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The town's seated charity is a service club. The Lakeville Lions Club's course stands whole from its own history (researched by Lion Anne Weber for the 70th anniversary, August 2013): organised 28 June 1943, chartered 11 August 1943, the charter presented 17 August 1943 at Sacred Heart Church to charter president Albert L. Wagoner (the history once prints "Albert Wagner" for the same man; both spellings stand). Sponsored by the South Bend Lions, organised by the businessmen and farmers of the 4-H Fair circle, the club became sponsor of the 4-H Fair in 1944 — the Lions' own history dates the fair's move from North Liberty to Lakeville "in 1935," against the Tribune's 2001 venue sequence (Lakeville 1936–1945) printed in the culture file; both stand whole, unmerged, as the register carries them. The charitable works at the history's size: eye exams and glasses paid for, KidSight screening of some 1,000 young children a year, food baskets, camp sponsorships, scholarships; the fair food booth since 1944 (the present booth built 1979), the fish fry since 1949; 22,700 trees planted in 2012; LCIF's #2 club in Indiana in 2013; the Christmas Food Basket Project run with the LaPaz Lions (60+ families in December 2019). The pantry answer prints exactly: no organisation literally named "Lakeville Community Food Pantry" exists in any carrier reached — the one so named, with (570) numbers, is Paupack Township, Pennsylvania, refused by name — and Lakeville's provision, per the St. Joseph County Food Pantry Guide (updated 29 October 2025), is Lakeville UMC (610 N. Michigan; 2nd & 4th Tuesdays, 2–5 p.m.) and County Line Brethren (69988 US 31; 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 2:30–5:30 p.m.). No federation charity — no United Way unit, YMCA, Salvation Army, or Red Cross chapter — is seated in Lakeville; those are county-seated at pointer. No funeral-home community fund was found.