Monday, November 30, 2020

It's the day (and season) to give


Please donate to the Poulsbo Lions-Raab Foundation Bellringer Fund. Every dollar collected goes back into the community where it's needed! You can pay via Paypal at poulsbolions@gmail.com (or click in the right-hand column), or drop off a check at The Herald office.

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Our Bellringer Fund has begun for 2020-2021

By Ken Park

Kitsap Daily News

For over 75 years the Poulsbo Lions Club has donated money to charities all across the city as part of its holiday Bellringer program.

Those donations are even more important this year because of money lost due to coronavirus restrictions.

The Bellringer Campaign was started in 1942 by Poulsbo Lions Charter member Frank Raab and his wife Mable, in an effort to help those in need around the holidays and to bring some holiday cheer to those who otherwise would not have much to celebrate.

For the past 35 years, Lions Club president John McDonald and co-chairman Dennis Tesch have used those funds to purchase groceries and gifts for families in need and deliver them.

“It became too much for us to do, so we stepped back and now are giving money to basically four charities: Fishline, Sharenet, St. Vincent De Paul and Coffee Oasis,” McDonald said. “Basically to help them with whatever shortfalls they may have.”

Those four nonprofits basically do what the Lions did with the money – help out people in need during the holidays.

Over the years the most the Poulsbo Lions Club has raised for the four charities was $38,000.

But in the last few years, it has averaged somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000. This year the goal is to raise $30,000.

“I’m kind of holding my breath thinking that, that won’t happen, but that’s OK. Anything that we can raise to help these organizations during this time is huge,” McDonald said.

Over the course of the next few weeks, the North Kitsap Herald will be featuring stories about these charities and explain how they have spent past Bellringer funds from the Lions Club, and what they hope to do with the funds they receive this year. If you like, the Herald also will run your name in the paper with the amount you donated, or it can be done anonymously.

The newspaper, as always, also will run a thermometer showing how much the community has donated each week toward the goal.

If you would like to donate to the Lions Club Bellringer fundraiser please mail donations to P.O. Box 1244 Poulsbo, WA, 98370.



 

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

New governor's orders cancels Loads of Change this month

 Sorry to say our Loads of Change tomorrow has been cancelled due to the governor's latest mandate. We hope to continue at the laundromat next month. Stay tuned.... And please share.

 



Friday, November 13, 2020

Join Lions placing flags at cemetery

 Join Poulsbo Lions and others at the Poulsbo Municipal Cemetery on Caldart Avenue at 10 am tomorrow to put flags on headstones.

Monday, November 9, 2020

Armstrong contributes more than 600 lbs to food bank

 

Our amazing Lion Elda Armstrong (also our C4 zone chair for the 2nd year in a row) contributed more than 600 pounds of veggies to Fishline this year. 

Friday, November 6, 2020

1,500 eyeglasses go to NW LERC

Lion Karl Ostheller recently delivered 1,500 pairs of used eyeglasses to Northwest Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center in Lacey. If you have eyeglasses to donate, please drop them in one of our boxes around town:

Farmers Insurance, 19168-B Jensen Way
Fishline Food Bank, Viking Avenue
First Lutheran Church, 18920 4th Ave
Martha and Mary, 19160 Front St NE
Modern Dentistry, 19301 8th Ave NE
NK Fishline, Viking Avenue
Pacific Eye Care, 20669 Bond Rd NE
Peninsula Hearing, 19319 7th Ave, Suite 102
Poulsbo Eyecare Center, 19220 8th Ave NE
Poulsbo Library, 700 NE Lincoln Way
Sherrard, McGonagle, Tizzano & Lind, 19717 Front St NE
Walmart, 21200 Olhava Way NE


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