Welcome to the Seeley Lions Club
The Seeley Lions Club is part of Lions International, dedicated to serving communities and humanitarian needs.
Our Lions Club is located in Seeley, 10 miles north of Hayward, in beautiful northwest Wisconsin. The local community we serve is nestled between the Namekagon River and the Seeley Hills, home of the American Birkebeiner. Our area is a destination for cross country skiers, mountain bikers, fishermen, hikers and snowshoers.
2023
The Race Results are in for the 2023 Seeley Lions Pre Fat Race. Thank you to all of our Sponsors, Participants, Volunteers!
Check out a video created by Paul Ostrum, thank you Paul.
The Seeley Lions Club gave a $500 donation to the Sawyer County K9 Unit at the June 21st meeting toward the Sawyer County K-9 Foundation.
Thank you Deputy Nelson with K-9 Oscar and Deputy Schick with K-9 Maverick for your visit and talking about the K-9 Training and Foundation.
The purpose of the Sawyer County K-9 Foundation is to raise funds to financially support the current and future K-9’s.
Hats off to all of the Seeley Lion Club Volunteers on the Roadside Clean Up.
Tom Gaier, Bill & Cindy Conger, Tom Matthaie, Steve Karianen, Jane Mandli, Mary Johansen, Andrea Carroll, Diane Leighty, Barb Gossi, Connie Meek, and Dave & Darlene Prois, Tom & Judy Rowley-Silverthorn Park & Pickleball Courts, Pat O’Brien-old OO.
Thanks Steve Karianen for the great photo of you and your wife cleaning up the stretch between Northern Lights Rd and Birkie Ridge.
Congratulations to the following Seeley Lions Scholarship recipients on May 17, 2023 presented by Jane Mandli:
Greta Frane, Logan Abric and Ryan Mays
District Governor Brian Dulmes and his wife Barb came to the meeting. They presented Barb Oatman with a 15 year award. He also presented past president Diane Leighty an award for serving as a past President of the club.
Brian talked about their theme “Sewing Seeds of Volunteerism.” He discussed how we serve locally and around the world.
Barb Dulmes works with the Wisconsin Lions Foundation and talked about the many services they provide, vision screening for youth, eye glass collection and distribution to missions, collecting and repairing and distributing hearing aids to those without insurance coverage, Wisconsin Lions Camp, and educating people about diabetes.
2023 Fat Bike Birkie
Thank you Seeley Lions Club Volunteers who served brats & veggie patties at this past weekend’s Fat Bike Birkie at the Start Line of the Birkie Trail.
Deb Freeman, a Lions member and officer in the Madison area, as well as an officer at the state and
district level, shared her M& Ms with the club because “Membership Matters.” She also talked about
Leo Club for ages 12-18 and how it can get youth involved in service.
Founder member recognition-Roger O (pictured here) was recognized for being a founding member; other founding members not pictured are Pat O’Brien and Cindy Ferraro. Congratulations to all.
SEPTEMBER
Seeley Lions volunteers sold brats & food at the:
Chequamegon Big Fat Race and the
Birkie Trail Run. Thank you, everyone!
AUGUST
Seeley Lions Prefat Race August 20, 2022
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS FOR OUR 2022 PRE FAT BIKE RACE! WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU.
THANK YOU, RACE PARTICIPANTS AND VOLUNTEERS, FOR MAKING THIS A HUGE SUCCESS. The Pre-Fat is the major annual fundraiser for the Seeley Lions. It provides needed help and numerous projects to benefit our local community!
SAVE THE DATE FOR NEXT YEAR’S PRE-FAT BIKE RACE ON AUGUST 19, 2023
JULY
Charity Pickleball Tournament
Benefit for Seeley Lions CLUB
July 16-17, 2022
Lions Fundraiser Tourney Flyer V1.0 2022
JUNE
District Governor Bill Anderson and his wife Karen came to the meeting and addressed the membership. They have met or will meet with all Wisconsin Lions clubs by this summer. They explained their duties and recommended that taking a tour of the Wisconsin Lions Camp would be well worthwhile. Wisconsin has the 4th largest number of Lions clubs in the nation. Bill handed out chevrons for 10 years length of service to Judy and Tom Rowley, Tom Matthiae, and John Wagener (not present).
MAY
Congratulations to the five students from the 2022 Class who were chosen to each receive a $1000 Scholarship Award by the Scholarship Committee. Here are our 2022 recipients, presented by Jane Mandli: Rylee Lutz, Emma Mittelsdorf, Helena Maki, Anneliese Bauer, and Paige Pulskamp.
APRIL
Sawyer County Deputy Nelson (and Oscar) and Deputy Schick began the meeting by explaining the K-9 program used for both narcotics search and apprehension. They further explained the costs of acquiring these special dogs, their upkeep costs, equipment, etc., and the foundation set up to fundraise for the K-9 program. They will have to replace a recently retired dog and another (Oscar) in two years. Oscar demonstrated how well trained he is.
A check for $1000 from the Lions Club was presented to them by Tom Rowley.
MARCH
2022 FAT BIKE BIRKIE
Thank you, Seeley Lions Club Volunteers.
See the photos below:
2022 Fat Bike Birkie Lion Volunteer Photos
JANUARY
Way to go Seeley Lions Volunteers at the Seeley Classic last weekend!
See the photos below:
2022 Seeley Lions Classic Volunteers
Below is a link to the Seeley Lions Club 2021 Events:
Join us as we meet together to plan events and ways to help out our community. We are open to new members. Come and check us out!
Meeting times: 5:30 pm – 1st Wednesday of the month @ Sawmill Saloon – US Highway 63, Seeley, Wisconsin.