Sandy Spring Lions Golf Outing is coming up this weekend at Willow Springs country club!

Please join us at our blood drive this coming March at the Christ Community Church of Ashton. We are looking forward to seeing you there and we will have Lions standing by to assist all those who give blood.

Lion Tina Arrowood here proudly presents on behalf of the Sandy Spring Lions Club a $400 grocery gift card to Bob Foard, whose family lost their home in a fire and are currently in temporary housing. Lion Tina is organizing a fundraiser for the Foard family at Dempsey’s if you would like to make a further donation.

Through Recycle for Sight, Lions collect new and gently used eyeglasses and sunglasses in collection bins at a variety of locations in their communities including libraries, doctors’ offices, schools, sidewalks, banks, and retail stores. The glasses are then shipped to the nearest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center, where volunteers sort the glasses, clean them and determine their prescription strength. After carefully packaging the refurbished spectacles, Lions store them until they can be distributed, usually through humanitarian missions to developing nations.

Lion volunteers and eye care professionals screen thousands of children and adults during sight missions, providing them—free of charge—with prescription lenses, frames and ultimately a better quality of life. Lions also provide recycled glasses to nonprofit organizations focused on eye care, as well as to optometry college groups, religious organizations, and military assistance groups, which also distribute to people in need.

P.S. We also collect used hearing aids; which are cleaned, refurbished, and made available at reduced prices to those who cannot otherwise afford hearing assistance.

Olney: MedStar Montgomery Medical Center (lobby), Fletcher’s BP Service, Sandy Spring Bank, EyeWorks Vision Care Center, Quality Optical, Montgomery County Library, My Eye Dr.

Sandy Spring: Friends House, Sherwood High School

Cloverly: Safeway Pharmacy

Ashton: Ashton United Methodist Church, Dempsey’s Restaurant, Just Hair Studio

White Oak: Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home

Brookeville: Salem United Methodist Church

Silver Spring: Holiday Park Senior Center, Schweinhaut Senior Center, White Oak Senior Center

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On Saturday September 10th, the Sandy Spring Lions are co-hosting a lightbulb exchange event with free lightbulbs provided by Montgomery County. The location is New Hope Presbyterian Church at 17930 Bowie Mill Rd, Derwood, MD 20855. Please come and join us to exchange your bulbs and enjoy each other’s company.

This event offers MoCo residents the opportunity to dispose of all incandescent (trash) and CFL bulbs (proper disposal-Mercury) held by the resident.  In return, each person will be provided an exchange of up to three (3) A-19 Warm (w/some daylight) 60 Watt equivalent LED bulbs.  

Our Lions Club will be hosting a blood drive on September 2. Some of our lions have donated gallons over the last 50 years. Can we get just a pint or two from you? Looking forward to a good turnout before the weekend holiday!

Come and be a part of our long history of blood drives. August 12, 2022 Christ Community Church of Ashton.

Our Lions Club will once again be scooping delicious ice cream at the Dairy Bar located along the main strip at the County Fair. This year our date is Wednesday, August 17 and we will be manning the location all day long. The Dairy Bar is staffed by Lions the whole week of the fair but our day will be the one you won’t want to miss.

Come and enjoy or if you would like to, come and volunteer if you are 16 or older. It’s one of our most fun and rewarding fundraisers of the year!

Official sign up link is located here. You can get service hours by joining in with our most fun fundraiser of the year! Lions, Leos, and others are welcome. If you volunteer for a three hour shift, we can get you a free pass to enter the fair.