Luverne Lions Club
May 22, 2024The Lions Club donated $450 to cover the tuition to send Nick Lenz, who has Type 1 diabetes, to Camp Gilbert this summer near Waubay, South Dakota. The weeklong program in June, located at Camp Nesodak, is for children ages 8 to 18 living with Type 1 diabetes.
By Mavis FodnessMarch 06, 2024Retired Luverne businessman Dick Herman hasn’t missed a meeting over the 50 years he has been a Lions Club International member. Each month since 1972, Herman attended the club meeting either in Luverne or in Arizona, where he and his wife, Clarice, spent their winters. “It’s a local group and we do things for the city, the community as well as for the world,” Herman said. Asked to join by a…
November 08, 2023Hartquist Funeral Home, Luverne, recently donated 259 eyeglasses and eight hearing aids to the Luverne Lions Club. “Hartquist Funeral Home is honored to help families find ways to help repurpose loved ones’ used glasses and hearing aids,” Jeff Hartquist said. The Luverne Lions Club is part of Lions Club International, which began in 1917 as a vehicle for members to donate time to better their…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyJune 18, 2019The following appeared in the Rock County Star Herald on April 17, 1958. Luverne Lions Club begins The Luverne Lions Club came to life officially last Wednesday night when John Lutter, Lions District Governor, presented the new group’s charter to its president, Donald Stoterau, at left. Charter members of the Luverne Lions Club and their wives attended the charter banquet. The…
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