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Lions Club selling pork steak plates at its Fall Fling

Seguin, TX, USA / Seguin Today
Lions Club selling pork steak plates at its Fall Fling


(Seguin) — The Seguin Noon Lions Club wants to fill up your belly during its Fall Fling Thursday night at Silver Center. The fundraiser is held twice a year, once in the spring and then again in the fall.

Lions club member Mike Wilson says the Fall Fling helps them raise the money, that the club uses to give back to the community.

“It’s our semi-annual event that we are having now. We are looking forward to serving the community again the wonderful pork steak dinner that has become so popular. We have achieved so much success, and we owe the community so much appreciation for the support that they’ve given us in attending and purchasing these meals. It’s help us do the things that Lions do for the community — and that is serve,” said Wilson.

Unlike the Spring Fling, the fall version of fundraiser is a scaled back event. Lion Pat Sagebiel says there will not be a raffle or any other activities for the Fall Fling. He says the popular pork steak dinner will be the star of the show.

“We put the emphasis on the number one seller, which is the pork steak dinner. I know in talking to people (how popular it is). They say ‘I’ve been you, because you normally do it twice a year and I just can’t wait, so what day is it and how much?’ It’s the same cost and the same place, the same time, and (you can again) drive-thru,” said Sagebiel.

Club member Bill Klingemann says the pork steaks will again be prepared by Next Door Catering. He says the drive-thru line will make it quick and easy for people to pick up their plates. Kingemann says they expect to sell dozens of these plates, because people can’t get enough of these pork steak dinners.

“Troy and Nancy Brown, (of Next Door Catering), put together these delicious pork steaks, with a nice barbecue sauce on top of it, along with the potatoes that you just have to taste to appreciate how good they are, and there are the green beans. I don’t even like green beans, but I eat those green beans like crazy,” said Klingemann.

Wilson says the Noon Lions Club uses the proceeds from the sale to help support its KidsSight program. The program allows the club to conduct eye screenings on young students in local schools and daycare centers. Wilson says they started several years ago just screening kids at the Seguin ISD’s Ball Early Childhood Center. He says they now take their testing equipment to other schools all across the area. The idea is to screen these kids at an early age to determine if there is a potential problem, which would require them to seek an actual diagnosis from a medical professional. By doing this, they can help to catch vision problems before the condition worsens. Nearly a quarter of the students they screen are referred to a doctor for further testing. Wilson says KidSight is making a difference for kids in this area.

“The program has grown. We are doing well over 2,000 a year in the area — between the public schools with the Seguin ISD and the Navarro ISD, plus the Kindergartens and the daycares and the other events where we can pick up a few kids and do some screening. Right now we have scheduled most of the schools, so that we are going to be doing that throughout the month of September. (We will) be getting those kids identified and treated as quickly as possible. Then we will move on to some other sources of opportunity to get those kids screened,” said Wilson.

Tickets for the pork steak dinners are $15 pre-sale, or $20 if you wait to get them at the door. Again, it is a drive-thru only event. The plates will be available for pickup from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of the Silver Center, located at 510 E. Court St.  Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Silver Center, Starcke Furniture, Ascot’s Custom Travel and at Tri-County AC & Heating.