Maplewood City Council Member Nikki Villavicencio will be our speaker at the April Maplewood North Lions Dinner Meeting. The meeting takes place on Tuesday, April 1 at Sgt. Peppers Restaurant, 930 Helena Ave. N, Oakdale, beginning at 6 p.m. Contact President Lion Jason Demoe 651-331-8076 if you'd like to join us. 

Our Business Meeting is 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15 at Villages on McKnight, 177 McKnight Road N, St. Paul.  

Join us at the Lions Community Service Day starting at 10 a.m. on April 5. Meet at the NALC Hall, 1715 Van Dyke Street in Maplewood, and help make snack baggies for the unhoused, eco-friendly seed pots, fleece blankets for Children's Masonic Hospital, placemats for Meals on Wheels, and hypoglycemia kits. You can make a difference in our community in partnership with Maplewood North and other local Lions Clubs. 

Thanks and congratulations to Maplewood North Lions Member Dee Hess for serving as a District 5M6 trustee at the Minnesota Lions Diabetes Foundation. 

Our next Joy Park Neighborhood Preserve monitoring will take place  on Saturday, April 12. Join us for a pleasant nature walk and the rewards of assuring this public treasure is clean and safe. We gather at 10 a.m. in the Joy Park parking lot across the street from the Preserve.

Mark your calendar - the annual Lions Plant Sale will take place the weekend after Mother's Day, May 16 - 18. Come check out our AWESOME Plant Sale from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday at the Boden Senior Living parking lot, 1700 Beam Avenue (located near Maplewood Mall). All proceeds go back into helping the local community. 

Our Club will be volunteering at Tour De Cure, an event raising money for diabetes, on May 31. More info to come. 

Check out the Lions District 5M6 website to view other Lions events in the District at www.lions5m-6.org. 

We collect used eyeglasses! They are truly the "gift of sight" to people in third world countries. In fact, we collected 4,375 pairs last year! If you've got old eyeglasses to contribute, drop them in a collection box at your local optical shop or call any Lion!

Lions - "We Serve"