Monta Vista LEO Club Update
The new officers and members of the Monta Vista Leo Club were officially installed in a ceremony held Nov. 15, 2015 at Cupertino's Jollyman Park. Lions Steve Ratner and Leo Advisor Kent Vincent presided and did the honors. Lion Walt Strach…
Health Screening with AJRobinson Screening Unit at Cupertino Fall Festival
The "Cupertino Fall Festival" is organized by the Cupertino Rotary Club in conjunction with the City of Cupertino and sponsors.
During this year’s event, which took place on September 12th from 10am to 5pm, our De Anza Lions club…
Blanketeering Night 2015
About twenty of us turned out for the De Anza Lions' 5th Annual Blanketeering night on March 5th. We had Lions, Leos, friends and family attend. Everyone pitched in, enjoyed an evening of warm and friendly companionship, and got some wonderful…
GRACE ZHOU WINS LOCAL COMPETITION IN DeANZA LIONS’ STUDENT SPEAKER CONTEST
Cupertino, February 6, 2015 – Grace Zhou, a student at Monta Vista High School, was awarded first place at DeAnza Lions’ Club 2015 Student Speaker Contest.
Ms. Zhou was one of 5 high school students participating from the Fremont Union…
Topping 100 LEOs at Monta Vista
On Sunday October 19th, the Monta Vista Leo Club held an outdoor ceremony at Jollyman Park in Cupertino in which the new officers and 29 new members were inducted by De Anza Lions President Jeff Ludlum. The induction ceremony followed an afternoon…
A Perfect Combination
In the interest of one of the club’s most important projects, the “OneSight” program, it had been decided to combine a variety of other events with a fundraising effort. The result was a tail-twister party with an early Halloween theme,…
Flag Days 2014
As in previous years, the DeAnza Flag Team under the leadership of Lion Mort had several very successful presentations during spring time at 3 local schools. The first event was held in February at Sutter Elementary (Santa Clara) where 90 3rd…
Camp Via West – Annual Spruce Up
Over the last weekend in May, DeAnza Lions Bill, Ron, Charlie, Herb, Steve, Walt and Ray power washed and painted the BBQ Pit area, fire circle benches and tables, and amphitheater benches at the camp. They also repaired the roof over the BBQ…
Habitat for Humanity – New ReStore Opening
A big Thank You is due to all the De Anza Lions along with more than a dozen De Anza College LEOs who volunteered with the Grand Opening of the new Habitat for Humanity ReStore on May 31st. The club also donated $1,000. in the continuing efforts…
LEOs receive Young Leaders Service Awards
Seven Monta Vista High School students are this year’s recipients of the prestigious Lions Clubs International Young Leaders in Service Award. The award honors students who contribute 50 or more hours of community service in a given year.…
Did you feel the fuzz?
You would have if you had been with the De Anza Lions the evening of March 27th. More than twenty-five Lions, Leos, friends and family members met that night at Cupertino’s Odd Fellows Lodge for our Club’s 4th Blanketeering Party.
That warm…
SHALMALI PATIL WINS DeANZA LION’S STUDENT SPEAKER CONTEST
Shalmali Patil, a freshman at Cupertino High School, was awarded first place in the DeAnza Lion’s Club 2014 Student Speaker Contest held on February 11th, 2014. It was the 77th Lions Student speaker contest.
Ms. Patil was one of 4 high school…
18th Crab Feed by DeAnza Lions & Sunnyvale Sunrise Rotary Club – A Solid Fundraiser
In good tradition, the DeAnza Lions and the Sunnyvale Rotarians put together the 18th annual Crab Feed on January 25th, 2014. Six hundred tickets for 2 seatings were available for sale, only a few dozen remained unsold. Once again we were able…
2013 Food Drive Helps 160 Families At Thanksgiving
As every year for the past several years, the DeAnza Lions Club committed to help local low-income families to have a festive Thanksgiving dinner, by organizing a food drive over the last weekend before the holidays and providing each family…
2013 Halloween Bash A Roaring Success
The Cupertino DeAnza Lions had their Second Halloween Party Fundraiser (bash) on Saturday, October 19th, 2013. The event took place at the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center. About 70 adults and 50 kids had a great time with games, prizes, music…
“Habitat” For Little Ones
Habitat for Humanity is known for building simple, decent, and affordable houses for low-income families around the world. Lesser known is the fact that they are also building playhouses for good causes.
On February 9th, 2013, 8 Lions and family…
Record Fundraiser – 17th Crab Feed by DeAnza Lions and Sunnyvale Sunrise Rotary Club
Once again the DeAnza Lions and the Sunnyvale Sunrise Rotary club had teamed up for the annual crab feed on January 26th, 2013. As always, two seatings were planned for 300 people each, and by golly, almost all tickets were sold, despite a slightly…
Successful Food Drive Will Put Thanksgiving Dinner on for 150 Families
The DeAnza Lions had another successful food drive in spite of having to change the collections to two new grocery stores. After initial concerns we not only achieved our goal of directly providing food to 120 needy families, but we could…