Forest Lake Lions Club

09/25/2026

We had a great turnout for the Forest Lake Lions annual free Senior Turkey Dinner at the Forest Lake Legion Thursday! Thank you to Boy Scout Troop 9733 for assisting. It was an enjoyable time of service and fellowship with the senior community.

09/17/2026

08/31/2026

It turned out to be a great day for the Lions to serve food at the St. Paul Powerboat races on Forest Lake Saturday! Lakeside Memorial Park was enjoyed by many, including Grady, who visited our food truck and thanked us for our donations to Camp True Friends. The day was capped off by the Chamber of Commerce sponsored street dance, with great music and many enthusiastic participants!

07/17/2026

We still have open times for our annual Red Cross blood drive later this month.
Please join us that afternoon to give a pint of blood if you are able!

07/02/2026

We were glad to meet with local law enforcement and school officials this week as we aim to help youth and families in our community when they’re in need.
Our Lions Club members Jenny Lorge, Deb Gatzow and Gary Lee met with Forest Lake Police Chief Luke Hanegraaf to present clothing for all seasons (T-shirts and shorts, sweatshirts and pants, sandals and socks) that officers will distribute to area youth in need as they may encounter them. We also supplied emergency gas cards to the FLPD for distribution to area parents and other drivers when in need.
We thank our local Walmart management for a gift card contribution toward these clothing purchases made at their store.
Our other visit this week was with Principal Jason Miller at Forest Lake Area Middle School.
The Lions are offering financial support toward the school’s new Lions Angel Fund, which has been established to allow students from households in need to join in athletics and other extracurricular activities with their classroom peers.

05/21/2026

We thank Tim Cryer, executive director of our local Lakes Center for Youth & Families, for sharing with us tonight about the services they offer.

www.LakesCenter.org

05/21/2026

Special individual birthday cakes at tonight’s monthly dinner meeting. Which is in pole position?

05/14/2026

Spring is here!…and today we’re continuing a yearly tradition of encouraging area youth to foster new life and growth from the earth we all share.
Tomorrow, 05/15, we have club volunteers who will distribute Black Hills spruce plugs to fifth-grade students at Columbus, Wyoming and Lino Lakes elementary schools as well as North Lakes Academy in Forest Lake.
For the second consecutive year, we also gave school officials the option or alternative to accept two Red maple trees for planting on their school grounds. Principals or administrators from Forest View, Linwood and Scandia elementaries and also Lakes International Language Academy requested the maple trees this spring in place of a spruce plug for each fifth-grader.
Some of our Lions school visitors for tomorrow joined a few others who could only volunteer today to pack the individual spruce plugs in the home garage of one of our club members. Lined up on opposite sides of a table, we had two Lions placing a plug in each bag, two Lions adding soil to each bag, and two more that stapled identifying tags to each bag.

03/27/2026

You’ll find our Belgian waffles tomorrow morning, March 28, at Faith Lutheran Church in Forest Lake.
All-you-can-eat waffles & sausage with milk/juice/coffee.
Admission $10 at the door; children under age 5 may eat for free.

02/20/2026

At tonight’s monthly club dinner meeting, we welcomed a guest presentation from Gretchen Mattson, principal at Linwood Elementary School in our local School District 831.
Among other school features, Principal Mattson spoke of the Linwood School Forest which is known to be among the five largest school forests out of 160 that are maintained by local schools across Minnesota.