We welcome our newest Lion to the Anchorage Lions Club: Alicia Egan. Shown here with her sponsor, Lion Norm Elliott at the Installation Banquet.

First Lions in Anchorage

Serving our Community

ANCHORAGE LIONS CLUB

Our Lion speaker is - is that you DG Jerry Blackburn?

WE WANT YOU TO BECOME A LION!!!!!
Join us - Contact any of our members, come to our lunch or evening meetings, hear interesting speakers, join in with our fun and rewarding projects as we make our community a better place to live. Get to know us. We are a spirited, gregarious and fun loving group of people. Once you get to know us, you may ask one of our members to sponsor you for membership. Membership is by invitation.
  • CONVENIENT DOWNTOWN LOCATION: WESTMARK HOTEL
  • An open invitation to join us for lunch on Fridays.
  • Great Food, a Presentation on a Timely Topic, and Fine Fellowship.
  • Yearly Activities Overview with Photographs.

Lion President Mark Long delightfully surprised to have been chosen by our club to receive the annual Melvin Jones Fellowship Award. The award is the highest honor a club can bestow on a member. On Lions Mark's behalf the club donated $1000 to the Lions Club International Foundation. The principal remains with the Foundations, and the earnings go to humanitarian relief projects around the world.

Lion Frank Reed is honored for contributing a $1000 Melvin Jones Fellowship to the Lion Club International Foundation on behalf of his late wife Maxine. Center: Past District 49A Governor Dianne Cummings. Right: District 49B Governor Bill Baker.

The Anchorage Lions Club...

The Anchorage Lions Club was Formed in June of 1944, and serves the Anchorage community in a variety of ways:

  • Alaska Ride for Life.
  • Covenant House
  • Don Fridley Golf Tournament.
  • Fireweed 400
  • Melvin Jones Fellowship.
  • Salvation Army Bell Ringing.
  • Street Clean-Up in the Spring and Fall.
  • Vision Screening.
  • World Beard & Moustache Championships

We join other Lions Clubs with the following:

  • Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
  • Campabilities.
  • Diabetes.
  • Food Bank of Alaska.
  • Great Pumpkin Festival.
  • Habitat for Humanities.
  • Joint Sight.
  • Leader Dog.
  • Melvin Jones Fellowship.
  • Miners & Trappers Ball.
  • Personal Energy transportation - PET.
  • Pull Tab Operation at Henry's Great Alaskan Restaurant.
ABOVE ACTIVITIES IN DETAIL WITH PHOTOS

The Anchorage Lions Club pledges to raise $16,000 for the Lions Club International Foundation over the five years, 2007-2011.

 SPEAKERS / ACTIVITIES:

July 2010 / August 2010

Future and Past Months

Welcome to our new Lions

You can donate hearing aids to the Lions by contacting Mary Hoekzema 770-9941 or E-mail.

If you need help getting eye exams and glasses, please call 566-1597 to schedule an interview.

Used eye glasses can be dropped off at any optometrist's office, Costco and Fred Meyer stores. Used glasses will then be matched with an individual needing that proscription.

Membership Recruitment and Retention - Outline from Board Meeting 1-26-2009, and presented to 1-30-2009 Lions Lunch gathering - by Vern Watts

 LIONS - Largest Service organization in the world. Knights of the Blind - we are dedicated to sight restoration and preservation.

Anchorage Lions Club, P.O. Box 242652, Anchorage, Alaska 99524-2652 (NEW) / Serving Anchorage since 1944.

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