1997-2023 Celebrating 45yrs of service to our community
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For membership information
Call (519) 787-0560
info@belwoodlions.org
Always looking for members who want to be of service to their community. !
Always looking for community volunteers to help with our events
Please check back often to see new changes and additions
WHO ARE WE....
Belwood & District Lions are a group of local members of the community who are passionate about doing activities for the overall benefit of the community. We meet regularly and have community activities and fundraisers and do projects in and around the community. Our fundraisers help local folks, we support national and international charities and International relief efforts worldwide. We are part of Lions International Foundation operating around the world to improve the world we all live in. See our Club Projects link on the left for more details about our club activities and refer to the links on the right for Lions International activities.
We are always looking for volunteers to help in our events, bring new ideas forward and to join our group. See the contact details above to get more information and to reach out to us.
UPCOMING EVENTS....
Bottle Drive !
Belwood Lions can and bottle drive.
Drop of your cans and bottles at Belwood park pavillion.
Operating once a month on the second Saturday between 10am-12pm.
Please also look out for notification on Belwood Lions noticeboard on Hwy #26
Next Bottle & Can Drive: Saturday March 11th 10am-12pm at Belwood Hall
Go on....have a good clearout
Bring out your beer bottles and cans, wine and liquor bottles.
We will return them and put the funds to community betterment.
Coming Up..Look out for these future events coming up..
Saturday 25th February at Fergus Community Sportsplex, Belwood Lions is sponsoring a FREE COMMUNITY SKATE between 2:30 & 3:30pm. Bring your family out, get some exercise, say hi to your neighbours and see a little bit about what Belwood Lions does for
our community.
Tuesday 25TH March 6:00pm , Belwood Lions is happy and proud to announce the return of our Public School Effective Speaking competion. After a 3year break due to Covid, we have decides to run the competition again this year. We have local school youth competing in 3 age/grade categories in both English and French with prepared speeches and impromtu speakers. Always exciting to watch our youth demonstrate their confidence and skill at public speaking.
RECENT BELWOOD LIONS EVENTS
Belwood Lions Family Fun Day BBQ
Saturday 18th February 11am-2pm.
A great turnout from the community for burgers & drinks. Our community got to meet their neighbours and councillors for some camaraderie and to share ideas for the betterment of Belwood.
December 19th 2022 - Belwood Lions was pleased to present a cheque donation to The Groves Hub, supporting youth mental health and wellness. Pictured presenting and accepting the cheque are Lions Karen & Kevin, with Groves Hub representatives Jeff Hoffman and Don Vallery. Photo credit to Lion George.
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Belwood Lions held their Xmas Raffle ticket draw on Saturday 17th Dec 2022 at Belwood Hall during the community craft sale. Tickets were drawn by craft sale organizer Lisa Nesbitt, officiated by Lion Sam (pictured below, photo credit Lion George). Also present were Lions George & John.
Winners are as listed below:
$50.00 tickets (4 Winners):
#339 Wendy Channing
#128 Roshane Brown
#324 Kathleen Downer
#402 L.Adams
$100.00 Winner
#180 Theresa Baritz
$300.00 Winner
#295 Amie Droit
Congratulations to the winners. Thank you to the community for your support. Look out for our next community raffle draw during our 41st Pike Derby on 27/28 May
Saturday Dec 11th 2022, members of Belwood Lions, Lions George, Nancy, Sam & Ron helped out at the food drive, and then presented a cheque to the Centre Wellington Food Bank. The donation is partly from the proceeds of Belwood Lions Breakfast with Santa, topped up from other Belwood Lions fundraisers. Photo credits to Lions Sam & George.
Saturday Dec 10 2022, Belwood Lions hosted their annual Breakfast With Santa. We had elves, snowman, and balloons, pancakes, eggs, sausages, fruit, drinks, and of course Santa. Great to see all the community joining together to celebrate this joyous time of year. All proceeds, money and food contributions were donated to Wellington Food Bank. First pictures courtesy of Wellington Advertiser
SATURDAY 26th NOVEMBER 2022 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Belwood Lions sponsored a PUBLIC FREE SKATE
at FERGUS SPORTPLEX
Belwood Lions was pleased to sponsor today's free skate at Fergus Sportplex. We also had a table display to promote our club and the Lions organization as well as sold our Christmas Raffle tickets. It was great to see all the public, young and older, having lots of fun.Thanks to Lions Terry, George, Sam & Julian for supporting the event.
A big 'Thank you" and Well done to Lions Sam, George and Nancy for all their support in volunteering to help Centre Wellington Food Bank drive for the “Back to School Food Drive” at FreshCo on Saturday, August 27th.
Belwood Lions complete their pledge to Groves Hospital One Year Ahead of Plan
Belwood Lions are very pleased to advise that due to the success of this years Pike Derby; the tremendous support from our sponsors and anglers, and other Belwood Lions fundraisers, that we were able to complete our 2 year pledge to Groves Hospital of $10,000 for a vital signs monitor for the endoscopy department. Belwood Lions had pledged $10,000 over two years, but today donated the second $5000 (the initial $5000 donation made during our Pike Derby award ceremony) to Groves Hospital Foundation representative Lori Arsenault. This fulfills our pledge 1 year ahead of plan. Presenting the cheque for Belwood Lions is Sam Stewart and Ron Prior. Belwood Lions will continue to work with Groves to select future areas for supporting the great work Groves does to benefit our entire community. We look forward to future support from anglers, sponsors and the community the next Pike Derby May 27 & 27 2023
Belwood Lions completes the Centennial Parkette
Belwood Lions have created a Centenial parkette facing Belwood Lake behind Belwood Hall. Constructed by the late Lion Elwin May and Belwood Lions, the area contains memorial benches to Lions Passed. It serves as a place of peace and contemplation for the surrounding community. Plaques recognize the project as the One Hundred Centenary of Lions in Canada, as well as of Elwin’s work in fabricating the many other memorial benches in Belwood park and along the Elora Cataract Trail and surrounding villages.
Belwood Lions Annual Pike & Walleye Derby
May 28/29 2022...
Our 40th annual derby! with two great tournaments in one,
a Pike Derby with Grand Prize $2000 & a Walleye Derby with Grand Prize $1000.
Anglers...wow...just like that..it is over!
We had a great time, we hope you did also.
Weather was mixed, started overcast and turned out a real beauti.
The fish on the other hand started off with a flurry and tailed off abruptly. Basically leaving everyone on Sunday either sporting a suntan or nursing sunburn
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As always, we had a lot of laughs and some great outdoor time together. Thanks to all the generous sponsors, to the amazing Belwood Lions team that work so hard to pull this together and of course to you the anglers that so generously support the entire event and freely contribute to all the creative ways we find to help you generate contributions to such great causes. As announced, we continue our ongoing donation of $5000 annually to Groves Hospital, this time pledging $10,000 over two years for a Vital Signs Monitor for the Endoscopy dept. In total, we had slightly over 600 registrants and 47 fish on the board. See the official results attached. Thank you and see you in May 2023
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or on facebook at 'pike derby'
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