The Mayville Chautauqua Lions Club held a Bills Watch Party fundraiser for the organization at the Mayville VFW, that besides watching the game also included tailgate food and a raffle, with all of the proceeds going towards Rural Minds. One of the big items for the raffle was a Buffalo Bills player Dawson Knox cleat, donated from the team. 

There are four lions clubs in the county, and the Mayville Chautauqua Lions Club covers the area of Mayville, Westfield, Clymer, Chautauqua and Sherman. 

Jeff Winton, founder and CEO of Rural Minds, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Chautauqua County that focuses on mental health equity for the 46 million people who live in rural America, noted that it is not just the weather this year that has been causing stress for farmers, but a lot of what is going on in the world as well. He added that the amount of extreme weather conditions seen across the country this year are not helping the matter either.

Rural Minds Founder and Chairman Jeff Winton, a native and resident of Chautauqua County, NY, sits down with MyCHQ Owner and Operator Dylan Moran to discuss the issues underlying the mental health challenges in rural America.

Rural Minds founder and chairman Jeffrey Winton of Mayville in Chautauqua County is building connections for mental health services across rural America. Winton was the keynote speaker Wednesday at Trauma Symposium 2024 presented by the Cattaraugus County Trauma Informed Coalition in the Dresser-Rand Auditorium at the John J. Murphy Professional Building. The seeds for Rural Minds were planted on Sept. 3, 2012, with the death of his nephew, Winton said.  A Chautauqua County native, Winton’s life changed along with the rest of his family 12 years ago when his 28-year-old nephew Brooks, the father of three-year-old twins, took his own life.