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Mrs. Pike realized that running one of Rappahannock’s most successful organizations would take a lot of hours and a lot of hard work. “But I find the time to do the things I really want to do,” she said. “Whether its making apple butter, picking up trash along Route 211 in a bright orange vest with the other Lions, or working with a blind bowling league in Northern Virginia every monday evening, if it’s important enough, I can find the time.”

The Rappahannock Lions Club “is extremely successful financially,” Mrs. Pike noted. “We spend all the money we make, but we’re always looking for more causes to support. Most of what the club does is on an individual basis so we rely on the community to inform us of those who need our assistance. Right now, we are in the process of delivering a pair of eyeglasses to a ten-year-old girl and a new hearing aid is on its way to another county resident,” she reported.

The club’s major source of revenue is its apple butter which the Lions make themselves. The apples come from fellow Lion George

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