South Carolina H 4018: Hartsville Lions Club, 80th anniversary

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2025-2026 Bill 4018 Text of Previous Version (Feb. 18, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4018

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A house RESOLUTION

TO CONGRATULATE THE HARTSVILLE 
LIONS CLUB UPON THE OCCASION OF ITS EIGHTIETH ANNIVERSARY AND TO EXPRESS THE 
UTMOST GRATITUDE FOR ITS MANY YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS OF 
HARTSVILLE AND DARLINGTON COUNTY.

Whereas, the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives 
are pleased to salute the Hartsville Lions Club, which has provided eighty 
continuous years of service in enhancing quality of life for the citizens of 
Hartsville and Darlington County; and

Whereas, the Hartsville club is a member of Lions Clubs International 
and South Carolina Lions, District 32-C. Lions Clubs International (LCI), 
founded in 1917 by Chicago business leader Melvin Jones, is dedicated to making 
the world a better place. The largest service organization in the world, LCI, 
with its almost 1.4 million members, has become the world leader in blindness 
prevention and works extensively in members' local communities to help those in 
need; and

Whereas, established in Hartsville on February 26, 1945, the 
Hartsville Lions Club, as part of living out its motto, "We Serve," has as its 
primary focus providing vision care to individuals who need assistance; and

Whereas, the club's primary hands-on service project involves eye 
screening for all Darlington County students each year. In 2023, the club 
received two grants that allowed the purchase of two eye-screening cameras. 
These cameras have made possible eye screening for more than thirteen thousand 
students since 2023; and

Whereas, further, over the past few years, the Hartsville Lions Club 
has provided eye exams and/or glasses to sixty-seven Hartsville residents and 
has donated generously to the Storm Eye Institute at MUSC in Charleston, as 
well as to South Carolina Lions Vision Services (eye surgeries), Leader Dogs 
for the Blind, Lions Clubs International Foundation, and Darlington County 
Recreation Department (youth sports); and

Whereas, the club also has helped fund local youth baseball 
sponsorships, Hartsville High School student scholarships, Hartsville High 
School Athletics (player meals), Trent Hill Children's Center in Hartsville 
(meals and Christmas gifts for the children), Hartsville Interfaith Ministries 
(food relief), South Carolina Lions Disaster Relief, Samaritan's Purse, 
Hartsville Fire Department Toy Drive, Christ City Home, and other charities; 
and

Whereas, to fund its activities and donations, the club holds an 
annual Vidalia onion sale, the most recent of which earned a profit of twelve 
thousand dollars; and

Whereas, to mark the organization's eightieth anniversary, the 
Hartsville Lions Club will hold a celebratory gathering on Thursday, February 
27, 2025; and

Whereas, grateful for the committed service and outstanding 
contributions of the Hartsville Lions Club to the people of South Carolina, 
most particularly those of Hartsville and Darlington County, the House extends 
best wishes to the club in all its future endeavors as its members continue to 
serve. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the South 
Carolina House of Representatives, by this 
resolution, congratulate the Hartsville Lions Club upon the occasion of its 
eightieth anniversary and express the utmost gratitude for its many years of 
dedicated service to the citizens of Hartsville and Darlington County.

Be it further resolved that a copy 
of this resolution be presented to the Hartsville Lions Club.

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