SERVICE PROJECTS ARE OUR PASSION

SPECIAL PROJECT TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! The club will announce a 2025 service project that will excite and benefit the Omemee and surrounding community! Watch for upcoming promotions on the Omemee Lions Facebook page and website.

OUR ONGOING PROJECTS:

Donations - 2022/23/24

Omemee Food Bank, Caressant Care Nursing Home, Omemee Curling Club, Heart & Stroke Foundation, Canadian Hearing, Five Counties Children's Centre, Lions Foundation of Dog Guides, Camp Dorset, A Place Called Home, LCIF, Omemee Legion, Sleeping Children Around The World, Kawartha Lakes 4H Club, Lions Camp Kirk, Lady Eaton & Scott Young School's breakfast programs, Camp Huronda

December 2024 - Christmas Tree lighting & Christmas in The Hall

TREE-LIGHTING WITH SANTA FOLLOWED BY ACTIVITIES AND TREATS AND PHOTOS WITH SANTA INDOORS. LIONS, LIONESS-LIONS AND OTHER LOCAL NON-PROFIT GROUPS ARE PARTICIPATING SO COMMUNITY CHILDREN CAN CELEBRATE THE START OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

Canada Day Celebrations in the Park - July 1, 2024

Community event organized and sponsored by the Omemee Lions club. A day-long celebration with Lions and other local non-profit groups participating in this service project where there was no cost to attendees other than at the BBQ. Fireworks at dusk at the water's edge end the day. Displays, Ducktona Draw, giveaways, live music, interactive games for kids, reptile display, sweets, goodies and more, serving the community on July 1.

Kawartha Mission is our mission - all year long

We continue to collect surplus medical supplies, clothing, bedding, wheelchairs, walkers, canes, & crutches etc., and ship to those in need through the KAWARTHA MISSION.

We love to encourage our youth in positive ways Creating a reading program for smallfry at the local library.

Effective Speaking Contest February 2024

Celebratiing Canada Book Day April 23, 2024

Sponsorship of local soccer club.

Supporting youth efforts in the community. Here is a past high-score winner of the Kawartha Lakes 4H Club with Lions Past President Simon Wickens.

Uplifting our community

Our downtown main street banners created by a local artist will be installed this year (2024), bringing a sense of history and our environment to passersby, enjoying the recently revitalized streetscape of the village.

Hunger: Omemee Food Bank- Collecting and distributing to the needy on a twice-monthly basis. Donations received at a variety of club events continue to help replenish the shelves.

BOTTLE DRIVE

Bottle Drive. Omemee Food Bank is the recipient of revenues from the drives.

What an amazing display of community spirit and generosity.

Thanks to all who help make these events successful.

Vision: Eyeglasses: Collecting and distributing for third-world countries at Omemee Lions events.

Eyeglasses to Lion Roger Larocque (2022). Since the untimely passing of Lion Roger, we have scores of eyeglasses ready for Lion Paul Larocque when we we next meet. Thank you to Omemee's local pharmacy and other businesses/churches and groups that collect on behalf of our club.

Environment: E-Waste: Collection of electronics, clothing for Cerebral Palsy and scrap metals, including pop tabs for pups. Consolidate civic-improvement efforts with other local like-minded groups. Continuing to monitor the Omemee rail bridge section of the Trans Canada Trail.

Pop-tabs for pups.

Childhood Cancer - Involvement with/donations to the Peterborough Regional Health Centre pediatric clinic.

Diabetes Besides holding an annual seminar to provide ongoing information to the community, the club created a video in its support of Camp Huronda.

Diabetes Day: November 14, 2024

Have a look at this short video to see how we serve.

https://video214.com/play/5jVYNb5bNaohiSe0Ag29rw/s/dark

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HERE'S A COUPLE OF OUR EARLIER SERVICE PROJECTS

Environmental Project

The club volunteered to remove the rotten deckboards of the Kawartha Trail rail bridge that spans the Pigeon River in the village of Omemee. This labour of 150+ man hours took place in late 2018 and involved the strength of Lions to complete so the new composite deck boards could be installed before the change in weather. And it was done!

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Childhood Cancer Project

Following its annual Chuckwagon Dinner and Entertainment evening on October 20,

the club donated its proceeds to Childhood Cancer.

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OMEMEE & DISTRICT LIONS CLUB 

CENTENNIAL COMMUNITY LEGACY PROJECT

DISCOVER OMEMEE MURAL 

The unveiling of the Discover Omemee mural on the west-facing wall of the Omemee Legion was a major attraction in the village. What began in 2016 as a rough idea for the Omemee Lions Centennial Community Legacy Project became a symbiotic association between the Lions and the Legion, and ultimately included the creation of village wayfinding maps and an audio walking tour to be available at Coronation Hall. 

The community maps can be seen at the boat launch and at the west entrance to the Kawartha Trans Canada Trail at Sturgeon Road North.
The Lions Centennial Community Legacy Project was an opportunity to connect with the community and build a Lions legacy during its 2017 Centennial Celebration, which just happened to coincide with Canada's 150th and Omemee Lions 60th birthdays.

Lions Paul Reid and Simon Wickens were instrumental in introducing mural artist Ciff Smith and graphic artist Carrie Cockburn into the mix. Smith, renowned for mural artistry, and Cockburn, well-known in graphic-art and photographic circles, were delighted to be part of this historic event.
The June 30 unveiling brought Councillors Mary Ann Martin and Heather Stauble, MPP Laurie Scott, Omemee Legion President Bill McQuade, and Omemee Lions Vice President Simon Wickens as well as both artists, residents and visitors.

The sound of bagpipes at the reveal was heard at the boat launch where the last duck of the Omemee Lions' Ducktona 700 had just crossed the finish line. The revenue from this fundraising event and Ducktona races of 2016 and 2017 was a major contributor to the success of this project.
 
Thank you to the community for supporting the Omemee & District Lions club Ducktona duck races. 

It's you who are responsible for this achievement.