The Lake of the Woods Lioness Lions Club was formed in 1987 and fully chartered in 2017. It is a non-profit Lioness Lions Club carrying out service programs and activities, provide community service opportunities for its members, and to unite its members in friendship, fellowship, and mutual understanding. Dinner meetings are held at the Lake of the Woods Clubhouse on the second Thursday of every month (except January). Membership is open to any person at least 18 years of age, who upon sponsorship by a member of the Club and with the approval of the Club’s Board of Directors, accepts a written invitation to join and pays the required fees of this Club.

Activities include an annual fundraising Dinner Dance, a Fall Card Party/Fashion Show, a monthly Book Sale (except in December/January), a Spring Yard Sale, food drives to benefit the Wilderness Food Pantry, school supply drives for the local elementary and primary schools, assistance with the Lions Club Eyeglass Recycling Program, sponsoring an Ice Cream Social and Christmas gift wrapping day at Childhelp, as well as many other community service projects.

WHAT IS A LIONESS LIONS CLUB?

Our Lake of the Woods Lioness Lions Club is affiliated with 44,700 Lions Clubs actively serving their communities in 186 countries and geographical areas of the world. Lions Clubs International is the world’s largest service club organization. Its 1.4 million members are dedicated to bettering the quality of life for the handicapped, the poor, the sick and the aged. The motto of Lioness Lions Clubs International is “WE SERVE,” and Lionesses live this motto with enthusiasm.

The Lake of the Woods Lioness Lions Club is not a fraternal, social or political organization. It is a group of civic-minded people who have banded together to do the things they cannot do alone. Lionesses are willing and anxious to give their time, energy and resources in service to others.

A person is rewarded in a LOW Lioness Lions Club by the pleasure and satisfaction of serving others; by improving the community in which he or she lives; and by endeavoring to leave the world a better place than she found it. The rewards are in direct proportion to the effort expended. By investing time and effort in club activities, a person receives dividends in new friendships, new status in the community, and a heart-warming sense of fulfillment from doing something good for others. The LOW Lioness Lions Club is a medium through which all of these things are available to reputable men and women of good will.

WHAT DO LIONESSES DO?

The LOW Lioness Lions Club work to support the following International, State and District programs and projects. We support eyeglass recycling, we work with the poor through the Wilderness Pantry, we support local low-income children in our county through school supplies drives, we support abused women and their children. Additionally, we support abused children in a behavioral treatment residential program; scholarships to high school students, and single parents at Germanna College. We support White Cane, Lions Leader Dog, Lions Service Dogs, Leo Clubs in the high school and middle school, Lions RAM Project, Lions Sight Foundation and the Lions of VA Fund for Disaster Relief.