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Leo members to celebrate five years on Family Day
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What an achievement!
The Brussels Leo Club is marking its five-year anniversary next week. It has been a productive
time for the club. It was in September, 2015 that the club opened the refurbished sports pad
in Brussels, above, the club's first major project. (File photo)
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funds to reinvigorate the pad, which
now hosts road hockey, pickle ball
and tennis, among other activities.
The pad officially reopened in
September, 2015 on the day the
Brussels Fall Fair opened.
Members of the club have taken
the lead on annual bottle and food
drives, raising thousands in the
community that has then been
reinvested into projects throughout
Brussels. They also have made a
habit of serving hot apple cider at the
Brussels Santa Claus parade every
year in addition to lending a hand at
a number of Lions Club events
throughout the year, such as the
annual Elimination Draw, Fiddle
Jamboree and community
breakfasts.
In addition to the revitalization of
the sports pad, the club has placed
bicycle racks at the Brussels Library,
donated money for new change
rooms at the Brussels, Morris and
Grey Community Centre and
donated to the Brussels Legion for
its recent renovation. Members also
lay a wreath at the annual Brussels
Remembrance Day service.
Seth Nichol was the club's first
president, followed by Sean Mitchell
(who would go on to be one of 44
youth nominated for the Rural
Ontario Institute's Youth Engage-
ment Showcase and a University of
Guelph scholarship in 2016),
Jasmine Vader and Megan Exel.
Lion Kathy Nichol said that as an
outsider, she has seen such a positive
change in many club members over
the years. In terms of leadership
skills and confidence, those who
have stepped up to take on the
president's role, she said, have
changed so much.
Several club members have taken
advantage of exchange programs
offered through the Lions Club
organization, travelling to countries
such as Italy and Australia.
The club, which has in excess of
15 members, meets on the first and
third Mondays of every month. It has
built on the tradition of the
community's first Leo Club, which
was in operation several decades
ago. Many of its alumni still live in
the Brussels community.
For more information on the
international Leo Club program,
visit lionsclubs.org and follow the
Leo Club links.
Getting started
Paul Mutter, president of the Brussels Lions Club in 2013,
is seen here that year presenting the gavel and bell to Seth
Nichol, who would serve as the Brussels Leo Club's first
president. That night the club officially received its charter.
(File photo)
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