Lions Clubs International

The Pardeeville Lions Club is a member of Lions Clubs International, a world-wide service organization established October 10, 1917 in Chicago, IL by Melvin Jones. We believe in changing the world by serving the needs of our local communities. More than 1.4 million Lions around the world are responding to local and global challenges with kindness and care. Come volunteer with us. The Lion's motto is "We Serve".

Lions global causes:

Childhood Cancer
Diabetes
Disaster Relief
Environmental
Humanitarian
Hunger
Vision
Youth

Club History

The Pardeeville Lions Club received their charter from Lions Clubs International on April 2, 1977 with thirty charter members. The Club was sponsored by the Portage Lions Club. Currently the Club has over 50 members.

Club Mission

The Pardeeville Lions Club consists of members who join together to give their time and effort to improving our community and the world. It is as simple as "We Serve"!

An Invitation

The Pardeeville Lions Club extends an invitation to visit one of our meetings. Consider becoming a Pardeeville Lion and join us in community service through our many service activities and fundraising. Contact us for more information.

Relieving the Hunger

The Pardeeville Lions Club responds to this Centennial Service Challenge each month in a significant way by assisting local hunger-relief charities. The Club volunteers at the Wyocena Community Helping Hands Pantry and the mobile pantry of Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin that stops in Pardeeville.

The distribution takes place the 4th Monday of each month outside regardless of the time of the year and weather conditions. Over 100 families pass through the food line each month.

The families express gratitude for the assistance, and we are grateful to be able to assist the charities in this effort.

We also relieve hunger in the community with brat sales, pie social, and other goodies at our various festivals. You can see and smell what we’ve got cooking all over town. See our Calendar for upcoming events.

Environment

Our Clubs Adopt-A-Highway program helps to keep Wisconsin roadsides beautiful along with other groups that adopt roughly 11,800 miles of state highways, This activity occurs in the spring and fall each year along Hwy 33.

We may be Lions, but we love our birds! Our talented Lions make and sell houses for our fine feathered friends to support the club each year.

Our club also participates in the plastic film recycling program Bags to Benches where we collect, sort and recycle soft film plastics. A bench is awarded by Nextrex for every 1000 pounds of soft film plastic recycled in a 12 month period. We have collected over 7,000 pounds of plastic film and have donated 6 benches. We also partner with the Pardeeville Schools annually for our Trex Earth Day Challenge in April. The schools collected 354 pounds in 2024 and over 1000 pounds since we began in 2021.

Vision

Of the 550 clubs in Wisconsin about half serve as transporters for Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin (LEBW). The Pardeeville Lions Club is one of the transporter Clubs. The Club transports boxes of eye tissue from Wisconsin Dells to the Eye Bank in Madison or from Wisconsin Dells to Tomah, WI. We also participate in eye glass collection and vision screening where we screen over 400 kids in the community.

Youth

Our Lions Club coordinates the annual Stuff the Bus for school supplies to benefit the Pardeeville Area School District.

We sponsor two Pardeeville Highschool Scholarships and our students assist us each month with our Second Harvest food distribution in exchange for service hours.

Our Bags to Benches program extends to our Youth, as well, as we work together during Earth Day every year to collect hundreds of pounds of plastic.

Humanitarian

Our Lions have many talents. Like building handicap ramps, snow removal for our museum or library and helping with the annual Christmas Lights in the park.

Membership News

Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in approximately 46,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.