Lions Clubs of Del Rio Texas

PDG TJ (far right) explains the duties and responsibilities to incoming 2nd Vice President Glenn Purvis (left), incoming 3rd Vice President John Hyten (center) and incoming 1st Vice-President Lisa Evans.

The incoming vice presidents pledged their loyalty to incoming President Jim Weed (right)

Outgoing President Ken Sievers (left) passed the symbol of leadership to incoming President Jim Weed

Del Rio Host Lions Celebrate 80 Years of Service

March 15, 2008 the Del Rio Host Lions Club gathered with family members and friends to commemorate their 80th anniversary. Keynote speaker Everett "Ebb" Grindstaff, Past International President of the International Association of Lions Clubs remunerated the accomplishments of the Host Lions Club during the past 80 years, and challenged the club continue its service. Quoting Helen Keller, PIP Grindstaff called upon the Host Lions to continue to be "knights for the blind," and to expand their service to Del Rio.

PIP Grindstaff (left) with the past presidents of the Del Rio Host Lions Club in attendance with the 80th Anniversary celebration

Del Rio Host Lions Club President Ken Sievers
(his wife must have dressed him; he hasn't look this good since his wedding)

Learn about the state of the art Lions Low Vision Center at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio funded by the Lions Sight Research Foundation. The Lions Low Vision Center offers services to sighted individuals that have suffered degradation in their visual acuity because of diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, cataracts, eye injury, or eye disease of some type.

World famous Del Rio Lions brisket!
Makes a wonderful addition to your event.
For catering call 774-2470

Clean Out Your Drawers
Check Your Closets

Any Lion will be happy to accept your old eyeglasses for
recycling. Just bring your old eyeglasses with you to any Lions
event.

Each year, the Texas Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center supplies
60-80 missions sponsored by church groups, physicians and
other organizations with eyeglasses. In addition to providing eyeglasses for under privileged children and adults in Texas, the center also supplies eyeglasses to distribution centers in the Republic of Ghana, Nigeria and Brazil.

The center organizes optical training teams composed of Lions,
doctors and opticians to work with Lions in developing countries.