District Governor Terry Marker inducted the 2024-2025 Board of Directors for the Heritage Lions. The Heritage Lions motto is “We Serve” and we welcome anyone who wishes to help their local community to contact a Heritage Lion. Pictured l-r: Pam Birch, Dan Will, Jan Hockemeyer, Tom Wolf, Larry Smith, Rick Boys, Cindy Wolf, Jack Clear,…
Roanoke Elementary School recently collected 683 pairs of new and gently used shoes for Changing Footprints. Led by 5th grade teacher Jamilyn PeGan the 441 students reacted enthusiastically at a presentation given in the gymnasium by Cheryl Brockmann of Changing Footprints. Over a two-week period, almost every student contributed to the ever-growing pile of shoes. It was…
Southwest Montessori Academy collected an amazing 370 pairs of shoes during their recent shoe drive for Changing Footprints. The school serves children ages 3-6 and does a community service project each year that includes student learning around the projects. All of the school’s families were encouraged to “clean out their closets” and they responded enthusiastically. Changing…
“Sock It To Me” – Please bring new socks, gloves, mittens, scarves, knit hats and blankets to be collected and divided among the district governors to be distributed to needy people within their districts”. This was the request made by the Indiana Lions for their Mid-Winter Conference in Indianapolis on January 20th. The Heritage Lions…
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 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…
On Saturday, June 4, Cross Border Partners provided the Heritage Lions with a truck to collect any items left over from the many Hoagland garage sales. Area garage sellers were very generous and donated enough material to fill the CBP truck top to bottom and front to back. Cross Border Partners will distribute these items…
