Cereal City Lions
A part of Lions Clubs International whose motto is
WE SERVE
We Strive to SERVE the Battle Creek Area in ALL Areas of
LCI Global Service Causes
Childhood Cancer / Diabetes / Disaster Relief / Environment / Hunger / Vision / Humanitarian / Youth
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Childhood Cancer
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We partner with Calico Quilters of Central Christian Church to make pillowcases for the children who attend Camp Quality, a Michigan camp for children with cancer.
Cereal City Lions and friends purchase and cut frabic for three pillowcase parts. We then match coordinating pieces and place them in kits which are given to Calico Quilters to be sewn into pillowcases. Last spring we were able to give 145 pillowcases to the Camp Quality to be given to campers to keep.
Diabetes
Our Strides Walk for Diabetes Awareness in October 2025 was huge success, We partened with other organizations to provide health information and activity stations along the 1.2 mile walking trail at Riverside Park in Battle Creek. More that 65 people registeres for the event which raised over $1,200 for various diabetes causes. Among other donations, we were able to sponsor a child with juvenile diabetes for a week at Camp Quality. Our thanks to Bedford Area Lions, Battle Creek Host Lions, Pennfield Lions, KCC Student Nurses Association, Lakeview Schools, Yama Yoga, Marian E. Burch Adult Day Care, and Battle Creek Rotary Club for their participation.
Environment
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Cereal City Lions participate in several environmental projects each year. During the 2025-26 year club volunteers helped at the DPW Recycling Day along with other service clubs. We sorted styrofoam, electronics and tires as they were dropped off. It is a well-organized project that we enjoy helping with each March.
Cereal City Lions also do an Adopt-A-Highway cleanup each spring and fall. We clean a 2 mile stretch of Dickman Road. There are signs naming our club at 20th Street and at Franklin Recycling. We usually have 12-18 Lions and friends working 2-3 hours in small teams. Let us know if you would enjoy volunteering with us!
Many groups, families and individuals volunteer to tend gardens at Binder Park Zoo. Our 4 garden beds are all in the Zoorassic Park area, Teams of Lions take turns going to the zoo for weeding, hoeing, pruning and watering to keep the flowers looking nice for the patrons. This year we had to replant some of the beds after local critters ate the plants! All plants were donated by members from their personal flower beds.
We also do an Earth Day cleanup on a stretch of Linear Park along the river.
Over the years we have done can collections, participated in the Krazy For the K'zoo River cleanup and have helped with a fall cleanup at Clear Lake Camp where we run Winter Camp For the Blind (adults) the first weekend in February.
Hunger
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A major Hunger Project for Cereal City Lions each year is providing food to families at Christmas. These "Christmas Baskets" take much planning and gathering of materials. In 2025, 24 families received everything from canned and shelf stable foods, to dairy products and frozen meat (ham, turkey or chicken). Lions members filled boxes with shelf stable food, adding refrigerated and frozen food at the last minute and then delivered the "Baskets" to 24 families in need.
Several of our members work at the Franklin Food Pantry. When they learned there was a shortage of several items, they organized a club focused food drive. The food collected at our meeting was delivered to the Food Pantry the next day. They also asked Marianne the owner of Barista Blues to conduct a community food drive to fill the immediate need.
Lions International President A P Singh asked Lions to do a new to the club special Hunger Project in February. Some of our Lions suggested handing out sack lunches at the bus station! Using club funds food was purchased and Lions got busy assembling paper bag lunches. Bus riders were surprised and appreciative as vending machines were their only other option!
Vision
Disaster Relief
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Lions Clubs of District 11-B1 including several from Cereal City Lions joined other service organizations, churches and other volunteers to help clean up debris after the March 6th EF3 tornado in Union City, MI. The original clean up date, April 18 was postponed to May 9 due to rain. The home owner was very appreciative and brought volunteers pizza and cold water!
Humanitarian
Youth
