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1. Calendar of Events for the Isle Lions Club
2. Community Activities and Projects
3. Christmas Tree of Giving
4. Eye Glasses and Hearing aids
5. Meat Raffle and Horse Races
6. Highway Ditch Clean-up
7. Club Pins
8. Herbert S. Nyquist Scholarship Fund
9. Isle Days Events and Bratwurst Stand
10. Blood Drive
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1. Calendar of Events for the Isle Lions Club
January
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting will be held together on
the Fourth Monday of the month @ 6:30 pm
February
Lions Convention, Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
March
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting will be held together on
the Fourth Monday of the month @ 6:30 pm
April
Election of Officers and Officers Training
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
Easter Bags
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
May
Highway Ditch Clean-up, Students Scholarship Awards
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
June
Installation of Officers, Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
July
Isle Days & Bratwurst stand, Isle and McGrath Parades
Little Miss Isle Pageant, Kiddie Parade
Highway Ditch clean-up and Bloodmobile
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
Birthday party for Nursing Home Residents
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
August
Wahkon Parade, Corn Feed and Pie Sales
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
September
Saloon @ White Pine Logging & Threshing Show
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
October
Highway Ditch Clean-up, Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
November
Gambling Convention, Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
December
Santa Bags @ Nyquist Elementary School, Christmas Tree of Giving
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
General Meeting 6:30 Second Monday of the month
Board of Directors 6:30 Fourth Monday of the month
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2. Community Activities and Projects
Community
Clean ditches,
Send get well cards
Collect Eye Glasses and Hearing Aids
Lions Corn Feed and Pie Sales
Support Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts,
Support Isle School Dist.
Blood Drive
Meat Raffle, Horse Races and Bingo
Saloon at White Pine Logging & Threshing Show
Isle Days,
Little Miss Isle and Commodore Pageant
Bratwurst Stand
Parades
Sponsor float and throw candy for the parades in Isle, Wahkon and McGrath,
Kiddie Parade in Isle
School
Herbert S. Nyquist Scholarship Fund
Ice Skating Rink,
IREC Center
After Prom Party
Students Scholarship Awards Dinner
Seniors
Christmas Tree of Giving
Food Shelf
Nursing home
Mille Lacs Nursing Home Birthday Party
Kids
Shrine Circus trip for K-2 once every three years,
Boy and Girl Scouts,
Easter Bags.
Toys for Tots
Santa Bags
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3. Christmas Tree of Giving
The Isle Lions Club, Christmas Tree of Giving will help local seniors who may not be remembered this Holiday season.
Each senior was able to select three wishes under 25.00. Those wishes were put on an ornament and hung on the Christmas Tree of Giving at the local grocery store. Local individuals will select an ornament and make a senior person’s wish come true.
A Christmas party will be held at the Senior high rise building in Isle, close to Christmas with the gifts being passed out while enjoying Cookies, hot chocolate and Christmas Carols.
A special thanks to Lion Hans Woelfle for all his work on this project
Christmas Tree of Giving
12-2016
As many gather with family and friends over the holidays to exchange gifts and share recipes, others are at home alone having no-one to celebrate the season with. The Isle Area Lions Club recognized that plenty of local seniors were falling through the cracks. In an effort to remember seniors this time of year, the Lions set up a Christmas Tree of Giving annually at Teals Market in Isle.
The tree will be helping local seniors who may not be remembered this holiday season by allowing them to select three wishes under $25. Their wishes were written on an ornament and hung up on the Christmas Tree of Giving located at Teals near the checkout lanes. Local individuals are invited to select an ornament (or two) to make a senior’s wish come true. Gifts may be dropped off at Isle Hardware Hank before Monday, Dec. 12.
This year marks the fourth year since the start of the Christmas Tree of Giving. Hans Woelfle, the current Isle Area Lions Club first vice president spearheaded the idea in 2013 when he served as the club’s president. Woelfle joined the club in 2008.
Since about 75 percent of the Lions donations are geared towards children’s causes, Woelfle wanted to generate a few projects to help the seniors in the area. He also heads other projects like the circus and the beer gardens at the White Pine Logging and Threshing Show.
This year, 44 seniors will benefit from the Tree of Giving – an increase from 35 seniors in 2015. Last year, the Isle Girl Scouts granted about one dozen wishes, Woelfle said. He hopes local businesses and groups will take on the worthy cause this year.
As a realtor, Woelfle encounters several local seniors in the community on fixed incomes who don’t have family to visit. “They’re not remembered. It’s hard to imagine there are people like that but there are,” he said.
In many cases, Woelfle said local seniors are on fixed incomes, so simple things like a gift certificate to the beauty salon or an electric razor can make their day. “Even a gift certificate to the grocery store goes a long way for a lot of them who struggle financially,” Woelfle said.
Woelfle explained that in the tree’s first year, seniors were reluctant to sign up, thinking there would be some sort of catch. “There is no catch,” Woelfle said. “The reason why I do this is because so many seniors have no kids, no grandchildren. Literally, Christmas is ‘just another day.’ A lot of them sit at home and watch the parade and that’s it. People should realize that elderly people are just regular people that just happen to be old. I really like to help the seniors and I really like to help the veterans, too.”
One elderly man in a wheelchair Woelfle encountered was at home cleaning his firearm collection one day when he happened by for a visit. When Woelfle asked when the last time the man went shooting was, the man said he hadn’t shot since his injury in 1979 that left him disabled. Woelfle convinced the man to make a wish for the Tree of Giving. Woelfle later took the man out for lunch and then to Boone’s Fine Guns for a day at the range. “That man was so happy he cried,” Woelfle said. It was an experience he will never forget.
This year’s gifts will be distributed at the Isle Senior High-rise on Dec. 18 at 6 p.m. The event will feature appearances from Santa and Little Miss Isle, live music, Christmas carols, cookies donated by Isle Bakery and hot chocolate. For gift recipients who are unable to attend the party, the Lions will be delivering to their homes. “They just enjoy it so much,” Woelfle said. “That there for me is what makes it worth it.”
The Lions mission is “to empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs. Contact Hans Woelfle at (320) 515-1337 with any questions regarding the Christmas Tree of Giving.
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1st National Bank, Blaze Credit Union, Mille Lacs Health Drug Store, Isle Bakery and
Karel Hardware
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Mint Sales
We stopped Mint sales in 2017
Located at the
Credit Union and the First National Bank
Contact Person Lion Dolores Haggberg
Mint sales from 10-2003 to 02-2011 Sales 1797.39, cost 950.00 a profit of $847.39
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5. Meat Raffle and Horse Races
Located at the
Tulibee Tavern and Isle Municipal
Every Thursday @ 6:00 PM
Contact Person Lion Deb Walters
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6. Highway Ditch Clean up
It takes less then an hour when 6 to 8 people help
Contact Person
Lion Kurt Klipstein
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7. Club Pins
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8. Herbert S. Nyquist Scholarship Fund
Nick Skogen (President) (Isle Ministerial Assoc)
Tura Eye (Sec/Treasurer) (member at large)
Ole Walters (Isle Lions Club)
Charles Haggberg (Isle Lions Club)
Shari Strecker (Isle Lions Club)
Kristin Cooper (Isle Lions Club)
Kate Vanbuskirk ( Member at Large)
As of 12/31/2020 Total Donations during the first 32 years total $291,978.48
Nearly 231 individuals have received scholarships totaling $156,250.00
The Herbert S. Nyquist Scholarship Fund was started in 1988 in recognition of Herb Nyquist, a lifelong business leader in the community and an Isle School Board member for more than four decades.
Over the years the Isle Lions Club has been the major contributor to the fund, although many other organizations and individuals have contributed generously to it.
Scholarships were first awarded in 1990. The scholarships vary from $250.00 to $3000.00 each. Only interest and dividends from the contributed funds are used to provide the funds for the scholarships.
To be eligible for a scholarship a student must be a Senior in the Isle School District and be attending either a four year college or technical school beyond the high school level. Each applicant is evaluated by the Board of Directors, which consists of 7 individuals.
The organization does not employ any individuals and none of the board members receive remuneration.
The Scholarship Fund is under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and all contributions are tax exempt.
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9. Bratwurst Stand
Bratwurst Stand at Isle Days
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10. Blood drive
Blood drive --July 2017
Blood drive --July 2013
Sponsored by the Isle Lions Club
In the six hour blood drive we collected 64 pints out of our goal of 65 pints. Good job
Thanks to all the people who gave blood.
Thanks to the 14 Isle Lion workers that worked the blood drive
Thanks to Faith Lutheran Church for hosting the site
Thanks to the 10 Red Cross workers that were collecting the blood.
Thanks to the Isle Lions Club for supplying the Refreshments and the $50.00 gas card as a prize drawing and the winner was Carolyn Nutt of Isle.
Thanks to the people from the Isle Lions club that furnished the food to feed the Red Cross workers
A very special thanks to Lion Ruth Johnson and Lion Phyllis Ketchmark for being the Chairpersons to make this all happen.
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Isle Area Chamber of Commerce
Here is the link to the Isle Area Chamber of Commerce
http://www.islechamberofcommerce.org/
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