Lions Clubs of Multiple District 36, Oregon and Northern California

We Serve

Lions of Oregon & Northern California are a part of an international network of 1.4 million men and women in 200 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world. Lions are best known for working to end preventable blindness, the giving of eyeglasses and hearing aids for the needy and local service projects.

 

Mission Statement of Lions Clubs International:

 

"To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation."

 

We as LIONS have lots to be thankful for.

November is the month of giving thanks with 4th Thursday in November being Thanksgiving.  We as LIONS have lots to be thankful for.  Since the time Melvon Jones started the Lion Clubs in 1917, the Lions have been SERVING others, and we are thankful for this great organization.  We Lions are making a difference (and our MARK) in our communities, with our food drives, youth vision screening, and other youth projects; such as giving scholarships to students giving them the opportunity to a better education.  We have sponsored community parks and help build them, and much, much, more.  As Lions we sell See’s Candies, have food booths, wine walks, crab feeds, steaks fry’s, organized runs and festivals to make money for our charitable causes and we very thankful to the communities for their support.

When we are engaged with our Lions projects, we should have fun.  This is also a time to get new members to join our clubs, which you have been telling me you’re doing.  It’s important to ask again and again for those prospective new members to join.  Part of the fun of being a Lion is helping on projects, and this should also be helping other clubs with their projects.

 

On another note, I have been checking my Lions MD36 Directory and noted that some meeting places have changed, please have your Secretary or Club Administrator update your information on the Lions Portal.  Some emails and phone numbers have changed, please update these also.  In MD 36E, Lion Steve Brewster PDG is the District Administrator and can make the changes for you, if you can’t.  Just call him.

 

Our Lions Clubs are all volunteers and we do what we can, I would like to thank you all for what you do!

 

“Make you Mark” “From your HEART” “And BEE a Lion”

 

DG Lion Paul Novak 36E

Will you not help me hasten the day when there shall be no preventable blindness; no little deaf, blind child untaught; no blind man or woman unaided? I appeal to you Lions, you who have your sight, your hearing, you who are strong and brave and kind. Will you not constitute yourselves Knights of the Blind in this crusade against darkness?
— Helen Keller's Speech at 1925 International Convention Cedar Point, Ohio, USA June 30, 1925