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WESTMORELAND LIONS CLUB   
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WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VA
Westmoreland Lions Club was chartered in June 2003 with service minded members who were interested in helping the Westmoreland community by providing eye and hearing examinations, glasses and hearing aids. Our members have partnered with the Westmoreland County Social Services Department in their annual health fair. We are one of  over 300 Lions Clubs in the Commonwealth of Virginia and one of over 45,000 Lions Clubs in 197 countries and geographical areas of the World. The Association of Lions Clubs has over 1.3 million members.  We collect and recycle used eyeglasses and hearing aids. For our fundraising activities we sell Christmas Poinsettias in October and November with deliveries in early  December.  We sell brooms manufactured by the physically  challenged.  Brooms may be purchased at the following locations.
  1. Bank of Lancaster, 15648 Kings Highway, Montross, VA.
  2. Northern Neck State BAnk, 17191 Kings Highway, Montross, VA.
  3. Peoples Community Bank, 15960 Kings Highway, Montross, VA.
  4. Historyland Business Supplies Kings Highway, Montross, VA
  5. Left Bank Galleries, Hague, VA
The mission statement of Lions Club International: "To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people  for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involement and international cooperation."
The motto is "We Service"
Lions Code of Ethics
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  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.

WHEREVER 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 service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.

ALWAYS bear in mind my obligation as a citizen to my nation, my state and my community and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act and deed.  To give them freely of my time, labor and means.

TO AID my fellow man 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.

LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL OBJECTIVES

TO CREATE and foster a spirit of understanding among the people of the world.

TO PROMOTE the principles of good government and good citizenship.

TO TAKE an active interest in civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.

TO UNITE the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship, and mutual understanding.

TO PROVIDE a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.

TO ENCOURAGE service-minded people to serve their communities without personal financial reward and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavors