LAKEVILLE The Lakeville Lions Club recently awarded Mark A Dube the Melvin Jones Fellowship in recognition for his service to the Lakeville Lions and the Lakeville community. 

Dube has been a member of the Lakeville Lions club since 2013, served as a previous board member, and has been instrumental in the success of multiple fund-raising events such as the dinners-to-go and fall family festivals. 

He also supports multiple Lions community events to include Easter egg hunts, touch-a-trucks, Christmas tree lightings, Lakeville Council on Aging shows and Elvis breakfasts, Elliot Farm Harvest Festivals and town center traffic island landscaping. 

Dube has also donated his carpentry skills for maintaining the Lions clubhouse, renovating the old Lakeville police station, and making repairs to the Assawompsett playground and the Lakeville historical museum outbuilding. He was also involved in youth sports coaching and contributing to sports field maintenance. 

“Lion Dube’s contributions are key to a successful club, enabling us to raise funds used to support Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund and other local charities and scholarships as well as support community events such as the Lakeville Arts and Music Festival,” Immediate Past Club President Christopher Plonka said.

Current Club President Norm Orrall noted that “The Lions motto is ‘We Serve.’ Mark lives out this motto in his professional and private life, serving others in his community, and he is well deserving of this prestigious recognition.” 

The Melvin Jones Fellowship was created in 1973 and takes its name from the founder of Lions Clubs International, Melvin Jones. The fellowship was established as Lions Clubs International Foundation’s highest form of recognition to acknowledge an individual’s dedication to humanitarian service.