Bridgewater Community Lions

Happy 2009! Well, we weren’t even a week into the new year before some hacker attacked our site (and others hosted by the same Web Host). The result? Google marked our site as being “dangerous”. While they agrred we weren’t spreading malicious code, they listed us as affiliated with a site that was. It was about a week before I even discovered we had a problem. It was necessary to take the site down for about a day while I found the offending code and removed it.

Members of the Bridgewater Community Lions (BCLC), the Cub Club, and the Greater Bridgewater Leos Club got together this past Saturday and drove to Weymouth in order to clean, read, and catalogue over 200 pairs of eyeglasses which had been previously collected. The organizer of the event was Robin Piccini, a member of the Bridgewater Community Lions. “We had lots of fun on Saturday. Now that everyone feels comfortable reading glasses [with a lens analyzer]; we should be able to read 120 an hour.

The Bridgewater Community Lions Club (BCLC) will host the First Annual “Arts for Everyone” Festival at the Bridgewater Middle School Gym & Auditorium on Saturday, November 15th from 9 AM to 4 PM. The school is located at the corner of Center and Mt. Prospect Streets, off Route 18 and Route 104. The Festival will feature an Arts & Crafts Fair in the gymnasium; an art exhibition by the 11-13-year-old contestants of the Lions International Peace Poster contest, and the Bridgewater Senior Painters in the lobby; and a Performance Arts Showcase & Amateur Competition for local youth involved in dance, instrument, and/or voice in the auditorium.

The Bridgewater Community Lions Club (BCLC) will host the First Annual “Arts for Everyone” Festival at the Bridgewater Middle School Gym & Auditorium on Saturday, November 15th from 9 AM to 4 PM. The school is located at the corner of Center and Mt. Prospect Streets, off Route 18 and Route 104. The Festival will feature an Arts & Crafts Fair in the gymnasium; an art exhibition by the 11-13-year-old contestants of the Lions International Peace Poster contest, and the Bridgewater Senior Painters in the lobby; and a Performance Arts Showcase & Amateur Competition for local youth involved in dance, instrument, and/or voice in the auditorium.

August 23rd, 2008. This is the day that the Boston Renegades Beep Baseball team comes to take on the town of Bridgewater. Come on out for a great time with friends and family. What could be more fun than watching local folks from Bridgewater trying to hit and field a beeping baseball while blind-folded? How about watching them run the bases blind-folded? The game starts at high noon, but before that you can give it a try yourself.

Wow! Our first big community service project (the clean-up of Legion Field following the 4th of July festivities) was picked up by the Brockton Enterprise! Theresa Knapp Enos wrote a very nice article about our project and about the club. You can all be very proud of the great work done! You can read the article here.

Tonight marks the official recognition of the Bridgewater Community Lions Club by the rest of the Lions in District 33S. Join us at the Knight’s of Columbus Hall in Bridgewater from 6:00 PM until 10:00 PM.

It’s officially the first day of the 2008 – 2009 Lions year and Bridgewater has 3 Lions clubs with new officers ready to charge into another year of making the world a better place. Good Luck to all the Lions of Bridgewater! You can find the updated list of club officers for all the clubs on their respective pages.

The Bridgewater Community Lions Club is now up and running! The Presidents and Secretaries of the sponsoring clubs signed the Charter Application yesterday, along with the District Governor, and the paperwork is on its way to Lions Club International (LCI)! All that’s left now is for LCI to issue the club our official club number, but for all intents and purposes Bridgewater now has 3 Lions clubs! We should receive the official charter in about 45 days.

If you Would like to spend more quality time with your family; Wish you had more time for FUN in your life; Want to give something back to the community; Are interested in making the town of Bridgewater (not to mention the rest of the world) a better place to live; then come to the Bridgewater Community Lions Open House. The overwhelming response to last Thursday’s Open House has necessitated scheduling another to give more interested families an opportunity to find out what the Bridgewater Community Lions Club is all about and how they can share in making a difference by volunteering as a family.