Walden Lions Club

Lively, Ontario - Canada

📸🦁 HAPPY EASTER 🦁📸

Wishing our entire community a very Happy Easter! Thank you for spending the morning with us on Saturday! 

We took so many pictures and we wanted to share! This was such a successful event we cannot wait to do it again! 

Thank you for always supporting your Walden Lions and your community! 🦁♥️

📣 HUGE SHOUT OUT 📣

We’d like to send a huge shoutout to two businesses that helped us out during our egg hunt! 

We use Duplicators Inc. for all of our Walden Lions name tags (they really do the best work!) so when we needed signs for our Easter egg hunt we knew they’d be the best people for the job! Not only did they create these incredibly beautiful signs for us, they donated them to the club free of charge. When communities come together to share their skills and take care of each other great things happen! Thank you to Joe & his team (extra shoutout to Zach for his design skills) for their generosity, help and support. 

The other business we’d like to shout out is Sherwin-Williams Sudbury Branch for donating 5 giant pails for all our Easter eggs! Every year we have to awkwardly carry the boxes out while we try to disperse the eggs…but not this year! This year we had 5 heavy duty pails with handles that made the work a breeze! It’s the little things like this that make all these volunteer hours even easier! Thank you to the team there for their contribution! ♥️🦁 

When it comes to our neighbours we’d like to thank a very special individual, our friend Sue! Thank you Sue for donating a massive bag of plastic Easter eggs as well as many many baskets! We had a few families show up without a basket and we were able to supply them with one! We appreciate you always ♥️! 

And finally a shoutout to Amie The Book Lady for joining us on Saturday! The books were a huge hit with families and it was so great to be able to help contribute to children literacy! We hope to have Amie back with us at future events! 

Thank you to each and every person who attended our pancake breakfast, and to each of our little egg hunters! Also huge thank you to all non-lions who volunteered with us! Your hours did not go unnoticed (printing your membership applications now 😂🤞🏻♥️). Supporting our local events ensures we are able to host more in the future! 

See all pictures of the event HERE and check out our memory video HERE.

We can’t wait to serve you again Walden! Keep your eyes open for our next event in June! 🤫 

Student looking for volunteer hours? We’ll be doing a community clean up on May 8th from 4-6pm if you’d like to join us! Reach out today! 🗑️♻️

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🏀 WYBL 2023-24 🏀

The Walden Lions would like to send a huge congratulations to their incredible youth basketball team for that amazing final game and an incredible season! 

We are extremely proud to have you all wearing our logo! Each of you showed true sportsmanship, commitment and positivity throughout the entire season. 🦁

Your community watched you all grow as athletes and as little humans making your mark on this world. 

Allie, Allison, Autym, Blake, Dawson, Jaxon, Kinsey, Noah, Owen, & Xavier - you are all forever welcome into our Lions family! A giant lion roar goes out to each of you! 

Thank you to Walden Youth Basketball League - WYBL for allowing us to sponsor these young athletes! Thank you for keeping kids active, engaged and involved in sport! 

Check out our memories videos HERE and HERE.

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🎓🧑🏼‍🎓GRADUATION AWARDS👩🏾‍🎓🎓

Your Walden Lions are very excited to announce their 2024 monetary awards for all students who reside in our catchment area! 

Over the past 30 plus years, the Walden Lions and Lioness Clubs have contributed to the post-secondary education of more than 60 students at Lively District Secondary School. This was done in memory of two very special individuals; Heather Stobo and Kelly Scheuer. Starting in 2024, the Walden Lions Club will be offering a new award in memory of our long time Lion and dear friend Lion Mait Wilson. Additionally, we are expanding our existing awards to students in the Walden area who attend any school. It is our hope that these awards will carry on the memory of these three individuals as well as inspire a new generation of youths to have a passion for giving back to their community.

If you’re interested in applying click HERE to download the application. 

Spread the word Walden! We want all students to know that these are available! 

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📖📚TWEEN BOOK CLUB 📚📖

Walden we have a new exciting club coming your way! Do you have a son or daughter aged 10-13yrs who loves to read? Let us introduce you to the very first Walden Lions Tween Book Club!

Once a month a group of 10-13yr olds will gather at the den to discuss a book they read during the month which will lead to deeper thinking and consideration of plots, characters, and ideas presented by the author.

Some Benefits of a Tween Book Club

➡️ It exposes kids to books they may not have picked for themselves 🐉🕵🏽👻
➡️ It provides kids with a safe space for sharing their true thoughts ♥️
➡️ It creates lasting friendships and promotes reading as a social activity 

📖📚 DETAILS 📚📖

1️⃣ Limited spaces, as the group will be kept small at 10-12 participants to promote conversation and participation. Message us to register!
2️⃣ We plan to meet every 3rd Monday at 6pm, however if the Monday falls on a holiday we will move it to another day. A six month calendar will be supplied to parents.
3️⃣ The first meet will be at the beginning of April to introduce the participants, the club and the first book!
4️⃣ Parents are welcome to drop kids off at 6 and return at 7, if parents chose to stay they are reminded that they are not part of the conversation, as this is all about promoting the children to express their thoughts
5️⃣ Physical books will not be provided. If your child has a tablet, ereader or phone a copy of the book will be supplied in that format. For a physical copy parents will have to borrow from the library or purchase the book. 
6️⃣ There is no fee for the club, however children will be asked to collect milk bags (if they have them) and bring them into the club when we meet once a month! Milk bags are donated to help make beds for those living outdoors. 

Now as an added bonus for the month of March we are partnering with Amie The Book Lady (www.amiethebooklady.ca) for their Love of Literacy Book Drive! Any books purchased through Amie during the month of March will go towards books for the Walden Lions! We are currently thinking up a fun idea to donate these books back to our community! 

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🩸🩲 END PERIOD POVERTY 🩲🩸

Have you heard of “Period Poverty” before? Period poverty is a term used to describe a lack of access to proper menstrual products.

As per the Government of Canada:

“Lack of access to menstrual products is closely linked to poverty and disproportionately impacts youth, single mothers, Indigenous peoples, Black and other racialized communities, immigrants, people experiencing homelessness, people living with disabilities, gender diverse individuals, and those who live in remote areas.”

Did you know:

➡️ One in six Canadians who menstruate have personally experienced period poverty; this rises to one in four if their household earns less than $40,000 a year.

➡️ One in five who menstruate say they may not afford period products at some point in the next 12 months.

As you know your Walden Lions are always looking at ways to support our community and that’s why for the month of March we are launching our Feminine Product Campaign, right in time for International Women’s Day on March 8th!

From March 1-31 we will have two boxes available for you to make a donation of period products. For each package of pads, or tampons, or period cups or period underwear donated to the box, your Walden Lions will donate $10, up to a maximum of $2000.

All products and money will be donated to the Walden Food Bank to help support feminine hygiene right here in our community.

Our boxes will be located at the Lively Greater Sudbury Public Library and at Walden Family Drugstore! 

📚Lively Library Hours:
➡️ Monday 9am-8pm
➡️ Tuesday 9am-5pm
➡️ Wednesday 9am-8pm
➡️ Thursday 9am-5pm
➡️ Friday 9am-5pm
➡️ Saturday 10am-4pm
➡️ Sunday Closed

👨🏻‍⚕️Walden Family Drugstore Hours:
➡️ Monday 9am-6pm
➡️ Tuesday 9am-6pm
➡️ Wednesday 9am-6pm
➡️ Thursday 9am-6pm
➡️ Friday 9am-6pm
➡️ Saturday 9am-5pm
➡️ Sunday Closed

Sending a huge thank you to the wonderful staff at the library and at Guardian for allowing us to have a collection box at their locations! Boxes will be available starting Friday March 1st! 

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🐣🐰 ANNUAL EASTER EGG HUNT 🐣🐰

It’s time to save the date for the Walden Lions annual Easter Egg Hunt! This year we’re going bigger and better! 

On March 30th your Walden Lions will be hosting a pancake breakfast with the Easter Bunny at TM Davies Arena followed by our annual Easter Egg Hunt at Anderson Farm. 

Come out to the arena to have pancakes with the Easter Bunny and don’t be shy to take some pictures! After breakfast the Easter Bunny will lead the kids to the farm to get the hunt started! 

Full details to be released March 1st! 😍🐰🐣

Mark those calendars! 🗓️

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❄️🧣COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR 🧣❄️

Your Walden Lions are walking in the Coldest Night of the Year all in support of the Samaritan Center Sudbury! 

Our club is donating $100 per member of our team! Pictured here is 19 of the 20 team members we had for our walk, which means a $2000 donation from our club!! Wooo!

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🧦✨WOWZA! SOCKS, SOCKS, EVERYWHERE SOCKS✨🧦

Walden fam you’ve done it again!! Last year on our first ever sock drive we were able to collect a total of 100 pairs of socks! This year we wanted to do more and you delivered!

With the help of our incredible community (along with a sock donation from the wonderful ladies at our local Post Office), we were able to collect a total of 160 pairs of socks!!! 🧦😍🧦

All socks were dropped off to the Walden Food Bank on Thursday and they were very excited and appreciative of the donation!

Thank you so much Walden! You continue to impress and put your neighbours first!

We have a lot of fun updates coming your way from an International Woman’s Day campaign, to our beloved annual Easter Egg Hunt (did we hear possible pancake breakfast with the Easter Bunny to kick it off?!), a spring Clean-up Blitz, an amazing community parade (get those float ideas ready!) and finally we’ll soon be announcing our newly revamped monetary graduation awards for all high school students residing in our area. 

Your lions have been very busy looking at ways to help our community and also bring our community together! We’re always looking for new members! Don’t want to join but want to help out at events? We always need more hands on deck so reach out any time!

If you have a student looking for volunteer hours and they are free March 30 from 7am-12pm reach out to us today! 

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🦁🎣 LIONS FISHPOND 🎣🦁

Walden we are so excited to officially announce that your Walden Lions will once again be present this weekend at the Walden Winter Carnival! 

As always we’ll be located at St. James in the Kids Zone with our fishpond! We went all out sourcing the coolest prizes and we’re excited for the prize lineup this year! 

Please note, to ensure all children get the opportunity to fish, fishing will be limited to 1 turn per child. 

When your child comes up to the pond we’ll ask them their age so that we can ensure they get an age appropriate prize. We’ll also be taking pictures to post after the event, if you don’t want your child in a picture please let us know when we ask! 😍📸 

See you at the carnival this weekend Lion fam! 

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❄️🚶🏻‍♀️WE CHALLENGE ALL CLUBS 🚶🏿‍♂️❄️

The Walden Lions would like to officially announce their challenge for all other Lions Clubs (or any club for that matter!). We challenge you and your members to register for the Coldest Night of the Year 2km walk on February 24 and to donate $100 for each member of your club that participates! 

The Walden Lions will be there with our crew ready to walk in support of our community! Will we see you there?! Let’s paint that walking trail in Lions colours!! 

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🧦🦁 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR SOCK DRIVE 🦁🧦

The Walden Lions are excited to announce their second annual Love Your Neighbour Sock Drive! From Monday January 22 to Tuesday February 13, 2024 you will be able to drop off new socks to one of two boxes located at our public libraries 📚! 

All socks will be donated to our Walden Food Bank so that they can be distributed to our neighbours in need this winter season! 

Share the love this Valentine’s season by keeping everyone’s toes toasty! 🧦❤️

Lively Public Library 📚
Mon - 9am-8pm
Tue - 9am-5pm
Wed- 9am-8pm
Thu - 9am-5pm
Fri - 9am-5pm
Sat - 10am-4pm
Sun - Closed

Copper Cliff Public Library 📚
Mon - 2pm-7pm
Tue - 9am-2pm
Wed - 2pm-7pm
Thu - 10am-2pm
Fri - Closed
Sat - 10am-2pm
Sun - Closed

We’d like to thank the Greater Sudbury Public Library for helping us with this campaign, it’s so rewarding to work with others in our community!

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👦🏽👧🏻 ⛑️ CHECK THIS OUT ⛑️👧🏼👦🏾

Walden we are excited to announce that Safety Training Plus will officially be offering their sought after Babysitting Course once again right here in Walden at our den! 

✨ BABYSITTING COURSE DETAILS ✨

Date: Saturday January 27, 2024
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: Walden Lions Club Den at 1955 Regional Rd 55 in Naughton (type in Walden Lions Club in Google Maps to find it easily! It’s in the same parking lot as the Naughton soccer fields!)
Price: $70 plus HST
Includes: Babysitting work booklet, Babysitting Business Resume, Babysitting Certificate of Completion and a Mini first aid kit
Details: Includes First Aid & CPR/AED and is for children ages 10 and up!

Registration must be done in advance! Go to their website at www.safetytrainingplus.ca click on youth courses and chose your course 😍⛑️

If you have any questions about the courses send them an email or give them a call! Contact details are on the flyer❗️

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🎄 SALVATION ARMY KETTLES🎄

Walden thank you thank you thank you! This past Saturday we stood in the entrance at Battistelli's Your Independent Grocer (thank you Brent!) ringing the bells all in support of The Salvation Army Sudbury! With your help we were able to raise a total of $1,363.25! ❤️🦁 We didn’t end things there though! We serve and we also support, your Walden Lions donated a total of $2000 bringing total raised to $3,363.25! 

Wowza! 😍 

The Salvation Army does a lot for our community and all funds raised through donations made to the Christmas kettles, help provide direct, hands-on service to over 1.9 million people each year in Canada. Money raised in our community stays in our community to help those in need. 

Thank you Walden, it’s always a pleasure working with you and for you! 

Keep an eye out for our annual “Love Your Neighbour Sock Drive” coming in January! 🧦

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🔔 RINGING OF THE BELLS 🔔

Walden your friendly neighbourhood Lions are located at Battistelli's Your Independent Grocer today from open to close ringing the bells all in support of The Salvation Army Sudbury! We’ll have 6 lions rotating throughout the day please come by and say hello! 

We are set up with the ball of money as well as 3 tap options to make it super easy! 

And as an extra reminder if you’re looking for those dream home tickets we have 3 lions rotation over at Walden Home Hardware today from 9-5 selling the Ultimate Dream Home tickets! They make great stocking stuffers and hostess gifts!! 

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🎅🏻 CTV LIONS CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS TELETHON 🎅🏻

Walden fam we are so excited for today! Did you know in 2022, the telethon raised more than $320,000 and sent out more than 18,000 toys for deserving local children?!? That’s huge!! 

Tune in to the Telethon today live on CTV or go to this link for ways to watch it: https://ctvlionstelethon.ca/sitema99fc/

Here are our wonderful lions making our annual $1000.00 donation to this incredible event! We were also answering phones today! There are so many local community members ready to take your donation calls today at 705-470-3600! 

📸 Lions Stewart, Keisha, Claire, Mark & Richard 🦁

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🏀🦁 WALDEN LIONS BASKETBALL TEAM 🦁🏀

Walden fam we are so excited to announce that we are the very proud sponsors of the Walden Lions Basketball team through Walden Youth Basketball League - WYBL right here in our community!

These youngsters are between the ages of 10-11 and are working on their basketball fundamentals while making memories and having fun! Putting your child in a team sport environment is a great way to teach them:

➡️ Collaboration
➡️ Leadership Skills
➡️ Critical Thinking Skills
➡️ Character Building Through Teamwork
➡️ Communication
➡️ And so much more!

We are very happy to be able to contribute to these young athletes development and to give back to our community by keeping costs low for parents.

Our team roster is made up of:

4️⃣ Allie
3️⃣ Allison
1️⃣ Autym
5️⃣ Blake
2️⃣ Dawson
9️⃣ Jaxon
7️⃣ Noah
6️⃣ Owen
8️⃣ Xavier

To our incredible athletes: we look forward to cheering you on all season long! We’re very happy to welcome you as part of our pride! #lionroar 🏀🦁

Don’t forget to follow us to stay in the loop on all things community and watch our stories for videos of these young stars practicing their drills! 

📸 Check out all the pictures here!
🎥 Check out a little video of practice here!

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🥫🦁 WHAT A NIGHT 🦁🥫

Sending a huge thank you to every single athlete, parent and volunteer who showed up to our annual community food drive for 2023! Sending an additional thank you to our incredible community for opening your doors and your cupboards (as well as several monetary donations)! Wow!

We’d like to send a huge shoutout to the phenomenal volunteers from the Walden Food Bank who made sure that this year was their best yet: they had boxes ready and labeled, tape on hand, markers on hand, muscle 💪🏻 to move full boxes with someone ready to replace them! Thank you to everyone who stayed after their route was completed to help organize the donations! 

We’d also like to add an extra thank you to Delta Bingo and Gaming for giving us fundraising opportunities that allow us to donate to our community. We saw how hard everyone worked last night and we wanted to match those donations with one of our own. Your Walden Lions are proud to donate $1000 to the Walden Food Bank to assist with their baskets for the upcoming season. 

We are so proud to be serving the best community in Greater Sudbury! Don’t forget to follow us to stay up to date on our upcoming events! We have some fun things in store for 2024! As always if you’re looking to join the best gang in town send a message, we’d love to connect! 

Don’t forget we’ll be at Walden Home Hardware this weekend selling Dream Home Tickets ($20 cash only!). 

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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🧛🏻‍♀️🦇🎃 THANK YOU 💀🦄🐝

Walden we want to send you all a huge thank you for coming out to our costume swaps, donating your costumes and bringing home new-to-you ones! 

It was an absolute blast getting to meet all of you and seeing the kids have a grand ol’ time finding their outfit! 

A lot of kids didn’t want their picture taken and that’s totally okay! We got these two pictures to share and we can attest these young gals were an absolute vibe!

We will 100% bring the costume swap back next year and we’ll try to organize it a bit earlier in the month! 

Thank you for being the best community ever Walden! We’ll see you on Tuesday Oct 24 at the annual Food Drive with Walden Minor Hockey Association and Walden Ringette Association! 

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🥫🍽️ ANNUAL FOOD DRIVE 🍽️🥫 

Lively SAVE THE DATE! The annual food drive is back and we cannot wait to come and say hello! For years the Walden Minor Hockey Association has been going door to door for their annual food drive and it was always a great success! Last year they reached out and teamed up with the Walden Ringette Association and the Walden Lions Club to make the food drive bigger and better! More athletes means more coverage! Well we are very excited to be back at it again this year to help fill our Walden Food Bank!

Taking care of our community is something all Lively residents are proud of and it shows every year when this food drive is on! 

Our teams are currently selecting their routes but as soon as all teams have selected we will release the route list to the community so that you know where to find us! Please note that we won’t be able to cover everywhere however you are welcome to come to the food bank that night between 6-8pm to drop off as well!

🏒 DETAILS 🦁 
🥅 Date: Tuesday October 24, 2023
🥅 Time: 6-8pm
🥅 What: All WMHA & WRA athletes will be going door to door canvassing the community for donations to the Walden Food Bank, after they are done their routes they will be delivering the items to the Walden Food Bank. The Food Bank volunteers, the Walden Lions as well as hockey and ringette volunteers will be on site to help sort all incoming boxes and bags. 
🥅 Special Notes: Donations can be anything from non-perishable foods to toiletries to cash donations. If you do make a cash donation however please ensure it goes to an adult, they will get it to the food bank. 

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🏡 ULTIMATE DREAM HOME TICKET SALES 🏡

Hello Walden Lions Family! For years we have been selling Dream Home tickets at the New Sudbury Shopping Centre, but this year we opted to do something a little different. We wanted to keep sales right here in Walden if we could! 

Thanks to Walden Home Hardware we are able to do exactly that! Starting today October 14 we will be set up at Walden Home Hardware on Saturday and Sundays between now and Christmas! 

Tickets are still only $20 and we only accept cash!

Dream Home Tickets make excellent gifts for that host/hostess, Christmas, birthdays or the gift to yourself for a year well done! 

What’s more is Walden Home Hardware also has a beautiful gift section AND they are taking out their Christmas decor so come by, grab a ticket, grab a new gnome for the collection and know that you’re contributing to fundraising efforts that stay right in your community! 

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🧛🏻‍♀️👻 HALLOWEEN COSTUME SWAP 👹🎃

Walden fam we are very excited to announce our first ever Halloween costume swap!! On Sunday October 15 we are opening our den to you to come grab a costume, drop a costume off or do both! 

This is a great opportunity to save some money while also getting a new costume for you or your littles! You do not need to drop a costume off to grab one, however we highly recommend purging those costume vaults to make room for a new one! 

We’ll be on site at our den at 1955 Regional Rd 55 in Naughton (enter “Walden Lions Club” in Google Maps for easy finding) on Sunday October 15 from noon until 2! 

Can’t make it but want to donate a costume to the swap? Send us a message and we’ll coordinate a pick up! Any costumes we receive in advance will be cleaned and ready for you at the swap! 😍👻

We are hoping to be able to do this annually if it’s a huge success! See you at the den Walden! ❤️🦁

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👦🏽👧🏻 ⛑️ CHECK THIS OUT ⛑️👧🏼👦🏾

Walden we have a deal for you! What’s one of the things that Walden loves most? Family! What makes up a lot of families in Walden? Kids! We wanted to bring you something that our kids need that you would be able to bring them to locally. 

Safety Training Plus will officially be offering their sought after Babysitting Course AND their Home Alone Course right here in Walden at our den! 

✨ BABYSITTING COURSE DETAILS ✨
Date: Saturday October 21, 2023
Time: 10am-4pm
Location: Walden Lions Club Den at 1955 Regional Rd 55 in Naughton (type in Walden Lions Club in Google Maps to find it easily! It’s in the same parking lot as the Naughton soccer fields!)
Price: $70 plus HST
Includes: Babysitting work booklet, Babysitting Business Resume, Babysitting Certificate of Completion and a Mini first aid kit
Details: Includes First Aid & CPR/AED and is for children ages 10 and up!

✨ STAY AT HOME ALONE COURSE DETAILS ✨
Date: Saturday November 11, 2023
Time: 1pm-4pm
Location: Walden Lions Club Den at 1955 Regional Rd 55 in Naughton (type in Walden Lions Club in Google Maps to find it easily! It’s in the same parking lot as the Naughton soccer fields!)
Price: $50 plus HST
Includes: Home Alone work booklet, Home Alone Certificate and a mini flash light
Details: For children ages 9 and up!

Registration for both courses must be done in advance! Go to their website at www.safetytrainingplus.ca click on youth courses and chose your course 😍⛑️

If you have any questions about the courses send them an email or give them a call! Contact details are on the flyer❗️

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📸 🦁 OH WHAT A DAY! 🦁 📸

Thank you to our wonderful community for their laughter, smiles and absolute kindness today at the 2023 AFMHS Fall Fair! 

We absolutely loved seeing the kids smiling faces as they came out of the bouncy castles we sponsored! They couldn’t wait to go back in again and everyone waited in line for their turns so patiently! 

Seeing all the little fishing enthusiasts step up to the pond to try their luck was so much fun! Their eyes lit up when they (thankfully) didn’t pull up a fish 🐟🤣😂! 

We are sending a huge thank you to everyone who purchased our candy kabobs as well as all those who donated. We completely sold out by 2pm! We’ll have to make more next year 😍🍬🍡! 

Thank you Walden for welcoming us into your family, you are always part of our pride 🦁❤️ 

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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🎃👩🏻‍🌾 ANDERSON FALL FAIR 🍁🌾

Walden this is the official announcement that your Walden Lions will be attending the annual Anderson Fall Fair presented by the Anderson Farm Museum Heritage Society - AFMHS on Saturday September 16 from 9:30-5pm! 

We will be bringing back our annual kids events completely free of charge to you! Come check out our massive bouncy castle where laughs are sure to be had! Have a little fishing enficiando in your home? Have them try their hand at our fishing pond! We promise no fish were harmed in the making of the pond! 🐟🤣

We will also be fundraising to help support our future events, such as our annual Easter egg hunt! We want to make it bigger and better this year! Therefore we’ll be selling candy kabobs at the fair with all proceeds going to our future events right here in Lively! 

Come on out and say hello, but a couple kabobs and tire those kids out in the bouncy castle 😜! 

See you Saturday Walden! 

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✨🤩 LIONS HELPING LIONS HELPING PEOPLE 🤩✨

They say there is nothing stronger than a Lion, but what about two Lions clubs coming together? That’s next level power! 

When Lion Don from the Whitefish Lions reached out to us for help building a ramp for a community member in need, we knew we needed to be there! 

This week Lions Don, Stewart and Mark grabbed their hammers and joined up with the Whitefish Lions to help them on a ramp building project. We love lions helping lions helping people, it’s just got such a good feeling to it! Don’t you think?! 🦁🔨

Looking to give back to your community? We’re always looking for new faces to join our family! Don’t ever be shy to reach out! 

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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🎤🎸 R O C K  T H E  F A R M 🎸🎤

Walden Lion Family! Tomorrow night is the night we’ve been most excited about!! On Wednesday August 23rd your Walden Lions are the official sponsors of the two bands that will be keeping you entertained from 5:30-8pm! Bring those lawn chairs and get a good spot because you’re in for a treat! 

Taking the stage at 5:30 will be SEVEN + ONE which we all know is going to be a stellar performance and then at 7:00 you’ll be entertained by Pop Machine 😍🤘! We literally cannot wait for these bands to take the stage, it’s going to be incredible!! 

We are so proud to sponsor local talent! And that brings us to our next point! We want to send a huge thank you to Delta Bingo and Gaming for the fundraising opportunities that we get through them! Did you know every time you play Bingo at Delta Bingo, a portion of that money is being given to local organizations in your community to be dispersed back to the public?! Through our fundraising efforts at Delta Bingo we were able to sponsor Rock the Farm and many of our initiatives right here in our community! 

Don’t forget to bring:
✅ Cash for the 50/50 🎟️ and vendors
✅ Chair to take in the music 🪑 
✅ Reusable bags for your vendor purchases 
✅ Any used eyeglasses or hearing aids that you no longer need for our donation bins!

We can’t wait to see you at the farm! 

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🤘R O C K  T H E  F A R M 🚜

Walden family! This is your reminder that tomorrow (Wednesday August 16) the Anderson Farm Museum Heritage Society - AFMHS will be hosting their third Rock the Farm of the season! 

Starting at 4pm you can head down and shop the farmers and vendors market! Don’t forget to bring cash and your reusable bags! You’ll want to bring your chair because going on the stage at 5:30 is Dual Play Band! 

As always your Walden Lions will be on site to sell 50/50 in support of AFMHS (so that they can continue putting on these incredible events!) and we’ll also have our booth set up for all things lions! Here you can chat us up about what we’re doing in the community, how you can get involved or just to say hi! We’ll also have our eyeglasses and hearing aid drop off box! 

Can’t wait to see you on the farm! 

#WaldenLionsClub 🦁 #LionsClub #WeServe #HelpingOurCommunity #PeopleHelpingPeople #EmpoweringVolunteers #Walden #Naughton #LCIFLions #rockthefarm #livelyrockthefarm #andersonfarm

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🎸🤘 R O C K  T H E  F A R M 🤘🎸

Calling all community members! Reminder that today is the 2nd night of the weekly Rock the Farm series hosted by AFMHS at Anderson Farm! 

As always your local Walden Lions will be in attendance! Every Wednesday you can spot us selling 50/50 🎟️ all in support of AFMHS! We’ll also be at our booth where we’ll have two donation boxes: one for glasses and one for hearing aids! Did you know that Lions Clubs all over collected used glasses and hearing aids so that they can be repurposed into “new-to-you” glasses and hearing aids for those in need? 

Stop by our booth, say hello, buy a 50/50 and chat us up! We’re always looking to meet more members of our community! And if you have old glasses or hearing aids hanging around, drop them off. We’ll gladly take them off your hands!

Things for Tonight

✅ Starts at 4pm where you can peruse and shop the local vendors

✅ Bring reusable bags for your purchases! 
✅ Bring cash for the 50/50 🎟️ 
✅ Bring any old eyeglasses or hearing aids
✅ Stephanie Fyfe, Tom Fyfe & Whiskey River Blues Band goes on at 5:30! 
✅ Bring a chair to watch the show!

See you at the farm! 🚜

#WaldenLionsClub 🦁 #LionsClub #WeServe #HelpingOurCommunity #PeopleHelpingPeople #EmpoweringVolunteers #Walden #Naughton #LCIFLions #AndersonFarm #AndersonRockTheFarm #RockTheFarm #stephaniefyfe #tomfyfe #whiskeyriverbluesband

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⚽️ 🦁 C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S 🦁 ⚽️

Sending a huge shoutout to our incredible soccer team for their zest this season! You all played so well and we are so proud to have our name attached to such stellar athletes! 

Check out our season here: TIKTOK WALDEN LIONS SOCCER TEAM 2023

We look forward to sponsoring this outstanding organization again next year! Thank you Walden Minor Soccer Association for keeping soccer here in Walden and making it affordable for all families. 

See you next year soccer fans! 

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🤘🎸 R O C K  T H E  F A R M 🎸🤘

We are so so excited to welcome back the Rock The Farm series hosted by the Anderson Farm Museum Heritage Society - AFMHS! This is a staple community event and we know everyone is just as excited as us that it’s back! 

The line-up this year is fantastic and the sponsor list is huge! That’s incredible! We are incredibly proud to be a long-term sponsor once again this year! 

On August 23rd we’ll be sponsoring the SEVEN + ONE family acoustic trio as well as Pop Machine  the Rock Band composed of some of Greater Sudbury’s best young talent! 

We will however be present at every Rock the Farm event in the month of August! You can find us in two places: selling 50/50 tickets 🎟️ and also at our booth where we talk about all things Lions and all things community! 

Don’t be shy to come say hello, buy a ticket (all in support of the AFMHS), and/or learn more about what we do and how you can get involved! 

We can’t wait to see you in August! 

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🦁✨ A N D  T H A T S  A  W R A P✨🦁

Did you know that Lions years run from Jul 1 to Jun 30? We usually “take a break” for July & August, only coming out of the den for local events, but no meetings! On June 13 you’re Walden Lions met to close up their current year, welcome in their new officers and present their awards! 

We want to send a big welcome and congratulations to our 2023-24 Officers! 

🦁 President: Lion Mark Evans
🦁 1st Vice President & Club LCIF Coordinator: Lion Richard Gauthier
🦁 Club Treasurer: Lion Don Raymond
🦁 Club Secretary & Club Marketing Chairperson: Lion Randee Gauthier
🦁 Club Membership Chairperson: Lion Keisha Villeneuve
🦁 Club Service Chairperson: Lion Jennifer Anderson
🦁 Lions Quest Chairperson & Club Visition Chairperson: Lion Anna Roy
🦁 Immediate Past President: Lion Claire Hobden
🦁 Club Director: Lion Mait Wilson
🦁 Club Director: Lion Jason Tait

With the addition of 7 new members in the last couple of years our club has been growing rapidly! We are looking forward to what the 2023-24 season brings us!! If you’re looking to join the best team in town, send us a message, we’d love to have you join our family! 

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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🦁 ✨ W H A T  A  N I G H T ✨🦁

We recently had the privilege of welcoming (for the first time in decades!) a brand new Lions Club into our Lions District A5! On June 3, 2023 Lions from all over District A5 gathered together to officially welcome the brand new Chelmsford Lions Club! 

The charter night was sponsored by the Onaping Falls Lions Club and was a night to remember! 

On behalf of the Walden Lions Club, welcome to our Lion Family!

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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🦁✨ Y E A R S  O F  S E R V I C E ✨🦁

Wow!! You know you’re in the presence of great people when two of your fellow lions are being presented with awards for 45 & 30 years of service to their community!! 

Lion Don Raymond recently received a 45-Year Monarch Chevron Award for his 45 years of service to Lions and to his community! You may recognize Lion Don around town but also from his heavy participation in Northern Cancer Foundation’s Rally For Dad ride! Lion Don has been supporting this incredible cause for years and goes above and beyond fundraising for the ride. Lion Don does incredible work in his community and we are so proud to say he’s part of our family! 

Lion Bob Hobden was also part of award night receiving his 30-Year Monarch Chevron Award for his 30 years of service to his community! You’ll for sure recognize Lion Bob as he’s been Santa at the tree lighting ceremony for many many years! He’s probably part of your family pictures because of it! You may also recognize him from “The Liar’s Club” play through Windmill Theatre that happened this past May! That’s right local celebrity!! 😍🥳 Lion Bob can always be found around town chatting up the community and finding ways to continue giving back! 

We want to send a huge congratulations to our two Lions for all their incredible work within our community! We are so proud to have you in our pride! 

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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🦁 K I D S  I N  S P O R T S 🦁

Lions Club members are passionate about keeping kids in sports, active and engaged. If you’re ever looking for ways to do that, sponsor a sports team. Sponsors keep costs low for families which means more kids can play! 

This year we are so fortunate to have been able to sponsor a U12 team through Walden Minor Soccer Association! Our team has 3 super fun coaches and 17 smiling, friendly and active athletes! 

We want to thank Coach Rob, Randee and Adrien for showing up for these kids and helping shape them into the best soccer players they can be! 

Sending a huge shoutout to the athletes for their hard work this season so far: Weston, Jacob, Owen, Jaxon, Olivier, Carter, Autym, Laila, Miley, Alex, Kalyssa, Ella, Xavier, Wyatt, Summer, Brendan and Tristan!

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🦁 W E L C O M E  L I O N S 🦁

On May 23, 2023 we welcomed 3 new lions officially to our pride! Let’s all give a huge lions roar to Lion Alex, Lion Lise and Lion Anna! We are very very excited to welcome you to our club and our lion family! 

If you’re wondering how you can get involved reach out to us! We’re always looking for new members to join and help us make our community better! We have a spot for everyone, from young to older, from wanting to be minimally involved, to wanting to do it all. We have a spot for you in our family! 

📸 Pictured here: New Lions Alex, Lise & Anna. Sponsoring Lions Keisha & Randee and lighting our candles we have Lions Mark, Brian, Bob, Stewart & Don!

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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🦁⚽️ W A L D E N  L I O N S  S O C C E R  T E A M 🦁⚽️

The Walden Lions Club would like to send out a huge shoutout to our U12 team for their hustle tonight on the field for their first game! What a way to start the season! 

We are so proud to be able to sponsor a team to help keep costs low and keep kids in sport! We urge everyone in our community to get involved when you can! It takes passion and lots of hands to keep these sports running!

Several times throughout the year your Walden Lions volunteer at Delta Bingo right here in Sudbury to raise funds to give back to our community. Charitable gaming funds raised through Charitable Gaming Sudbury goes right back into our community! We are sending a huge thank you to OCGA & Delta Bingo for their generous support and making these contributions possible! 

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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✨ 🚮 C L E A N  U P  B L I T Z  S U C C E S S 🚮 ✨

What a super fun morning!! Thank you to everyone who joined us in our annual clean up today!! 

In total we collected 23 bags of garbage!! That’s a big step at keeping our community beautiful! Community spirit strong! 👏🏼🤗🚮

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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✨ 🚮 A T T E N T I O N 🚮 ✨

Walden Fam! Tomorrow is our 2hr clean up blitz! We’ll be going around Lively cleaning up trash to help keep our community clean! Do you have a child looking for community service hours? This is an excellent opportunity for that!! 

Meet us at 9am at Lively District Secondary School where you’ll find Lion Mark leading the charge! We’ll have all the tools you need to do the job 🧤 and we’ll coordinate the entire thing! 

After it’s done we’ll sign your community service hour forms and we’ll have donuts! 

Let’s keep our community clean and our youth involved in volunteer work! 🧤🚮✨

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🍪🍩☕️

Walden community!! If you’re out and about today don’t forget to stop in at Tim Hortons for smile cookies!! Remember the proceed of these cookies go back into our community, making sure kids can go to camp and more!!

Pictured here are Walden Lions Stewart & Mark who spent their morning decorating cookies! Way to go gents!! 

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Sending a huge thank you to Delta Bingo and Gaming for hosting us all at their Volunteer Appreciation Night last night! 

The night was an absolute blast and the energy was a vibe! As always Delta Bingo was giving back to charities and our Walden Lions Club was drawn at random twice to receive two (2) $200 donations! That’s $400 that we get to then return to our community! Wooooo! 
Thank you to all who made last nights event a huge success, we can’t wait for the next one! 

📸 Lions Anna, Randee, Richard, Keisha & Alex ❤️🦁

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🦁🐰🐣 WALDEN FAMILY 🐣🐰🦁

What a success this morning was! We are sending a huge thank you to the community for coming out to our annual Easter Egg Hunt event!! We were thrilled to be able to bring this event back after a few years of hiatus 🦁🥰 and it was such a joy to see the smiles on all their faces!

Thank you to Tyler and his team at the Lively Tim Hortons for donating & preparing the hot chocolate, it was very much appreciated on this cold day! 🥶❄️

📸 We have posted all the pictures we took but if you want yours posted on our page just send them our way and we’ll gladly add them! Feel free to snag any of your littles from our post! 

📣 Stay tuned for an announcement of our next community event! 🤫🗓️🤩

🐰 Our Walden Bunny looks forward to seeing you again at our next annual Easter Egg Hunt! 

📸 Check out all the pictures here!

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🐣✨ E A S T E R  E G G  H U N T ✨🐣

Walden family! Your Walden Lions are bringing back their annual Easter Egg Hunt at Anderson Farm Museum, Lively!

Come out to the farm on Saturday April 8th to join us for the hunt! 🔎 like previous years it’ll be a shot gun start so ensure you are not late! ⏱️ Don’t forget to bring a basket to collect your eggs! 🐣

Things to know:

✔️ 10am start! Don’t be late!
✔️ Bring a basket to collect your eggs 
✔️ The grounds will be separated depending on age group
✔️ Parents are not allowed in the search areas (except for the toddler section)
✔️ Pictures will be taken and shared 📸

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🧦 L O V E Y O U R N E I G H B O U R S O C K D R I V E 🧦

The Walden Lions Club would like to present the Love Your Neighbour Sock Drive event! From Saturday January 21 to Monday February 13, 2023 you will be able to drop off new socks to one of two boxes located at our public libraries 📚! All socks will be donated to our Walden Food Bank so that they can be distributed to our neighbours in need this winter season! 
You can find our boxes at:

Lively Public Library 📚

• Mon - 9am-8pm
• Tue - 9am-5pm
• Wed - 9am-8pm
• Thu - 9am-5pm
• Fri - 9am-5pm
• Sat - 10am-4pm
• Sun - Closed

Copper Cliff Public Library 📚

• Mon - 2pm-7pm
• Tue - 9am-2pm
• Wed - 2pm-7pm
• Thu - 10am-2pm
• Fri - Closed
• Sat - 10am-2pm
• Sun - Closed

We’d like to thank the Greater Sudbury Public Library for helping us with this campaign, it’s so great to work with others in our community! 

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 Lions Jen, Keisha, Randee & Claire

Come out to Your Independent Grocer today and you’ll see your Walden Lions collecting for The Salvation Army International.

Don’t forget to say hello and if you are interested in the club let us know! We’re always looking for new members!

Morning: Lion Don & Lion Claire
Afternoon: Lion Jen & Lion Keisha
Evening: Lion Randee & Lion Richard

Don’t be shy to say hello! 👋🏻🦁

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