2023 Colorado Peach and Pear sales orders are being taken now through July 20, 2023. A lug of peaches (20 lbs) is $48.00 and a box of pears (36 lbs) is $35.00. Contact any Millard Lions Club member to order. Delivery usually in mid-August through end of August. Proceeds go to the Millard Lions Foundation (501.c.3) and are shared with the Nebraska Lions Foundation (501.c.3).
Order directly from the Millard Lions Club via email at millardlions@centurylink.net.
Club members confirm your peach and pear orders to Lion Kyle Leonard or Lion Marilyn Chilvers by July 25th..
Summer:
23rd Bartels-Nelson Memorial Scholarship Golf Classic. This past June 12 the Millard Lions conducted a successful golf outing with 80 golfers and profiting $5,000.00 for scholarships, KidSight Nebraska and Childhood Cancer. Next year the event will return for a fifth year at Oak Hills Country Club on Monday, June 10 with an 12:30pm shotgun start. Coming WINTER/SPRING 2023-24 see page with information and entry form.
Provide Eye Exams and Glasses to Millard Public School students who are in need of financial assistance to get examines and purchase glasses. The Millard Lions Club works in cooperation with Millard Family Eye Care and the school nurses throughout the Millard school district.
Sponsors of the Millard South High School Leo Club.
KidSight Nebraska
Millard Lions Club / KidSight Service Project, the Nebraska Lions Foundation has purchased 20 Spot Vision Screeners by Welch-Allyn. The Millard Lions Club will have up to two to three of these screening systems to use very soon. Look for announcements in the Millard schools and check this site. We will be screening children of all ages, especially children under the age of 7, but will vision screen all. Information very soon.
Lions Clubs around the globe have been serving the blind and visually impaired since our origins in 1917. Here our story: http://wpc.2735e.taucdn.net/002735E/lionsclub/download/LQ38_seg_01_5000.mp4
Fall/Winter:
Volunteer Bell Ringers for the Salvation Army Tree of Lights Campaign, usually first Saturday in December
White Cane Days held each October, to raise funds for sight and hearing needs in the Millard and southwest Omaha community.
Spring:
Millard Lions Scholarship Awards Banquet and Presentation. The Millard Lions Club presents eight scholarships to graduating seniors of the Millard Public Schools. Scholarship categories are Vocational/Technical, Sight/Hearing Impaired, Leo Club, and Community Service. Funds raised from the Bartels-Nelson Memorial Golf Classic support the scholarships. Since 1965 over $130,000 has been given in scholarships, with the program growing and maturing from one scholarship to eight.
White Cane Days held each May, on Mother's Day Weekend, to raise funds for sight and hearing needs in the Millard and southwest Omaha community.
Opening Eyes Clinic at Nebraska Special Olympics Games at Creighton University, usually the third or fourth Friday of May. Volunteer Lions guide athletes through screening stations, eventually leading to an eye exam and from many new glasses. Learn more about Special Olympics/Opening Eyes at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuY5_msAZOk&feature=youtu.be
The Millard Lions Club is a not-for-profit 501.c.4 and our charitable arm is the Millard Lions Fouindation a not-for-profit 501.c.3, both organized in the State of Nebraska. Please make your charitable donations to the Millard Lions Foundation.
