Adopt A Highway

Lion Larry Lockwood is the Lion in charge of our Adopt A Hwy program. He has worked on clean up with the late great Lion Elmo for many years. He and his stalwart crew head out to Hwy 168 and Lodge Road every other month (weather permitting) and spend a morning cleaning up our little section of road.

                         Paper Recycling

Lion Sonne Schultz is in charge of our monthly paper recycling project. On the third Saturday of each month, armed with gloves and trailers, the Lion volunteers gather to collect papers. Drop off locations are at the post offices in Prather and Auberry from 9am-1pm. It's a lot of hard work, but provides the community with a way to recycle their newspaper, junk mail, and paper products without making the long trek to town.  And did we mention that we take bags of shredded paper? That's right, so do your part for the environment, by dropping your papers off at the Lions drop off the 3rd Saturday of each month!

 Eyeglasses collection.

Our collection boxes can be found in various locations around our foothill community. In these we collect used eyeglasses to be sent to collection centers, refurbished and taken to  countries with little or no access to basic eyecare. It seems like such a little thing to take our old glasses and drop them off in a cardboard box. Yet, to many in the world these same cast off eye glasses mean the ability to see, to read, to walk safely across a street, or see the details of a loved one's face. Maybe not such a little thing after all. Lion Bill Rose heads up our eye glasses and hearing aid collection effort. Used eye glasses can be dropped off at the local schools, Sierra Oaks Senior Center, Dr. Mulvey's office, or DJ's Dollar Daze.

We've added ink cartridges to our list of recyclables. After noticing that many of us had cartridges lying around, taking up space in drawers, or on a shelf waiting to be taken to an office supply store in town, we thought,  "hmmm?". Cartridges can be dropped off (in a grocery or zip lock bag) with Jeannie each month at the board meeting. They can also be dropped off at DJ's Dollar Daze in Prather. As each box fills up, they are sent off for recycling. You can also give them to a local Sierra HS Leo Club member.

Pull tabs

One charity that always has a place in our hearts is the Ronald McDonald House. Saving pull tabs from soda and beer cans is an easy way to support the local Ronald McDonald House. The Sierra HS Leo Club has a collection contest in their 4th period classes each semester. So you can always save your pull tabs, then drop them off at the high school indicating that they are for the Leo Club.

C Ponderosa Lions Club Updated July 2011