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1.   Calendar of Events for the Isle Lions Club
2.   Community  Activities and Projects  
3.   Christmas tree of giving
4.   Eye glasses and Hearing aids
5.   Mint Sales 
6.   Meat raffle
7.   Highway Ditch Clean up 
8.   Club Pins 
9.    Herbert S. Nyquist Scholarship Fund 
10.  Bratwurst Stand
11.  Blood drive 
12.  Isle Area Chamber of Commerce
 

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1.  Calendar of Events for the Isle Lions Club

January

Meat Raffle, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30     Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors will be held during the Gerneral meeting

February

Nominating committee for election of new officers

Lions Convention, Spaghetti dinner, Meat Raffle, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30      Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30   Fourth Tuesdayof each month

March

Meat Raffle,  Easter egg hunt, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30      Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30   will be held during the Gerneral meeting

Governor’s Dinner date yet to be scheduled

April

Election of officers for the next year by 4/15

Officers training, Meat Raffle, Bingo, Easter egg hunt

General Meeting 6:30      Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30   Fourth Tuesday of each month

May

Highway Ditch Clean up, Students Awards Dinner

Meat Raffle, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30      Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30   Fourth Tuesday of each month

June

Installation of Officers, Meat Raffle, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30       Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30    Fourth Tuesday of each month

July

Isle Days & Bratwurst stand, Isle and McGrath Parades

Little Miss Isle Contest, Kiddie Parade, Bingo

Highway Ditch clean up, Bloodmobile, Meat Raffle

Birthday party for Nursing Home Residents

General Meeting 6:30     Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30  Fourth Tuesday of each month

August

Wahkon Parade, Corn Feed and Pie Sale, Meat Raffle, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30      Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30   Fourth Tuesday of each month

September

Beer Garden @ White Pine show,  Meat Raffle, Zone meeting, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30      Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30   Fourth Tuesday of each month

October

Highway Ditch Clean up, Meat Raffle, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30        Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30     Fourth Tuesday of each month

November

Gambling Convention, Meat Raffle, Bingo

General Meeting 6:30      Second Monday of each month

Board of Directors 6:30   Fourth Tuesday of each month

December

Santa Secret shop at Isle School, Meat Raffle, Bingo

Christmas tree of giving,

General Meeting and Lions Christmas party (date TBD)

Board of Directors 6:30  Fourth Tuesday of each month (subject to change)

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2.  Community  Activities and Projects 

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3.  Christmas tree of giving
 

The Isle Lions Club, Christmas tree of giving will be helping 40 local seniors who may not be remembered this Holiday season.

Each senior was able to select three wishes under 25.00. Those wishes were put on an ornament and hung on the Christmas tree of giving at the local grocery store. Local individuals will select an ornament and make a senior person’s wish come true.

A Christmas party will be held at the Senior high rise building in Isle, close to Christmas with the gifts being passed out while enjoying Cookies, hot chocolate and Christmas Carols.   

A special thanks to Lion Hans Woelfle for all his work on this project

Christmas Tree of Giving
12-2016

As many gather with family and friends over the holidays to exchange gifts and share recipes, others are at home alone having no-one to celebrate the season with. The Isle Area Lions Club recognized that plenty of local seniors were falling through the cracks. In an effort to remember seniors this time of year, the Lions set up a Christmas Tree of Giving annually at Teals Market in Isle.

The tree will be helping local seniors who may not be remembered this holiday season by allowing them to select three wishes under $25. Their wishes were written on an ornament and hung up on the Christmas Tree of Giving located at Teals near the checkout lanes. Local individuals are invited to select an ornament (or two) to make a senior’s wish come true. Gifts may be dropped off at Isle Hardware Hank before Monday, Dec. 12.

This year marks the fourth year since the start of the Christmas Tree of Giving. Hans Woelfle, the current Isle Area Lions Club first vice president spearheaded the idea in 2013 when he served as the club’s president. Woelfle joined the club in 2008.

Since about 75 percent of the Lions donations are geared towards children’s causes, Woelfle wanted to generate a few projects to help the seniors in the area. He also heads other projects like the circus and the beer gardens at the White Pine Logging and Threshing Show.

This year, 44 seniors will benefit from the Tree of Giving – an increase from 35 seniors in 2015. Last year, the Isle Girl Scouts granted about one dozen wishes, Woelfle said. He hopes local businesses and groups will take on the worthy cause this year.

As a realtor, Woelfle encounters several local seniors in the community on fixed incomes who don’t have family to visit. “They’re not remembered. It’s hard to imagine there are people like that but there are,” he said.

In many cases, Woelfle said local seniors are on fixed incomes, so simple things like a gift certificate to the beauty salon or an electric razor can make their day. “Even a gift certificate to the grocery store goes a long way for a lot of them who struggle financially,” Woelfle said.

Woelfle explained that in the tree’s first year, seniors were reluctant to sign up, thinking there would be some sort of catch. “There is no catch,” Woelfle said. “The reason why I do this is because so many seniors have no kids, no grandchildren. Literally, Christmas is ‘just another day.’ A lot of them sit at home and watch the parade and that’s it. People should realize that elderly people are just regular people that just happen to be old. I really like to help the seniors and I really like to help the veterans, too.”

One elderly man in a wheelchair Woelfle encountered was at home cleaning his firearm collection one day when he happened by for a visit. When Woelfle asked when the last time the man went shooting was, the man said he hadn’t shot since his injury in 1979 that left him disabled. Woelfle convinced the man to make a wish for the Tree of Giving. Woelfle later took the man out for lunch and then to Boone’s Fine Guns for a day at the range. “That man was so happy he cried,” Woelfle said. It was an experience he will never forget.

This year’s gifts will be distributed at the Isle Senior High-rise on Dec. 18 at 6 p.m. The event will feature appearances from Santa and Little Miss Isle, live music, Christmas carols, cookies donated by Isle Bakery and hot chocolate. For gift recipients who are unable to attend the party, the Lions will be delivering to their homes. “They just enjoy it so much,” Woelfle said. “That there for me is what makes it worth it.”

The Lions mission is “to empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through Lions clubs. Contact Hans Woelfle at (320) 515-1337 with any questions regarding the Christmas Tree of Giving.

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8.  Club Pins