By RHEA-FRANCES TETLEY
Staff Writer
The Crestline Lions Club has done it again! They had their drawing for their Welcome to Summer basket at their district meeting, and the prize basket was won by Jamboree Days Coordinator Dirk Rinker.
The final value of the basket was $1,935 and the basket itself weighed over 40 pounds. There were so many items, they overflowed the original basket so the Lions put the additional prizes into a giant bag as a part of the prize.
Rinker was invited to attend the Lions Club board meeting by President Catherine Johnson, where the basket was presented to him. He never expected to win, “although I always hoped, as we all do when purchasing tickets,” Rinker said.
Rinker, who is a board member of the Crestline Chamber of Commerce, was shocked and overwhelmed by all the fantastic items in the basket. “I only purchased two tickets, borrowing the money for one of them, so this is so shocking! I’m glad I repaid my friend already.”
In the basket were tickets for a two-night stay at the Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa in Lake Arrowhead, hand-made kitchen cutting boards from exotic woods by Reginald Durant, two family four-packs of tickets to Lake Gregory for this summer season, with items such as beach towels in a beach bag with sunscreen for summer fun in the sun.
Also included were a wide variety of services, activities, gift and food items: a Duffy electric boat ride on the lake; dinner gift certificates to RB’s Steak House, Olive Garden, Applebee’s, McDonald’s, Top Town Cafe and Higher Grounds Coffee House; a $50 gift certificate for locally made baked goods; $65 of summer snacks and certificates to several Crestline shops were for more snacks; therapy neck wraps, a dream catcher, wine and sparkling cider with engraved wine glasses; two Shell gasoline gift cards; $200 from Reliable Services in yard cleanup or firewood; and additional items from Rim Forest Lumber, B & L Liquor, Goodwin’s Market and Vitanova.
The Lion Club recently donated $200 worth of hygiene items to Scots Lodge for the students to take home to use this summer. They were also at VOE Elementary School’s Science Day and the recent Mountain Health & Reource Fair doing vision and diabetes testing.
The Lions also recently turned in 12.6 pounds of pull tabs, (which at 1,563 tabs per pound means almost 20,000 aluminum pull tabs) to the Ronald McDonald House to help house families of children being treated at Loma Linda Hospital. “They told me those tabs are melted down and made into syringe needles,” said President Johnson.
The Lions are supporting the Crestline fireworks fund and Jamboree Days in several ways, including donating $350 to the fireworks fund and working on several committees getting everything ready for Jamboree Days. They also host a free water station during Crestline’s Corks & Hops events on the first Saturday of each month all summer long.
Lions International is collecting used eyeglasses for distribution to those who need them somewhere in the world, as vision preservation is a top project for the Lions Club. Locally, glasses may be donated by contacting Dann Lahr, who will be installed as the new president of the club on June 19 at the Elks Lodge in San Bernardino, as dnlhr1955@gmail.com or donated them at Corks & Hops.
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