July Centennial Service Activities

Can we say AWESOME??!!  Clubs in 49A started the new Lion year out busy!

• Soldotna
• Sharing the Vision:  Picked up 62 pair of used eyeglasses from collection boxes around town and shipped them to the recycle center in North Pole.
• Palmer
• Engaging our Youth:   In the planning stages for their Special Santa Project.
• Engaging Our Youth:  Play 60 with the Seahawks, an event designed to encourage children to get out and play 60 minutes a day.  
• Relieving the Hunger:  Helped at a food bank.  
• Engaging Our Youth:  Big Brothers and Big Sisters golf outing and fundraiser.  
• Wasilla
• Sharing the Vision:   Vision screening at the Ptarmigan Health Fair.
• Engaging Our Youth:  Play 60 with the Seahawks, an event designed to encourage children to get out and play 60 minutes a day.  
• Relieving the Hunger:  Senior Meals on Wheels
• Protecting Our Environment:  Collected 200 inkjet cartridges.  Funds raised will support the PET scooter project.  
• Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions
• Relieving the Hunger:  Donated food items to a local food pantry.  
• Sharing the Vision:  Collected used eyeglasses from collection sites.  Provided $189 in financial assistance for an eye exam.  
• Protecting Our Environment:  Set up collection boxes around town and collected 25 cartridges.  
• Relieving the Hunger:  Weekly help at the local food bank.  
• Protecting Our Environment:  Litter pick up.
• Engaging Our Youth:  Assisted the Boy Scout Troop that the club sponsors at the annual concession booth for those in the parade staging area.  
• Sutton Racing
• Engaging Our Youth:  Motocross Race where members and youth of Sutton put on a race for all to compete in and the community to enjoy.  
• Eagle River Sleeping Lady Mountain
• Engaging Our Youth:  Hair and face painting booth at the 3rd of July booth. 
• Sharing the Vision:  Bear Paw Parade.  We pulled our Vision Trailer in the Bear Paw parade, pulled small wagons filled with candy and passed out treats along the parade route. Thousands of bystanders along the 3 mile walk cheered us on and thanked us for all we do in the community!  
• Engaging Our Youth:  Chamber Luncheon.  Start of Bear Paw we attended Chamber luncheon and donated 2 community scholarships for outstanding community service! We reviewed 13 portfolio's and essays to choose 2 outstanding students for their volunteering in our community. This is done annually during our Bear Paw festival.  
• Sharing the Vision:  Vision screening at the 3rd of July event.  
• Anchorage Mt. McKinley
• Relieving the Hunger:  FISH Golf tournament.  Four members participated in a golf tournament to support FISH.  
• Relieving the Hunger:  Donated $1,000 to Food Bank of Alaska.
• Relieving the Hunger:  Delivered food boxes to the needy.  
• Sharing the Vision:  Members volunteered at Campabilities, a camp for the blind.
• Mountain View
• Engaging our Youth:  East High School Football Players volunteer at the Mt View Lions Community Park.  59 East High School students participating in the football program plus a dozen coaches and parents volunteered with 13 Mt View Lions in various improvement projects at Mt View Lions Community Park. The boys and girls replaced boards on the bleachers surrounding the baseball fields, painted park equipment, cleaned bear-resistant trash containers, mowed & trimmed the park. Activities lasted over five hour including a lunch break of hamburgers & hot dog with lots of delicious & festive picnic fixings. The East High School students totally enjoyed working around the park and the Mt View Lions loved the help! 

Two clubs have already completed all four Centennial Service Challenges in the first month!  

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