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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 |
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COMMUNITY NEWS |
On the 27th of October our club planted 15 trees at South Lawson Park with the assistance of the City of Poquoson. This park was recently expanded with the inclusion of several soccer fields. This is the first of many projects at the Poquoson Lions have taken on the continued improvement of the park which will eventually include a playground, picnic facilities and even toilet facilities. The lions which participated included Mark Moncure, Kathy Feigh, Keith Feigh, Fred Lowack, Al Moor, Dan Lange, Bruce Edwards, Chris Hartman, Debby Clotfelter, Noel Talcott and Ray Carmines along with several others from the community who volunteered their time. |
LIONS INTERNATIONAL NEWS |
Lions International Updateby Wing-Kun Tam Dear Lions, Earlier this month, the Caribbean and the East Coast of the United States were hit by Superstorm Sandy. I was saddened and deeply concerned when I heard of the storm's impact, but I also knew that Lions would be there to help. Not only are Lions on the ground, supporting each other and people in the affected communities, but Lions around the world are generously providing donations to the disaster relief fund at Lions Clubs International Foundation. |
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