The Lions Club is pleased
to provide support for a number of other organizations in our community.
Organizations that have received support from the Laytonsville Lions
in the past include:
Boy Scouts Troop 1323
Cub
Scout Packs 1323 and 468
Girl Scouts
4-H Clubs
Laytonsville Elementary PTA
Olney Boys and Girls Club
Leader Dog Program
Lions Eye Bank Program
Eye Care for a Local family
Laytonsville Volunteer Fire Department
Special Olympics
St. Paul's Church
St. Bartholomew's Church
Vision Research
and more....
This
free vision screening program is for the early detection of Amblyopia
(a.k.a - Lazy-Eye) in children who are 6 months to 48 months old. The
program is an excellent way to alert parents to potential eye problems
that can be addressed by an eye care professional. Click here for
complete information on pre-school vision screening.
Each
year the Lions Club grants a number of partial college scholarships
to graduating seniors
from our community. Information about the scholarship program can be
obtained by contacting the club or your guidance counselor at Gaithersburg
or Damascus High School.
The
club happily welcomes back scholarship winners once a year to a club
dinner to hear about the accomplishments of these fine young adults.
The
Laytonsville Lion's Club loans out medical equipment to members of
the community on a first-come, first-serve basis at no charge. There
are no eligibility requirements. Our equipment stock includes electric
hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers (rolling or stationary), chairs
on wheels, crutches (many sizes), bedpans, porta-potties, canes and
other medical equipment. The club is pleased to provide this
equipment to all residents as a service to the community. If you would
like to borrow our medical equipment, please contact us by sending
an email to medical@www.laytonsvillelions.org or
calling Charles White at 301-258-9173.
Twice
a year the club teams with the Montgomery County Red Cross and sponsors
a blood drive. The blood drives are conducted at a local church in
Laytonsville. Members of the community are encouraged to participate. We're always
looking for additional blood donors.
Next Blood Drive -February
23, 2004 from 3 pm until 7 pm at St Paul's United Methodist
Church in Laytonsville. Those who wish to donate
blood can set up an appointment or unscheduled
donors may go directly to St. Pauls United Methodist
Church, 21720 Laytonsville Road (Rte. 108),
Laytonsville, MD. New
and past donors can contact Lion Frank Sullivan at (301) 330-2842 to
arrange for an appointment. The Red Cross would like to collect
40 pints of blood from our community.
For
Thanksgiving and Christmas the Lions Club puts together holiday baskets
for families in our area in need of a little extra help with putting
on a full holiday meal. If you know of a family in the Laytonsville
area that could use our help, drop us
an email. We'll see if we can help them out on the next holiday.
According
to the World Health Organization, one child in four cannot see well
enough to read without glasses. By age forty, 90 percent of adults
need eyeglasses to read. The lives of nearly 500 million people
worldwide would improve with a simple pair of eyeglasses. Last year,
nearly 5.3 million pairs of eyeglasses were collected through the Lions
Eyeglass Recycling Program. Regionally, District 22-c, which includes
Maryland and Washington DC, collected nearly 65,000 pairs of glasses.
The
Lions recycle your used eyeglasses and distribute them to third world
countries. You can drop off you used eyeglasses (Frame, Lenses) in
our collection box at the Laytonsville Post Office. Eyeglass
collection boxes are also available at the libraries in Montgomery
County.
Lions Camp Merrick is a project of Lions District 22-C. When started in 1979,
it set out to provide Deaf and Hard of Hearing children a summer residential
program that was both educational and fun. Over the years the camp
expanded it's program and now offers services to blind adults, blind
children and diabetic individuals.
The
Laytonsville Lions Club is a part of the Lions District 22-c. District
22-c encompasses central Maryland based Lion's clubs. At the district
level, the Lion's of Maryland offers additional community services
beyond those of the Laystonsville Lions.
Keep
up with the Lions! Four to six times a year the club puts
out an email of upcoming community events, community services and
fund raisers. If you would like to be included in our Laytonsville
Lions Club email distribution list, send an email to subscribe
to whats-up@www.laytonsvillelions.org. To protect
you from junk email (a.k.a. SPAM) we won't provide your email address
to anyone outside the Lions Club.
seniors
from our community. Information about the scholarship program can be
obtained by contacting the club or your guidance counselor at Gaithersburg
or Damascus High School.
For
Thanksgiving and Christmas the Lions Club puts together holiday baskets
for families in our area in need of a little extra help with putting
on a full holiday meal. If you know of a family in the Laytonsville
area that could use our help, 