Lions are an international network of 1.4 million men and women in 206 countries and geographic areas operating more than forty eight thousand Lions Clubs who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world. There are more than six hundred Campus Lions Clubs in the world at colleges and universities with thirteen thousand members. Lions Provide Disaster Relief, Commun
ity Service & Charitable Donations To Help The Blind & Deaf. receiving its original charter yet it became defunct in January,1948 A.D. and thus reorganized on January 16th.1950 A.D., its present charter was issued on the 1st. of March
1950 A.D.. Its sponsoring Club was the Princeton Lions Club for both charters. The charter members in 1945 A.D. were Walter Godwin, Doc R. Oliver, William B. Parker, B.B. Parker, W.C. Wilkins, Rudolph E. Oliver, James L. Peedin. The following became the charter members under the 1950 A.D. reorganization of the Pine Level Lions Club William T. Bachelor, Clyde L. Creech, Levey P. Creech, Gordon L. Godwin, Norwood G. Jones, Walter B. Godwin, Rev.J.R. Jones, Alvin Kornegay Jr., H.G. Kornegay, Clyde Mozingo, Dr. D. Buren Oliver, Doc R. Oliver, Rudolph E. Oliver, B.B.Parker, J.E. Parker, James L. Peedin, Clarence W. Strickland, J.E. Strickland, Ralph S. Styron, Simon D. Styron, F..B. Trivette, J.W. Walters, Ashton Wiggs, W.C. Wilkins, W.E. Warren Jr., Edward L. White, Marvin W, White. During the early 1950s A.D. Lion Joseph B. Dupree Sr. had a block building, which Lion Rudolph E. Oliver purchased with its surrounding land for the Club to use, having a sign, Pine Level Lions Den painted on the front of the building. Lion Rudolph E. Oliver donated this building and land through legal deed to the Pine Level Lions Club on the 8th day of April 1954 A.D. and it is still in use today by the Club. The Pine Level Lions Den where the Pine Level Lions Club holds its meetings is located outside of the Town of Pine Level, N.C. in the countryside toward the Town of Selma, N.C. on Pine Level Selma Road. This old historic building at one time was a tavern. Throughout the years the Pine Level Lions Den building interior has been remodeled, the kitchen has been upgraded and the outside of the building has been bricked. A front porch was added, and a new roof and sign containing these words " Pine Level Lions Club Chartered 1950 We Serve", containing the Lions Logo. At onetime many years ago the Club had a pet goat, which was sent to the home of any member, which did not attend a meeting, and that goat was under their care to feed till the next meeting in a fortnight. When two members were absent then one would keep the goat for one week and then the other the next week before the next Club meeting. Because of the goat most members made it to the Club meetings so they would not have to take the goat home, which was known to eat any rose bush it could find. The Pine Level Lions Club is amongst the oldest in District 31 N, meeting the 1st. & 3rd. Mon. at 7 PM. In the 1950s & 1960s A.D. the Club started many charities, which still remain active as local traditions. Since A.D.1953 the Pine Level Lions Club has produced as a fundraising project its annual Club Calendar with color picture including the meeting dates of the Pine Level Lions Club and the local Pine Level Fire Department, also including the birthdays, anniversaries and memorials of local families. Everyone really enjoys the calendar and the brooms we sell at the Town Market, and the Lions candy mints we sell at local community stores. The Pine Level Lions Club Turkey shoot is held every November at Sam Godwin Park in the Town of Pine Level. Formerly held on the property at the Lions Den. The Turkey Shoot was started in 1961 A.D., then there is the school Facility Night Banquet held since 1962 A.D., the Pine Level Lions Club has provided a free banquet for the entire staff of our local school, originally the 1st. - 12th. Grades - Pine Level High School, now the Pine Level Elementary School. Since 1983 A.D. the Pine Level Lions Club has provided fruit baskets at Christmas every year for local Widows. For many years the Pine Level Lions Club promoted an annual charity Horse Show, with participants from across America, which performed for prizes to the enjoyment of local children and their parents. It was replaced in 2008 A.D. by our annual Lions Charity Golf Tournament which is held each year at the Cardinal Country Club in Pine Level, North Carolina. The Pine Level Lions Club supports many annual projects such as the Lions Leader Dog League For The Blind, White Cane, Boys & Girls Home and the Lions Cottage at Lake Waccamaw, Camp Dogwood, Relay for Life, Lions Vision Van, N.C. Lions Foundation (NC Lions Inc), LCIF (Lions Clubs International Foundation).
“Sight – First Program” many children and adults now see more clearly. The Pine Level Lions Club has supported both the first and second campaigns for Sight First. Sight: First - Lions Conquering Blindness
The Pine Level Lions Club has provided local tornado relief, hurricane relief and in Haiti, New Zealand and Japan we have provided disaster relief. Eighty-five percent of all monies raised by the Pine Level Lions Club is used to give support to the local communities and the citizens of North Carolina. The Pine Level Lions Club provides Eye exams and Eyeglasses to lower income individuals in need which cannot obtain government assistance. We also support the local Girl and Boy Scouting Programs, and Elderly Assistance Projects. The Pine Level Lions Club by unanimous vote sponsored the Kenly Lions Club, and the Pine Level Lions Club has also by unanimous vote agreed to sponsor the first Leo Club in zone 8 at North Johnston High School. Leo Clubs provide a youth leadership program which teaches High School students and College level individuals business skills with an Infosys placed on community service. When you see the American Red Cross and the International Red Cross working to help those in need it is always local Lions Members that are working right beside of them, as the world’s largest civic club. Every male Lion member united together with every female Lioness member, working together make up the international humanitarian army of one million four hundred thousand volunteers worldwide in more than forty eight thousand Lions Clubs thus enforcing our, Motto: “We Serve.”
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Pine Level Lions Club
PO BOX 207
Pine Level, N.C. 27568 USA
