Lions Club stirs the pot for scholarship funds
Linden Lions Club members were stirring the pots again Saturday. All for a college scholarship for some student recommended by a Linden-Kildare High School teacher.
The pot stirring creates chicken stew. Community supporters turned out to purchase some $1,300 worth of the stew on this day.
Every year, the Lions get out three huge iron pots and burners and place them somewhere one Saturday morning on the town square. A few get there early, at about 7 a.m., and start peeling the potatoes. More come later to shell the onions.
It’s all done by about 11 a.m. Plenty of stew quarts are available, and all diminish quickly.
Frank Lanier is usually the one to say where and when something is to be added. There’s no real recipe. Richard Bowden gets to be the taster. Corn is the very last ingredient added.
Preparation for the Lions’ big day is also rather trouble-free. The Lions simply put up a master list of who is going to bring what. Then that happens.
Otherwise, the Lions are just out on the corner making jokes and looking at the people. They smile easily, believing it’s good for the public to see them at work
By the way, those sticks the Lions use to stir their soup pots? The Lions say that in the olden days the paddles got stored with the school principals for the rest of the year.
No one remembers this for sure. But then, no one has said the Lions have good memories. There’s a reason they aren’t called the Linden Elephants.