Thursday, March 28, 2024

International Lionism

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Three Lions from District D Lions clubs in British Columbia came down to Leavenworth, Washington to assist with our annual ‘roasted chestnuts’ fundraiser for the first weekend of the Leavenworth Christmas Lighting Festival.

PZC Kim Davis and PZC Geoff Davis from the Kamloops Paddlewheelers Lions Club, Kamloops, and ZC Sandy McMurray from the Armstrong Lions Club, Armstrong,  helped ‘score’ hundreds of pounds of chestnuts on Friday, December 1st, in preparation for the roasting and selling of the chestnuts Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 2-3.  

The Leavenworth Lions Club purchases 1,500 pounds of chestnuts from an orchard in Selah, Washington. Member, PDG Joe Nilles, built a trailer for the purpose of roasting/selling the chestnuts several years ago, as we worked out of tents with barbecue prior to this convenient trailer. The fundraiser goes for four weekends, first the Christkindlmarkt, the three days after Thanksgiving, and then the first three weekends in December for the Lighting Festivals, where over 10,000 visitors come to the small town to see the ‘lighting ceremony’. 

This is a wonderful example of ‘international fellowship’ within the Lions MD19 District D, which encompasses part of British Columbia and North Central Washington state.

Pictured, selling roasted chestnuts for the Leavenworth Lions Club, from left, Geoff Davis, Sandy McMurray, Dorothy Nilles,  Joe Nilles, and Kim Davis.

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