SERVICE PROJECTS

• Support-a-School Nurse (help fund extra expenses for the clinics)

• School supplies (purchase needed supplies for students)

• Annual College Scholarships (awarded to local high school seniors)

• Aquia Harbour Fourth of July Celebration (with Aquia Harbour POA and Events Committee)

• Special Needs Christmas Party (gift shopping and wrapping to assist Host Club)

• Eye exams and eyeglasses (provided to local middle school and high school students referred by school nurses based on need)

• Head Start Breakfast with Santa (shop and wrap gifts from children's wish list, serve breakfast to families, have Santa arrive with gifts)

• Head Start Food Pantry (collect dry and canned goods at each meeting)

• Kids for a Cure Club Camp (5-day camp for Type 1 diabetic children, assist financially and help with crafts at camp)

• Lions Peace Poster Contest (middle school art to teach about peace)

• Prom Night support (annual donation to after-prom party)

• SERVE (Stafford Emergency Relief through Volunteer Efforts donations)

• Empower House (donations to family domestic violence shelter)

• Virginia Lions Eyeglass Recycling at Lake of the Woods (used eyeglass donations and monthly processing)

• Environmental Project (assist community with cleanup)

• KidSightUSA member (conduct vision screenings for children 6 months to 6 years to find and treat eye problems using SPOT photorefractive machine)  

• Sight and Hearing screenings at county schools (using SPOT and audiometer)

• Snowbags for Head Start (shop and prepare bags of food for families during inclement weather)

Fundraisers  

• Aquia Harbour Country Club Breakfast with Santa

• Bourbon Dinner

• Combined Federal Campaign (AEL #:  99070)

• Community Yard Sale (rent spaces, sell refreshments, find bargains, have fun)

• Dining in the Dark (raise funds for sight research)

• Monte Carlo Night (card games with prizes, great food, even dancing)

• Oktoberfest (with Events Committee run refreshments booth)

• Paypal Donations (see button above)

• Poinsettia Sales (start holiday decorating with beautiful red and white flowers)

• Santa Home Visits (2020 visits will be outdoors and socially distanced)

• White Cane (annual fishnet collection for use in sight programs)

• Wine Dinner

Here are just some of the service and fundraising activities our club participates in each year