Earlville Lions Club

10/30/2026

EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB DONATIONS for SEPT + OCT 2026…

EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB – DONATIONS LIST for SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER of 2026:
1. Earlville American Legion – new refrigerator $1,500
2. Earlville Youth Basketball Program – 3rd, 4th + 5th grades – $1,250 – for t-shirt uniforms
3. Sheridan Grade School PTA – $1,000 Santa’s Workshop Christmas Gifts for Parents
4. Fox Valley Falcons – 9U Travel Baseball Team – $500 for team gear
5. Earlville Historical Society – $2,000 for new gravel parking lot behind NuMark
6. Earlville Public Works Dept – $3,000 for new grapple for skid steer for bruch + trees
7. LaSalle County Farm Bureau Foundation – $2,000 for support and expansion of their annual Agricultural Kids Camp
8. Olmstead Museum in Somonauk - $2,500 donation
9. Earlville Athletic Boosters - $1,000 donation
10. Earlville Police Department - $9,385 for new mobile data terminals
11. Sharing Hearts of Earlville - $5,000 for food and donations to the Mendota Area Christian Food Pantry
12. Fox Valley Community Services - $2,000 for support of their onsite entertainment programs for their senior citizens from DeKalb, Kane, Kendall and LaSalle counties
13. Earlville Girls Travel Softball Team – $1,500 to help start their brand new team
14. Earlville Fire Department - $25,000 for a new Brush and Field Fire Water Vehicle
15. Bethany Lutheran Church of Leland - $5,000 to help restore 18 stained glass windows


TOTAL EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB DONATIONS FROM NOVEMBER 2025 THROUGH OCTOBER 2026 = $401,345

10/27/2026

QUEEN OF HEARTS - important announcement…

This SAT 10/31 is Halloween for the kids. So, just like we did last year to accommodate Queen of Hearts ticket sales around the trick or treaters, there will be no more QoH ticket sales on SAT 10/31 after 4pm. The drawing will still be held @ 8pm that night. This is to help ensure traffic safety during the trick or treat hours. Ticket sales on SAT 10/31 will only be from 1pm until 4pm.

07/15/2026

NEWLY UPDATED PAYOUTS FOR EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB QUEEN OF HEARTS…

EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB
QUEEN OF HEARTS – CARD PAYOUTS


CARD PAYOUTS:
• QUEEN OF HEARTS – this ‘lone’ card wins our jackpot total pot amount and the winner will then receive 60% of that final total pot amount
o 20% of that total pot amount will then be used to ‘restart’ our next Queen of Hearts game
o 20% of the total pot amount will goto the Earlville Lions Club to help support their continued annual charitable giving to our local and surrounding communities

• 2 JOKERS = $2,000 each
• 3 OTHER QUEENS = $1,500 each
• 4 ACES, 4 KINGS, or 4 JACKS = $1,000 each
• Any cards #2 thru #10 = $500 each

07/15/2026

NEW QUEEN OF HEARTS FOR EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB…

EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB – QUEEN OF HEARTS RULES

***YOU MUST BE 21 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO PLAY OUR GAME***

***IF YOUR TICKET IS DRAWN AS OUR WEEKLY WINNER, OR IF YOU WIN THE ACTUAL QUEEN OF HEARTS POT AMOUNT, WE WILL ANNOUNCE YOUR NAME AND THE CITY IN WHICH YOU LIVE. IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOUR NAME ANNOUNCED THEN WE MUST KINDLY ASK THAT YOU DO NOT PLAY OUR GAME

***THE ACTUAL QUEEN OF HEARTS WINNER MUST MEET WITH LIONS MEMBERS TO CLAIM THEIR PRIZE AND PROVIDE MULTIPLE FORMS OF ID (driver’s license + credit card or other + social security # documentation) – THE QUEEN OF HEARTS WINNER WILL BE ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY TAXES OWED – PLEASE CONSULT YOUR CPA

TICKET COSTS: $5 per ticket, OR 5 tickets for every $20 purchased –

TICKETS CAN ONLY BE PURCHASED EACH WEEK AT THE LOUNGE BAR IN DOWNTOWN EARLVILLE, OR AT THE EARLVILLE AMERICAN LEGION HALL IF WE HAPPEN TO BE SELLING TICKETS OVER THERE (the Legion Hall is just 2 doors down from The Lounge)

TICKET PURCHASES: tickets can be purchased any day of the week during normal business hours @ The Lounge in downtown Earlville (OR 2 doors down at the American Legion Hall) – The Lounge is CLOSED on MONDAY
WEEKLY TICKET SALES: You must purchase tickets EVERY WEEK to be eligible to win EACH WEEKLY DRAWING

DRAWINGS: are held every SATURDAY NIGHT @ 8PM @ The Lounge – YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE PRESENT TO WIN!

WHAT TO PUT ON YOUR TICKETS: WE WILL NO LONGER BE ISSUING “PERSONAL NUMBERS”, NOR WILL OUR LIONS CLUB OR THE LOUNGE BE LOOKING UP PERSONAL #’S ANYMORE. IT TAKES TOO MUCH OF OUR TIME TO DO SO. GOING FORWARD, IF YOU HAVE A PERSONAL NUMBER YOU MAY STILL USE IT! OTHERWISE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A PERSONAL # OR DO NOT REMEMBER IT, THEN YOU MUST WRITE YOUR NAME AND PHONE # ON EVERY TICKET. WE WILL ALLOW BOTH WAYS ON ALL TICKETS GOING FORWARD. PLEASE MAKE SURE THEY ARE LEGIBLE!

TICKET INSTRUCTIONS: on the back of your tickets, write in your PERSONAL NUMBER OR YOUR NAME AND PHONE # on the top line of each ticket. Then put the envelope # you are choosing on the bottom line of each ticket – once you’ve completed filling out your tickets please drop them into the raffle barrel located at The Lounge.
ENVELOPES & CARDS: each game will consist of 54 total cards hidden in shuffled and sealed envelopes – which includes 2 Jokers. Once the actual Queen of Hearts card is drawn, a brand new board and deck of cards will be reshuffled into sealed envelopes to restart the next Queen of Hearts game. All cards & envelopes will be contained within a locked glass case on the wall @ The Lounge. No one knows what card is contained within each envelope, because the cards were shuffled face down multiple times, and then placed into the envelopes upside down and then sealed and then reshuffled again before the envelopes were even numbered. As the game progresses there will be envelopes and their corresponding cards that were previously picked and are now visible in the locked glass case. Those envelope #’s are now no longer available to choose from. So, you must choose envelopes from any of the remaining that are available. Whoever’s name is on the “lone” ticket drawn each week will be our weekly winner. If your ticket is drawn a member of the Lions or The Lounge will call you to let you know you were our weekly winner. If you happen to choose the actual Queen of Hearts card then you will win 60% of the total pot amount. If it’s not the Queen of Hearts card, we will let you know what card it is and the amount of money you won based upon our payouts – 20% of the final pot amount will go to restart our next Queen of Hearts game – the final 20% will goto the Earlville Lions Club to support its charitable work in our local and surrounding communities

POSSIBLE DRAW DOWN: if our game and pot amount reaches a total of $1,000,000 ($1 Million), then we will schedule an automatic draw down for the following week (as long as that following week does not coincide with a holiday), no matter how many envelopes shall remain. Rules for the possible draw down will then be posted at that time of ticket sales for the final week.

06/19/2026

Tomorrow night on SAT June 20th from 6pm until 11, our Earlville Lions Club member Lynda who owns R’s All In bar in downtown Earlville will be having a birthday bash! The band Free B**r & Chicken will be playing from 7-10. Come join the celebration!

06/10/2026

Last lil trike winner from Lions Fest!

06/09/2026

Below are the winners of the bicycles that we gave away @ this years Lions Fest……CONGRATULATIONS!!

06/04/2026

FRIDAY, SATURDAY SUNDAY THIS WEEKEND!!!

06/03/2026

BELOW ARE THE OFFICIAL DRAWDOWN RULES FOR THIS WEEK. PLEASE PAY CAREFULLY ATTENTION TO THE TICKET SALES TIMES LISTED BELOW!

NOTE: WE WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON FB! Your questions and any negative comments will be deleted!

EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB – QUEEN OF HEARTS OFFICIAL DRAW DOWN RULES –
week of Sunday May 31st, 2026 thru Saturday June 6th, 2026

LOCATION: @ The Lounge Bar (117 S. Ottawa Street – Earlville) & 3 doors down to the north @ The American Legion (114 S. Ottawa Street)

COSTS: $5 per ticket, or 5 tickets for every $20 spent – purchased only at our location from a Lions member or QoH volunteer.

MAXIMUM TICKET PURCHASE ALLOWED: $1,000 worth of tickets per person for the week.

POT AMOUNT: as of 5/30/26: $1,020,980 – this game will end when the Queen of Hearts is found on Saturday, June 6th. All proceeds of ticket sales this week will be added to the current total pot amount.

TICKET SALES HOURS:
SUN 5/31: 4pm – 8pm
MON 6/1: CLOSED
TUES 6/2: 4pm – 8pm
WED 6/3: 4pm – 8pm
THURS 6/4: 1pm – 8pm
FRI 6/5: 1pm – 8pm
SAT 6/6: 12pm – 7pm

RULES:
• You must be 21 years of age or older to play.
• You must register your name and phone # into our booklets. You will then receive a “Personal #.” This # goes on the top line of each ticket. Please register as listed on your drivers license!
• There are currently 34 envelopes/cards remaining on our Queen of Hearts board located inside The Lounge. Our game began with a 54-card deck including 2 jokers.

DRAW DOWN PROCESS: On Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 8pm we will start the drawdown process. We will draw ‘valid’ tickets until the Queen of Hearts has been revealed. If an envelope that is drawn does not contain the Queen of Hearts, we will then draw another ticket from the raffle barrel, and so on and so forth, until the Queen of Hearts has been found and we have a winner. The corresponding personal # and ticket that is drawn with the correct envelope number in which the Queen of Hearts was found will be our pot winner. The pot winner will then receive 60% of the total pot value (any taxes owed will be the sole responsibility of the winner under their social security # that will be filed by us).
• The winning ticket holder will then be contacted by our Lions Club and we will then make arrangements in order for the winner to claim their prize with their proper identification forms.
• We will draw and use ‘valid’ and ‘legible’ tickets only. We will discard any invalid or illegible tickets, or those that are not filled out properly. All tickets must have your personal number only on the top line, and then only 1 of the remaining envelope numbers on the bottom line.
• The decision of our Queen of Hearts Committee Members on any type of dispute shall be final.
• Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this drawdown raffle shall be settled by mandatory arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association.
• The remaining 40% of the pot value will then be dispersed as follows:
o 20% goes to our Earlville Lions Club, which will then be donated out to our local community in Earlville, as well as other local communities, charities, groups and events.
o The final 20% of the pot amount goes back into the pot to start our next Queen of Hearts game.

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05/31/2026

BELOW ARE THE OFFICIAL DRAWDOWN RULES FOR THIS WEEK. PLEASE PAY CAREFULLY ATTENTION TO THE TICKET SALES TIMES LISTED BELOW!

NOTE: WE WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON FB! Your questions and any negative comments will be deleted!

EARLVILLE LIONS CLUB – QUEEN OF HEARTS OFFICIAL DRAW DOWN RULES –
week of Sunday May 31st, 2026 thru Saturday June 6th, 2026

LOCATION: @ The Lounge Bar (117 S. Ottawa Street – Earlville) & 3 doors down to the north @ The American Legion (114 S. Ottawa Street)

COSTS: $5 per ticket, or 5 tickets for every $20 spent – purchased only at our location from a Lions member or QoH volunteer.

MAXIMUM TICKET PURCHASE ALLOWED: $1,000 worth of tickets per person.

POT AMOUNT: as of 5/30/26: $1,020,980 – this game will end when the Queen of Hearts is found on Saturday, June 6th. All proceeds of ticket sales this week will be added to the current total pot amount.

TICKET SALES HOURS: SUN 5/31: 4pm – 8pm / MON 6/1: CLOSED / TUES 6/2: 4pm – 8pm
WED 6/3: 4pm – 8pm / THURS 6/4: 1pm – 8pm / FRI 6/5: 1pm – 8pm / SAT 6/6: 12pm – 7pm
RULES:
• You must be 21 years of age or older to play.
• You must register your name and phone # into our booklets. You will then receive a “Personal #.” This # goes on the top line of each ticket. Please register as listed on your drivers license!
• There are currently 34 envelopes/cards remaining on our Queen of Hearts board located inside The Lounge. Our game began with a 54-card deck including 2 jokers.

DRAW DOWN PROCESS: On Saturday, June 6th, 2026 @ 8pm we will start the drawdown process. We will draw ‘valid’ tickets until the Queen of Hearts has been revealed. If an envelope that is drawn does not contain the Queen of Hearts, we will then draw another ticket from the raffle barrel, and so on and so forth, until the Queen of Hearts has been found and we have a winner. The corresponding personal # and ticket that is drawn with the correct envelope number in which the Queen of Hearts was found will be our pot winner. The pot winner will then receive 60% of the total pot value (any taxes owed will be the sole responsibility of the winner under their social security # that will be filed by us).
• The winning ticket holder will then be contacted by our Lions Club and we will then make arrangements in order for the winner to claim their prize with their proper identification forms.
• We will draw and use ‘valid’ and ‘legible’ tickets only. We will discard any invalid or illegible tickets, or those that are not filled out properly. All tickets must have your personal number only on the top line, and then only 1 of the remaining envelope numbers on the bottom line.
• The decision of our Queen of Hearts Committee Members on any type of dispute shall be final.
• Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to this drawdown raffle shall be settled by mandatory arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association.
• The remaining 40% of the pot value will then be dispersed as follows:
o 20% goes to our Earlville Lions Club, which will then be donated out to our local community in Earlville, as well as other local communities, charities, groups and events.
o The final 20% of the pot amount goes back into the pot to start our next Queen of Hearts game.

Send a message to learn more