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Lions have a dynamic history. Founded in 1917, we are best known for fighting blindness, but we also volunteer for many different kinds of community projects – including caring for the environment, feeding the hungry and aiding seniors and the disabled.

Wardensville Lions Club

The Wardensville Lions Club has specialized in serving the Wardensville community for over 60 years.  We provide community service directly through our members’ efforts, and indirectly through fund-raising. We are a member of the world’s largest service club organization, the International Association of Lions Clubs.  As a member, we participate in assistance efforts after such disasters as 9/11/2001, Hurricane Katrina, and Japan’s earthquake and tsunami.

Fund Raising Activities

Quartets on Parade

We are proud to promote and preserve barbershop music. This style of vocal harmony is a uniquely American form of music. As sponsors of over sixty annual performances of barbershop music since 1948, we take pride in featuring well-known performers and new talent.  We raise funds by selling advertisements in the program describing the evening’s performance and from ticket sales at the door.  This booklet contains ads from several of the business surrounding our area and we would appreciate your patronizing these sponsors.   For referencing throughout the next year, you may download your personal copy  (18 megabytes) at URL freepdfhosting.com/a2a268e733.pdf - please support the Wardensville Lions Club by frequently patronizing these merchants.

Raffle Dinner

Our Raffle Dinner offers ticket buyers to enjoy a fine dinner and a chance to win cash prizes. Lions club members sell tickets from June to August and the dinner is usually held the last Saturday in September of each year.

Community Service Events 

Annual Senior Citizens Christmas Dinner Community

Each year the Wardensville Lions Club honors our community’s senior citizens by inviting them to be our guests for a free, traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings. This celebration also features Christmas music and entertainment.

Annual Easter Egg Hunt

Children, ages ten and younger, gather at our Town Park to celebrate the season by participating in our annual egg hunt.  Lots of fun, Easter candy and special prizes make this an event both children and adults enjoy.

We Serve

One of the major goals of this Lions Club is vision conservation. We do this by supporting eye examination clinics and providing needy community members with assistance to obtain eye glasses. We also donate to the WV Lions Sight Conservation Foundation, Inc. We participate in special mobile testing projects for eye pressure and diabetes education.

Youth

We award annual scholarships for academic achievement. We donate to the Wardensville Scholarship Fund and East Hardy High School Academic Achievement Awards. We support other learning experiences for youth in Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Hardy County 4-H. We also assist students with travel funds needed to attend events such as Boys and Girls State, youth science project competitions and other similar events.

Town Park

Wardensville Lions members donate many hours each year in fund-raising activities to support Town Park amenities such as the swimming pool, hiking trails, baseball diamond and family picnic areas. Club members also assist with grounds maintenance and other repairs.

Library

Lions support the library with donations required to maintain this service. Club members assist the library staff and help with fund-raising activities. In addition to a fine selection of books, the library also provides computers and Internet connection.

Trash Cleanup

Each year we clean up litter tossed along roads we have adopted as participants in the WV Adopt-A-Highway program.

Join the Wardensville Lions Club

For membership information contact Steve Rhoades at (304) 874-3358 or write to

Wardensville Lions Club 

PO Box 365

Wardensville, WV 26851

Our current members are:

            Charles Angle

                                                           Our motto is "We Serve." 

Lions are an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 205 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world.