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Lakeville Lions Club newsletters, 2009–2023, read; banked pointer in this history lk-civ-food
The town's public table was never a restaurant's; it was a club's and a church's, and the Lions' own newsletters — the club serving the community since 1943 — document it meal by meal. The standing feast is the annual Good Friday fish fry, all-you-can-eat: at the Newton Center in 2009 and on 18 April 2014, serving 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.; in 2012 the club served more than 1,300 people, 773 in the dining room and 550 and more in carryout; in April 2021 it ran jointly with the Lakeville Fire Department, each organisation netting $1,476.89, its proceeds funding two LaVille High School scholarships; in 2022 it ran as a drive-through at the Lakeville Fire Station; and on Good Friday, 7 April 2023, again with the fire department's help, it served 669 meals and netted $2,172.74. Around it the calendar fills: the tenderloin fry, set for 5 October in the club's August 2018 newsletter; the Port-A-Pit chicken and pork chop sale each May; the spaghetti dinner; the food trailer worked at the North Liberty Strawberry Festival and the food booth at the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair, the booth the banked file dates from 1944. The church table is the same table at one remove: the Lions' dinner meetings were held at the Lakeville United Methodist Church through the 2000s — a documented March 2009 menu of smoked pork chops, beef stew, au gratin potatoes, California blend vegetables, cole slaw, rolls and butter — before the meetings moved to the Newton Center and then the Palmer Community Complex, where by April 2022 the club's meals were catered by the Yellow Cat Café. The United Methodist turkey supper and the pancake breakfasts of the banked pointer stand in the same tradition; their own parish documentation was not reached, and no dish or date is supplied for them beyond the pointer the banked file already carries.