PLAINFIELD LIONS CLUB

2025 - 2026

Here are our accomplishments so far this year:

JUST GETTING STARTED  -  CHECK BACK IN A FEW WEEKS TO SEE WHAT WE ARE DOING FOR THE PLAINFIELD COMMUNITY

Here are our accomplishments last year:

2024 - 2025

1. Honored 8 Big Spring High School Seniors as Students of the Month for their academic and community achievements.  Each student received a plaque and a check for $125.  This year’s honored students were Jaden Best, Erica Diep, Maslynn Enck, Grant Hall, Alyson Redcay, Emma Riley, Aidan Sallie and Courtney Willinsky.
2. Donated $650 to West Pennsboro Township for use in the Parks and Recreation Department.  Asked that $400 be used toward the purchase of trees for the park, with the other $250 to be used in the park at their discretion.
3. Donated $525 to the District Governor’s Projects Fund, which was divided as follows:  County Food Banks, District 14C Disaster Relief, Leader Dogs for the Blind, Lions Club International Foundation, Diabetes Awareness and Education, Lions of Pennsylvania Foundation, Northeast PA Lions Service Foundation, PA Lions Beacon Lodge Camp, PA Lions Care for the Kids (Four Diamonds), PA Lions Hearing Research Foundation, PA Lions Sight Conservation and Eye Research Foundation, and Support for District 14C K-9 Units.
4. Donated $500 to the Lions Club International Foundation toward a Melvin Jones Honorarium.
5. Donated $500 to St Matthews Lutheran Church for the use of their church for meetings.
6. Donated $350 to the West Pennsboro Fire Company for the use of their grounds during our soup sale.
7. Donated $250 to a local family to help with transportation and food for frequent travels to Hershey for doctor’s visits for the daughter suffering from bone marrow cancer.
8. Donated $250 to a local family to help with transportation and food for frequent travels to Hershey for doctor’s visits for the daughter suffering from bone marrow cancer.
9. Donated $200 to Leader Dogs for the Blind.
10. Donated $100 to the District 14C Disaster Relief for areas of North Carolina ravaged by Hurricane Helene.
11. Donated $100 to the Western Cumberland County Lions Project Fund to sponsor a hole at its golf tournament at Eagles Crossing Golf Course in June 2025.
12. Donated $90 to Beacon Lodge as our share of the 500 Club.
13. Donated 48 baskets and 6 bags of fruit to families and individuals in the Plainfield, Newville and Carlisle areas.  
14. Donated numerous bake sale items for their bake sale held in September 2025.
15. Sponsored and ran the annual Easter Egg hunt at West Pennsboro Park in April 2025.  Over 40 children participated in spite of the delay of the hunt for one week due to inclement weather.
16. Club members filled 15 bags of garbage along PA Route 641 as part of the Adopt-A-Highway program in the Plainfield area in November 2024.  Another 7 bags of garbage was gathered in May 2025.

TO DO ALL OF THIS WE RAISE MONEY BY

Selling chicken corn soup and ham sandwiches.  Soup and ham sandwich sale will be held at the West Pennsboro Fire Hall in October 2025.

Selling ham and cheese or turkey and cheese sandwiches in February 2026.

Selling hanging baskets of flowers for Mother's Day in May 2026.

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELPED THIS YEAR BY PUTTING INTO ACTION THE LIONS MOTTO:    WE SERVE!

EASTER EGG HUNT

The Plainfield Lions Club will again sponsor the annual Easter egg hunt at West Pennsboro Park for the children in the community on Saturday, March 28, 2026, (Rain/snow date is April 4, 2026) starting at 11:00 am.    The Plainfield Lions Club has been the sponsor of the community's Easter Egg hunt for over 30 years.

CHICKEN CORN SOUP

Every year the Plainfield Lions Club sells our delicious chicken corn soup.  In past years we would make the soup in huge black kettles.  Unfortunately, in the past couple of years we have had problems, first with the condition of the corn that was grown and then the COVID pandemic.  We now purchase the soup from the Country Butcher Shop and sell it in that manner.   Look for our soup sale on October 23 - 25, 2025 at the West Pennsboro Fire Company.

WESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY (WCC) LION PROJECTS 

The Plainfield Lions Club are part of the Western Cumberland County (WCC) Lions that work on large-scale projects in the Carlisle area.  Plainfield Lions supplied the leadership of Peck and Jill Freeland, who have graciously opened their home for fund raising meetings during the past year.  Plans include a golf tournament at Eagles Crossing in June 2026 and a bake sale at the Country Butcher Shop in Plainfield on Labor Day weekend in 2026.

Contact Lion Acting Secretary Charlie Holtry for information or to place an order for any of these fund raising efforts.