Uniontown, Ohio Lions Club

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By Felicia Frazar
The Gazette-Enterprise
Volunteers gathered Saturday at Wal-Mart, Walgreens and on busy street corners to gather donations for school-supply collection and raised over $2,500.
Stuff The Bus is a fundraising event that benefits school children who need a little help obtaining school supplies.
Suzanne Sanders, Sunset Lions Club Stuff the Bus organizer, said the club has supported [...]

Powell, who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, is the founder of America’s Promise, a partnership of businesses, youth-focused organizations and community leaders dedicated to the wellbeing of youth. He will deliver the address during the convention’s opening plenary session on Wednesday, July 8, at the Minneapolis Convention Center.
“Colin Powell [...]

Charlie Hall Sun Journal
Christine Turner of Bridgeton was grocery shopping with her three children Wednesday afternoon when she saw the North Carolina Lions Foundation free eye-screening bus in the parking lot of Merci Clinic.
Turner works in a sandwich shop and doesn’t have insurance. Her husband, Christopher, recently started a new job at a retail [...]

NICOLA WILLIAMS – Eastern Courier Auckland New Zealand
Lions clubs have carried out one of the most impressive fundraising efforts Starship hospital has seen.
Bucklands Beach Lions Club member Roger Robinson began the fundraising project by challenging clubs district-wide to contribute $500,000 towards the cost of remodelling the hospital’s oncology ward.
Last week Bucklands Beach and Remuera Lions [...]

OAK BROOK, IL USA, and Geneva – The International Association of Lions Clubs (LCI) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have joined forces in order to strengthen the essential role volunteers play in preparing for disasters and in responding to emergencies at the community level.
At a ceremony to mark [...]