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| Vocal Contest Winners (from
left): Julie G. Eccles (third place); Alisa P Kieffer
(first place); and Elissa J Gathman (second place) |
Instrumental Winners
(from left); Hyun Jeong You (first place tie); Zoe C Quint (first
place tie); and Kyle D Brightwell (first place tie) |
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PEACE POSTER
COMPETITION
November 2005 |
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Hyejin Sul,
First Place winner (Boys and Girls Club
of Greater Washington, Culmore Community Center), presents her
poster. At right is Peace Poster Chair Lion Pat Shattuck |
Shown below are the Peace Poster
entries received from St. Michael's School, on display at the Mason
District Government Center.
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Vi Duong,
First Place winner (St. Michael's School) describes her poster to
the Club during our November 4 meeting. Subsequently, her
poster competed in the District competition, where she won Second
Place. |
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Annandale Lions make friends easily
at Mason District Park Days |
After the rush
Annandale Lions review results of vision and hearing screening at
Mason District Park Days |
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Annandale Lions Honor Students from Frost Middle School for
LCIF Tsunami Relief Fundraiser |
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The Annandale Lions were honored
to have eight students from Frost Middle School join us at a
dinner meeting on March 15, 2005. The eight were among the
10 students who organized a successful two-day campaign to
sell bracelets and raise funds for tsunami relief following
the devastating natural disaster at the end of 2004. The
young citizens of Frost Middle School demonstrated their
ability to serve others, and raised over $1,000. They
decided to donate the funds to Lions Clubs International
Foundation, because that way all of the funds would be used
directly for relief activities. |
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Pictured at left, students from Frost Middle
School present a check for $1,008.75 to King Lion John
Landers. The funds will go to LCIF Tsunami Relief. |
The Lions Club of Annandale embraces
the Lions motto and philosophy - "We
Serve." Throughout its history,
the Clubs members have pitched in to support their mission of serving
the Annandale Community. This has meant giving their time, effort, and
resources to help the community. Although the prime focus of the Club is
to improve the eyesight and hearing of the community's needy, it also
supports youth activities, and local community, state, and international
charitable activities. Some of our more recent activities include:
- Vision and Hearing
Activities:
- Providing financial
assistance to the residents of the Annandale community who have
insufficient resources for their sight and hearing needs. This
includes eye exams, eyeglasses, cornea transplants, eye surgeries,
and hearing aids.
- Providing leader dogs and service dogs to
members of the Annandale community (we sponsored our first Leader
Dog in 1975)
- Operating and supporting the two Sight & Hearing
Screening Vans (providing free sight, hearing, and glaucoma
screening)
- Supporting the Recording Service for the Visually
Handicapped
- Supporting the Eyeglass Recycling Center.
- Youth Activities:
- Providing support for
bringing Children of Chernobyl
who were affected by the nuclear
disaster to the Annandale area for treatment and recuperation
- Providing Christmas toys for needy
children
- Sponsoring local
schools in the Lions
International Peace Poster Contest
- Sponsoring the local
Lions of Virginia Bland Youth Music Contest. We have sponsored
the local Bland Contest since 1953, and we are delighted that
three of our contestants have gone on to win the Lions Statewide Bland
Competition (in addition to the many who have competed in the District
Bland Competition)
- Supporting the Lions Youth Camp
- Sponsoring representatives to Boys and Girls State activities and
co-sponsoring a Boy Scout Troop
- Sponsoring boys and girls sport team
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Community Service and
Welfare: Supporting local
organizations such as Hospice, Alliance for Physically Disabled,
Salvation Army, Leukemia-Lymphoma
Society, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, and shelters;
supporting the humanitarian programs of the Annandale Christian
Community for Action (ACCA); providing special needs equipment to
the needy of the community (e.g., Braille and speak systems and
other special systems for use by the handicapped); and
participating in the Adopt-a-Highway (keeping it beautiful)
Program.
- Lions District, State,
and International Activities: Supporting
the Virginia Lions Eye Institute, the Mobile Sight & Hearing
Van, the District 24-A Habitat for Humanity
Project, Stamps for
the Wounded Program, the Virginia Lions Hearing Foundation, the
District 24-A Hearing Aid Bank, the Old Dominion Eye Bank, the
Lions of Virginia Foundation, and the Lions Clubs International
Foundation.
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