club in 1963 – but the club’s mandate of community service is still as strong as ever. Reidy has held almost every position in the club and has had a hand in its many projects and programs, and he was honored earlier this month for his 60 years of service to the organization.
“If you have time and you want to help people, this is a good way to do it,” Reidy said. Reidy received a congratulatory letter from Lions Club International President Douglas Alexander, at the club’s March 15 meeting and was treated to a standing ovation from the rest of the members.

A bricklayer by trade with his own company, he joined the Lions Cub on March 5, 1963, and has lived in West Seneca since 1965. He was also a volunteer fireman who loved musicals – and while participating in one such show, he fell in with a couple of Lions Club members who convinced him to join. The rest is history. He was deeply involved in building the West Seneca Band Shell behind the community center and library on Union Road. “They got someone to do the blueprints for it and then they were looking for someone to build it,” Reidy said. “That was me.” There’s storage space in the band shell for items in the club’s medical equipment loan closet, which Reidy ran for 36 years; the loan closet itself is located at 30 South Ave. “Hospital beds, wheelchairs, crutches, canes – whatever people needed, they could come and pick it up or I’d deliver it,” Reidy said.

The mission of Lions Club International, according to its website, is to empower Lions clubs, volunteers and partners to improve health and well-being, strengthen communities and support those in need through services and grants that impact lives. Among the West Seneca club’s many efforts are support for area eye banks, vision and hearing aids, Christmas food baskets, a Christmas party for the handicapped, clothing drives, the Variety Club Telethon and Habitat for Humanity, among others. “We’d go out the week before Christmas with baskets of donated food items, and we’d deliver them to people that needed them,” Reidy said. “And those people always appreciated it.” Reidy says he doesn’t have any plans to slow down, and that’s good news for the community. “I still go to all the meetings and I help whenever I can,” Reidy said. “That’s the way it should be.”

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.