CLAFLIN — Claflin Lions Club will hold its Annual Seafood Buffet from 4:30-8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 20, at Immaculate Catholic Church Parish Center, 110 East Williamson St. in Claflin. Members are selling tickets at a reduced price this week.

Advance tickets are $7 for children 12 and under and $20 for adults. Prices increase $2 at the door. To order seafood buffet tickets in advance contact any Claflin Lions Club member or phone 620-793-2848 or 620-793-2922 for more information. Tickets can be purchased from now through Friday morning, March 20, at Pistol Pete’s Nuts and Bolts Co. in Great Bend, Mane Place in Claflin, or from any Claflin Lions Club member.

The menu for the evening will include all-you-can eat servings of three different types of fish, shrimp, frog legs, crab salad, scalloped potatoes, vegetable, cookies and coffee or tea.

Donations accepted

Lions Club members are also accepting donations of old eyeglasses, hearing aids, bicycles and bicycle parts. The eyeglasses and hearing aids are taken to a sorting facility in Texas and eventually sent to developing countries for distribution, the bicycles and parts are taken to the Ellsworth Correctional Facility for the Bicycle Recycle Program. People are asked to bring the bikes and parts with them on the night of the event and to inquire at the ticket table for help with unloading. The eyeglasses and hearing aids can be dropped off at the ticket table when entering the building.  

Net proceeds from the Annual Seafood Buffet are used for Claflin area events and activities such as the Annual Claflin Easter Egg Hunt in the city park, Central Plains Scholarship Program, the purchase of eyeglasses for the needy, and many other local events.