Welcome to the Cedar Valley Evening Lions
What's Happening this Week
Sturgis Falls is less than one month away! All club members are asked to sign up for the shifts when you are available to work. Let Tom Bogenski know your available times.
About Us
The Cedar Valley Evening Lions Club had its earliest beginnings in a duck blind on a Saturday morning in October, 1981. Two friends discussed the fact that it was time for one of them to begin to repay the area for the greatness of the Cedar Valley and that the area needed another service organization to help the community. Within months, the club was formed and chartered.
The first member joined Lions Clubs International on November 4, 1981. Twenty members were needed to charter a new Lions Club. On January 25, 1982, Lions Clubs International recognized the Cedar Valley Evening Lions Club as a member of the international organization.
The charter night banquet for the new Lions Club was set for April 2, 1982 at the Ramada Inn in Waterloo, Iowa. At the event, thirty-three members had joined the Cedar Valley Lions Club. Guest speaker for the event was Past International Director Blaine Rusch from Kansas. Mayors from Cedar Falls and Waterloo attended the event as did many Lions Clubs from as far away as Calmar and Decorah.
The Cedar Falls Noon Club sponsored the Cedar Valley Lions Club. The charter gift presented to the Cedar Valley Lions was the gong and gavel, the traditional gift of a sponsoring club. Cedar Valley Lions continue to use the same gong and gavel today.
The earliest fund raising project occurred just two months after the charter banquet. With little time to prepare, the club had a "garage sale" at Sturgis Falls, and a profit was made. Today, Cedar Valley Lions are involved in the Sturgis Falls Celebration in a much greater way as well as scheduling other service projects in the area annually.
Lions are an international network of 1.3 million men and women in 205 countries and geographic areas who work together to answer the needs that challenge communities around the world.
