LIONS IN THE NEWS

Liberty Reservoir Trail Clean Up, August 2023

Liberty Reservoir Trail Clean Up, August 2023

Members of the Freedom District Lions Club joined the Friends of Liberty Reservoir in a trail clean-up event on July 9, 2023. This month's clean-up was at the S. Nicodemus-Deer Park Road bridge in Finksburg. A heavy amount of trash was collected on the trails, in the...

Preschool Vision Screening at Carroll County Public Library

Preschool Vision Screening at Carroll County Public Library

On Friday, June 16, 2023, members of the Freedom District Lions Club Preschool Vision Screening Committee joined the Eldersburg Branch of the Carroll County Library for their Summer Reading Celebration. The Lions offer a quick, simple, free screening for preschool...

Morgan Run Equestrian Trail Maintenance

Morgan Run Equestrian Trail Maintenance

Members of the Freedom District Lions Club (FDLC), in collaboration with the Carroll County Equestrian Council (CCEC), participated in trail maintenance at Morgan Run Natural Environment Area on July 9, 2023. Several teams worked to clear numerous trails, including...

Having Fun at the Sykesville Carnival

Having Fun at the Sykesville Carnival

Lion Myron Horn, a member of the Freedom District Lions Club (FDLC) had the Lions Emblem painted on his head by Emma Olson during the Sykesville Freedom District Fire Department carnival held June 10 - June 17, 2023. Emma is a 15 year old Sophomore at Century High...

NEW PROJECT! Operation Joy!

NEW PROJECT! Operation Joy!

The Freedom District Lions Club (FDLC) regularly assesses the need for and effectiveness of the service projects they carry out to ensure they are meeting a need and doing service projects that are of interest to the members. They also add projects when a need is...

Pediatric Cancer Toy Donation

Pediatric Cancer Toy Donation

As part of their on-going program to provide toys, games and stuffed animals to children undergoing outpatient cancer treatment at Sinai Hospital, members of the Freedom District Lions Club delivered toys on June 8, 2023. They also took gas gift cards for parents to...

Route 32 Adopt A Road Cleanup

Route 32 Adopt A Road Cleanup

Members of the Freedom District Lions Club (FDLC) led by their Environmental Services Chairman conducted a trash pickup along Sykesville Road (Route 32) between the bridge over Liberty Reservoir and Bollinger Mill Road on Saturday, July 22, 2023. The service club has...

Freedom Park Helping Hands, August 2, 2023

Freedom Park Helping Hands, August 2, 2023

The members of the Freedom District Lions Club continues to carry out their role as the Freedom Park Helping Hands for the Carroll County Department of Recreation and Parks by conducting ongoing inspections and clean-up of the park. Led by Lion Wu Schaefer (who took...

Carroll Community College Scholarship Acceptance

Carroll Community College Scholarship Acceptance

Karen Pelton, Assistant Director, Carroll Community College Foundation attended the May 24, 2023 dinner meeting of the Freedom District Lions Club (FDLC) held in Celebration Hall, Messiah Lutheran Church in Berret. She was an invited guest to accept a check for $2,000...

Service Hours Awards

Service Hours Awards

During the Freedom District Lions Club (FDLC) meeting held on May 24, 2023 in Celebration Hall, Messiah Lutheran Church in Berret, the three students with the most service hours from each of the eighth grades of the two area middle schools and seniors from the two...

High School Scholarship Winners

High School Scholarship Winners

At their annual Education Night held at Celebration Hall, Messiah Lutheran Church in Berrett on May 24, 2023, the Freedom District Lions Club (FDLC) recognized and honored their scholarship recipients from Liberty High School and Century High School. Lion Jane Jung...

Veterans Appreciation Dinner, July 2023

Veterans Appreciation Dinner, July 2023

Approximately 90 people (including 50 veterans) attended the Freedom District Lions Club's (FDLC) Veterans Appreciation Dinner held in the American Legion Post 223 Hall on Slacks Road in Sykesville on the evening of April 26, 2023. The meal was provided by Mission...

Morgan Run Trail Clean Up

Morgan Run Trail Clean Up

Over 20 members of the south Carroll community, including 3 members of the Freedom District Lions Club, supported National Trail Day with a cleanup at Morgan Run Natural Environmental Area in southern Carroll County.y on Saturday, June 3. The Lions cleared numerous...

Monthly Clean up with Friends of Liberty

Monthly Clean up with Friends of Liberty

Members of Freedom District Lions Club in collaboration with the Friends of Liberty Reservoir performed trail clean up on Sunday,11 June 2023, from 11 a.m. to Noon. Location for this clean-up was at the Second Boat Dock off of Oakland Mills Rd. A light amount trash...

French Fries at Sykesville Fire Carnival

French Fries at Sykesville Fire Carnival

Every year the Freedom District Lions Club holds its annual French Fry Fundraiser at the Sykesville Fire Carnival. Come see us all week to support of community causes and have some delicious fries!

Donation to Horizon Day Camp

Donation to Horizon Day Camp

During the April 12, 2023 meeting of the Freedom District Lions Club held in Celebration Hall, Messiah Lutheran Church in Berrett, the presiding officer, First Vice President Melissa Turski called on Lion Viki Peltier, Chairman of the Childhood Cancer Committee to...

Metropolitan Washington Ear Visits FLDC

Metropolitan Washington Ear Visits FLDC

During the April 12, 2023 meeting of the Freedom District Lions Club held at Messiah Lutheran Church in Berrett, 3rd Vice President Rich Collins introduced Nora Hart from the Metropolitan Washington Ear who explained the free multi-media audio information services the...

FDLC donates to Sykesville Firehall

FDLC donates to Sykesville Firehall

Kevin Shiloh, President, Sykesville Freedom District Fire Department (left) accepts a check from Melissa Turski, 1st Vice President, Freedom District Lions Club. The volunteer organizations have had an excellent working relationship since the Lions club was chartered...

Clerk of the Circuit Court makes a visit

Clerk of the Circuit Court makes a visit

uest Speaker for the evening was Heather DeWees, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Carroll County. DeWees explained the many functions that fall under the leadership of the Clerk, s well as mentioning functions that do not fall under her jurisdiction. She did an...

Freedom Park Clean Up, April 2023

Freedom Park Clean Up, April 2023

Members of the Freedom District Lions Club, led by Lion Wu Schaefer, conducted an inspection and clean-up of Freedom Park in Sykesville on April 11, 2023. They found no damage to the park , structures or fields but did find a moderate amount of trash. The heaviest...

Sinai Toy, Book and Blanket Delivery

Sinai Toy, Book and Blanket Delivery

The Freedom District Lions Club delivers toys to Sinai hospital where children receive their cancer treatments on an outpatient basis. Every three months several members of the childhood cancer committee take turns purchasing games, toys, and stuffed animals for the...

Academic Grants

Academic Grants

Lions Jane Jung-Potter and Rochelle Schneiderman (FDLC Educational Services Committee Co-Chairs) presented this year's annual Freedom Lions Academic Grant awards. For 10 years, the service club has been giving the grants to 3 of the 9 public schools in their area on a...

Abby’s Carts of Courage

Abby’s Carts of Courage

Kate Renehan assisted by her daughter, Abby Cafiero, told the Lions about Abby's treatment and experience dealing with a rare form of brain cancer detected when she was age 4. Based on their experiences, they determined that a wagon is very useful for children...

Electric Car Donated!!

Electric Car Donated!!

The Freedom District Lions Club (FDLC) donates toys, games and stuffed animals throughout each year for use by children under-going cancer treatment on an outpatient basis at Sinai Hospital. Recently the service club's Childhood Cancer Committee asked the hospital's...