Lions Club Askola
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Meeting on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6 pm (from September to May/ Period 2025-2026)
in Prestbacka Manor
Myrskyläntie 526
FIN-07590 Huuvari
FINLAND
Welcome to the web sites of Lions Club Askola!
| Change over June 26th 2025  Past.pres. Toni Tuomala is handling over the president chain to our new president lion Juha Virolainen (right) for the period 2025-2026. |
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Some activities Main activities, period 2024-2025 – An Elvis minded Charity Concert with Aron in the Church of Askola, December 2nd 2024 – ”Help a Child, Help the Family”-activity: Christmas gifts collected outside the shops in Askola and Pukkila. A very appreciated annual activity by the donating customers in our municipalities,
Previous painting activities,
Christmas Church Concert with
A new Fireplace for for the Parish in Askola
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| Unveiling a Monument to Commemorate the War Veterans in Askola. April 27th 2019   A Group of our Club members, the lions Ara Antin (left), Hannes Bjurström, Hannu Rantanen and Olavi Kortejärvi planned and built together this Monument in the Church Garden of Askola.
Without their substantial aid the success of the Finnish army would not have been possible. Only because of their assistance, the solders could be sent from their ordinary civil jobs out to the front lines. Today we have just only three veterans left in Askola, two men and one female. They have all been awarded by the President of Finland, two of them got their medals finally in the festivities in Askola today. The whole nation is very grateful to all our War veterans. Lions Club Askola was active – in co-operation with our local Veterans association – to establish this Monument. It will remind us and all future generations to come of the great sacrifices of our Veterans, who granted Finland its Independence through their work during the utmost difficult time of World War II.
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LIONS CLUB ASKOLA – a brief club introduction
Community and Club
Askola is a small rural municipality some 60 kilometers eastwards from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Our municipality has about 5000 inhabitants. Our club has also members from neighboring Pukkila, another small, but active rural municipality with slightly over 2000 inhabitants. Most municipalities in Finland – there are still well over 300 of them – are small like ours. Reasonable or not, but this has to be seen as an expression of the Finns being true individuals, who are very skeptic about all kinds of bureaucracy!
Our neighboring city in the south is the coastal city of Porvoo on Gulf of Finland.
A map for closer orientation here!
Our Club was chartered in 1961 and has currently 40 members of whom 4 belong to the Fellowship of Melvin Jones. The main activities of our club have mostly been focused on youth and elderly. Our meetings in the period 2021-2022 are taking place in Prestbacka Manor.
Activities
Lions Quest-training programs for school teachers and parents have been financed by our club as well as scholarships for international youth exchange. Drug abuse has become a problem among the youth also in our small rural communities similar to the unfortunate trends all over Europe. Our club is committed to tackle this problem and we have been financing our Lions Quest-program by arranging annually church concerts with great success.
Moreover elderly people have received rehabilitation appliances making their daily life easier and preventing premature hospitalization. Additionally we have arranged transports to various events for elderly people as well as supported war veterans in their own activities.
Internationally we participated in the last world wide Sight First-campaign with a considerable contribution for an eye clinic in Equador. The years 2007-2008 were again new Sight First-campaign years and Lions Finland established an eye clinic in Sri Lanka with the money raised. Lions world wide are dedicated to sight and are therefore often called ”the Knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness”!
Several nation wide so called Red Feather-campaigns have been carried out since the 1970ties for various purposes like prevention/research of cancer, heart diseases or rehabilitation of elderly. In the year 2006 a new nation wide Red Feather-campaign was performed with a target to raise 1 Euro per every citizen in the country. The clubs all over the country worked hard to achieve this ambitious target by the end of the year 2006. Our club had a share and target of 5600 euros to fulfill. Our club doubled this target and we achieved again – of course – a leading position in the competition with other clubs in our zone! The purpose of the campaign this time was to support children and youth.
Last Red Feather campaign took place in the years 2016-2017 again to support the youth. It was again a great success and our club exceeded its target on this joint centennial campaign of all lions clubs in Finland. The youth center in Askola will at least get a brand new billiard table with our campaign income.
The new billiard table.
The Ladies of LC Askola have two foster children – whose educations are sponsored by the club – in Sri Lanka. They are hard-working pupils improving well in their studies.
We Serve and Contacts
We are active Lions hoping and working for a better world for all of us in north or south, west or east and we are doing our job with joy and good hearth. We hope you feel the same in your club and would be delighted to hear about you and your club activities.
Perhaps you sometime visit Finland and even Askola! – Welcome!
Dear Lion, do please visit our club meetings! Kindly call first our club secretary.
Or – even better – write about your visit plan directly to us through our clubs e-mail askola@lions.fi. Meeting days: see head line.
Do not hesitate to let us hear about you and your club activities through our e-mail!
We also welcome other questions and comments.
We think it would be very useful for all of us to know more about each other!
We are all belonging to the same Family – We are Lions!
List of our current Club officers here!
Yours in Lionism,
Lions Club Askola
e-mail: askola@lions.fi
Club President 2025-2026:
Lion Juha Virolainen
Webmaster of Lions Club Askola: lion Lars Rosenberg
lars.rosenberg@fimnet.fi
DOMESTIC LINKS IN ENGLISH:
About Lions Youth Exchange to Finland
here!
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Lapland – Christmas Land! |
The Telegraph about Finland here!
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Curious about Finns? Search for more information here! Holiday in Finland? Relaxing country side holiday-tips here! Hotels in Finland here! Bed and breakfast in Askola here! Capital region Helsinki here! Camping in Finland here! Portal to public services in Finland here! |
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Young student and interested about Finland? The Sibelius Academy here! |
Perhaps something for you?
Wife Carrying World Championships!
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7 reasons to visit Helsinki, |
While visiting Finland
Experience a Hot Air Balloon Trip!
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About Sports in Finland here! |
 VISIT ALVAR AALTO HERE!World wide famous finnish architect of functionalism 1898-1976 |
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Gateway to Finnish Museums here! |
Weather and Climate
in Finland today. Click here.
Design Forum Finland
Finnfacts about Industry here!
INTERNATIONAL LINKS:
Lions International Youth Exchange
