Featured at honors night was almost four year old Drew Ericksen and his mom Annette from Benjamin. Drew suffers from a rare genetic disorder and has to have special glasses every six months. He is legally blind and can't see without them. He also suffers from eye tremors and two dimensional sight. The glasses help with the tremors and Drew has learned to compensate with the latter problem.

Drew reminds us all how precious sight can be, especially to one so young, and how important the work is that the Lions do as “Knights of the Blind”. Our thanks goes out to Drew and Annette for their great example and courage.

Lions Clubs Members

Lions are groups of service-minded men and women who are interested in improving their communities. We are young people, families and baby boomers alike. To become a Lion is to become an active volunteer, a member of a respected international organization, a leader in your community and a friend to people in need. Learn more about what we do.

There are many reasons to become a member. As a Lion, you'll:

• Help your community and gain valuable skills

• Make an impact on people's lives – locally and internationally

• Learn to be a leader – and lead a respected organization

• Network with business people in your community and around the world

• Energize your life and have fun

You'll grow personally and professionally. And you'll know that what you do is worthwhile and appreciated. 

Payson Lions have been around for over 80 years, establishing a tradition of excellence.

Payson Lions support cub scouts, boy scouts, sight preservation and all worthy causes through various money raising projects. 

Visit our "Contact Us" page for more information or to have a Lions Club member contact you. Come join us and share the excitement!

• To Create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world.
• To Promote the principle of good government and good citizenship.
• To Take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
• To Unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
• To Provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
• To Encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, and to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in commerce, industry, professions, public works and private endeavours.

Lions Code of Ethics

• To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
• To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
• To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
• Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubts against myself.
• To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
• Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, as to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labour and means.
• To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
• To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.