Our Major Projects...

 

1. Determining and funding community needs, including local college scholarships and aiding persons of need in the area.

2. Supporting the annual Coon Rapids Snowflake Days celebration and maintaining Lions Coon Creek Park.

3. Annually holding pancake breakfasts with the proceeds going to benefit the community.

4. Sponsoring and helping Cub Scout Packs, Boy and Girl Scout Troops in the community as well as the North Metro Leo Club.

5. Supporting health screenings at Coon Rapids High School, school co-curricular activities and actively presenting our “Books for Bango” Program in our nine elementary schools.

6. Providing glasses and hearing aids for the needy in our city; collecting used eyeglasses & hearing aids for recycling and helping fund the Wellness Van, a joint venture between Mercy and Unity Hospitals and the Lions.

7. Helping with summer recreation camp programs at Camps Friendship, New Hope and Needlepoint.

8. Assisting with the Salvation Army Bell Ringing during the Holidays, the annual White Cane Days event to benefit the Lions Eye Bank of Minnesota, the Hooked on Fishing Kid’s fishing clinic held each May at Coon Rapids Regional Dam Park and the Project New Hope program for veterans.

9. Sponsor the annual Spring Classic Golf Tournament and the Winter Wine & Epicurean Delights Extravaganza.

10. Advancing the work of Lions Clubs International Foundation that assists people around the world.