North Pend Oreille Valley Lions Club

Local Lions Clubs are involved in service activities that benefit your community directly, or perhaps a larger community such as a major city, state, province, or even country.

The association also fosters service activities internationally. At present, our major international service commitment is SightFirst: Lions Conquering Blindness. Its aim is nothing less than the elimination of preventable and reversible blindness around the world. While all local blindness prevention efforts are considered part of SightFirst, official SightFirst-funded projects must comply with stringent standards established by LCIF.

Approved by the International Board of Directors in November 1993, a continuing major international activity of the association is Lions Youth Outreach: Changing Tomorrow Today. Its objective is to help young people develop essential life and citizenship skills such as sound judgment, self-discipline, acceptance of responsibility, ability to communicate with various age groups, ability to get along with others, critical decision-making ability with regard to drugs and alcohol, and a desire to serve others.

Other major service activities of Lions Clubs International include the following:

• Sight Conservation and Work with the blind
• Hearing and Speech Action and Work with the Deaf
• Environmental Services
• The Leo Club Program
• Youth Exchange
• International Relations

A few of the North Pend Oreille Valley Lions Club local projects have been as follows:

• Worked with LaFarge to build the covered bleachers at Selkirk High School football field
• Built the concession stand and recreation area (basketball, volleyball) next to Ione Elementary School
• Purchased pagers and radios for EMTs and ambulances
• Sponsored a twin (and successfully challenged the community to match sponsor the second twin) to go to speech therapy camp ($1,500 each)
• Purchased the linoleum floor covering for the stage of the Cutter Theatre
• Sponsored and cosponsored Down River Days celebration in Ione
• Donated funds for purchase of Christmas lights for Ione, Metaline, and Metaline Falls
• Helped purchase a brand new ambulance for the community, to be operated by Fire District Number 2
• Repair elevator in Cutter Theater
• Equipment and helmets for HS Football team
• Thermal imaging camera for Fire Dist. #2
• $7,500 to Boy Scout Troop # 935 
• On going support to 1st book

If you have a local Special Project that you would like the NPOV Lions Club to help with, download our New Projects Application here. Only open to Organizations in the Ione, Metaline, and Metaline Falls, WA areas, the Selkirk School District, and the towns of Ione, Metaline, and Metaline Falls, WA.

New Projects Application

Applications must be received by May 31 of current year.  Please click on the "New Projects Application" link above to complete and submit your application online.

You will be notified by July 31 if your project has been approved for funding or not.

Projects must to be completed before June 30 of the following year to qualify for reimbursement. An itemized list of all expenditures, with receipts, is required.

Applicants may be invited to attend a meeting of the Lions Club Board of Directors to present their projects and to answer questions members of the club may have.

Funding preference will be given to those projects that will provide the most service to the greatest number of people in the community.

A Lions Club member will be assigned as a project liaison and will check on the progress of the project periodically.