Amherst Lions Club - Lions e-Clubhouse

July 4th 2025

It was great seeing you all at the Town's 4th of July Celebration!

A perfect day for it!

Our club handled the judging and parading of the bicycles again this year. We had a fantastic group of 139 kids/parents participating. Participatory ribbons were given out to all as well as first, second and third place ribbons in 7 categories…wagons and carriages, family, 0-4, 4-6, 6-8, 9-10, 11+. 18 Lions and one spouse helped in getting things ready, judging, carrying the banner and flag. Thank you for your participation and congratulations to the winners!

ALC Float

The Amherst Lion’s Club’s Float won Best Overall the Amherst Parade!! The Amherst Lions Club presented their float, “Amherst Lions Club Road Trip…Join us on our Journey,” representing the parade theme “America’s Favorite Past Times.” The float featured a Lions family on a road trip driving to the NH mountains, with Dad driving the old “Woodie Wagon”, Mom using a map for directions, a child in their baseball uniform and with a ball glove. Another child was reading a book. Their dogs enjoyed the breeze out the window. All their gear is stored on top of the car including a kayak, sleeping bag, tent, cooler, water toys and fishing rods. A hiker and her child is at their campsite cooking marshmallows over the grill. They’ve been fishing and caught a rainbow trout. 2 wagons are pulled by 2 baseball fans showing Lions past times of helping the blind & hearing impaired and giving to the community, such as emergency rescue equipment to the town, Seeing Eye Dog Training and The Bridge of Flowers. These are all some of our favorite pastimes.

Popcorn on the Green

We had our tent on the Green again this year to sell Popcorn and have info about the club. Thank you for loving our popcorn! We sold everything we had!

Amherst Citizens of the Year 2025

The Amherst Lions Club's President, Jimmy Desai, announced the 2025 Citizen of the Year at the Amherst 4th of July Celebration. Congratulations Rick Katzenberg!

Dima Wilkes of BSA Troop 22, as a portion of his eagle scout project, designed and built an eyeglass collection box to be placed at the Town of Amherst’s transfer station. He also setup collection centers at our local schools and library and posted information to increase public awareness of the importance of recycling eyeglasses. He collected almost 400 pairs of glasses.

The glasses are taken to be cleaned and polished and sent to those who can’t afford them all over the world. Demi carefully listened to our needs for a strong, long lasting, and convenient container to collect eyeglasses at the recycling section at the transfer Station. We couldn’t be prouder of the job he did.

L-R: IPP and club’s scout liaison Reed Flowers, PDG Charlie Vars,

Dima Wilkes and Scout Master Matt Harrison of Troop 22.

Red Sox Raffle Tickets Fundraiser August 2021

And the winner of the Amherst Lions Club Red Sox Ticket Raffle is Nancy F., ticket Number 138!

Congratulations! You have won 4 tickets to the Red Sox vs Texas Ranger game on August 21st , plus $100 cash for food & parking! These are premiere seats behind home plate! You will be notified shortly of how to receive your tickets.

Thanks to all who participated. All proceeds will go to support local charities.

The Amherst Lions Club is giving away, four (4) Field Box tickets for the Saturday, August 21st game against the Texas Rangers. Included with the 4 tickets will be $100 cash for parking and food. These tickets have a value of $1,640 or more but this package is really priceless since seats like these just aren’t ever made available. In short, this is the chance of a lifetime for one lucky winner and their family or friends to be on TV for every pitch!!!!!

These seats are directly behind home plate! They are literally the best seats at Fenway!!!! Imagine eating Fenway franks and singing “Sweet Caroline” during the 7^th ending stretch! What about seeing Devers, Bogarts and Martinez batting.

The Amherst LIONS are so excited to have secured these Red Sox tickets for this year’s ticket raffle through the generosity of an anonymous and well-connected donor.

Live Stream Citizen of the Year

Congratulations!

2020 Citizen of the Year, John A. Harvey

and 2021 Citizen of the Year, Anne Krantz.

Wood Flower Fundraiser 2021

Our Sale has ended. However, if you are interested in placing an order please send and email to amherstlionsclub@gmail.com.

We have some NEW designs in the Wood Flowers Fundraiser. An American Flag and a cute Ladybug to accent your garden and show your patriotism! A one sided flag is $10 and a 2 sided flag is $15. The ladybug is $10 There will be no engraving on the flag or the ladybug.

We also have two new colors for the flowers...pink and purple!

Create a colorful garden in any of the flower shapes.

You have the choice of shape, color and limited engraving on it. The cost will be $10 each and can be in someone’s memory, to honor someone, friends and/or family or just for yourself. Once completed they’ll be placed on the Bridge of Flowers (Corner of Rt. 122 and Boston Post Road) by the end of May, then weekly thereafter. A receipt and picture of it will be emailed to you. At the end of the season, Oct. 1, we will arrange to get the plant stakes back to you or on request.

Please share this with your friends and family and help us show the love of our community. All proceeds go to local charities.

View our video: Enjoy the Flowers