Ohio Lions Clubs in the News

Broadview Heights Lions Club helping postal workers with food drive

Broadview Heights Lions Club helping postal workers with food drive

BROADVIEW HEIGHTS: The Broadview Heights Lions Club and South Hills Lend-A-Hand are hoping to help the National Letter Carriers “Stamp Out Hunger” on May 12.
The food drive is the largest one-day event of its kind in the country. Area residents can participate by placing a bag of non-perishable food by their mailbox or dropping off [...]

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National White Cane Safety Day

National White Cane Safety Day

[ October 15, 2011; ] The Greencastle Lions and Lioness Clubs will team up Friday, Oct. 14 to raise funds for local sight projects through the White Cane Project. Members will be located at Tower Bank, Sunnyway Foods, Sunnyway Diner, Family Restaurant and Mikie’s Ice Cream throughout the day and evening.
The White Cane concept began with James Biggs, a photographer [...]

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Massillon Lions Club eyes testing for children

Massillon Lions Club eyes testing for children

By Erin Pustay| IndeOnline.com staff writer

MASSILLON —Massillon Lions Club members have a clear vision for the community.Beginning with the youngest students, the Lions Club is working to ensure that all children see the world around them as clearly as possible by providing proper eye screenings.
In the coming weeks, representatives of the Massillon Lions Club will [...]

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The Pickerington Lions Club will celebrate 65 years Nov. 5

The Pickerington Lions Club will celebrate 65 years Nov. 5

by Nate Ellis 

The Pickerington Lions Club will celebrate 65 years of service to the local community with a commemorative banquet next month.
In September 1946, 38 charter members officially formed the Pickerington Lions Club.
Sixty-five years later, the club remains a fixture in Pickerington, and it continues many of the same traditions of its original members, [...]

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Jackson Township Lions Club celebrates 51st Charter Night

Jackson Township Lions Club celebrates 51st Charter Night

The Suburbanite

The Jackson Township Lions Club recently celebrated its 51st Charter Night at the 356th Fighter Group Restaurant at Akron Canton Airport. The Club was chartered by Lions Clubs International in September 1960.
Guest speaker was new Jackson Local Schools Superintendent Chris DiLoreto. In his remarks to the Lions Club, he said Jackson Local Schools’ 5,800 [...]

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Ada Lions Club Punkin chunkin

Ada Lions Club Punkin chunkin

Ada, Ohio — As Ada, Ohio celebrates its’ 25th Annual Harvest and Herb Festival, one recent addition to the fun, is getting lots of attention.
It’s the relatively new sport of Punkin’ Chunkin’.
One might wonder what motivates grown men to build catapults, or as they ‘re properly called “trebuchets”.
They’re built with one purpose in mind, to [...]

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Lions Club conducts vision screening at OakPark Pre-schools

Jackson TWP, Ohio —
The Jackson Township Lions Club, in cooperation with OakPark Pre-schools in Jackson Township, Massillon and Waynesburg, offered a free eye screening of the children at these facilities.  Eye exams of children under the age of 6 years old are often not done.
The KidSight Project used in conjunction with the [...]

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Chillicothe High school seniors receive Chillicothe Lions Club Scholarship

The Chillicothe Evening Lions Club honored four area high school graduates and their families at its May 10 meeting at the Lions clubhouse. The recipients are Kelsey Bixler, Danielle Graham, Andrew Weisen-berger and Paige Hagley. A large Lions membership was on hand to meet the winners of the $1,000 scholarships.
Bixler is [...]

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