Griffin Lions Club

11/07/2025

Griffin Lions Club members along with the Griffin Kiwanis Club performed vision screenings for the students at Futural Rd. Elementary School. The clubs will be working in the coming weeks at other Griffin Spalding Schools within the district. A total of 450 students evaluated for vision impairment. 115 students were referred for additional testing by a licensed Optometrist.

Last week 114 students and 4 adults were tested at 1st Baptist Church School. The testing recording 13 referrals for additional evaluation.

Our team is scheduled to perform vision screenings for the following schools in the county next week:

Anne Street Elementary. Monday 11/10
Crescent Road Elementary. Tuesday 11/11
Moreland Road Elementary Wednesday. 11/12
Orrs Elementary. Thursday. 11/13
Atkinson Elementary. Friday. 11/14

If you would like to make a financial contribution to aid the Lions Club in providing necessary vision assistance to those in need
, please make a donation at Georgia Banking Company, in care of the Griffin Lions Club "vision care" , located at 1624 N. Expressway, in Griffin GA.

08/12/2025

Club members gathered in Carrollton for the District 18 L cabinet meeting and training session. During the meeting, members participated in a service project, assembling backpacks with school supplies. Participating clubs received backpacks to distribute in their respective areas, benefiting students at Rehoboth Road Middle School, Cowan Road Elementary School, and several homeschooled students. Pictured below are members Angela Ibenigie and Shan Tyson. If serving your community through humanitarian services and projects sounds appealing, please contact us to explore involvement opportunities.

08/01/2025

Griffin Lions Club members took time to welcome students back to school in the Griffin Spalding district today. Members visited several schools including Griffin High. We pray that our students stay safe and have a wonderful successful year!

03/21/2025

Last night we had representatives from Georgia Banking Company as guest speakers. Ms. Derricka Sterling and Ms. Shan Tyson spoke about programs on keeping our legacy citizens safe from financial predators. Ms. Tyson also became our newest member, welcome to our club! 🦁

We welcome you to join us during our regular monthly meetings. Our meetings are held at 6:30pm every third Thursday at Ihop restaurant located at 1443 N. Expressway. For our next monthly meeting, City of Griffin Mayor, Doug Hollberg is scheduled to be our guest speaker.

02/01/2025

Ruben the spouse of a Lions Club member. Please consider assisting this family as they are in need of help after a frightening medical emergency. Any contribution would greatly be appreciated.

Hi Loved Ones, On Thursday, January 16, 2025, our beloved Ruben Spier… Mildred Spier needs your support for Help Ruben Spier to cover medical expenses

11/22/2024

The Griffin Lions Club has been busy in the last month conducting vision screenings in the Griffin Spalding School District. In collaboration with the Griffin Kiwanis Club and Southern Cresent Technical College nursing students, 11 elementary schools have been visited.

In children, poor vision is often mistaken as a learning disability or leans toward poor performance academicly. In our efforts, a total of 3981 students were screened with 944 referrals for further medical evaluation. This is a 23.7% deficiency rate in the districts Elementary schools.

The Lions and Kiwanis Clubs both offer assistance to those students who need assistance with a formal diagnostic exam and a pair of glasses from a licensed optometrist. With such a high referral rate, our funding resources are sure to be stressed.

If you would consider assisting us in our efforts to continue to provide these services in would be appreciated. Please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or via Facebook and we will contact.

Griffin Lions Club

10/23/2024

At the recent Griffin Lions Meeting, Vanessa Stanley, District representative of the Lions Club International Foundation visited the club and shared positive insights on aid to the local clubs and communities provided by the foundation. The foundation supports efforts the following areas. Enviornment, childhood cancer, hunger, diabetes, vision, emergency management, humanitarian and youth programs. If any of these initiatives sound like something that may interest you, please reach out so we can get you involved.

Pictured below from.left to right are Clup President Angela Ibenigie, Lion Max Gallman and LCIF Coordinator Vanessa Stanley.

09/24/2024

Last meeting, Fran Schefer from the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation gave a presentation on their programs. The foundation helps the local Lions Club provide eye care and vision services to Griffin-Spalding County citizens. They offer a Tele-Optometry Service, which requires qualification and an appointment, where you can have a comprehensive eye exam by a licensed optometrist. Thank you Fran!!

06/21/2024

At last night's General Meeting, Griffin Lions Club members gathered to install the 2024-2025 Officers. During this meeting service awards were presented and Lion President Angela Ibinigie was presented with the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award. This is one of the highest awards one can receive from the Lions Club. Help us congratulate Angela Ibinigie and all the Lions for their commitment to Lions Club International and the Griffin Spalding community.

If you are interested in what the Lions do, please visit us at our next meeting Thursday July 18th at IHOP Restaurant at 6:30pm.

01/09/2024

You are invited to see what the Lions Club does in service projects for the community. We will be meeting on Thursday January 18, 6:30 PM at IHOP restaurant. It is located at 1341 N. Expressway in Griffin.

We strongly embrace the Lions Club International Five Pillars of Service:

Vision, Hunger, Diabetes, Cancer and Environment.

Come see what you can do to make a difference.

01/07/2024

11/02/2023

Do you have old eyeglasses, hearing aides or cellphones? Please donate them. Join the Griffin Lions Club as we collect for the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Friday, November 3, 2023 at the curbside of America's Best Griffin GA from 10 am to 12 noon.