Widdifield Lions Club - Lions e-Clubhouse

Since 1917, local Lions clubs have offered people just like you the opportunity to give something back to their community. Today, with over 1.4 million men and women in more than 180 countries, Lions have expanded their focus to help meet the ever increasing needs of our society.

As a member of a Lions club, you become aware of the needs of our community and have the advantage to effectively make a difference. Our club provides volunteers with project management assistance, leadership training, personal development opportunities, and organized fundraising programs. Being a Lion empowers you to help others in a way that no one person could alone.

Now more than ever, people with vision problems, the environment, our senior community, our youth and the disadvantaged around the world need your help.

You can make a difference.

By participating in our local Lions club, you can help meet pressing needs in our community and around the world.

The Widdifield Lions Club takes pride in being recognized as one of the major clubs within the District, and as a leader in innovation and progress within the ideals of Lionism. The club is a consistent winner of awards from our District, and Lions International.

In April of 1999, with Widdifield spearheading District convention took place here in North Bay. This was the fifth convention by the Widdifield Club and attests to their abilities as organizers and hosts. At this convention, Past President and current Past District Governor, Lion Grace Kingsnorth of The Widdifield Club, was sworn in as District Governor for the year 1999-2000.

Fundraising projects are always uppermost in our minds, we constantly strive to attain revenue that can be turned back to those in need and/or deserving. We believe we must contribute to the future of our youth, thus our commitment to programs dealing with drug awareness, alcohol abuse, physical abuse, and crime of all types. This is true not only of our club, The Widdifield Lions, but every Lions Club in the world.

The Widdifield Club of North Bay enters the Millennium with a strong membership of men and women, from all walks of life, who are ready and willing to take up the challenge and prove that, indeed "WE CARE"!

Lions Clubs bring people together...
for friendship
for a better tomorrow.

Lions Code of Ethics

TO SHOW		my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
TO SEEK		success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
TO REMEMER		that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; To be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself
WHENEVER		a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
TO HOLD		friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
ALWAYS		to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labour, and means.
TO AID		others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
TO BE CAREFUL		with my criticism and liberal with my praise; To build up and not destroy.

Club Objectives

TO CREATE		and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
TO PROMOTE		the principles of good government and good citizenship.
TO TAKE		an active interest in the civic, cultural, social, and moral welfare of the community.
TO UNITE		the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship, and mutual understanding.
TO PROVIDE		a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest: provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarion religion shall not be debated by club members.
TO ENCOURAGE		service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, profession, public works, and private endeavors.