About the West Corners Lions Club
For more than sixty years, the West Corners Lions Club has been part of this community — quietly, steadily, the way a service club is supposed to be. We are a chartered member club of Lions Clubs International, the largest service organization in the world, and we carry that mission at a local scale: we serve where we see a need, in West Corners and the communities around it.
Our history
The West Corners Lions Club was chartered by the Endicott Lions Club on February 28, 1962, back when the village was still growing. The club is part of Lions District 20-Y.
In the decades since, the club has been a fixture of community life. In the 1970s, the club ran the West Corners Lions Club Community Festival — a week of Field Days with rides, bands, and food that, for a lot of people in this area, was how they first came to know the Lions. The festival is no longer held, but the spirit behind it never left: the club still shows up, still serves, still does the work.
What we do
The club’s work falls into two halves that depend on each other. Our service projects are the work itself — vision screening for schoolchildren, scholarships for local students, food pantry support, help for neighbors facing emergencies, and more. Our fundraisers — the chicken BBQs, the Turkey Party, the Christmas Tree Sales — are how that work gets paid for. You can read about both on our Service and Fundraisers pages.
Lions Clubs International
The West Corners club is one of tens of thousands of Lions clubs in over 200 countries. The Lions motto is “We Serve” — two words, and they cover it. Lions International was founded in 1917, and since Helen Keller addressed the organization in 1925 and challenged Lions to become “knights of the blind,” vision and sight have been central to the Lions mission. That’s why so much of what our club does — the school vision screening, the eye exams and glasses — runs back to that founding cause.
Where we meet
We generally meet the 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 6:30 PM at Most Holy Rosary Church, 2596 Main Street, Maine, NY 13802.
Visitors are always welcome. If you’re curious about the club — whether you’re thinking about joining or just want to see what we’re about — come to a meeting, or reach us through our Contact page.
Join us
We don’t run membership drives. People find their way to the Lions because they saw the work and wanted in — and that’s the right way to do it. If the service work on these pages sounds like something you’d want to be part of, you already have a sense of who we are. Come to a meeting. That’s all it takes to start.