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…
Supporting Project Linus – With 60 Hand-Made Blankets
On November 8th, 2012, 35 blanketeers, amongst them Lions, spouses and friends of Lions, as well as 16 LEOs from Monta Vista and Lynbrook High schools gathered at the Odd Fellow Hall in Cupertino for a Linus Project Blanketeering evening. In…
Monta Vista LEOs Receive “Lions Young Leaders in Service Awards”
Two students, members of the Monta Vista High School LEO Club, received the prestigious Lions Young Leaders in Service Award, presented by the Cupertino De Anza Lions Club and Lions Clubs International during a ceremony held at their school…
Halloween Sock Hop nets over $ 1,000 for OneSight
The first annual fundraiser “Sock Hop” was introduced by Lions Dan & Yvonne Fimby on Oct 13th, 2012. Disguised as an early Halloween Party, the event took place at the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center, featuring a “Best Costume” contest,…
Lion Walt in Diabetes Walk Oct. 14th, 2012
On Sunday, Oct 14th, Lion Walt gathered a few of his friends from another club and participated in the Diabetes Walk in downtown San Jose, along the lovely Guadalupe River trail. “STEP OUT, and WALK to STOP DIABETES” is a recurring event…
Planting Trees – One Tree at a Time
On May 15th, Lions Bill Reed and Ray Lancon planted 5 pine trees at Via West Campus (formerly Camp Costanonan) near the protected garden area where the DeAnza Lions built a vegetable garden a few years ago. The pine trees are seedlings about…
First Flag Day Presentation 2012
The Cupertino DeAnza Lions Flag Team visited Sutter Elementary School in Santa Clara on Tuesday April 18th. Our Flag Team members are Lion Mort, Lion Anne, Lion Leslye, Lion Yvonne, and Lion Walt. We had a successful Flag Day Presentation with…
Joint Clubs India Eye Camp Completes 5th Year – Another Lions Success
A program that started as one Lion’s vision in 2007 marked its fifth year this past December, with the Ambikanagar Lions Club in west India partnering with the De Anza Lions Club of Cupertino to provide life-changing eye examinations and surgery…
Helping 160 Families at Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Food Drive provides food baskets for 160 families in the community.
The DeAnza Lions want to thank Safeway , the community, the DeAnza Lions and the LEO club of Monta Vista High School volunteers for making our Annual Thanksgiving…
“Happiness is..” 35 Warm Blankets
Project Linus
A second Blanketeering night for DeAnza Lions
If “happiness is a warm puppy”, 3 dozen little “puppies” (children in need) will be happy when they receive the blankets that were made with love and proudly donated to Project…
Lionism Sometimes Comes in Small Packages…
“SS Helpers” Donate to Lions Club
A special presentation of a donation to the Lions Club was given by two young girls, the daughter of a Lions Club member and her close friend, recently at the PM meeting. The girls cleaned houses, sang,…
DeAnza Lions try a new Fundraiser
A roaring “Thank You” to the DeAnza Lions, their families and friends who dined out at Holder’s Country Inn on Monday 23rd of May, 2011, for our new fundraiser. The club made $263 for the community fund.
Some people arrived early for…
Flag Days 2011
During May, this year’s "Flag Day Team", led by Lion Mort Eliason, with Lions Yvonne Fimby and Leslye Noone, took DeAnza Lions’ Flag Day Presentations to three schools. They talked about Star-Spangled Banner to approximately 290 Second…
Lions Honor Monta Vista Leo Advisor
Monta Vista High School Leo Club Advisor Andrew Goldenkranz was presented the Lions International Outstanding Service Award by Lion Kent Vincent on June 3, 2011. In his remarks, Lion Kent thanked Andrew for his leadership in guiding the Leo…