By Mark Schadenberg
It's Christmas fundraising
season now for the Lions Club of Woodstock.
The Lions Club is always busy . . . and
our club is also currently busy seeking to add to our membership.
Christmas is just around the corner and
the Lions Club is like a group of elves raising money and donating time to
the Salvation Army, Inn Out Of The Cold, Operation Sharing and Ingamo
Homes.
The annual Ladies Night Out event is
Monday, Nov 3. See the poster and buy a ticket. If you're a guy, buy
tickets for your spouse and their friends.
The Lions monitor Salvation Army
kettles closer to the festive day, volunteer with Operation Sharing's
program called That Christmas Place, and collect donations through a
food drive organized along with various grocery stores.
Before the Santa Claus parade rolls
down Dundas Street on Nov. 15, the Lions Club is at the Woodstock fairgrounds
track oval lining up the floats, bellowing out instructions, and
getting the wheels rolling and bands marching. Newly elected
Woodstock city council member Jerry Acchione is in the Lions Club and
coordinates the logistics of annually introducing Santa to the local
kids.
Our club annually hosts a Christmas dinner for members and participants of the Big Brothers / Big Sisters locally, and also assist in the BB / BS car show in September.
There are countless reasons to join the
Lions Club.
Before? No, B4 ! The club operates a weekly bingo at the
Legion – on Thursday nights. Dollars from those events pay for
bursaries for high school grads along with funding minor sports
activities, plus the many individual charitable requests we receive
for assistive living devices, glasses, hearing aids, and similar
items.
In Southside Park, the Lions are an
important part of both Canada Day fireworks and Cowapolooza through
our money-making beverage gardens.
This weekend we are assisting the local
regional Diabetes association in a big fundraiser on Saturday, Nov 1.
The Lions Club was able to participate
in the recent Greg Morton comedy night raising money for the
Woodstock Co-Operative Dance School.
Lions member Bill Gillespie is convener of the annual Terry Fox Run.
As a local Realtor, I know the
importance of giving back and doing may part in creating a strong
community. By the way, I also volunteer in other capacities, including hosting the municipal election coverage on Rogers TV for important volunteer community access programming.
For more details about joining the
Lions and following along with our mission of 'We Serve', contact me
anytime. Men and women over the age of 18 are invited to be part of our energetic 'Roar' club. Our past Lion chief is a woman, our current secretary is a woman, and past treasurer is a woman, and out latest newest member is a woman, so don't think for a minute that this is a men's club because it's not. You too should plan on joining our community effort.
POP CANS
By the way, if you ever have a large amount of empty pop cans in your garage or basement and you're not sure where to donate them, call me to pick them up as the Lions Club has an on-going fundraising effort for both the aluminum cans and the pop tabs. If you don't separate your pop cans from the rest of your recycling currently, consider doing so and I will pick them up ever four of five weeks.
LINKS:
Proud member of the: Lion Club of
Woodstock
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior
Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757
Dundas St, Woodstock
(519)
537-1553, cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter:
markroyallepage
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Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
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