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Lions Club of Unionville

Bottle Reclamation center temporarily shut. Pancake Breakfast on hold.

The Unionville Lions Club

Camp Happy Hill, 87 West Avon Road, Unionville, Connecticut.

- NOTICE -

The Club is suspending collection of cans and bottles at Camp Happy Hill until health authorities declare that the novel Corona virus is under control.

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The club thanks the residents of Farmington, Unionville, Avon, and Simsbury as well as other participating towns for their support. We also thank the club members and volunteers for their dedicated service in this charitable endeavor.

We must also reluctantly postpone The Unionville Lions Club Pancake Festival slated to be held on Sunday April 5th 2020 at Camp Happy Hill. We will keep the community posted regarding an alternate date.

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Those businesses and individual who have already donated to the festival fund will be contacted and arrangements made.

We expect that this will be a temporary situation and look forward to your further participation when circumstances change.

For the past 80 years, the Club, The Redemption Center, and fundraisers like the Pancake Breakfast have directly benefited our community by supporting it in the following ways:

Cans and Bottles Redemption Center

LIONS Low Vision Programs

Food Bank Donations

Boy Scouts of America

FIDELCO

Guide Dog Foundation

Vision Research at

UCONN and Yale Universities

FHS School College Scholarships

Senior Citizen Programs

FAVARH and

Special Olympics

Summer Concert Series

at Alice Clover Pinney Memorial Park

“Boundless Playground”

at West District School

Fuel Bank Donations

Westwood Upper Elementary

School Playground

Camp Happy Hill

Hall and Pavilion Rentals


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