Md 23
District 23-B
East Granby LIONS Charities, Inc.
(East Granby LIONS Club)

We will be electing our leadership team for the 2009/2010 operating year at our next meeting and they will be taking over the reins in June 2009 at our installation banquet.

The East Granby LIONS Club was chartered April 28, 1960 and has served the community of East Granby, Hartford County, CT and the world community for over 48-years.

Officially, legally, we are incorporated as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization known as The East Granby LIONS Charities, Inc. (which means that any direct donation is tax deductible if you itemize your return), but we generally go by East Granby LIONS Club. If you care to make a tax-deductible donation to a worthy cause, knowing that one hundred percent goes to charitable purposes, you may make checks payable to East Granby LIONS Charities, Inc. and mail to our post office box (288) address. If you want it to go toward a specific purpose (such as Scouts or Scholarships) listed in this page, please so note on the memo line of your check.

LIONS Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) have initiated a long term fund drive to help stamp out preventable blindness world-wide. Local LIONS Clubs around the world will be sponsoring directed fund raising projects, asking individual members to make donations, and asking the members of the community to make donations for this ambitious project. If you wish to help support this worthy cause, checks should be made payable to LCIF - CSFII (the amounts are deductible on your tax returns if you itemize) and mailed to East Granby LIONS Charities, Inc. at P.O. Box 288 in East Granby, or turned over to any member of East Granby LIONS at any time within the next two years.

Our annual Spring Flea Market will be held Saturday 16 MAY (23 MAY Rain Date) at the East Granby Farms location from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM.  Contact LION Mark Keough at 658- 6988 for space reservations.  No admission fee for patrons.  Food Trailer will be on site with breakfast and lunch sandwiches and beverages.

Memorial Day Parade with post parade ceremonies will  take place between 10:00 AM and Noon on Monday 25 MAY 2009.  Parade will form at the new cemetewry on Nichols Road before 10:00 AM and end at the EG Firehouse/Ambulance/Town Hall complex on Memorial Drive.  A Citizen of the Year Award will be presented to a deserving EG resident during the post parade ceremonies.