he Vancouver Lions Club, of Vancouver, Washington U.S.A., is a community service organization that began serving the humanitarian needs in the greater Vancouver, Washington community in 1919 as the Vancouver Prunearians before joining the International Association Of Lions Clubs on September 12, 1928.
The Club is organized as a Washington non–profit corporation and is a §501(c)(4) non–profit organization under the United States Internal Revenue Code. The Club's charitable arm, the Vancouver Lions Foundation, is also organized as a Washington non–profit corporation and is §501(c)(3) charitable organization under the United States Internal Revenue Code.
Announcements…
- CLUB MEMBERSHIP OPENINGS — The Vancouver Lions Club is currently accepting applications for membership. Membership is open to all persons of
good moral character and reputation who are over the age of 18. There are no limitations to membership based on business, profession, industry, employment, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, military service, race or affiliation. Note that Lions Clubs International has waived new Lions club membership initiation fees (otherwise $3500) through June 30, 2022, and there are discounts to annual dues for families and students. Consider joining the Vancouver Lions Club today and share the fun and fellowship of serving your community. - BEST WEBSITE — The Vancouver Lions Club website, the website that you are vsiting right now, was judged Best Club Website at the District 19–G Lions Spting Conference on May 13–14, 2022!
Coming Events…
- CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK PROJECT — Vancouver Lions volunteer day at the Clark County Food Bank, 6502 NE 47th Avenue, Vancouver, Washington, is scheduled for Thursday, July 7, 2022 from 2:00
p.m. to 3:30p.m. .
We will be helping the Food Bank build FOOD boxes for food delivery. You need to fill out a Volunteer Registration form and bring it with you to the Food Bank on April 21. Contact Lion Brian Rerick and let him know you can pitch in on this project. - SUMMER TIME IS PICNIC TIME — The first VLC family picnic on the Vancouver Lions Club summer meeting schedule is July 7, 2022, at Lions Robb and Mary Peck's home. Social time starts at 6:00
p.m. , food served at 6:30p.m. $500 per person. Potluck items welcomed. Lions, families and friends are invited. Contact Lion Susan for address or other information. - SECOND SUMMER PICNIC — The second VLC family picnic on the Vancouver Lions Club summer meeting schedule is July 21, 2022, at Lion Karen Pederson's home. Check back for details. Lions, families and friends are invited.
- BRATFEST IS BACK — The third VLC family picnic on the Vancouver Lions Club summer meeting schedule, aka the BRATFEST, is August 4, 2022, at Lion Bill and Lynn Craig's home. Lions, families and friends are invited. Updates will be posted here as they become available.
- PICNIC NUMBER 4 — Closing out the summer barbeques, the fourth, and final VLC family picnic on the Vancouver Lions Club summer meeting schedule is August 18, 2022, at Lion Nadine Robertson's home. Lions, families and friends are invited. Check here for updates.
Vancouver?
If you are looking for the web site of the Vancouver Lions Club that is located in Vancouver, Washington U.S.A., this is it!
As it turns out, there are a lot of Vancouvers,1 most of which are located fairly close to each other,2 all of which are named after Captain George Vancouver, or are named after a place that is named after Captain George.
So let's try to sort this out, maybe help you find what you are looking for.
If you are not looking for the Vancouver Lions Club of Vancouver, Washington U.S.A., but are instead trying to find the BC Lions football team, or maybe one of the 30–plus Lions Clubs in British Columbia that include “Vancouver” as part of their club name, they are each located a short, 4 hour 52 minute, 305 mile (491 kilometer) drive north on Interstate 5 (U.S.)/Highway 99 (Canada) from Vancouver, Washington U.S.A., in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
(For the record, and just to add to the likely confusion, there are also 2 more “Vancouver” Lions clubs located here in Vancouver, Washington U.S.A.— the “Vancouver Dawn Lions Club,” and the “Vancouver Fort Vancouver Lions Club”— and there used to be at least two more!).
If you were trying to find Vancouver Island, or something or someone on Vancouver Island, that too is located in Canada, 247 miles (397 kilometers) to the north of Vancouver U.S.A., and a ferry ride across either the Strait of Juan de Fuca or the Strait of Georgia.
And now that you know where we are, whether we are who you were trying to find or not, please accept our invitation to spend some time learning about who we are, what we do, how we serve as Lions, and maybe even a little bit about why we we have chosen to be Lions as well.
1 See, “A tale of two Vancouvers”, by Jeffery Racheff, A Hundred Monkeys, April 1, 2010.
2 The exceptions being Mount Vancouver on the border between Yukon and Alaska, and New Zealand's 6th highest mountain— which is also named Mount Vancouver. Sheesh!.