The next regular meeting will be held on Thursday, August 21st at Knute’s Taproom. Please try to arrive a little early to get your order in before 6 pm. Thanks.
President’s message:
Hello Fellow Lions – It’s with pleasure that I come to you with my first newsletter as the new Lions Club President. I’m excited for the 2 years ahead that I get to serve as the President of the club. I feel the two areas we need to focus on are Fundraising and Membership.
As I write this it’s hard to believe we are in August already. The Shippensburg Fair and York Fair have both come to a close for the year. The York Fair was and hope to be in years to come a chance for our club to do some fundraising by scanning parking and entry tickets to the fair. Lion Galen Burkholder, Lion Ron Reed, and myself participated this year as what I believe to be the 1st year that anyone from the Shippensburg Club has helped out. $16,000 gets split against the clubs who participated so we wait to see our intake from this. I hope we can grow this in the future and for sure carpooling together helps w/ the lengthy drive.
Football season is also upon us. If you are following the Shippensburg news you will see that the School District has announced that the lights will not be ready until mid- October now. The School District has approached the Park and Rec about playing the Friday night Varsity games at the park again this year. If this is agreed to then we’ll have the concession stand again this year. We’ll have to let this play out and see what happens so don’t get your hopes up just yet……… Also don’t schedule anything for the home Friday night games yet either!!…….
Some other Lions Club upcoming events to get on your calendars would be as follows:
- Family Fun Day at Shippensburg Fair – Saturday August 9th
- August Club Meeting – Thursday August 21st
- WCCLP Bake Sale – Saturday August 30th
- September Family Picnic – Thursday September 18th
- Adopt – A – Highway – Saturday October 4th
- October Club Meeting – Thursday October 16th – District Governor Visit
Until next month!! – Lion Brian
Speaker for August: Samantha McCulloch, Director of the Coy Library, will be presenting an update on the library stage project.
Eyeglass hard cases: The Mount Holly Springs Lion Club has requested that we save eyeglass hard cases for a project that they wish to do this fall. Please bring any eyeglass hard cases to our meeting and we will get them to the WCCLPF Meetings this fall.
Phone Numbers:
Lion Brian Beidel (President) -cell 717-385-7250
Lion Bev Horn (Bulletin Editor) -home 717-532-7484
Lisa Kemp (Assistant Treasurer (sends out billings) -cell 717-860-7650
Board Meeting: There will be a board meeting in August following the regular meeting.
The Back-to-School Family Fun Day is scheduled for Saturday, August 9th at the fairgrounds. We have participated in this event for a number of years. We will have a table in the Commercial Building to display Lions material and to give away gifts to local children. I am looking for one or two people to assist that day. The time is 11-2.
Mark your calendar for Adopt-A-Highway:
- Saturday October 4th, 2025 at 9:00 am. Rain Date – Saturday October 18th, 2025
- Meeting Location – Goose Brother’s parking lot. Trash pickers, gloves, vests, and trash bags will be provided.
Committees:
Membership- Bev Horn
Program – Bev Horn
Finance- Phil Ritchie
Leadership- Deb Luffy
Newsletter editor- Bev Horn
Publicity- Galen Burkholder
By-Laws – Ron Reed
LCIF – Bev Horn
Service- Galen Burkholder/Linda Lensie
Scouts – Troy Shivley
Education – Quay Stolte
Leo Club- Galen Burkholder
Diabetes – Bill & Joan Freeman
Vision – Lisa kemp
Eyeglass collection – Bev Horn
Environment – Kathy Eddinger
Hunger-
Other – Blood Drives – Galen Burkholder
Speakers for July were Josh Mitchell and Alyssa Good who discussed the new Furnace Run Park.
Bev Horn received a Melvin Jones Award.
Immediate Past District Governor Galen receives a special recognition for his year as District Governor.
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