Colchester Lions Easter egg Hunt
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Family fun at Bayside Park
Colchester Lions Club, in partnership with Colchester Parks & Recreation, sponsored the annual Easter egg hunt at Bayside Park. Children were separated by two age groups: 4 and under hunted Lower Bayside Park, ages 5 -8 hunted Upper Bayside Park. Over 3000 eggs were 'stuffed' 'hidden' and 'found' during this event. The 'Easter Bunny' arrived, giving photo opportunities for the children making memories that will last for a long time. The Colchester Lions Club also hosted its annual food drive for the Colchester Community Food Shelf, collecting just shy of 250 pounds of food, with an undetermined amount of cash donations.
The Colchester Lions Club would like to thank the Colchester High School Honor Society and the Colchester Boy Scout Troop 601 for their assistance over the weekend. The club would also like to thank the St. Michael's Fire and Rescue for having a 'special connection' to the Easter Bunny. Thanks to Colchester Parks and Recreation for their continued support of this great event. Please see Colchester Lions Club Facebook page for more photos.
Night for Sight
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Norshaft Lions held their annual 'Night for Sight' dinner dance at the Elks Lodge in Bennington, Vermont on Saturday, March 24th. This all-ages event raises money to benefit training of seeing-eye dogs. Seeing-eye dogs and puppies in training are featured at the event and the Puppy Kissing Booth is a huge hit every year!
This year Norshaft Lions were joined by PDG Ken Emery, PDG Pamela Nichols, and Lion Jackie Dutil to help celebrate a most successful milestone - Bennington County has now been named as a “new puppy raising community”!
Middlebury warms spring with Food from the Heart
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Happy Easter, Help Your Neighbors!
26 members of the Middlebury Lions Club completed their annual “Food from the Heart” food drive on the Saturday before Easter. The food drive is conducted in support of the CVOEO and HOPE food shelves. Once again our community demonstrated their outstanding generosity by donating just over 2.5 tons of food in only 6 hours. One community resident filled an entire shopping cart with goods to donate. Other community members preferred to quietly donate cash in lieu of goods. The Middlebury Lions also added their own cash contribution; making a total cash gift of $2,000 to be shared between our Middlebury food pantries. Many thanks go out to our area grocers: Hannaford, Kinney Drugs, Middlebury Natural Foods CO-OP, Pratt's Store, and Shaw’s. Half of the goods were delivered to CVOEO that same day. “Thank you Middlebury Lions! 1,983 pounds of food gathered in food drive for our food shelf in Middlebury” says the CVOEO website alongside a photo of a huge pile of foods and smiling Lions. The remainder of the food was delivered to the HOPE food shelf on April 2nd.
How about that for service?
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Measuring the reach of Vermont Lions service
Vermont K-12 population is currently estimated at 84,334 students.
Vermont Lions KidSight has screened the vision of over 22,000 kids this year.
Wow!
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