Post Falls Lions Club Brewfest returns Saturday for community fundraising

The Post Falls Lions Club brought Brewfest back Saturday, setting out 400 glasses for the fourth annual tasting from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the American Legion, 1138 E. Poleline Ave., in Post Falls. Tickets were priced at $35, making the event a low-cost summer outing with a built-in fundraising mission.

The club said 100% of the money raised goes back into the community. Recent beneficiaries named by the club include the Post Falls Police Victim Services Unit, the Kootenai County Sheriff Dept. Helicopter Fund, scholarships for Post Falls High School seniors and the Post Falls Food Bank. The club also said it buys several eyeglasses and hearing aids each month for people in need.

Organizer Ted Macaulay said the event has kept growing as people who attend one year bring friends the next. That steady return is part of what has moved Brewfest from a new idea into a repeat fundraiser with enough demand to justify 400 glasses this year.

The club’s service mission runs deeper than one Saturday in June. The Post Falls Lions Club was established in 1964 and celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2024. Club members have long centered their work on sight and hearing assistance, a focus that matches the group’s habit of turning social events into dollars for direct aid.

Brewfest also fit into a busier year of local giving. In May, the club thanked the public for supporting its food drive for the Third Avenue Marketplace, the Post Falls Food Bank, on April 25. In March, the club said it had completed its first Winterfest on Jan. 31 and was already planning a second Winterfest along with the fourth Brewfest.

The Post Falls club is one small part of Lions Clubs International, which says it includes about 1.4 million Lions in 50,000 clubs across 200 countries and regions. In Post Falls, that global network showed up in a local form: a Saturday gathering that brought people downtown and sent the proceeds back into Kootenai County service work.