Md 23
District 23-B
New Britain Lions Club

Announcements :

          The home club of Past District Governors Alan Daninhirsch, W.Keith Wuerthner, Dr. Stephen Polezonis and  the late PID Otto Strobino.

The Lions Club of New Britain was founded in 1922. The club meets every Tuesday at 12:15pm from September to June at the New Britain YMCA at 50 High Street. Please come and join us for lunch.

The club has been very active in the community since its beginning. Currently the club is involved in many projects in the community and around the state. The club conducts many fundraisers to support these projects. Please look under projects to see what we are up to and under fundraising projects to see how we raise our money.

 

Activities :

Community Projects

Safari program. The club sponsors field trips to the New Britain Library and the New Britain Youth Museum for every 3rd grade student in the New Britain school system, serving over 1,000 students per year. For some children, this is their first opportunity to visit these places and some children obtain their 1st library card while they are there.

The club also provides eye exams and eyeglasses to needy children in the school system.

During the fall and winter months, November through March, the club provides and serves dinner every third Sunday at the Salvation Army for anywhere from 70 to 120 people. The club also participates in bell ringing during the holiday season for the Salvation Army.

New in 2009: Our club is funding an outreach vehicle for New Britain EMS. The vehicle is on order and should hit the sreets in the fall.

The club also supports many organizations in its efforts to help the sight impaired including the Connecticut Lions Eye Research Foundation, Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation and Lions Gallery for Low Vision (Low Vision Center). The most exciting project we have participated recently is fund a grant to the New Britain Museum of American Art to offer a tour of the museum for the blind and vision-impaired. The tour has tactile aids, such as plastic raised-line drawings of the paintings, several headsets with cassette players and their own copies of the cassette with narration, sound effects and music, to help people experience and appreciate some of the artwork in the museum.

Fundraising Projects

Howard Wry Memorial Golf Tournament

Every Fall, the club hosts this tournament Funds raised at this event are used to fund many of the Lions annual projects.

This years LIONS GOLF CLASSIC,  Wednesday, August 26, 2009,  Stanley Golf Course, New Britain

 

Basketball Jamboree

During December, the lions host a preseason high school boys basketball tournament. Particpants in the tournament include the New Britain High Boys Basketball Team along with other area teams. .

Holiday Poinsettia Sale

The club sells poinsettias during the holiday season.

Auction

 Details of the event will be forthcoming.