Brookfield Lions Club - Brookfield, CT

Brookfield Lions Club - Holiday Party - Thursday, December 4, 2025

• The Brookfield Lions Club Holiday Party will be held on Thrusday, December 4, 2025 at Michael's Tap Room, 37 Stony Hill Rd, Bethel, CT.
• Networking starts at 6:30 pm, short meeting at 7:00 pm, followed by dinners and a good time!
• A dinner sign-up link will be posted here soon.

Click here to sign-up for the Brookfield Lions Holiday Party

Brookfield Lions Club - Blood Drive - Wednesday, December 31, 2025

• The next Brookfield Lions Club June blood drive will be held on Wednesday, December 31, 2025 from 8:00 am until 1:00 pm - 6:30 pm at the Congregational Church of Brookfield, 160 Whisconier Rd, Brookfield, CT.
• Please contact our Brookfield Lions Blood Drive leader, Jackie Kettunen (jkettunen604@gmail.com), is you're interested in volunteering at the drive or you can bring some sandwiches, cookies, or brownies for our donors.

39th Annual Run for Sight- Presented by the Brookfield Lions - New Year's Day, January 1, 2026

• Join us as we host the 39th Annual New Year's Day Run for Sight 4-Miler! All monies raised go to supporting the Connecticut Lions Eye Research Foundation and other local charities. Free long sleeve custom race shirts for first 100 registrants, along with medals, prizes and the famous pies for top finishers! 
• We have also created a NEW 4 Seasons Challenge opportunity, partnering with Brookfield Parks and Rec and BHS National Honor Society.  This is a new opportunity to save $5 per race, receive 4 cool shirts (if you are in the first 100 registrants), and a cool 4 Seasons gift. 
• SPECIAL OFFER: Click the link immediately below and check out the Brookfield Lions Four Season Challenge Series offer!
• Sign up for all four of our road races during 2026 and receive a discount of $5 per race!

Click this link for Race Registration and Information 

Look below to see what we've been doing in 2025

Brookfield Lions Club - Annual Charity Breakfast - Friday, November 21, 2025

• The Brookfield Lions Club's Annual Charity Breakfast was held on Friday, November 21, 2025 at Michael's Tap Room 37 Stony Hill Rd Bethel, CT.
• The Breakfast proceeds will support Lions Charities, which include Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Connecticut Lions Eye Research, Brookfield Social Services, Food Pantry, Emergency Utility Fund, Brookfield Youth Groups, Diabetes Research Foundation, Pediatric Cancer and many more.
• The keynote speaker was be Dominic Mantuano, Executive Director of the CT Burns Care Foundation.
• Once again this year, Lion Candy Smith organized another wonderful event with a great crowd.
• The Brookfield Lions Club thanks all of the sponsors who supported us through their ads in our breakfast brochure and their donations at the breakfast and through the year. Please support them for supporting us!

Brookfield Lions Club Food Drive - Saturday, November 8, 2025

• The Brookfield Lions Club and the Brookfield High Schools LEOs collaborated on a very succesful Food Drive on Saturday, November 8, 2025 at the Brookfield Market and Deli.
• Much needed donations of non-perishable food were evenly split between Brookfield’s Food Pantry and Hillside Food Outreach in Danbury.
• Many thanks to Lions Alan & Candy Smith, Dori Cundari, Louise Pasquine, Todd Corsa and six of the Brookfield High School LEOs for their hard work and service.

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Brookfield High School LEO Club Electronic Recycling Day - Saturday, October 11, 2025

• ​Following up on their highly succesfull Electronic Recycling Day in November 2024, the Brookfield High School LEO Club held another very successful Electronic Recycling Day on Saturday, October 11, 2025.
• The event was held once again at Brookfield Town Hall.
• This was a wonderful opportunity to recycle those old, unneeded electronics that we all have and help the LEOs with their community projects!
• Hopefully, this will be an annnual event!

Brookfield Lions Club 42nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament - Monday, August 25, 2025

• The Brookfield Lions Club held their 42nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament on Monday, August 25, 2025, at the Golf Club at Oxford Greens, 99 Country Club Drive, Oxford, CT.
• This is our club's major fundraiser of the year. Donations support initiatives for the visually impaired and many other Brookfield Lions community projects as can be seen on our Club Projects page.
• Many thanks to all of the Lions who donated to the event and volunteered to help make the event very successful again this year.
• Congratulations to the Golf committee for a great job! Early results showed that there were over 100 golfers participating in this year's event. 
• We'll report back once we have the final accounting but it looks like another very successful fundraiser for our club. 

Connecticut Lions Day at Mountain Mist YMCA Pathfinder Diabetes Camp - Thursday, July 31, 2025

• On Thursday, July 31, 2025, the Connecticut Lions are all invited to tour the Mountain Mist YMCA Pathfinder Diabetes Camp in Meriden, CT to see how what our service work is accomplishing.

Lions Candy and Alan Smith reported that the event was very successful and extremely well received by those who attended.​

Click here to see the Connecticut Lions Day flyer

Brookfield Lions Club - Blood Drive - Wednesday, August 13, 2025

• The next Brookfield Lions Club June blood drive was held on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 from 1:30 - 6:30 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 174 Whisconier Rd, Brookfield, CT.
• Please contact our Brookfield Lions Blood Drive leader, Jackie Kettunen (jkettunen604@gmail.com), is you're interested in volunteering at the drive or you can bring some sandwiches, cookies, or brownies for our donors.

Click here to see August 13, 2025 Blood Drive Flyer

Brookfield Lions KidSight 2024-2025 program has been completed

• The Brookfield Lions Club KidSight vision screening program for the 2024-2025 school year kicked off during the week of October 14-18, 2024. The team completed the vision screenings for this year on Sunday, June 8, 2025.
• During the 2024-2025 school year, the Brookfield Lions KidSight team screened 10,440 students and referred 2,902 students for complete eye care examinations.
• The KidSight team has given 623 hours of service on vision screenings alone.
• Adding in our service hours for equipment kit preparations and delivery, scheduling, and communications with school nurses and our KidSight team, the number of service hours approximately doubles, i.e. over 1,200 hours of service this school year for the Brookfield KidSight team.
• Our Brookfield KidSight team has done an incredible job this school year responding to our challenging schedule of screenings. THANK YOU ALL!
• If you have any questions about the program or want to sign up to do screening, please contact:
  • Robin Montgomery (robinmontgomeryl24@gmail.com)
  • JoEllen Reynolds (j4reynolds@gmail.com)
  • Jim Ondak (james.ondak@gmail.com)

  

  All smiles! Lions Candy Smith, Christine Corsa, and Alan Smith at Mountain Mist YMCA Camp in Meriden at final KidSight vision screening for 2024-2025 school year

Brookfield Lions Club Banquet & Officers Installation and Awards Dinner, Thursday, June 12, 2025

• Our Year-End Banquet - Officer Installation and Awards Dinner was held  on THURSDAY, JUNE 12, at Michael's Tap Room, 37 Stony Hill Rd, Bethel, CT.

Brookfield Lions Club - Blood Drive - June 18, 2025

• The next Brookfield Lions Club June blood drive was held on Wednesday, June 18, 2025 from 1:30 - 6:30 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 174 Whisconier Rd, Brookfield, CT.
• Please contact our Brookfield Lions Blood Drive leader, Jackie Kettunen (jkettunen604@gmail.com), is you're interested in volunteering at the drive or you can bring some sandwiches, cookies, or brownies for our donors.

Brookfield Lions Club STRIDES TO CURE DIABETES 5 Miler - Sunday, June 1, 2025

• The Brookfield Lions Club held their 18th annual STRIDES 5 mile road race to promote diabetes awareness and research on Sunday, June 1, 2025.
• Runners and Lions Club volunteers met at Cadigan Park starting at 8:00 am with the race starting at 9:00 am.

Brookfield Lions Club organize the Brookfield Memorial Day Parade - Sunday, May 25, 2025

• The Brookfield Lions Club once again organized the Brookfield town Memorial Day Parade on Sunday, May 25, 2025.
• The parade had 26 different organization marching in the parade.
• The Lions marched and also rode their float at the head of the parade. 

Brookfield Lions Club - Blood Drive - April 23, 2025

• The latest Brookfield Lions Club blood drive was held on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 1:30 - 6:30 pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 174 Whisconier Rd, Brookfield, CT.
• Please contact our Brookfield Lions Blood Drive leader, Jackie Kettunen (jkettunen604@gmail.com), is you're interested in volunteering at the drive or you can bring some sandwiches, cookies, or brownies for our donors.
• During Jackie's 10+ years of leading the Brookfield Lions Blood Drive events, the club has achieved these milestones:
  • ​68 blood drives in total
  • 3,608 donors
  • 3,280 pints collected; an average of 48 pints collected per blood drive
• ​The Brookfield Lions continue to be a Premier Blood Partner for its work with the American Red Cross through the years.
• Many, many thanks to Lion Jackie and her amazing team of Lions and LEO volunteers.

Brookfield Lions Earth Day Clean-up - Saturday, April 26, 2025

• The Brookfield Lions Club Earth Day Clean-up was held on Saturday, April 26th.
• Many thanks to Earth Day chairperson, Karl Noivadhana, and the Lions who participated in the event.

Community Shred Day & Food Drive - Saturday, May 3, 2025 at Brookfield Town Hall

• Our annual Shred Day & Food Drive event was held on Saturday, May 3rd at Brookfield Town Hall from 9 am through 12 noon..
• This is another excellent example of how the Brookfield Lions Club serves the Brookfield Community.
• In addition to the funds raised by the Shred Day event, Shred Day chairperson Lion Christine Corsa reported a wonderful amount of donations for the Brookfield food pantry.
• Thanks to the great job by one of our Brookfield LEO club members, the Lions' Cuddles project received over $300 in donations.
• All in all, an amazing day!

Here it is! - The 2025 Community Garden Rules and Application - Can Spring be far behind?!

• Brookfield Lion Community Garden Chairperson Kathi Hlavac has announced that last year's gardeners are being asked if they would like to renew their garden plots again in 2025.
• Kathi estimated that if some of the 106 plots are still available in mid-March, the application process will be opened for all Brookfield residents.
• This is a wonderful project that Lions Kathi, Dori Cundari, Karen Brown, Jeff Tanz and their team have been running for years for the community.
• Throughout the summer, the Lions Club community plots are a source of vegetables for the Brookfield Food Pantry.
• Well done, Kathi and team!

Click her to see the 2025 Community Garden Rules and Application

Brookfield Lions 6th Annual Pancake Breakfast - Sunday, April 6, 2025 - Most successful ever!

• Pancake Breakfast chairperson, Karl Noivadhana, thanked all of our Lion and LEO volunteers.
• Karl told us that 'It was a great day! We made the most money we have ever made.' Karl and Jeff Tanz are currently tallying the finances and will let us know the final numbers soon.
• Karl said that members supporting the breakfast by buying and selling tickets and getting sponsors for the placemat were the reasons for the great success this year.
• Lion Sue Slater did an amazing job by finding nine sponsors for the placemat.
• Many, many thanks to the Brookfield High School LEOs who did an incredible job at the breakfast clearing tables, reading to the children, and helping anyone who needed it.
• The Easter Bunny (thank you LEOs!) was a HUGE HIT and was seen playing a lively game of Duck Duck Go with the kids as the breakfast was coming to a close.  :-)

Click here to see the 2025 Pancake Breakfast Placemat

Amazon Donation Pick-Up

• This has been an ongoing project since mid-February 2024, when Lions Candy and Alan Smith and Todd Corsa picked up 18 boxes of food, personal hygiene, cleaning products, stationary, and toys donated to the Lions by Amazon.
• All 18 boxes were then donated and delivered to Hillside Foods Outreach.
• The Brookfield Lions have continued to particpate in the pick-up during 2024 and 2025. We expect to continue our effort in 2026.
• A number of Lions clubs here in Connecticut have been participating in the Amazon program on a rotating basis.

Brookfield Lions Todd Corsa and Alan Smith with the Amazon delivery

Click this link to see other recent Brookfield Lions service projects 

Brookfield Lions Club Melvin Jones Award Winners Honored

• Lions Bob Pitcher and Karl Noivadhana were presented with their Melvin Jones Awards at our May 11th Dinner Meeting.
• Lions Clubs International recognizes outstanding individuals by bestowing on them an award that is named for its founder, Melvin Jones. This Fellowship Award is the highest form of recognition and embodies humanitarian ideas consistent with the nature and purpose of Lionism.

Congratulations to Bob and Karl!​

Bob Pitcher and Karl Noivadhana receiving their Melvin Jones awards from Club President Alan Peck and Club 1st Vice-President Sue Slater

The Lions Club is the world’s largest international service organization. Members have been working tirelessly since the early part of the 20th century to help restore and improve sight and hearing to millions of people. Here in Brookfield, our members are very active in programs that increase access to eye care and hearing services for those in need.