NEWSLETTERS

AUGUST 2021

Monday,  September 13, 2021, 5 p.m. at the  Pleasant Grove Heritage Festival,  Pleasant Grove Lions Club will be selling doughnuts and balloons in the Pioneer Rose Garden Park,100 South 100 East.
This annual fund raiser allows the club to serve the community by providing eye glasses, eye exams, and youth scholarships. We are starting a new tradition. After many years in the Downtown Park, we will be in the Pioneer Rose Garden Park.

A collection box for used eyeglasses will be available at our booth. Our collection boxes are located at   Pleasant Grove Copytec, Pleasant Grove Library lobby, the Jacob Senior Citizen Center, and the Lindon Walmart optical shop.

Our Lions Club financed the original underwriting for the book about Pleasant Grove  "Timpanogos Town," by Dr. Howard R Driggs.  In 1999 the club  made a major monetary contribution to the Beautification and Utah Shade Tree Commission  for the restoration of the Pioneer Park Rose Garden.

 We would like to thank  the following contributors: Kristine Benson for a generous memorial donation in honor of her parents Lions Don and Joann Benson;  and the former Pleasant Grove Kiwanis Club members for providing funds for a high school scholarship.

FEBRUARY 2021

For many years, the community has enjoyed the Pleasant Grove Lions pavilion in the Veterans Memorial Park.   The pavilion was started as part of the Veterans Memorial Park and Veterans

Memorial Swimming Pool project.   The park pavilion was constructed 1961-1969. Funds for the park were provided through several fundraisers. Other community clubs donated their time and resources to build this beautiful park.  

As a Lions Club, we are thrilled the original pavilion is still in excellent condition and will remain as part of the City’s expansion and improvements to the Veterans Memorial Park.

A memorial booklet has been compiled commemorating construction of this Lions pavilion  with a timeline, newspaper articles, and pictures.   This booklet is available to the public as a downloadable pdf file.  We suggest a $3 donation.   This donation can sent through venmo @pglions.  Write "booklet" in the comment section.  Donations can also be sent by check to

CC Milt Taylor,

 For more information, check our website :http://e-clubhouse.org/sites/pleasantgrove or facebook.com/pleasantgrovelionsclub  and pglionsclub@gmail.com. 

LOOKING FORWARD TO  JANUARY 2021

Pleasant Grove Club is looking forward to more activities in the community this year.   We thank community members for their generous support of our project: Warm Winter.    Your donations made it possible to help individuals, who need a hand up in life, by providing items at the Utah Community Action Coalition.  You helped us serve.

 

 

We were able to adopt a family and provide means to lift their burdens this season.  With the help of the Utah Lions Foundation, our club was able to provide funds for a young man to recieve help for his kerataconus eye condition.

 

"Lionism believes in full and hearty co-operation with all other clubs, the Chamber of Commerce and other civic and commercial organizations in all movements in the community which seek to promote any betterment, civic, industrial or educational . . . plans . . . "    "Pleasant Grove Review" 1929-12-21/

 

Check our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pleasantgrovelionsclub/

Our website https://e-clubhouse.org/sites/pleasantgrove/

 

DECEMBER 2020

A Joyous Year of Service

"The Lions Club of Pleasant Grove sends its greetings of a Merry Xmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year to all the good people of Pleasant Grove and the nation." "Pleasant Grove Review" 1929-12-21

 

Regardless of the decade, those greetings still echo from our club to our city, community, state, nation and world. This year  our community and state have provided help with physical and monetary donations for scholarships, eye exams, glasses, eye surgeries, and clothing.

 

Pleasant Grove Lions Club wishes you a season peace, joy, health, and gratitude.

Visit our website https://facebook.com/pleasantgrovelionsclub

Pleasant Grove was first chartered December 11, 1929. In this article it lists the officers. This articles were found in the "Pleasant Grove Review" 1929-12-21 and 1929-12-14, respectively. The club was rechartered October 24, 1938. We have been serving for many years. Thanks to the University of Utah Marriott Library Digital Newspapers department, we have rediscovered our history.

WE APPRECIATE THE PAST AND LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUED SERVICE  IN OUR COMMUNITY       Check our  facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/pleasantgrovelionsclub/?view_public_for=510027602375502

If you would like a 501(c)(3) charity tax-donation receipt, write a check to Utah Lions Foundation and mail it to Utah Lions Foundation,  c/o CC Milt Taylor 854 W. 1820 N. Orem, UT 84057-2081.   Please make a notation on the check PG Lions: Warm Winter

To donate directly to the Pleasant Grove Lions Club use VENMO @ pgions.   Please indicate Project: Warm Winter. If you have any questions, e-mail us at pglions@gmail.com   Our Facebook page is  http://www.Facebook.com/pleasantgrovelionsclub.   

We wish you a season filled with kindness, service, and happy memories.

November, 2020

The Pleasant Grove Lions Club wants to thank Pleasant Grove City for the recognition plaque in the northeast  pavilion in the Downtown City Park.   The plaque recounts the history of the Lions Club Park Project 1978-1983.

We are celebrating 82 years of serving the community.

We also thank the former Pleasant Grove Kiwanis Club for its financial donation to our project fund. This donation will be used for humanitarian causes the Kiwanis Club sponsored. 

We contributed a thousand pair of glasses to our district humanitarian “Recycle for Sight” project. 

Our Lions Club is announcing a new website: e-clubhouse.org/sites/pleasantgrove.  This website showcases our continuing service projects to the community.   Watch for new ways to donate to our projects online or by check.  Individuals can choose the project and the amount they want to contribute 24/7 all year round.   Our service projects will continue to be highlighted on our Facebook page: http://facebook.com/pleasantgrovelionsclub.  

Please join us in serving our community.