We are the East Kildonan Lions!

District 5M11

Quick facts about our club:

Chartered October 26, 1953
14 Life Members
11 Melvin Jones Fellows
18 Current Members

What's Happening in April?

Kindest Cut for Cancer 50/50 tickets are still available (See Featured Story below). Each ticket is $5.00 and maximum payout is $12,500. Draw date is June 16, 2011. Talk to a Lion for more information.
CNIB car raffle tickets are now available. Look for CNIB volunteers at your local mall.

Featured story:

The Lions Club of East Kildonan Strikes Yet Again

The Club had raised $10,000.00 for Cancer Care Manitoba a few years ago, $15,000.00 towards the Bone Marrow Transplant & Leukemia ward revitalization project last year, new DVD players just before this past Christmas (2010) it started a District 5M11 Canadian side initiative entitled “The Lions Clubs of Manitoba presents The Kindest Cut for Cancer”. The club along with many other clubs on the Canadian side of the District are in the middle of a 50/50 Draw where someone will win a maximum prize amount of $12,500.00. The other half of the money will be split 50/50 between Cancer Care Manitoba & The Lions Foundation of North-West Ontario Medical Assistance Program and will be earmarked for assisting persons dealing with cancer. It does not stop there The initiative is also hosting The Kindest Cut for Cancer Head Shave complete with celebrity head shaves, entertainment informational booths and will have The One Match organization on hand to register potential bone marrow and stem cell donors. Registrants may just save the life of leukemia or lymphoma patient somewhere in the world as One Match is part of a worldwide network. It is hoped that this effort will raise $100,000.00 to be split between Cancer Care Manitoba and The Lions Foundation of Manitoba & North-West Ontario. In the midst of all this the East Kildonan club still found time to acquire and donate an IPAD to the leukemia ward with the promise of an HP Slate to follow shortly. The thought was to provide the units so that patients could check e-mail, surf the net, or watch a web series. The benefits were larger than anyone had anticipated. Within minutes of receiving the IPAD the ward nurses were coming up with uses for it. Patient education and treatment procedures and patient access while bedridden was just the start. The following day the unit’s social services coordinator was using it to provide patients with in room social services access. As the units coordinator of patient services expressed “This is huge”, and the use just keep presenting themselves. Said Lion Mike Janssen Pictured above with the unit’s Coordinator and three of its nurses, this is defiantly one of the many ways Lions can serve within its community, District, Multiple, Country, International and the world.

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