Our new officers for 2025-2026 were installed on July 20.
Our next meeting
Our next regular meeting is August 19th and the guest speaker will be from the Valero Texas Open. They will discuss the upcoming VTO and the impact it will have on various Texas charities. The VTO is one of the largest sources of charitable giving in the PGA.
Our meeting location is Pepe's Tacos N Salsa, 12820 Jones Maltzberger Rd., San Antonio, 78247. Located north of Bitters on the east side of Jones Matltzberger;
We hope you can visit with us at our breakfast meeting when you are in San Antonio. If you would like to become a Lion member, please phone or contact us via e-mail.
Club Service Project - Sleep In Heavenly Peace - No kid sleeps on the floor in our town!
Sleep in Heaveny Peace is an organzation that provides bed kits for families that do not have a bed for their children. The Central Park Lions Club works with Sleep in Heavenly Peace to identify families in need and provides the kits to the Lions Club to install in a home. Lions Lisa, Denny, and Chip recently assembled a bunk bed for a family.in need.
For more information contact Sleep Iin Heavenle Peace. https://shpbeds.org/
Central Park Lions Club Foundation
Our Lions Club has a Foundation to receive tax deductible charitable donations. Specific charities may be identified, if desired, in making donations to the Foundation. All donations are used to support many local non-profit organizations. We are not equipped to receive donations by credit card, therefore, all donations should be made by check or money order made out to Central Park Lions Club Foundation and sent to:
Mr. Dean Tillery, 3423 Hunters Stand, San Antonio, TX 78230
NOTES ABOUT CPLC
The club was chartered on May 23, 1969 and originally met at Central Park Mall; hence the name.Our biggest project is a contract bingo operation. Every penny that we make in that operation is donated to various organizations in our area and includes programs for schools. Our club has donated over $100,000 to these organizations, as well as donations to Lions Clubs International for the Sight First program for the blind. Central Park Lions support over thirty community service programs, including large donations to Any Baby Can, St. Peter's Home, St. Joseph's Home, VTO Champions Fore Charity, and other organizations. In addition, the club provides college scholarships.
Looking To Join The Central Park LIons Club?
We have both male and female members in our club and we are always interested in finding new members who are service oriented and have a desire to help the less fortunate in our city. Anyone interested in joining our club can contact Dennis Alvey at 210-404-2620 or Mike Pardoe 210-382-6687. We look forward to hearing from you.
Lion Janice recently joined the CPLC with Lion Denny and Lion Mike officiating the installation ceremony.
Club Service Project - Habitat For Humanity of San Antonio
For the past decade, the Central Park Lions Club has teamed up with Habitat of Humanity of San Antonio to work with local families in need of affordable homes. The Lions Cub provides funding to help build the home, labor to help build the home, and lunches to feed the labor building the home. The construction starts with a concerete slab foundation and after several weeks, ends up with a beautiful three bedroom house.for a family to make it their home for many years to come. Here are the before and after pictures of the home our Club helped build in 2024.
The Central Park Lions Club will start the construction of their 2025 home this coming September 5! If you are interested in helping to fund the construction, lend a hand in the building of the home, or providing lunches for the labor building a home, please contact Lion Mike at mikepardoe@hotmail.com. No experience is needed. All that is needed is a willingness to serve our community. Here is the link to signup to work on the construction site or to provide meals for the workers:
https://volunteer.bloomerang.co/volunteer/#/join-party?k=ndepqvgressn5e
For more information on Habitat For Humnaity of San Antonio, please go to their website:
https://habitatsa.org/
Club Service Project - Clarity Child Guidance Center of San Antonio
The Central Park Lions Club has supported the Clarity Child Guidance Center of San Antonio with donations and service hours for several years. Clarity is the only nonprofit mental health treatment center for kids ages 3 to 17 in South Texas. CPLC has provided and served pizzas for special dinners with the children who are receiving inpatient care.One of our annual events is wrapping Christmas presents for all the children being cared for by Clarity. If you are interested in wrapping presents with us this December, please contact Lion Mike Pardoe at mikepardoe@hotmail.com.
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.
