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Welcome to the Poquoson Lions Club Web Site

Welcome to the Poquoson Lions Club website. This site is designed to provide information about the Poquoson Lions club to members, potential members, those seeking assistance, and those interested in knowing more about Lions. This site provides a calendar of events, our monthly newsletter, club committees, as well links to other useful Lions websites and information.

Our club is one of over 45,000 clubs worldwide, part of an international organization with over 1.4 million members in 206 countries! The first Lion’s Club was formed in 1917, “You can’t get very far until you start doing something for somebody else”, was the personal code of the founder, Melvin Jones. The Poquoson Lions Club has been serving the community for 63 years, and was chartered in 1948 with the intent of offering people the opportunity to take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social, and moral welfare of the community. Our intent is to allow members to unite in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding and to encourage service-minded people to serve their community. Our goal is to do together what one person could not do alone.

As with all Lions Clubs our service projects concentrate on sight and hearing conservation, diabetes awareness, and youth activities. However, we have and will always adapt to the needs of our community from providing assistance after Hurricane Isabel to helping needy families with basic subsistence. A more recent development has been the adoption of the South Lawson Park and the City’s Soccer Program as a Lions Project.

I hope you find this site interesting and informative, and please take a minute and provide us feedback through our Guestbook. I am privileged and honored to be part of this organization and to have this opportunity to serve as club president as we live our motto, “We Serve”.

Lion Ray Yannello
2011/2012 President, Poquoson Lions Club

Meetings held the 1st and 3rd Thursday at 6:30pm at the Poquoson Community Center, 49 Odd Road in front of the Poquoson High School

Club Slogan: Liberty, Intelligence and our Nations safety
Lions Motto: We Serve

Our club is part of District 24D, Region I, Zone B. Region I includes the Peninsula and Northern Neck and is further divided into three Zones. Zone A consisting of Gloucester and the Northern Neck; Zone B consisting of Williamsburg, Poquoson, York County, and New Kent County; and Zone H consisting of Hampton and Newport News. You will find links on this website to the Region 24D website, the Poquoson Leos Club and either links to the websites of the other 13 Lion’s Clubs in Region I or a listing of when and where they meet and how to contact them. We have also included the same information for the Matthews Lion’s Club, which our club originally sponsored.

POQUOSON LIONS NEWS

Fellow Poquoson Lions,

WOW! Where did the summer go? Moved my son into the dorm, heard the PHS Band practicing after our meeting on August 18th, and the school buses are moving around town. Lion Keith hosted an interesting Picnic Table building party at his house July 23rd and together with Lions Bob B, Chris H, TJ, Ed H, Dan L, Kathy, and myself we labored in the heat to assemble three large picnic tables. Something we will never do in the summer again, I hope. We had an enjoyable visit by the District Governor on August 18th.

Plans are in the works for a busy fall season. Lion Tammy is trying to put together a PediaVision screening of Poquoson Preschool children for September, Lion Al and his committee is putting the final touches on the Fall Social/Membership Night for September 15th at the Yacht Club, Lion Dan is trying to get things setup for Fall White Cane on 7/8 October, and believe it or not the Seafood Festival is shortly thereafter.

Lion Randy will be putting together a new environmental program for the club, which will hopefully include Lions Pam’s plan for trees at PES.

On a more somber note, I’d like to extend our condolences to Lion Jack on the loss of his mother Rosanna Hunt White who passed away August 11th. My wife Jean & I fondly remember sitting with Rosanna at many a Lions Social events and how easily she made us feel welcome in the community. All who knew her will miss her.
Thanks to all for your help, advice, and assistance these first two months.
Yours in Lionism,
Lion Ray

LIONS INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Do You Believe?

by Wing-Kun Tam
President, The International Association of Lions Clubs

First of all, in this season of belief, let me offer best wishes to all my fellow Lions, their loved ones, friends and families.
We have come a long way in five months. My belief in the power of what every Lion can do to change the world and help those in need is as strong as ever.

The early success of our campaign to plant 1 million trees makes me both proud and also so humble. Whether it’s planting trees in lands scarred by the tsunami in Japan or tornadoes in the United States, or planting trees to restore our planet’s critical forests in Africa or South Asia, we have succeeded in unifying Lions all over the world. These acts of service are fun and rewarding to do. They bring clubs together and bring smiles to ourselves and to people in the communities we serve. Through October, together we planted more than 3.7 MILLION trees in more than 60 countries. Isn’t that amazing?

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Meetings held the 1st and 3rd Thursday at 6:30pm at the Poquoson Community Center, 49 Odd Road in front of the Poquoson High School