Catering prize for 50 also up for grabs during $1 raffle
(Seguin) — Do you have a wedding or other special occasion in which you have to feed 50 people? Then tonight might just be your lucky day in landing a delicious catering prize being raffled off during this year’s Seguin Noon Lions Club Spring Fling. The top prize is one of the features of this year’s drive-thru fundraiser being held today from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Seguin Silver Center. In addition to serving up some great raffle prizes, the annual fundraiser will be also serving up its popular pork steak dinner being catered by Troy Brown/Next Door Catering.
Sharing more details behind this year’s catering prize and the other 11 raffle items up for grabs is fellow Lion Pat Sagebiel.
“The top prize is catering for 50 people. ‘But I don’t have 50 friends?’ laughs Sagebiel. ‘Well, I tell them, if you win, you will have more than 50. You will have a hard time deciphering who but Troy Brown and Next Door Catering are giving a meal for 50 people. The winner will determine the choice of meat and the two sides, the date and the time to be agreed on by the winner and Troy Brown so it’s a win, win there, and second prize is a VISA card for $750. We have 10 other good prizes but they are not in the champion level of one and two. The cost is $1 per ticket or if you want the bargain, they are 15 tickets for just $10. I have yet to sell a $1 ticket. People buy a pack.”
Lion Bill Klingemann says tonight’s delicious meal and the charity extended throughout the year are reasons enough for folks to drive on through and show their support.
“At the Spring Fling, we have our fabulous pork steak dinner which is served to-go. In addition, we have our raffle prizes and our raffle contest which people can enter but mostly, it’s about supporting the Lions and all of the hard work and dedicated service that we provide throughout Texas, nationally, and throughout the world,” said Klingemann.
Mike Wilson, another longtime club member, says the Noon Lions Club uses the proceeds from this event to support a number of local charities. He says it is also used in its fight against blindness, including its KidSight program that provides free eye-screenings for young children in the Seguin area.
“We do support several charities in Seguin in addition to our work within the school district and the children that we are involved with there. Of course, we have and have had over 50 years the Texas Lions Camp for Crippled Children in Kerrville that we have supported and the Leader Dog Program and the opportunity for us to help those that are going blind or have gone blind — also with the World Services for the Blind. So, we are involved in a lot of the vision projects as Lions have always been, or at least since 1926 whenever Helen Keller challenged us to be knights for the blind and the Lions adopted that way for them to focus on service in every community so we’ve been able to do that,” said Wilson.
Tickets for the pork steak dinner are $15 pre-sale or $20 at the event. Pre-sale tickets can be picked up at the Silver Center, Starcke Furniture, Ascot’s Custom Travel, or at Tri County A/C and Heating. The drive-thru lanes will also be open for anyone who just wants to purchase raffle tickets. The Silver Center is located at 510 E. Court St.