Sioux City Noon Lions Club

Vision Statement
To be the global leader in community and humanitarian service.
Mission Statement
To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs.

Description:
Our motto is WE SERVE.

Our two main services both locally, state-wide and internationally are for sight and hearing. We provide eyeglasses/exams and hearing aids/exams for needy in our local community. Through Iowa Lions and Lions Clubs International we also support conservation of sight and the prevention of blindness. Hearing is also supported through Iowa Lions and Lions Clubs International.

Each year we serve about 20 charitable organizations/agencies in our community. We also provide scholarships to senior high students and cooperatively work with other community agencies as we can.

History:
In 1917, a Chicago business leader asked a simple and world-changing question – what if people put their talents to work improving their communities? Almost 100 years later, Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization, with 1.3 million members and countless stories of Lions acting on the same simple idea: let's improve our communities.
That business leader was Melvin Jones. He convened an organizational meeting of clubs that formed Lions Clubs International on June 7, 1917, in Chicago. Later that year, Lions held the first national convention in Dallas and created a constitution, by-laws, objects and a code of ethics.
1920: Going International
Just three years later, Lions went international when we established the first club in Canada. Mexico followed in 1927. In the 1950s and 1960s international growth accelerated, with new clubs in Europe, Asia and Africa.
1925: Helen Keller and the "Crusade Against Darkness"
One of our earliest and most influential causes has been eradicating blindness. That began in 1925, when Helen Keller addressed the Lions Clubs International Convention in Cedar Point, Ohio, USA. She challenged us to become "knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness." Since then, we have worked tirelessly to fulfill her charge to aid the blind and visually impaired.
1945: United Nations

Contact people:

Larry Benne, Secretary, (phone), (email) Hill Ann, Treasurer, (phone), (email) Brian Owens Owens, President, (phone), (email)

Address:

P.O. Box 5233 Sioux City, IA 51101

Web Site: http://homepage.lawrencebenne.siouxcitynoonlions/

Directions:

This is the Sioux City downtown Post Office on 3rd and Jackson Street.

Last updated on August 8, 2009