Club Donations

For the past several years, the Club has taken on the role of Title Sponsor of the Child Witness Centre's Annual Pancake Lunch fundraiser. Link for more information.

Over its years of operation, the Club has made donations to numerous local charities such as:

the Food Bank
Nutrition for Learning
Food4Kids
Christian Horizons (now karis Disability Services)
Monica Place (now Camino Wellbeing)
Marillac Place
Anselma House (now Women's Crisis Services)
Backpacks for Kids/House of Friendship
Sports for Special Athletes in 2026 to help them celebrate of providing inclusive sport and recreation opportunities over the past 25 years.

On several occasions, the Club stepped up with emergency funding outside of its normal local focus to help families affected by the Quebec Ice Storm and Louisiana Flooding.

Allan Mills, Residential Director of Horizon House II, Christian Horizons, is shown accepting the Club's donation from Harold Lauber. (May, 1990) The other photo is of the Optimist clubs' donation to the Children's Safety Village in Cambridge at the grand opening in front of the Optimist Library.