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Biographical
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Community
Service Activities
Fund
Raising Events
Sponsorships
Officers
of the Plainview Lions
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Meeting:
The Plainview Lions Club meets every second Wednesday at the American
Legion in
meeting follows dinner.
Key responsibilities
To serve our community and fellowmen.
Motto of our Club:
“The Get It Done Club.”
Lions Clubs International
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http://www.lionsclubs.org
Lions District 5M1 -
President: Randi Fravert --- Email – fravertar@juno.com
Secretary: Al Fravert --- Email – fravertar@juno.com
Home phone:
President (507)-534-3282
Secretary (507)-534-3282
August 15th-19th
Corn On The Cob Days.
http://www.corncobdays.com
Who Are
the
The Plainview Lions are your neighbors, friends, and coworkers who
have joined together to
serve the community. We are part of the largest community service
organization in the world:
Lions Club International. We share a common vision of helping others
through various
community service activities right here in
Christmas tree pickup, Corn on the Cob Day Parade, Hwy 42 cleanup and the
Old Fashion
Christmas sleigh rides. We raise funds in order to sponsor
youth-oriented programs such as
chartering the Plainview Boy Scouts, providing academic scholarships,
sending developmentally
handicapped individuals to
cannot afford them. We collect used eyeglasses for the Lions’
vision project SightFirst. But
most importantly, we share in the camaraderie of the group and we have
FUN!! doing these
projects.
Lions International
The Plainview Lions are part of the International Association of Lions
Clubs that started as a
dream of a
clubs to form into one strong, influential organization for service to
humanity. The leaders of
these clubs met on June 7, 1917 to form the Association of Lions
Clubs. From that humble
beginning, Lions Clubs International has grown to over 1,401,875 members
organized into
44,909 clubs located in 186 countries and geographical areas. The
early Lions were energized
by a speech given by Helen Keller at the 1925 Convention when she urged
the Lions to take up
the cause of the visually handicapped and become “knights of the blind in
the crusade against
darkness.” This challenge was accepted and is the basis for today’s Lions Clubs’ involvement
in sight conservation programs, collection of used eyeglasses for
recycling, support of training
centers for seeing eye dogs, and other vision
service activities.
On November 29, 1967, 23 prominent citizens
of
of the Plainview Lions Club under the sponsorship of the Winona Sunset
Lions Club. Since
then, the club has been involved in many significant activities in the
community. The club has
served as the charter organization for Boy Scout Troop 57. They
built a 20 x 44 picnic shelter
in
They have donated FM amplifying equipment for the hearing impaired at the
numerous residents have served as Plainview Lions over the years. The
clubs’ activities
have changed as the needs of the community have evolved and as the
talents and desires of the
members changed. While fundraising is necessary to support LCIF and
community projects, the
main focus is on community service. The club also has a social side
to it with an annual
spouses Christmas dinner and an annual summer picnic meeting at
What Does It Cost?
Initiation fee is $45 and annual dues are $60 which includes
membership in Lions Clubs
International and a subscription to the Lions International
Magazine. A meal is prepared and
served by the Plainview Legion Auxiliary at the meeting for $9
(optional).
When and Where Are the Meetings
The club meets the second Wednesday of each month at the Plainview
American Legion,
3rd Street, SW.
other program events, such as members and spouses’ Christmas party,
followed by a business
meeting to review ongoing activities—projects
and to develop plans for future events.
Meetings usually adjourn by 8:30 PM.
Community
Service Activities
· Charter
organization for Plainview Boy Scouts
· Adopt a Highway
Program
· Annual Plainview
scholarship sponsor
· Corn on the Cob
Day Parade
· Carley State Park Cleanup
· Full Service Day
· Christmas Tree
Pickup
· Old Fashioned
Christmas Sleigh Rides
· Camperships to
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Fundraising Events
•
Ladies’ Night Out
•
Good Friday Fish Fry
•
Pork Chop Dinner
•
July Chicken Feed
•
Lions Club Golf Tournament
•
Corn on the Cob Days Festival
•
Halloween Candy Sales
Sponsorships
· Academic scholarships
· Plainview Boy Scouts
·
· Leader Dog for the Blind
· Minnesota Eye Bank/ Children’s Eye Clinic
· Minnesota Special Olympics
· Hearing Foundation
· Peace Poster Contest
· Youth Exchange
2006-2007
Officers
President Randi
Fravert
1st
VP Randy Shindelar
2nd
VP Ted
Zabel
3rd VP Dan Bremer
Secretary Al Fravert
Treasurer Dan
Schmitz
Tail Twister Rob Ebin
Lion Tamer Donavon Timm
Past President: Alan Raygor
