Entries by Dagmar

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Food Drive 2024 – Nov 23-25, 2024

Dear Fellow Lions, LEOs and Friends! Please mark your calendars for our next Food Drive, which will take place on the weekend prior to Thanksgiving, i.e. Nov 23 – 25, 2024! On Saturday and Sunday, we anticipate working in 2 or 3 hour shifts at the front doors of two or three grocery stores, with […]

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Charity Crab Feed – Feb 1, 2025

Mark your calendars! On Feb 1, 2025, the 29th Classic Annual Charity Crab Feed and Auction will be held at the Community Center of Saint Lawrence the Martyr in Santa Clara. As in previous years, we’ll have two seatings of an ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT feast, which include fresh crab, pasta, salad and garlic bread. See our attached […]

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Golf Tournament 2024 – Happy golfers

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, […]

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Thanksgiving Food Drive – Reasons To Give THANKS

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 […]

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A.J Robinson Deployment – One Good Deed After Another

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 […]

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Vision Clinic # 2 – Another Huge Success

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 […]

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Cupertino De Anza Lions Club Vision Clinic – A Success Story

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.