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Due to the damage to the Sanibel Community House the San Cap Lions Club is not able to meet there.  The Lions Clubs of Lee County are meeting with the Fort Myers Lions Club.  The meetings are on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month at 6:00 PM.  The meetings take place Crowne Plaza Hotel at the Bell Tower …

The PM team Lyn and Bob Kern, Bill and Karen Sartoris, Ken and Nancy Sebree Part of the AM team: Al and Kathy Krause, and daughter Katie, Jerry Miller, Pam Salvo, Linda Grezesza   k The team in action. On Saturday, January 29 the Sanibel Captiva Lions Club fielded two teams to support the Feed My Starving Children mobile food …

At its June meeting the Sanibel Captiva Lions Club elected new officers for the year 2021 – 2022.  The officers are: President: Steve Schulz First Vice President and Treasurer: Valerie Tutor Second Vice President: Lori Schulz Co-Secretaries: Lyn Kern and Sharron Miller Directors:  Ed Gray, Bill Sartoris, and George Veillette.   The Sanibel Captiva Lions Club has been serving the …

At their May meeting the Sanibel Capitva Lions Club inducted Sharon Miller as a new member.  Sharon, along with her husband Jerry, created the Trailways Camp along the Caloosahatchee River to provide camping experiences for adults with special needs in southwest Florida.  The camp is supported by the Robert V. & Benjamin G. Miller Fund, which was established to honor …

In response to FISH’s request for food for their Holiday Baskets, the Sanibel Captiva Lions Club delivered 240 cans of vegetables and 120 boxes of pasta to assist in providing for healthful meals for FISH’s clients.  The Lions Club thanks Bailey’s General Store for allowing them to purchase the food at cost.  This spirit of cooperation of local businesses and …

Michael Nachef, Director of Government Relations for Lee Health, addressed the Sanibel Captiva Lions Club via Zoom at their March meeting.  The 105-year-old Lee Health is a largest employer in Southwest Florida and the largest provider of health care between Tampa and Miami.  Unlike many other public hospitals, Lee Health receives no funding from taxing authorities.  He explained that Lee …

The Sanibel Captiva Lions Club offers Francis Bailey Scholarships each year to post-secondary students who either live or work on the islands or whose parents do.  These scholarships can be used for study at any accredited college or technical school.   The requirements for the scholarships, the instructions the completion of the application form are available on-line.  To access these documents, …

Ariel Hoover, the chair of the local chapter of The Climate Reality Project, gave a presentation via Zoom to the Sanibel Captiva Lions Club at their December meeting.  She highlighted some of the extremes that have been occurring.  The last five years have been the hottest years on record.  In the last two years temperatures reached 113 degrees in Paris …

Steve Greenstein, Executive VP of the Sanibel Captiva Trust Company spoke via Zoom to the November meeting of the Sanibel Captiva Lions Club.  The topic of his talk was “How to Talk to Your Heirs About Managing Inherited Wealth.” We appreciated Steve’s clear presentation of the issues involved and why and how to address them. He stressed the power of …