Cathy Berkhout-Bosse

There’s Something About Being a Lion!

In celebration of our 73rd Anniversary Lion Steve Pellerin organized a special program of storytelling at our April 3rd regular meeting. During the past year our Fonthill Lions Club has enjoyed a reemergence that with a 50%+ increase in our membership. The evening of reminiscing was a wonderful opportunity for our newer members to learn […] Read more…

Presenting our 73rd Annual Salute to our Local Farming Industry

Exploring the State of the Modern Family Farm Join us for our 73rd Annual Fonthill Lions Agriculture Night, Tuesday April 17th 7pm at the Fonthilll Legion. Guest Speaker for the evening is Dylan Wiens, a third-generation tender fruit farmer in Niagara On the Lake and Operations Manager at Kai Wiens Family Farm, a 160 acre […] Read more…

Inaugural SLIDERFEST a Huge Success

Especially for winners of the cook off, Chef Raymond Haymes and Paul Fedj of Churchill Natural Meats who took home the coveted BEST SLIDER trophy. The sun shined down upon Pelham’s first ever local slider throw down, hosted by the Fonthill Lions Club to fund raise for their community service. Attendees at the event savoured […] Read more…

Fonthill Lions/Lioness Canteen – A Pelham Canada Day Tradition

700 hundred lbs of potatoes later we still are catching our breath after another very successful Canada Day canteen at Harold Black Park. Thank you to the many, many #Canada150 celebration attendees who supported our Fonthill Lions Club & Fonthill Lioness with your purchases of Burgers, Hot Dogs and our ever popular hand cut Lions […] Read more…

Canada’s First Official Drone-Racing Track

Pelham is now home to the first permanent Model Aeronautics Association of Canada (MAAC) sanctioned FPV multirotor field in Canada. The drone-racing track is located at the Fonthill Lions’ Gordon L. Klager Park thanks to a partnership between the Fonthill Lions and the Niagara FPV Squad. FPV racing is an exciting new sport that combines […] Read more…

Sewing the Seeds of Change in Zambia

Our Fonthill Lions Agriculture Night Guest Speaker, Aaron Breimer is part of a humanitarian mission that helps farmers in Zambia improve their community through agriculture. As an agronomist with Veritas Farm Management Services, a farm business consulting company, Aaron Breimer works with Ontario Farmers to implement the latest in agricultural techniques and practices. He never […] Read more…

Fonthill Lions Launch ‘Message in a Bottle’ Project

The Fonthill Lions Club officially launched our new community initiative ‘Message in a Bottle’ on Thursday March 16th at the Lookout Ridge Retirement Home. A large gathering of Lookout Ridge residents attended the program presentation made my Lions Ric Gretzinger, Jake Dilts, Al Crowe and Cathy Berkhout-Bosse. They demonstrated their support by volunteering to organize […] Read more…

Annual Lion-Kin Meeting – 25 Years of Community Partnership

For the past 25 years the Fonthill Lions and the Kinsmen Club of Fonthill & District have celebrated the annual tradition of holding a joint club meeting at the start of the year. This year it was our turn to host and we gathered together with our Kin friends on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at […] Read more…