Christmas Food Baskets

Peace Poster Contest

Each year the Vass Lions Club partners with five local schools to collect canned and dried food.  Residents of Vass, Lakeview and the Woodlake community also pitch in.  This past holiday, students at Union Pines High School even added gift wrapped toys to their effort. The end result is the accumulation of many tons of food which is supplemented by fresh items purchased by the Lions Club, baked goods donated by area grocers, sweet potatoes from a local farmer, and frozen chickens donated by Gold Kist.  On the morning of Dec. 24, large boxes of food and toys are distributed by Lions Club members and other volunteers to needy families in the surrounding area. In 2005, 182 families were served by this project.

At the start of each school year our Lions Club sponsors a Peace Poster Contest for students at nearby New Century Middle School. The contest is part of a larger competition that is sponsored by Lions Clubs International. Winning entries in the local contests, such as the one from New Century pictured here, are submitted into further competitions at a regional, then state level. Winners in the statewide contest are forwarded on to Lions Clubs International where they compete with posters submitted from every corner of the world. Students age 11, 12, and 13 are eligible.  Each year the contest has a new theme for the drawings. This year’s theme was Peace Without Borders. In our local competition, at New Century, well over 100 students participated.  

Free Flu Shots

Free Eye Screening Clinic

As flu season approaches each fall, the Vass Lions Club joins forces with the Moore County Health Department to provide free flu shots to persons in the local area who are age 50 or more. Health Department nurses administer the shots. The Lions Club organizes and staffs the clinic.  It also pays for all the shots that are not covered by health insurance.  In 2005 over 300 shots were administered.

Once each year the Vass Lions Club provides a free eye screening clinic utilizing a state of the art traveling van owned by the North Carolina Lions Foundation. Area optometrists volunteer their time and Lion volunteers take care of the lesser skilled tasks. These include operation of visual acuity and visual field analyzer machines, and the organization and operation of the clinic itself. Invariably, at each clinic a number of people are discovered to have serious eye problems requiring treatment, and that is why we do it.