2007 LIONS BOAT GIVEAWAY WINNER Thanks to the Community for the Strong level of support given to the Southport Lions Club this year in their twentieth Annual 4th of July Boat Raffel Givaway. At 9PM in Waterfront Park a lucky ticket was drawn from the many thousands of tickets sold and an 7 year old girl, Miss Cagney Hodge of Southport was the WINNER!!!!. Her Dad John Hodges in accepting for her, since she was in bed asleep when the family was finally contacted said the family was thrilled at their good fortune and was very pleased at the outcome. The Boat is currently being preped by Marine Mart of Southport (the dealer) and will be turned over to the Cagney Family in a few days! Congratulations to this lucky Southport family!!!! This is over the 20th year that the Southport Lions Club has given away a NEW Boast and all of the members of the Club want to thank their friends, family, and neighbors for helping to support this 100% charitable donation to the Club. The Lions Club touches over 30 - 35 formal Charities and many, many individuals and families in need here in Brunswick County over the year. The Club gives away more than $30,000 annually and the Boat Giveaway raises a significant part of that annual charity budget!!! Thank You Lion Richard Stitcher
	2008 Boat Giveaway on 7/4 Bill Sue of Leland, along with wife Bidgie and their great-grandson Taylor Johnson, sit in their 2008 Bayliner 195 boat that Sue won in the Southport Lions Club boat raffle on July 4. The chairman of the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners purchased $50 worth of tickets from a Lions Club member while at the pancake breakfast hosted by Trinity United Methodist Church prior to the festival parade. Presenting Sue with his new boat from Southport Marine Mart of Long Beach Road are, from left, Larry Price of Southport Marine Mart; Terry Pope, chairman of the 2008 Lions Club boat project; and Jack Kemeny, past president of the Lions Club. The total boat, motor and trailer package retails for around $21,000. The boat raffle is the major fundraiser for the Lions Club each year with all proceeds donated to charitable organizations and people in need in Brunswick County. This year?s raffle raised over $17,000 for club projects.
	2008 Donation to Boys & Girls Home Lake Waccamaw Tom Lamont the Fundraising Director and Service Clubs Coordinator for the Boys and Girls Home at Lake Waccamaw reecives the annual donation from the Southport Lions Club Members Bob Schwartz and Richard Stitcher
	2008 Hope Harbor Home Annual Donation The Southport Lions Club makes an annual donation to the Hope Harbor Home for Domestic Abuse. here Director Lynn Carlson is accepting the donation from Lions member Richard Stitcher
No Photo	Annual Support for Communities In Schools Candice Hobbs the Executive Director of brunswick County's Communities in Schools Program is accepting a donation from Lions Club President Jack Kemeny.
	Eyeglass Recycling Project LOCATIONS OF EYEGLASS DONATION BOXES EYE CARE Dr. Tara Parnell - Howe St Optometry Center across from Builders Supply Linda's Vision Center on OI Howard Optical - Long Beach Rd Wilmington Eye Associates, Temp office BANKS Banks from Dwtn Southport to Long Beach Rd BB&T Downtown and on Oak Island THRIFT STORES Hope Chest 1 Holden Beach Hope Chest 3 Oak Island Drive Hope Chest 4 in Bolivia Dosher Flea Mkt Downtown Sheltered Treasures Thrift Store Salvation Army ReStore -Habitat for Humanity OTHER LOCATIONS Visitor Center next to Library Peacock-Newman-White Funeral Home - Senior Center on Oak Island Walmart in Leland - Route 17 The Southport Lions Club along with over 45,000 other Lions clubs internationally across 200+ countries collect, restore, and distribute used eyeglasses to people with vision problems. In North Carolina donated glasses are shipped to a regional Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center where they are cleaned, repaired, categorized by prescription, and prepared for distribution by Lions throughout the world. Over this last year, the Southport Lions Club collected and forwarded 1,245 pairs of eyeglasses and over the past 6 years we have collected and forwarded on for recycling over 6,200 pairs of eyeglasses. If you have eyeglasses you no longer use put them in your car and when you pass one of our collection points stop by and place them in the yellow and blue collection boxes we provide. Thank you in advance for helping improve the vision of the world - one person at a time. Eyeglass recycling guidelines - Recycled glasses (frames & lenses) - Frames only - recycled (no lenses) - Frames only - new (no lenses) - Lenses only - lenses never been used in frames; need to be cut to fit into frame or edge grinding - Prescription and Non-prescription sunglasses (clip-on too) - Safety glasses - Eyeglass cases
	Flagpole Donation to Providence Home The Southport Lions Club donated and had installed an American Flag and Flagpole to Providence Home a short term Home for teenagers from abused family situations.
	Scholarship Support to Brunswick Acadamy Students The Southport Lions Club annually presents a scholarship to a graduating student from Brunswick Acadamy who is going on to higher educational opportunities. Here President ron Jones is congratulation Hilton Webb the winner of this year's scholarship who will be going on to Brunswick Commubity College
	Southport Lions Club Has a Long History of Service The Southport Lions Club which was formed in 1945 has provided 63 years of continuous service to the Southport, Oak Island, Boiling Springs Lake, and other southeaster Brunswick County Communities. The motto and creed of the Lions is ?We Serve? and the hundreds of members of this lions club over these six plus decades have taken that motto to heart and have provided on-going service to the local area. In recent years the Southport Lions Club members have staged many different types of fundraising projects each year and have distributed all of the money so collected through the Southport Lions Foundation (a charitable 501C non-profit corporation) on an average of more than $30,000 a year to individuals and families in need, recognized local and national charitable organizations; and worthy projects which in particular support children and seniors in our local communities. Lions historically have involved themselves in vision and hearing related endeavors but the Southport Club has significantly expanded their reach beyond these traditional areas as they have perceived other needs in the community. Over the past 3 years the Clubs gifts, bequests, and donations to non-profit groups, inividuals in need, and vision related programs have exceeded $100,000.
	Southport Lions Club Policy for Providing Support Dedicated to the principles of worldwide Lionism of improving individual lives and entire communities through service the Southport Lions Club provides monetary grants and other support and assistance to needy individuals as well as organizations that strive to carry out this goal of improving our community and the lives of individuals living here. Our Priorities are: 1. Lions International and District Goals. 2. Visually impaired. 3. Other handicapped persons. 4. Organizations that assist individuals in trouble, ie: abused womaen, troubled youth, and other disadvantaged. 5. Youth of our community especially through scholarships and school programsthat promote academic and ar tistic achievements. 6. Community projects that help improve the quality of life for all.
	Summer 2007 Boys & Girls Home Lions Cottage Boys Our Club invites the B&G Home Lions Cottage Residents and Houseparents to a Day at the Beach on Oak Island!
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