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…

Fonthill Lioness Donations

On June 27th, Fonthill Lioness President, Cheryl Werner presented a cheque for $500 to Kirk Weaver, Pelham Public Library. This donation will be used to purchase large print books. Fonthill Lioness President, Cheryl Werner presented a cheque for $500 to Beth Cotter, Pelham Cares. On June 27th, Fonthill Lioness President, Cheryl Werner presented a cheque […] 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…

Thank You Effective Speaker Participants

We would like to thank all of the schools in the Pelham area as well as the Welland French Schools and Home School that sent students to our Effective Speaking contest on February 22. Thanks to all the contestants, your speeches were informative and entertaining. In our eyes you were all winners. To all the […] 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…

Fonthill Lions Congratulate Fonthill Lioness

The Fonthill Lions would publicly like to congratulate and say how proud we are of the Fonthill Lioness for all of their hard work and especially their recent donations of $10,000.00 plus the over $ 2,000.00 that they had donated throughout the year. In the past month they made the following donations: Lions Foundation of […] Read more…