“Where there is a need, there is a Lion”
Events of the past month
March 5 noon. Stephanie Atkins from ArtReach spoke about how the Arts brought in nearly $170 MILLION into the St Croix Valley! The arts and culture sector are essential to the prosperity and vitality of our communities.
March 19. Tom Warth spoke about his interesting 88 years!
Coming Events
April 2 Noon. Funeral Director at Simonet’s Funeral home, John Locke, and Valerie Richards, MBA will be presenting on the newly formed St. Croix Valley Grief Coalition and their upcoming 6 week seminar "Growing Through Loss" starting April 2-May 7, which is planned to be held biannual in the Spring and Fall.
April 16 Noon Speaker details later
May 2 Thursday Noon. This is a special Law Day meeting together with the Stillwater Rotary Club. The speaker will be Federal Judge Jack Tunheim. The meeting will be held at the Stillwater Event Center, 1910 Greeley Street. Please send RSVP to: thomashollatz72@gmail.com
No meeting on Tuesday, May 7.
May 21. Annual Meeting
Contributions
Our club contributed $1,000 to Community Household. They are a non profit community including people with developmental challenges. Forty people of all ages and abilities celebrate a sustainable rural life outside of Oseola WI. Together they run an Organic Dairy Farm, an Organic Biodiverse Garden & CSA, a Bakery & Food Processing Kitchen, and many Crafts.
We also contributed $500 to Minnesota Lions Gift of Sight in memory of Jim Ehrhart and Paul Quinn.
The following is a list of program assignments. It is best if we arrange your program or speaker at least a month in advance. If you have an idea for a program, if you are not on this list and wish to arrange a program or if you were assigned a date that you can not arrange, contact Paul at spils@mac.com.
June 4 Jim Honsvall
June 18 Picnic Autumn Hills
July 2
July 16 Picnic Greg Hanson -Stringer Farm
Aug 6 Herb Lundberg
Aug 20 Picnic Spilseth home
Sept 3 Ray Stevens
Sep 17 Picnic Bayport Park
Oct 1 John Bourdaghs
Oct 1 5 Jim Kroening
Nov 5 Don Grund
Nov 19 Jim Dahl