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Greater Chicago Food Depository Service Project
January is Hunger Awareness Month, and on January 23rd seven of our Club members spent the afternoon repacking pasta from bulk containers into 2 lb packages for delivery to food pantries around the area. Everyone had different tasks from scooping out the pasta from the bulk containers, to weighing the 2 lb bags, to boxing up the packages for transport. We were part of a larger group of 42 volunteers, and together we repacked 244 cases of pasta weighing 5,856 lbs or the equivalent of 4,880 meals for the needy. That adds up to 812 meals our 7 volunteers helped repack.
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2025 Relieving Hunger Dinner
Every year we hold a Relieving Hunger Dinner after the holidays to support families in need in the community. We pick up three carts of roasted chickens from Costco, bake a bunch of potatoes, and cook up some frozen vegetables and prepare meals for area families to pick up and take home for a nice sit-down dinner. Thank you to all of our Lions volunteers who came out on Janaury 10th to make this happen.
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Stickney-Forest View Lions Food Pantry
If anyone has been looking for our Stickney-Forest View Lions Club Food Pantry, it is still located at the Forest View Village Hall. It has just been moved to the north end of the second floor. We invite the community to help keep this much needed resource stocked with non-perishable food items and hygiene products. If you should notice the pantry needs restocking, please email us at sfvlions@gmail.com. Thank you again to the Village of Forest View for hosting our pantry.
Queen of Hearts Raffle
Our first Queen of Hearts drawing was on February 2, 2021. In all the drawings since then, we have only been playing at the Stage 1 prize level of our Queen of Hearts Raffle. Our pot has crossed $30,000, which kicks us up into the Stage 2 prize level. General ticket winners go from $50 to $100. Aces go from $100 to $250. Jokers go from $500 to $1,500 (and we start a new board). And the Queen of Hearts stays at half the pot. Our weekly drawing is held at 7:30p every Tuesday, at Lynn Catherine’s located at 6525 W. Pershing Rd., Stickney, IL. For detailed rules click here. You can purchase tickets at Lynn Catherine's, at one of these other locations, or at our online store.
At our February 4th drawing the winning ticket belonged to BBH Corp., who selected card #8 on the board, which was revealed to be the Ten of Diamonds.
The pot rolls over and will start at $99,000.
If you don't have Facebook you can watch the Tuesday night live stream
recording here, as well.
(Video of most recent Queen of Hearts raffle drawing.)
Terri Lynn Fundraising Store

General Donations
If you are unable to take part in any of our current fundraising events, you are still able to make general donations through our Square store to support our causes. Programs like Camp Lions, Low Vision Clinics and Screenings, Chicago Lighthouse, Diabetes Awareness, and others are still in need of our support through donations. Locally, requests are coming in from local food pantries, assistance for eye testing, hearing testing, and other needs for our community residents. Please consider making an online donation using the link below. Thank you for your generosity.
Stickney-Forest View Lions Club Newsletter
If you would like to see our most recent club newsletter (January 2025), click the thumbnail below.
Stickney-Forest View Lions Club on Facebook
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our Queen of Hearts Facebook page. Queen of Hearts drawing live streamed on Facebook Tuesdays at 7:30p.
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