Girl Scouts Boy Scouts 4-H Church Groups Hearts and Hands Lyons Community Club
Lyons Community Foundation (updated 1-9-05) Lyons Volunteer Fire & Rescue Veterans of Foreign War
Veterans of Foreign War Auxiliary
Youth
Terra Byrnes (402) 687-2037
The Girl Scouts are involved in many different community service projects throughout the year. They also attend many council sponsored activities. During the Christmas season, they make a craft item for the residents at the nursing home in Lyons. They help at VFW dinners and march in various parades. Every January they sell cookies. And in the fall are busy selling nuts and calendars. The Girl Scouts are sponsored by the VFW and VFW Auxiliary.
For more information contact Prairie Hills Girl Scout Council at 1-800-695-6690 or e-mail.
Cub Scouts Pack 163: Kate Borchman (402) 687-2238
Boy Scouts Troop 163: Scott Burgett (402) 687-2852
Mary Loftis, Carroll Welte or John Wilson Telephone (402) 374-2693
E-mail at: cweltel@unl.edu or jwilson3@unl.edu
Burt County Extension Office 111 N. 13th Street Tekamah NE 68061
4-H is an organization for all boys and girls ages 9-19. 4-H gives youth a chance to have fun with friends at meetings, social activities, tours, camps and fairs. They learn to do interesting things, take care of growing things like animals and plants, redecorate their rooms, ride their bikes, launch a model rocket, take pictures and practice cooking. 4-H has a project to help develop any interest as well as teaching skills kids will use their entire life. 4-H is for fun and a whole lot more!
Adult
Hearts & Hands is an ecumenical organization reaching out to the greater Lyons community to meet physical, spiritual, and social needs of the community throughout the year. They sponsor a food bank which is designed to extend the resources of its users by providing food and household supplies that would other wise be wasted. Hearts & Hands purchase overstocked, damaged, or discontinued products from Improved Living Inc. Food Bank in Norfolk. All products are safe and usable, although some may be in less perfect condition. The Food Bank is open the second Thursday of each month at the Food Bank located at the Lyons Police Station from 5 to 6 p.m. This organization is confidential, no names are passed around the group. The Food Bank does accept donations. They can always use personal, paper, and cleaning products as well as protein items. Working appliances, surplus fresh garden produce, and volunteers are always appreciated. Hearts & Hands also sponsors a Mitten Tree introduced during Thanksgiving. This tree has paper mittens with the sex, age, and Christmas wishes of a child on it. People in the community are asked to take a mitten off the tree and buy the child whatever they wish for or something similar.
The Community Club meets the second Monday of every month for a noon luncheon at the Branding Iron. The Lyons Community Club members work together to provide successful projects for the benefit and promotion of the Lyons area. Every year the Club sponsors the Easter Egg Hunt, July 4th Blue Grass Festival, children's Halloween and Christmas parties, scouting programs, student scholarship and the Burt County bike-a-thon. They also support many other community events and worthwhile projects such as the Nebraska Theater Caravan, Burt County Spelling Bee, beautification of the Mini-Green, Main Street Christmas decoration improvements, Main Street sign and the live nativity. Dues are as follows:
| $20.00 | Associate membership (Individual) |
| $75.00 | Businesses with less than 5 employees |
| $150.00 | Businesses with 5 or more employees |
| $200.00 | Businesses with 10 or more employees |
Steve Piper, President P.O. Box 182 Lyons, NE 68038
The Lyons Community Foundation was established on December 28, 1989, as a non-profit tax-exempt corporation. The purpose of the foundation is to seek out the needs of the local area, (civic, educational, cultural, recreational, humanitarian, or health) and help fund solutions to these needs. Funds to meet these needs come essentially as direct gifts from individuals, memorial contributions and bequests. Voting memberships are sold annually for $25 per membership. An elected board of directors governs over the administration of the foundation with voting members participating in the approval of grant applications and amount of monies distributed to each applicant. The Foundation has provided grants to the following projects: Lyons-Decatur Northeast School PIE, FBLA, FFA; Library Improvements; Lyons Food Bank; Ball Park Lighting Improvement; Baseball and Football/Track Scoreboards; Post Prom; Lagoon/Park Project; Happy Days Senior Center; Lyons Rescue Squad; and Annual Northeast School Scholarships.
January 2005 Announcement
We cordially invite
everyone to attend the annual general membership meeting of the Lyons Community
Foundation to be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at the Lyons City
Auditorium. At that meeting, the past year’s members of the Foundation will vote
to distribute all (or part of) the available $4,000
among 8 grant applicants. Each grant applicant will have a representative
present to answer questions and offer explanations, before the current
membership votes on their requests.
2004 Foundation members
should already have receiving a letter of invitation to the Annual Meeting. If
you did not receive such a letter of invitation, it is probably because you have
overlooked paying your 2004
dues. Individuals, businesses and organizations can be members of the
Foundation. 2004 dues will continue to be accepted by mail to Post Office Box
182 or at the Lyons City Auditorium the night of the meeting.
Since this event marks the
end of the 2004 year it follows that your 2005 dues may now be paid. The annual
meeting would be an excellent time and place to pay that $25 annual fee.
Included in the letter of
invitation, that Foundation members will be receiving, will be a sample ballot
to fill three seats on the Board of Directors. There will also be a sample of
the ballot for the grant
dollar distribution sent with the letter. For those members unable to attend the
meeting, these ballots may be used as absentee ballots.
Instructions for their use will be enclosed.
We hope that having the
opportunity to study the ballot in advance will make the voting process easier
or at least raise some question the grant applicants might answer.
Presentation of
Certificates of Appreciation will also be made to ‘10 year Sustaining Members’,
new ‘Founders’ and retiring board members. Other business at this year’s meeting
will include: an overview of the past year’s activities and the year end
financial picture.
Of course none of this
would be possible without the vision of the founders of the Foundation, those
who have worked so hard for the Foundation and our many benefactors. Our thanks
go out to all of you.
View Previous Foundation Announcements
Fire Chief-Terry Ueding
Rescue Captain-Karolyn McElroy
In case of an emergency, dial 911.
Jerry Ludwig 1732 Co Rd. 23 Lyons NE 68038 (402) 687-2735
The VFW participates and holds many activities throughout the year. They hold bingo, a soup dinner, conduct Memorial Day and Veterans Day programs, and provide color guard at football games and for the 4th of July. They also sponsor the Girl Scouts, Voice of Democracy and Junior Essay programs for junior high and high school students, donate to the Special Olympics and Post Prom, and also give out two $100 scholarships to graduating seniors. The VFW was organized to help the community, youth and needy Veterans. They try very hard, but also are open to any new ideas where they can be of more help.
Evelyn Ramsey, President (402) 687-2508