- Bonavista/Port Union Lions Clubs TV Bingo - vvery Monday at 7:30 pm
- Serve at Breakfast Program at Matthew Elementary once a month
- Visit sick residents with fruit baskets
- Air church services on community channel
- Look at three used clothing bins placed in community by Diabetes Association
- Visits hospital, bungalow and seniors' homes with fruit/cookies trays each month
- Collects used eyeglasses on a continual basis
WHAT ARE WE DOING (just some of the things we’ve done over the past year)
-Visits seniors’ homes and hospital once a month
-Visits sick residents
-Donates prizes for bingos at two seniors’ homes
-Serves once a month at Breakfast program
-Collects used eyeglasses
-Sponsors contests for school children – Peace Poster & Speakouts
-Donates books to all Kindergarten students of end of school year
-Partners with local church for soup kitchen
-Placed benches at Cape Shore trail
-Donates twice a year to local groups and charities such as minor hockey, figure skating, fire departments, schools, foodbank, splashpad, etc.
-Donates to provincial charities such as Ronald McDonald House, Janeway, Daffodil Place, Children’s Wish Foundation, etc.
-Donates to District projects such as sight, hunger, Lion Max Simms Memorial Camp, etc.
-Sponsors campers to blind, autistic, etc. camps
-Sponsors a monthly free skate at local arena
-Held a diabetes screening clinic with CareGivers
-Held Santa Claus parade, Seniors’ Christmas party and Children’s Christmas party
-Delivered fruit trays to sick and elderly during Christmas
-Donated to community group “Secret Santa” who helped the needy with gifts and gift cards
-Sponsored a Youth Exchange student to Peru
-Donated baskets to Stella’s Circle
-Donated equipment to local Red Cross
-Donated turkeys for Christmas Dinner at local church
-Held community bonfire
-Donates to sick residents for travel, etc.
-Places large tray of cookies at funeral home when a resident dies
-Since October 2017, we donated more than $40 000 in monetary donations
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