On Tuesday, Past District Governor Al Arnold spoke to the Heritage Lions about the Indiana Lions Speech and Hearing programs. In 1925 Helen Keller spoke before the International Lions Convention and implored the Lions organization to help those who cannot see, speak or hear. “I appeal to you Lion, you who have your sight, your…
Deb Heath, Northeast Indiana Chapter Coordinator for Project Linus, gave a very interesting talk before the Heritage Lions last night. She explained how her non-profit group supplies blankets to hospitals, surgical centers, crisis centers, sleep clinics, the foster care program, and for Adoption Day at the Allen County Courthouse every November. Volunteers all over our…
Cary Gohlke, Cubmaster of Cub Scouts Pack 3348, and Bob Mattes (pictured right to left) discussed their work with the Cub Scouts at the recent Heritage Lions meeting. The Heritage Lions serve as the Pack’s sponsor and donated the $100 national registration fee. Pack 3348 currently had five members who attend regularly and about 17…
Lions District 25B Governor Sandra Zeigler spoke at the Tuesday January 10th joint Monroeville Lions/Heritage Lions meeting held at Saint John Lutheran Flatrock Church. She used the metaphor that if you have an individual domino, you cannot be very creative. But when you combine several dominoes, increasingly creative and helpful activities can be imagined and…
Heritage Lions Club member Rick Boys, along with Rolando Yuja (pictured) of the Honduras Lions and Jim Brockmann, loaded some 7,000 eyeglasses on Saturday and delivered them to John Geller of the Arcola Lions Club. Gellar stores the eyeglasses in his barn until the Arcola Lions hold their semi-annual eyeglass sorting party in the spring.…
The Heritage Lions held a Christmas dinner for members, spouses and guests on December 13 at the Hoagland Community Center. A meal of fried chicken, ham, scalloped potatoes and green beans was catered in by Natalie and Lucas Foster, owners of the Hoagland Hayloft. Desserts were provided by several Lions members. After the meal,…
Bob Reynolds, President of the Hoagland Youth League, spoke at the Heritage Lions meeting last night. He gave his extensive history in baseball leadership positions, including being the assistant baseball coach at Heritage High School for 17 years. He became the President of HYL in 2021, and hopes to continue serving the league for many…
Lion Tom Bullerman led the Heritage Lions Fall Coat Drive this year. Here he is with some of the many coats, gloves, boots and socks that were donated by the Heritage Lions and the Hoagland community. All of the items collected will be given to Cross Border Partners for distribution to their disadvantaged clients. If…
The Heritage Lion sold peanuts at Hoagland’s main intersection on Wednesday. Allan Doctor chairs the project. Helping him were Dick Weber, Dan Harkless and Rick Boys. Altogether they sold 10 cases of peanuts in a little over two hours, in perfect weather. The Heritage Lions Peanuts is a limited time project. They are available at…
Heritage Lions President Tom Wolf presented a check for $1300 to Larry Oberley for the purchase of a picnic table for Monroeville Park. Tom Wolf and Marvin Sorg are shown sitting at the purchased table. The Heritage Lions motto is “We Serve” and we welcome anyone who wishes to help their local community to contact…
The Heritage Lion are collecting eyeglasses, cell phones, hearing aids and batteries. We have also begun collecting shoes for an Indianapolis-based program called Changing Footprints. We will accept any type or condition of shoe. Even the most worn-out shoes, or even a single shoe, is welcome. Nike pays the shipping costs for all unusable shoes.…
The Heritage Lions are continuing to collect used eyeglasses (including sunglasses, reading glasses and even broken glasses), eyeglass cases, cell phones, hearing aids and batteries. This is a year-around project in which the Lions clean and sort these donations as they are passed through an extensive distribution network. The glasses eventually are taken on mission…
The Heritage Lions sorted and boxed 812 eyeglasses and 337 eyeglass cases they had gathered for the Indiana Lions “Project Eyeglass Recycling”. Many Indiana Lions Clubs recycle eyeglasses and other items (including eyeglass cases, sunglasses, reading glasses, hearing aids and batteries, and even cell phones). Indiana Lions leads the USA in gathering donated eyeglasses, and…
