Signature Activities

Signature Activities

The Pardeeville Lions Club strives to promote community activities to improve the lives of all. A number of those activities are recurring that represent the identity of our Club. Want to get involved, support your community and meet some new friends? Contact Us

Adopt-A-Highway
Coordinator - Geoff Gilbert (608) 678-0265

WisDOT’s Adopt-A-Highway program keeps roughly 11,800 miles of state, federal and interstate highways in Wisconsin clean by generous volunteers. The Pardeeville Lions club is responsible for removing trash, recyclables and litter from a section of Highway 33 every Spring and Fall.

Bird House Sales
Coordinator – Steve Miller (608) 445-2317

We have a talented team of Lions that build beautiful bird houses for the community and visitors. Some of our bird houses can be seen on our Facebook Page, at Smith’s Farm Market at the corner of Hwy 22 and Hwy 33 (in season) and various Lions events throughout the year.

Brat Stand Sales
Coordinator – Darrell McGuire 608-228-2343 and Dick Depies 608-697-0347

Summer wouldn’t be the same without brats! Our busy Lions can be seen most Saturdays and special events grilling delicious brats and hot dogs. We can be found either at the Piggly Wiggly (514 S Main St) or in front of the Myrtle Lyntner Spear Museum (112 N Main St). Follow your nose or find our next sale on the calendar. Then contact us to join in the fun!

Bread Pickup and Delivery
Coordinator – Ginny Miller (608) 445-2318

Our Lions work behind the scenes with our local Subway and Piggly Wiggly to deliver bread for our local food pantry. The bread is picked up and delivered multiple times a week, every week by various Lions.

Club Pins
Coordinator

DCCB (Dual County Community Band) Concert & Pie Social
Coordinator - Michelle Neuman (608) 697-8966

Pardeeville Lions Club is proud to sponsor the Dual County Community Band concerts and pie social. This fun summer event is held every Thursday evening at 6:30 PM for 10 weeks beginning mid-June. Come join us at the Angie W. Cox Public Library lawn or Lenz Auditorium (rain location) for some good music with pie and ice cream sold by our local community.

Diabetes Awareness
Coordinator - Jim Helmueller (608) 630-7700

Facebook
Coordinators - Darcy Miller (608) 617-6332, Nina Grasse (608) 617-2955 and Kari Brown (608) 235-4076

Do you want to join in the fun or are you interested in finding our next Lions event. Check out the Pardeeville Lions Club Facebook page

Fourth of July Parade
Coordinator - Jim Helmueller (608) 630-7700

The Pardeeville parade is known to be one of the best in the area. An annual tradition with almost 100 groups participating. See our calendar for updates. Pardeeville loves to celebrate July 4h. So, be sure to also see the community website for complete details.

Handicap Ramps
Coordinator – Geoff Gilbert (608) 678-0265

The Lions motto is “We Serve”. What better way to do that than to help our neighbors with the design, construction and building of a handicap ramp. See our Facebook Page for pictures of our latest ramps. We have some very handy and talented Lions. If this sounds interesting to you, contact us.

Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin (Eye Tissue Transfer)
Coordinator - Jim Kelly (608) 658-9031

There are over 550 Lions Clubs throughout the state of Wisconsin that serve communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding. The Pardeeville Lions Club along with over 200 other clubs serve as transporters for Lions Eye Bank of Wisconsin (LEBW). This is a vital service so others can benefit from cornea transplant surgery.

In this role, our Lions transport boxes of eye tissue from Wisconsin Dells, Tomah or Portage to the Eye Bank in Madison during February, June and August known as “The Cornea Express”. The tissue has either been recovered and being sent to LEBW or being sent from LEBW to surgery centers for transplant. Clubs are trained annually in becoming a transporter and scheduled to be on call throughout the year to pick up and deliver the transport boxes.

Lions Youth Exchange
Coordinator – Jim Helmueller (608) 630-7700

Plastic Film Recycling
Coordinators - Jim Helmueller (608) 630-7700

Plastic bag and plastic film recycling within our small community has kept thousands of pounds of material out of our landfills. This is not a small task. We have help from our Lions, Angie W. Cox Public Library, Pardeeville USPS, Pardeeville Kwik Trip, Pardeeville Piggly Wiggly, Pardeeville High School (each April) and NexTrex.

Multiple times a week our Lions collect material from the community. It is then sorted and prepared every Sunday. Once sorted, it is weighed and details submitted to NexTrex. Our Lions once again deliver the sorted bags to Pardeeville Piggly Wiggly where it is then picked up and delivered to NexTrex.

NexTrex supplies a trex bench for every 1,000 pounds of material collected in a 12-month period. The Pardeeville Lions Club has several benches around the community and more on the way! Click here to download a printable list of acceptable materials. Remember ALL items should be clean, dry and free of organic waste. We also have a list of unacceptable materials here. Are you passionate about recycling? Please contact us to see how you can help.

Publicity
Coordinator - Jim Helmueller (608) 630-7700

Recycling of Cell Phones, Eyeglasses and Hearing Aids
Coordinator - Kari Brown (608) 235-4076

As part of the Lions Recycle for Sight Program "Usable Glasses Give New Life." Our club collects usable eyeglasses, cell phones and hearing aids from the following locations and sends them to a Lions Recycling Center for processing. There the items are sorted, processed and placed in inventory for distribution to missions around the world. Lions help to minimize landfill waste by supporting precious metal reclamation and scrap processing for damaged items that are unusable.

Angie W. Cox Public Library - 119 N. Main Street, Pardeeville
Pardeeville Senior Center - 113 Industrial Drive, Pardeeville
Hometown Pharmacy - 117 N. Main Street, Pardeeville
Columbia Health Care Center - 323 W. Monroe St, Wyocena

Salvation Army Bell Ringing
Coordinators: Steve and Ruth Thompson 608-429-2380

Every Winter our Lions can be found ringing bells at Pardeeville Piggly Wiggly on behalf of the Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign. All donations stay local and help provide meals, shelter and Christmas gifts for children who may otherwise go without.

Scholarships
Coordinator – Nina Grasse (608) 617-2955

Second Harvest Mobile Food Pantry
Coordinators - Laurie Knitt (608) 697-0347 and Shawnee Sterling (608) 617-3991

Our Club coordinates, communicates and provides volunteers for the Mobile Pantry the fourth Monday of each month at St. Faustina Parish in Pardeeville, regardless of weather. Our recipients remain in their vehicles. We serve over 100 families in about 2 hours.

Our Lions and volunteers:

Park and direct cars to aid in the flow of traffic
Unload Second Harvest truck
Arrange the food on pallets and bag, if necessary
Register and monitor the flow of recipients
Place food in recipients’ vehicles
Give recipients a comfort zone and encouragement
Clean up area after food is distributed
Load any material to be taken to recycling
Load any left-over food to truck for Wyocena Food Pantry
Complete all paperwork to Catholic Charities and Second Harvest (Coordinators)

If you’d like to volunteer to help, please stop by around 2:30 PM on the day of the pantry. Our coordinators will help you from there. We have many Lions and volunteers that do this monthly and can help guide you.

Snow Shoveling (Library and Museum)
Coordinator – Jim Helmueller (608) 630-7700

Stuff the Bus
Coordinator - Ginny Miller (608-445-2318)

Pardeeville Lions Club coordinates the annual Stuff the Bus program. Smith Bus Service provides a bus at Piggly Wiggly where our Lions and the community stuff the bus with school supplies. Additional donation locations are available throughout the community.

Triathlon
Coordinator - Shawnee Sterling (608) 617-3991

In July the Pardeeville Triathlon is the third race in the Wisconsin Tri Series and one of the oldest triathlons in the state. Our Lions make and serve up lunch for the Triathlon participants after a 1/4-mile swim along the shore of Park Lake, a gently rolling 15-mile bike ride, and 5K run course weaving through the town of Pardeeville after a loop around the park.

Watermelon Festival
Coordinator - Todd Hepler (608) 697-6198

Pardeeville’s annual fall festival is held the first Saturday after Labor Day, since 1968. It is home of the US Watermelon Speed-Eating and Seed-Spitting Championships Inc (USWSESSC). Our Lions help with cutting watermelon, serving food and the seed spitting contest. Don’t miss this great family event!

Website
Coordinator - Kari Brown (608) 235-4076

If you’re here… you found our website. Check out the photo gallery, calendar and contact us to join. (hint hint)

Wyocena Community Helping Hands Pantry
Coordinator - Mary Jasin (608) 429-3328

The Food Pantry is open three days a week, the first three weeks of each month to distribute food to people in the Pardeeville School District. Members of the Club work a two-hour shift at the Food Pantry where they fill bags, stock shelves and hand out groceries.

Our Lions also unload a semi-truck of food from the Federal Government and stock the shelves and freezers monthly. The Bread Pickup and Delivery activity also supports the pantry.

Youth Eye Screening
Coordinators - Mike and Mary Jasin (608) 429-3328