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On Feb 1, 2025, the 29th Classic Annual Charity Crab Feed and Auction took was staged once again at the Community Center of Saint Lawrence the Martyr in Santa Clara. As in previous years, we had two seatings of an ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT feast, which included fresh crab, pasta, salad and garlic bread. Almost 300 people had […]
Fellow Lions, family members and volunteers Time again to say THANKS to all the folks participating in our annual Thanksgiving food drive which took place over the weekend of Nov 23 – 25, 2024. Two boxes of food per family for 177 families in the community were able to be filled with holiday dinner items […]
Lions District 4-C6 held their 4th Vision Clinic on Sunday, June 9th at Community Services in Sunnyvale, Northern California. A total of 361 patients attended, most of whom received eye examinations and re-cycled glasses. Patients attended from 12 cities within a radius of 60 miles. Dr. Art Low and his team of 6 optometrists volunteered […]
Golf Tournament by RLancon We held the 28th annual Cupertino DeAnza Lions Golf Tournament at Los Lagos Golf Course on Friday, June 14th. While we had only 32 golfers, everyone I spoke to had a great time. We had a putting contest, sold mulligans and licorice and there were raffle prizes and a silent auction, […]
After the usual meticulous preparations, including pickup of tables, chairs, A-frames and boxing materials plus their colorful labels, the 2023 Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive was kicked off on Saturday Nov 18th, with several lions and friends manning the doors of three longtime partner stores: Lucky’s on El Camino, Lucky’s at Pruneridge and Lunardi’s in Los […]
The A.J. Robinson Foundation (501c3) was started in 1985 within Lions District 4-C6, to provide free mobile medical screening to underserved communities. The Lions A.J. Robinson Foundation Mobile Health Screening Unit (MSU) is a mobile trailer outfitted for providing health screenings that highlight risks for blindness, vision problems, but also blood pressure, diabetes and hearing. Our […]
Saturday, September 30, 2023, saw the annual Heart of Camp event (formerly Via Ball) at the newly remodeled Ball Court at the Camp in the Cupertino Mountains. Among others, the DeAnza Lions Club received a prestigious award, for longtime financial support and yearlong contributions from the garden by lions volunteers. A more detailed report will […]
As in the past 10 years, De Anza Club members assisted at the registration desk at the 10th Annual Charity Dream Run. The event was held on Sunday, October 15, at Hellyer Park in San Jose. Lions Al, Barb, Eli, Jeff and Ray got tables and chairs from the storage, helped with the set up […]
A Vision Clinic was held on 10/14 at the Mexican Consulate in San Jose. Approximately 300 patients were seen by 6 volunteer optometrists. All who needed eyeglasses received them from the dispensary on the day, or the remaining 64 patients received new eyeglasses sponsored by manufacturer, Zenni, a few days later. 18 patients were referred […]
On Sunday, April 23rd, 2023, at 8:00 AM 10 volunteer doctors and 70 non-medical volunteers (mostly Lions) gathered to run a free Vision Clinic at St John Vianney Community Center. Nine hours later 349 patients had benefited from a detailed eye exam and most of them had received recycled eyeglasses from the Lions inventory of glasses collected from schools, libraries, hospitals and banks.
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