“Where there is a need, there is a Lion”

 

Events of the past month

 

April 1     Lion Tom Warth invited the club members to a Books for Africa meeting on May 23.

 

April 15  District Governor, Cheryl Kelly and her husband Dennis from the Bayport, Afton, Lakeland Lions Club were our guests and we discussed about our goals and long term intentions.

 

Coming Events

 

May 1 Thursday 12PM        President Tom Hollatz has scheduled Secretary of State, Steve Simon, as the speaker for our joint Rotary-Lions Law Day meeting at noon on May 1.  As Secretary of State, he partners with township, city, and county officials to organize elections on behalf of Minnesota’s nearly four million eligible voters, and to ensure that the election system is fair.  We are expecting about 50 people.  Dress: Business casual.

 

May 28 Wednesday 6 pm.  First summer picnic at Autumn Hills Park west of Boutwell’s Landing.  No meeting on May 15.

 

Picnics and Summer Tuesdays

There will be no picnic in June this year so we are adding one in May.  The dates of the other three are July 15, August 19, and September 16.   We will again staff two Summer Tuesdays selling water and soda.

 

Contributions

Our club is partnering with Shopko Optical to provide  vouchers to needy students for free eye exams, free frames and lens.  Ten vouchers are now available.

 

Scholarships

The scholarship committee composed of Jim McKinney, Larry Coleman and Tom Hollatz received 35 applications for our two scholarships that will be giving to graduating seniors from Stillwater High School.  Scholarship winners and their parents will be invited to our June 17 meeting.