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The Blyth Lions Club celebrated
its 70th anniversary on Saturday,
dedicating two new community
benches and hosting hundreds of
visitors at the Lions Park.
Lion John Stewart said to
celebrate past anniversaries, the club
has held events which are often open
to Blyth Lions, as well as Lions from
other communities. For the 70th
anniversary, he said, the club wanted
to involve the community for which
it has done so much over the years.
Planning for the celebration, he
said, began about three months ago,
when some members of the club
really started putting effort into the
event.
It was important to the club,
Stewart said, to involve the
community, because the members
have always been clear about whose
money they’re investing back into
the community.
“We look at it like we’re the
banker of the community’s money,”
Stewart said. “The community
supports us and we hope we make
good decisions.”
When the Lions host a fundraiser
or a barbecue, that money is always
re-invested into the community,
Stewart said, it’s just a question of
knowing the right project to support.
Huron-Bruce MP Ben Lobb and
MPP Lisa Thompson both attended
the event, as did a number of Lions
Club past-presidents, including
Donald Young (1960-61), Bill Hull
(1964-65), Tom Cronin (1976-77),
Keith Richmond (1977-78), Douwe
Wilts (1980-81), Don Scrimgeour
(1988-89) and Bev Blair (2008-09),
among others.
Two benches were placed in the
park. The first was a Lions bench
that came as a result of deceased
supporters of the club who had left
some of their money to the Lions in
their wills.
The bench placed at the park on
Saturday was supported by the Oster
and Richmond families, among
others.
The second bench was a gift from
last year’s reunion for S.S. #10,
MacGowan’s School in East
Wawanosh. The bench was a thank-
you from the former students of the
school, who held the reunion at the
park.
Joe Hallahan, a member of the
Lions, as well as Cheryl Cronin, a
long-time supporter of the club,
were both students at the school.
Stewart said it was good to see so
many familiar faces at the
celebration. Whether they be from
within Blyth, from outlying
communities like Londesborough or
Belgrave, or past members of the
club who no longer live in Huron
County, he said the response to the
event was tremendous.
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Blyth Lions celebrate club’s 70th anniversary
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Marking the occasion
The Blyth Lions Club celebrated its 70th anniversary on Saturday, and while hundreds of
members of the public turned up to take part, so did members from other Lions Clubs and
different arms of the Lions organization. Here, Joanne Klonikowski, left, District A9 Governor,
and Hank Van Moorsel, second from left, Past District A9 Governor, present the Lions,
represented by Mary Lou Stewart, second from right, past-president and Alex Blair, right,
president with a certificate of appreciation for all of the club’s hard work. (Vicky Bremner photo)
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