Table of Contents: These links will take you to other pages on our site. All links will open in a new window. Just close the window to return to here, to our main page. Read the Club Calendar How to Become a Member Our Club Officers Our Club Members The Club History Rent our Community Center BINGO every Monday Eyeglass Collection Sites Sign Our Guest Book Do You Need The Lions Help? The News and Weather These links will take you to other sites. All links will open in a new window. Just close the window to return here. Other Nearby Lions Clubs on the Web: Bull Run/Evergreen Lions Club Clifton Lions Club Fauquier Lions Club Lake Jackson Mid County Lions Club Lake Ridge Lions Club Regional, State and International Lions Organizations: Lions of Northern Virginia, District 24-A Lions of Virginia Lions of Virginia Foundation Virginia Lion Hearing Foundation & Research Center Lions Club International Foundation Virginia Lions Eye Institute Lions Club International Lion Net

We serve the Sudley and West Gate areas of Manassas VA in Northern Virginia, near our nation's capital, Washington, DC, USA Welcome to the Park West Lions Club  The Park West Lions are a group of men and women who volunteer their time to humanitarian causes in the Manassas, Virginia area and the world community. As part of International Lions Clubs, we part of the world's largest service organization.  We conduct fund raisers and service projects to help those in need. The Lions' motto is "We Serve." For more than seventy years the Lions have been recognized throughout the world for their service to the blind and visually impaired.  A majority of the world's eye banks are established and supported by Lions, as are hundreds of clinics, hospitals and eye research centers. One such center, the Virginia Lions Eye Institute, is located at the Fairfax INOVA Hospital.  Over the thirty-five years of existence of our Lions club, countless members of our local community have been helped with free quality eye care, eyeglasses, eye surgery, guide dogs, hearing examinations and hearing aids, that they would not otherwise be able to obtain.  We also support various youth activities such as soccer and baseball teams. We own and maintain a cabin at the Northern Virginia Youth Camp located near Paris, VA.  In 2001, we opened the Park West Lions Community Center located just off Sudley Road at 8620 Sunnygate Drive.  This center is used by the club for many of its functions, many other community organizations use the center and it is available for rent by residents of Prince William County and surrounding areas.  Of course we also collect used eyeglasses for cleaning and reuse. We contribute to Lions and non Lions organizations in Prince William County, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the world community.  Here are some of the programs that we contribute to:   Sight and Hearing Services and Organizations: Mobile Screening Van Old Dominion Eye Bank Diabetes Awareness Recording Services for the Visually Handicapped Leader Dog for the Blind Prevent Blindness Virginia Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center of Northern Virginia Youth Services and Organizations: Bland Music Competition Boy Scouts of America - Cub Scout Pack  Drug Awareness  Northern Virginia Youth Camp Leo Clubs     Support for our Many Activities The members of the Park West Lions Club conduct the following fund raising activities which are supported by the local community's participation. The funds raised go to support the community activities outlined above. Our Club calendar contains the exact dates of all the annual fund raisers. Click here to go to our calendar.  By far, our major fund-raising activities is BINGO, held every Monday night at the Lions Club Community Center, 8620 Sunnygate Drive, Manassas VA. The early bird games start at  7:00 PM, so come join us for a fun night of BINGO, and maybe go home "the big winner."   The jackpot game pays out $1,000 and our “Lucky L” game has grown as high as $3,500.  Our Community Center, 8620 Sunnygate Drive, Manassas, is now available for rentals. This is Manassas' newest and finest venue. In December we hold our annual "Breakfast with Santa" at our Community Center. In the spring of the year, we hold our "Super Raffle". Here is a chance to win $10,000, and also enjoy a fun filled evening of food, drinks and dancing to the best live band in the county. In June we hold our "Charity Golf Tournament." We offer such prizes as an automobile for a hole-in-one, on one of the par 3 holes. The many local business sponsors make this tournament's excellent prizes possible. Also in June we provide the food service for the local Amateur Radio Club at their major event of the year, the Manassas Hamfest, held at the Prince William Fairgrounds. The members of our club have party tents that we rent to groups for parties, weddings and other special functions. For further information, click on any of the underlined words above to find out how you may participate. For details of when an event will occur, check our club calendar.

Throughout the year, we Lions also have a lot of fun and fellowship with our fellow members.

• In the summer we hold our installation of new officers with a large party, with invited guests and spouses of our members.
• During the winter months we also hold a spouse appreciation party, sometimes for Christmas, but lately as a Valentine's day party. Lion Hank Bishop usually organizes these events, with a catered dinner, and either a DJ or a live band. This is open to all of the Park West Lions at no charge for the Lion and their guest.
• At Christmas time we along with the rest of our families all join in a sing along at a senior citizens apartment.
• We build a float and participate in the Manassas Christmas parade. Click here for details.
• In February we will be holding our 9th annual golf trip to Myrtle Beach, SC We have about 25-30 members and guests go each year. We play four different courses and try to pick at least one challenging course, sometimes two. We hold a tournament both in scoring and in putts. Some that go are even good golfers, some of us are not but we have just as much fun. Cost is very nominal, as we go during the slow time of the year.

 

• To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
• To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
• To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
• Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
• To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
• Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor and means.
• To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
• To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.

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