Salvation Army Benefits from Donations

Minnow Lake Lions donate $1000 to the Salvation Army Christmas fund.

There’ s been a lot of Christmas spirit in Sudbury area this year. Minnow Lake Lions donated to the Salvation Army Christmas fund to the tune of $1,000 as well as donating 64 hours of service to attend the kettles at various location leading up to Christmas.

Spreading Warmth to Northern Residents

Congratulations Ferris Lions Club for ensuring warmth for our children. It definitely takes a village to raise a child and you’ve shown us how quickly something so vital can be undertaken and completed! Thank you Lions John Marcil for sharing this experience! Please see Lion John’s account of this project below.

By Lion John Marcil

As a Lion’s Club we received many requests to help and it’s not easy to choose which requests to support. In November 2019, the Ferris Lions learned of an opportunity to help a number of children in a small community in Northern Ontario this winter.

The opportunity was to provide winter jackets, scarves, toques and mittens to elementary students in Pickle Lake, ON. With the support of many partners and the community of North Bay at large, within three weeks we collected 5 full hockey bags of warm outerwear for these children. In total we collected 250 pairs of mittens and gloves, 160 toques, 50 pairs of socks, 53 scarves, 11 pairs of snow pants 20 infant snowsuits, 5 pairs of infant boots, 37 winter jackets and 300 chapsticks.

Pickle Lake is 1,618.5 km away from North Bay, ON that’s an 18 hour and 45 minute drive. This remote community is the farthest community you can drive to by road in the remote areas of the north.

Now that we had this massive amount of items, how were we going to get them all the way to Pickle Lake? Well with a number of very dedicated Santa helpers the five enormous hockey bags traveled from one stop to the next and changed hands several times over the period of a week until finally arrived in the school gymnasium.

This just goes to show that when you have a strong group of Lion’s members , big or small, and partners, any project can be successful. It doesn’t hurt to have a little Christmas Spirit working for you as well.

District Governor Supports Camp Quality

District Governor Debbra Christiansen accepts a cheque for $500 from Onaping Falls Lions Club for one of the projects for her year. Camp Quality provides children with cancer with a week of being a kid, not just a kid with cancer.

40 Years in Lionism

It’s always a pleasure for a club to celebrate a milestone with a member. Lion Vic Roach, member of the Hudson Lions Club, and a Charter Member of the Charlton Englehart Lions Club enjoys 40 years service.

Family Fun Day!

Minnow Lake Lions partnered with Our Children Our Future to host their annual Family Fun Day in August. The free event is held every year for the residents of Minnow Lake and area.  Kids and parents alike had a great time. A bouncy castle, face painting, lots of great eats and treats and loads of fun, Service Professionals from Greater Sudbury Police, Fire Service and Paramedic services were on site, interacting with the kids, showing them the more playful side of Emergency Services.  

Mallowe’en

Lions Catherine Somerville (pictured) Carol Charlton (behind the camera) handed out candy at the Mallowe’en event in the New Sudbury Shopping Centre where they were located to sell tickets for the Canadian Hard of Hearing ‘Dream Home’. Looks like it was a storybook evening!

New Liskeard Lions Donate to Temiskaming Hospital Foundation

Left to right, Dangalle, Richard Males, Eric Campsall ,Mike Baker, Ron Sutton and Alf O’Reilly.  Representing New Liskeard Lions Club and  Temiskaming Hospital Foundation

On October 12, 2019, New Liskeard Lions Board presented the Temiskaming Hospital Foundation with the second donation installment of a $60,000 pledge to the Temiskaming Hospital Foundation.

95th Charter Celebration for Lions Club of Sudbury

The Lions Club of Sudbury celebrated 95 years of serving the community of Sudbury on October 19, 2019. Special guests arrived from Alberta, Toronto and Newmarket. Congratulations Sudbury Lions. We look forward to the 100th!