Athens Lions Club

Ontario, Canada

Welcome to our Lions Club. This page has been serving the Lions club and its community since April 1996.

The Athens Lions Club was established in 1961 and has been an active and thriving support to the local community. Our Club's Board of Directors and general membership have a business meeting on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, with a regular dinner meeting held on the 4th Tuesday of every month. These meetings are held at our Lions Hall in the village of Athens at 7:00 pm. We are relatively small in numbers, but what we lack in size we make up for in effort!

The Club provides financial support for various community projects and organizations through fundraising campaigns within the Athens community, but mainly through the Farmersville Exhibition. This past year we have been able to provide over $13,000 in assistance to the following projects and organizations, most of which we contribute to annually:

• Funding for Pineview and Addison Public School's "Very Effective People" program
• Funding for Pineview Public Speaking Program
• Lions A-4 Public Speaking program
• Lions Multiple District A Effective Speaking program
• Support for Athens District High School Band
• Athens & District High School Annual Bursary (700.00)
• Vision Screening for Primary Students

• Support for local area Fire victims
• Suport the Athens Food Bank
• Assistance for needy Athens & area residents Dental and General Health & Welfare

• Funding for the Athens District Medical Center
• Funding & Support for the Athens Community & Primary Health Care (VON) Program
• Donation and canvassing for the Canadian Cancer Society
• Donation to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
• Support for CNIB, including the Lake Joseph Center, Blind Anglers, Leeds & Grenville Branch
• Assistance for Operation Go Home
• Support for Almost Home, a home for out-of-town patients undergoing chemo treatments
• Donations to the Brockville Hospital Foundation and the Brockville Hospital Palliative Care
• Donations to the Ottawa General Hospital and the Ottawa Heart Institute
• Donation to the Canadian Diabetes Association
• Donation to the Alzheimer Society
• Donation to the Lions Camp Dorset Program
• Donation to the Lions Home for the Deaf
• Donation to Muscular Dystrophy Association
• Donation to Child and Youth Wellness

• Funding to the Athens Chamber of Commerce for Parade of Lights, (Santa Claus Parade)
• Major Supporter of Playground Equipment at Centre 76 Grounds
• Contributed 1/3 cost of developing the Soccer Fields at Centre 76 Grounds
• Assistance to the Athens Figure Skating Clubs Regional Competition & Annual Ice Show
• Assistance to the Brockville Lions Steel Band and Music Festival
• Funding to the Delta Agricultural Society
• Donations to the Lions Foundation of Canada
• Donation to Special Olympics Program
• Donation to Ladies Fire Auxiliary
• Donation to Athens Communites in Bloom
• Donation to St. Johns Ambulance

Village of Athens