Eugene Downtown Lions Club
WHAT DO LIONS DO ?
The Eugene Downtown Lions are a group of volunteer citizens, from a
wide range of professions, trades, and ages, united in many causes.
LIONS are apolitical, nonsectarian, and do not base membership on race,
creed or color. We aremen and women who volunteer our time and talents
to humanitarian causesin the local and worldwide communities. By
conducting service projectsand raising funds, LIONS strive to help
those in need, wherever need exists.We have fun and fellowship, but
most importantly, we serve our community.YOU can too !
LIONS SERVE..........
- Individuals who need
vision
or hearing exams, eyeglasses or hearing aids.
- Sponsor major eye &
ear
operations.
- CMN/Lions Patient Family
Guest House
- Lions Clubs International
Foundation.
- Oregon Lions Sight &
Hearing Foundation.
- http://www.orlions.org
- Vern Hawn Eye Center.
- Diabetes Awareness.
- Flags for First Graders.
- Youth Exchange
- Collection and
Distribution
of Used Eye Glasses.
- Lions Youth Outreach.
- Partnership with Kelly
Middle
School
KellyMiddle
School
- Visually impaired in our
community.
- Lions Eye Bank of Oregon
- Support to the Volunteers
in Medicine Clinic www.vim-clinic.org
LIONS WORK TOGETHER........
- Major fund raising
raffle
- Mint sales
- Mobile Screening unit
- Adopt a Park
- River clean up
- Food Rescue Express for
Lane
County
- Highway Beautification
on
Interstate 5
- Meals on Wheels
LIONS PLAY TOGETHER.........
- Visitations to other clubs
- Club meetings weekly
- Summer picnic for the visually impaired
- Christmas party for the visually impaired
- Annual spring crab feed
CLUB
MEETING..........
Each Wednesday--------12:00 Noon
Hilton Hotel
66 E 6th Ave., Eugene, OR.
LIONS CLUBS OBJECTS and
ETHICS........
EUGENE DOWNTOWN LIONESS.........
Sponsored by the Eugene Downtown Lions Club, the LIONESS meet once each month. They
assist on many of the Lions Club projects as well as have community
service projects of their own.
For
more information about the Lioness Club contact: Alice Bender,
344-3951, big-al-bender@juno.com
Some
ofthe projects and activities supported by the Eugene Downtown Lioness are: The Eugene Speech and Hearing
Center;
Vern Hawn Eye Center; State School for the Blind; Oregon Lions Sight
and
Hearing Foundation; Gales Creek Camp for Diabetic Youth; Camp Taloali
for
Hearing impaired; WomenSpace; Birth to Three; Leaderdog program; CMN/
Lions
Patient Family Guest House, and the Lions Mobile Screening Unit.
WORLD WIDE LIONS CLUBS.........
Eugene Downtown Lions Club is
theHome Club of:
Past International Director
EdwardR. "Ed" Gear
To
learn
more about the Eugene Downtown Lions Club--Who we are and current news.
OREGONLIONS
CLUBS..........
MULTIPLE
DISTRICT 36 LIONS HQ..........
Civic minded new members are welcome. For more
information
on how YOU can become a Lion please contact: Ed Gear, oldarmy@castleisp.com
This page last updated on December
16,
2003
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