HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE -- The HSV Breakfast Lions are working to present their homemade chili at the 41st Chili Day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 10 in the Coronado Community Center. Tickets are $10 for all-you-can-eat chili, pie and drink and may bought from a club member or at the event. Dine in or take it home. A quart of take-home chili is $7. The chili will be hot, not spicy. Music by Heading Home will add to the experience.
The silent auction will be full of donated items.
Historically, chili, a stew made of meat, onions and chili peppers, comes from Texas, not Mexico, and has been recorded since the late 1700's there. It became nationally popular when Texas took it to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
The cost of preparing the Lions' Chili Day is borne entirely by the HSV Breakfast Lions. The chefs and staff are composed of Lions, spouses and friends who will serve the food.
Every ticket, every auction sale helps the Lions provide the services they execute throughout the year. Donations are tax deductible. Club services include vision screening for more than 2,000 preschool-aged children each fall; assistance to pay for further eye exams and eyeglasses as needed; focus group serving the visually impaired in HSV and region, World Services for the Blind in Little Rock, Mid-South Sight and Hearing, scholarships to the National Camp for the Blind at Yorktown Bay, Arkansas Eye Bank and Lab, Lions Club International Foundation, Leader Dog services, Cedar Mountain Boys & Girls Club, special projects when local nonprofit organizations need money and the new LCI initiative to work toward ending diabetes.
If working with like-minded caring, hard-working and philanthropists interests you, the HSV Breakfast Lions Club meets at 7:45 a.m. on the first and third Thursdays of the month. Call President Joanie Corry for further information: 501-762-9566.
Society on 02/25/2018