One of our annual Service Projects is to clean up the city street we adopted – Pickett Road (the section North of the post office).

Photo of our work crew on Saturday, April 30, 2016…

Please read our report at:  Road Kill news

On Sunday, April 24, the overarching management activity for all Lions clubs in northern VA conducted an honorary induction ceremony for Lions who have joined in the past year.  Lion Mark Salesses – a new member  of Fairfax Lions Club – participated in the event, joined by his spouse Laurie and Fairfax Lions Club membership chair Rodney Neely.  It was indeed a pleasure to stand up with Mark at the ceremony!

New Lion Mark Salesses Honored

Fairfax Lions Club dinner meetings feature an invited speaker.  We try to invite a wide range of local activites to bring a broad spectrum of information to club members.

For example, Nancy Katz Triplett, Ashley Corbit, and Michelle Harman of The Shiloh Project spoke to the Fairfax Lions Club on April 19th.  Nancy is Shiloh’s founder/president.  In highly supervised settings, Shiloh brings recently rescued dogs into juvenile residential facilities where students train, socialize and help prepare the dogs for adoption.  Last night we saw a demonstration of how to approach a strange dog, observe the dog’s motions and expressions, and how to interact.

In photo:  Ashley (L) demonstrating with a toy dog alongside Nancy(R)

More info at http://www.theshilohproject.org/

Guests are always welcome to visit our club and enjoy the dinner speakers.  Of course we hope to interest guests in our service mission.  We meet the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month.  If you are interested, please contact us thru this web site….click the CONTACT US menu tab at the top of this page.

On Saturday, April 30th, the Fairfax Lions Club will clean up the sides of Pickett Road in Fairfax.  This is a great project to help our youth better understand civic responsibility.  Join us for a few hours of public service!

Assemble at 7:45am, Saturday April 30th at the Thaiss Park ball fields: 3401 Pickett Road – near intersection of Pickett Road and Old Pickett Road.

Bring gloves, wear sturdy walking shoes, dress for the weather. Safety vests, trash bags and litter grabbers will be provided. After the clean-up, join the Lions for a friendly pancake breakfast at a local restaurant (pay your own way).

Road-side cleanup

Fill those bags!

Graysen Hunter, a Freshman at Woodson HS, helps the Fairfax Lions Club serve our community.  Graysen has helped at past Lions food sales – where we raise funds to finance our charity programs. (He wore the Lion costume at the Fairfax Fall Festival, October 2015).

Recently, Graysen was our bingo caller at the Fairfax Nursing Center  http://www.fairfaxnursingcenter.com/   Fairfax Lions call bingo monthly providing a little entertainment and companionship for seniors in the nursing center.

Graysen Hunter calling bingo

Local area Lions Clubs sponsored contestants in a March 9th competition to award prize money and select vocalists and instrumentalists to advance to state level competition.  This is the Virginia Lions “James A. Bland Music Scholarship Competition.”  The Fairfax Lions Club had held a competition in January and selected 2 contestants for scholarship awards from our club and to advance to last night’s event.

For information on the Bland Contest, see:  Lions of Virginia Bland Music Scholarship Foundation

The March 9th event was wonderful competition:  13 instrumental and vocalist competitors performed beautifully.  The quality of the competition was high, and a panel of judges worked hard to select winners.

The Fairfax Lions Club sponsored performing artists are in the photo below.  They were not selected to advance, they were superb.  We thank them for doing their best, and thank Lion Jeff Root for chairing our Bland contest activity.