News & Events Comments Box SVG iconsUsed for the like, share, comment, and reaction iconsNo upcoming events No more posts Comments Box SVG iconsUsed for the like, share, comment, and reaction icons Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club 5 days ago Dogwood Monarch Lions presented a cheque for $25,000.00 to MS Canada, during the MS Bike Ride to raise funds for research. MS is a terrible disease, the incidence is higher in Canada than in any other country, and numbers are increasing in our Asian and Indigenous populations.We also had the pleasure and joy of serving the bike riders breakfast and lunch, awesome people that rode hard to raise money and awarenes.Our club members are all so happy to help support this cause! … See MoreSee Less View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email View Comments likes love 92 Shares: 8 Comments: 3 3 CommentsComment on Facebook Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club updated their status. 5 days ago … See MoreSee Less This content isn't available right now When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it’s been deleted. View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email View Comments likes love 21 Shares: 0 Comments: 0 0 CommentsComment on Facebook Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club 1 week ago Just to show you what good sports Lions are, this was a team competition where the team captain was the one in the ponchos, and whip cream on their heads…the winning team threw and had the most cheese puffs stick to the captain's head! Dogwood Lions do have fun, as well as do bingo and meat draws! … See MoreSee Less View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email View Comments likes love haha 52 Shares: 4 Comments: 7 7 CommentsComment on Facebook Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club 2 weeks ago Our members are all so appreciated and love the rewards of being a Lion, some of the awards on display!Will we see you at the Gift cards and Meat draw on Saturday , Kelly O’Bryans at 2:00! … See MoreSee Less View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email View Comments likes love 20 Shares: 2 Comments: 0 0 CommentsComment on Facebook Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club 2 weeks ago Look at the smiles! Dogwood Monarch Lions prepared dinner for about 150 housing challenged folks at Ruth and Naomi's Mission Monday night, the guests all enjoyed their dinner, and we enjoyed preparing and serving it to them. As Lions, we rock, and We Serve. … See MoreSee Less View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email View Comments likes love 178 Shares: 4 Comments: 8 8 CommentsComment on Facebook Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club 3 weeks ago Lions are Knights of the blind, we have made such a change in eradicating river blindness in may countries and continue to do all we can for the sight impaired everywhere, Helen Keller was the inspiration.In 1933, Helen Keller wrote a letter to the Nazi students who were about to burn her book in their bonfires. “History has taught you nothing,” she told them, “if you think you can kill ideas. You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.”By then, Helen Keller — pictured here with her friend Charlie Chaplin, who would go on to lampoon Hitler in “The Great Dictator” — was famous the world over as the deaf and blind girl who had learned to speak. But the Nazis were not burning her childhood memoir. They were burning the work of a grown woman who had become one of the most outspoken political activists in America: a campaigner for labor rights, women’s suffrage, and the rights of the disabled. She was an enemy of exactly the kind of power rising in Germany. Helen Keller was born on this day in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, the daughter of a former Confederate officer, and lost her sight and hearing to a fever before she was two. The story of how her teacher, Anne Sullivan, reached her through the darkness — spelling “water” into her palm at a backyard pump — is one of the most famous in American life, told and retold in “The Miracle Worker.” It usually stops there, with the triumphant child. It rarely follows her into the sixty years of work that came after.For Keller never saw her own education as the happy ending of the story. She saw it as a debt. She had been lucky — in her family, her teacher, her schooling — and she knew that most blind and deaf children were not, shut away in institutions or written off entirely. She set out to change that, and she spent the rest of her life at it. She graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 as the first deafblind person ever to earn a bachelor’s degree, and then used the fame that came with it as a tool. She lectured in more than thirty countries. She pushed governments to build schools and libraries for the blind. As early as 1907 she campaigned to prevent infant blindness through a simple newborn eye treatment, a commonsense measure that, thanks in part to her, was widely adopted. For more than forty years she worked with the American Foundation for the Blind, and the organization she helped found in 1915 endures today as Helen Keller International, fighting blindness and malnutrition around the world.What she refused to do was treat disability as a private misfortune. “The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness,” she said, “but the attitude of seeing people towards them.” Investigating why people went blind, she found that the poor lost their sight far more often than the rich — to dangerous work, untreated illness, and the conditions poverty forced on them. The suffering she had been taught to see as fate, she came to see as a choice society made. In 1909 she joined the Socialist Party; in 1912 she joined the radical labor union known as the Wobblies; and she began to write and speak with the same ferocity she brought to everything.She campaigned for Eugene Debs, marched for women’s suffrage, and gave her money and her name to the NAACP when a white Southern woman doing so was rare and risky. She opposed the First World War as a slaughter staged for profit. In 1920 she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. For decades, the FBI kept a file on her.And as fascism rose in Europe, Keller saw it clearly and early. She denounced Hitler the very month he took power, in 1933. When civil war broke out in Spain, she backed the Republic against Franco’s fascists. In 1938, while powerful Americans were still praising the Nazi regime and the United States was turning Jewish refugees away at its borders, she wrote to the New York Times pleading with the paper to stop minimizing Nazi atrocities. She singled out the world’s silence about the disabled people trapped in Germany, the very people the Nazis would soon begin murdering. The Nazis knew that she was dangerous — a global figure who used her celebrity to denounce them. They put her book on the pyre with Einstein’s and Freud’s and Marx’s, and in doing so they took her seriously. Keller took them seriously in return. Her open letter did not beg; it warned. And buried in it was a line that showed how clearly she saw what the burning really meant, at a moment when many looked away: “Do not imagine,” she wrote, “that your barbarities to the Jews are unknown here.”Helen Keller died in 1968, at eighty-seven, by then recast as a gentle symbol of perseverance, her politics quietly filed off. But the woman the Nazis tried to burn was not only a symbol. She had spent her life insisting that the blind be educated, that the poor be protected, that the persecuted be defended — and that no fire was big enough to burn an idea whose time had come.“History has taught you nothing,” she had told them, “if you think you can kill ideas.”—–For two inspiring picture books about Helen Keller’s extraordinary life, we highly recommend “Helen Keller: Little People, Big Dreams” (https://amightygirl.com/helen-keller-little-people…;) and “I Am Helen Keller” (), both for ages 4 to 8For more books to introduce kids to Helen Keller, we recommend the chapter book “Helen Keller: The World At Her Fingertips” for ages 4 to 7 (), the picture book “Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller” for ages 6 to 9 (), and the classic children’s biography for ages 7 to 12 ()We also recommend “Helen Keller: The Story of My Life,” her autobiography for young readers 11 and up at https://amightygirl.com/helen-keller-the-story-of-…;For adult readers, we recommend the fascinating biography “After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller” () and “Helen Keller: A Life” ()For children’s books that encourage understanding and acceptance of people with disabilities of all varieties, visit our blog post “Many Ways To Be Mighty: 35 Books Starring Mighty Girls with Disabilities” at … See MoreSee Less View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email View Comments likes 6 Shares: 0 Comments: 1 1 CommentsComment on Facebook Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club 3 weeks ago Our last night of Bingo before September; besides big prizes, we were able to support our youth thru 3 different organizations, uniforms and equipment for Chilliwack Minor Fast Pitch, an E-sports and digital literacy program at GW Graham school, and a Strength and Conditioning program at Mt Slesse Middle School. Thanks for your support, Bingo players and investing in tomorrow’s leaders. … See MoreSee Less View on Facebook · Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email View Comments likes love wow 114 Shares: 3 Comments: 10 10 CommentsComment on Facebook Chilliwack Dogwood Monarch Lions Club 4 weeks ago Vendor Status by AreaFor Bingo June 25th. Final game until first week in SeptemberPlease note:Statuses are based on the latest information we have as of the date and time postedGood morning Bingo players ! 😊Updated June 25th Thursday. 11:49amNote : 💙This is the last bingo until the first week in September 3 rd. Tickets on sale August 28 th. Friday 💙💜 purple or violet cards this week💜🟢Available 🌕Awaiting update🟠 A few cards left🔴 Sold outCards available for Agassiz after 10 am🔴🔴🔴Agassiz is SOLD OUT🔴🔴🔴 Agassiz Vendors: The Blue Dandelion —🔴 SOLD OUT Cabin Fever Bakery —🔴SOLD OUT Chehalis Band Store —🔴 SOLD OUT Laundry On The Go — 🔴SOLD OUTPlease note: Boston Bar does not receive cards until Saturday 🔴🔴BOSTON BAR is SOLD OUT 🔴🔴 Boston Bar Bear Essentials —🔴SOLD OUT Boston Bar ESSO —🔴 SOLD OUT Canyon Lanes — 🔴 SOLD OUTFat Jacks — 🌕 awaiting update/ no answer🔴🔴Chilliwack is now SOLD OUT🔴🔴 Chilliwack Vendors:Cabin Fever Bakery —🔴 SOLD OUT Chilliwack Water Store —🔴SOLD OUTClose to Home Grocers —🔴 SOLD OUT Cultus Lake Esso —🔴SOLD OUTCultus lake Superette—🔴SOLD OUT Discount Mediquip 🔴SOLD OUT Eagle landing liquor Store 🔴SOLD OUT Freshco — 🔴 SOLD OUTGarrison Liquor—🔴SOLD OUT Minter Country Garden —🔴 SOLD OUTPetro Canada Yarrow—🔴 SOLD OUTPharmasave. 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Dogwood Monarch Lions presented a cheque for $25,000.00 to MS Canada, during the MS Bike Ride to raise funds for research. MS is a terrible disease, the incidence is higher in Canada than in any other country, and numbers are increasing in our Asian and Indigenous populations.
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Just to show you what good sports Lions are, this was a team competition where the team captain was the one in the ponchos, and whip cream on their heads…the winning team threw and had the most cheese puffs stick to the captain's head! Dogwood Lions do have fun, as well as do bingo and meat draws! … See MoreSee Less
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Our members are all so appreciated and love the rewards of being a Lion, some of the awards on display!
Will we see you at the Gift cards and Meat draw on Saturday , Kelly O’Bryans at 2:00! … See MoreSee Less
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Look at the smiles! Dogwood Monarch Lions prepared dinner for about 150 housing challenged folks at Ruth and Naomi's Mission Monday night, the guests all enjoyed their dinner, and we enjoyed preparing and serving it to them. As Lions, we rock, and We Serve. … See MoreSee Less
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Lions are Knights of the blind, we have made such a change in eradicating river blindness in may countries and continue to do all we can for the sight impaired everywhere, Helen Keller was the inspiration.In 1933, Helen Keller wrote a letter to the Nazi students who were about to burn her book in their bonfires. “History has taught you nothing,” she told them, “if you think you can kill ideas. You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.”
By then, Helen Keller — pictured here with her friend Charlie Chaplin, who would go on to lampoon Hitler in “The Great Dictator” — was famous the world over as the deaf and blind girl who had learned to speak. But the Nazis were not burning her childhood memoir. They were burning the work of a grown woman who had become one of the most outspoken political activists in America: a campaigner for labor rights, women’s suffrage, and the rights of the disabled. She was an enemy of exactly the kind of power rising in Germany.
Helen Keller was born on this day in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, the daughter of a former Confederate officer, and lost her sight and hearing to a fever before she was two. The story of how her teacher, Anne Sullivan, reached her through the darkness — spelling “water” into her palm at a backyard pump — is one of the most famous in American life, told and retold in “The Miracle Worker.” It usually stops there, with the triumphant child. It rarely follows her into the sixty years of work that came after.
For Keller never saw her own education as the happy ending of the story. She saw it as a debt. She had been lucky — in her family, her teacher, her schooling — and she knew that most blind and deaf children were not, shut away in institutions or written off entirely. She set out to change that, and she spent the rest of her life at it. She graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 as the first deafblind person ever to earn a bachelor’s degree, and then used the fame that came with it as a tool.
She lectured in more than thirty countries. She pushed governments to build schools and libraries for the blind. As early as 1907 she campaigned to prevent infant blindness through a simple newborn eye treatment, a commonsense measure that, thanks in part to her, was widely adopted. For more than forty years she worked with the American Foundation for the Blind, and the organization she helped found in 1915 endures today as Helen Keller International, fighting blindness and malnutrition around the world.
What she refused to do was treat disability as a private misfortune. “The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness,” she said, “but the attitude of seeing people towards them.” Investigating why people went blind, she found that the poor lost their sight far more often than the rich — to dangerous work, untreated illness, and the conditions poverty forced on them. The suffering she had been taught to see as fate, she came to see as a choice society made. In 1909 she joined the Socialist Party; in 1912 she joined the radical labor union known as the Wobblies; and she began to write and speak with the same ferocity she brought to everything.
She campaigned for Eugene Debs, marched for women’s suffrage, and gave her money and her name to the NAACP when a white Southern woman doing so was rare and risky. She opposed the First World War as a slaughter staged for profit. In 1920 she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. For decades, the FBI kept a file on her.
And as fascism rose in Europe, Keller saw it clearly and early. She denounced Hitler the very month he took power, in 1933. When civil war broke out in Spain, she backed the Republic against Franco’s fascists. In 1938, while powerful Americans were still praising the Nazi regime and the United States was turning Jewish refugees away at its borders, she wrote to the New York Times pleading with the paper to stop minimizing Nazi atrocities. She singled out the world’s silence about the disabled people trapped in Germany, the very people the Nazis would soon begin murdering.
The Nazis knew that she was dangerous — a global figure who used her celebrity to denounce them. They put her book on the pyre with Einstein’s and Freud’s and Marx’s, and in doing so they took her seriously. Keller took them seriously in return. Her open letter did not beg; it warned. And buried in it was a line that showed how clearly she saw what the burning really meant, at a moment when many looked away: “Do not imagine,” she wrote, “that your barbarities to the Jews are unknown here.”
Helen Keller died in 1968, at eighty-seven, by then recast as a gentle symbol of perseverance, her politics quietly filed off. But the woman the Nazis tried to burn was not only a symbol. She had spent her life insisting that the blind be educated, that the poor be protected, that the persecuted be defended — and that no fire was big enough to burn an idea whose time had come.
“History has taught you nothing,” she had told them, “if you think you can kill ideas.”
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For two inspiring picture books about Helen Keller’s extraordinary life, we highly recommend “Helen Keller: Little People, Big Dreams” (https://amightygirl.com/helen-keller-little-people…;) and “I Am Helen Keller” (), both for ages 4 to 8
For more books to introduce kids to Helen Keller, we recommend the chapter book “Helen Keller: The World At Her Fingertips” for ages 4 to 7 (), the picture book “Helen’s Big World: The Life of Helen Keller” for ages 6 to 9 (), and the classic children’s biography for ages 7 to 12 ()
We also recommend “Helen Keller: The Story of My Life,” her autobiography for young readers 11 and up at https://amightygirl.com/helen-keller-the-story-of-…;
For adult readers, we recommend the fascinating biography “After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller” () and “Helen Keller: A Life” ()
For children’s books that encourage understanding and acceptance of people with disabilities of all varieties, visit our blog post “Many Ways To Be Mighty: 35 Books Starring Mighty Girls with Disabilities” at … See MoreSee Less
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Our last night of Bingo before September; besides big prizes, we were able to support our youth thru 3 different organizations, uniforms and equipment for Chilliwack Minor Fast Pitch, an E-sports and digital literacy program at GW Graham school, and a Strength and Conditioning program at Mt Slesse Middle School. Thanks for your support, Bingo players and investing in tomorrow’s leaders. … See MoreSee Less
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Final game until first week in September
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Updated June 25th Thursday. 11:49am
Note : 💙This is the last bingo until the first week in September 3 rd. Tickets on sale August 28 th. Friday 💙
💜 purple or violet cards this week💜
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Agassiz Vendors:
The Blue Dandelion —🔴 SOLD OUT
Cabin Fever Bakery —🔴SOLD OUT
Chehalis Band Store —🔴 SOLD OUT
Laundry On The Go — 🔴SOLD OUT
Please note: Boston Bar does not receive cards until Saturday
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Bear Essentials —🔴SOLD OUT
Boston Bar ESSO —🔴 SOLD OUT
Canyon Lanes — 🔴 SOLD OUT
Fat Jacks — 🌕 awaiting update/ no answer
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Chilliwack Vendors:
Cabin Fever Bakery —🔴 SOLD OUT
Chilliwack Water Store —🔴SOLD OUT
Close to Home Grocers —🔴 SOLD OUT
Cultus Lake Esso —🔴SOLD OUT
Cultus lake Superette—🔴SOLD OUT
Discount Mediquip 🔴SOLD OUT
Eagle landing liquor Store 🔴SOLD OUT
Freshco — 🔴 SOLD OUT
Garrison Liquor—🔴SOLD OUT
Minter Country Garden —🔴 SOLD OUT
Petro Canada Yarrow—🔴 SOLD OUT
Pharmasave. Main st only🔴SOLD OUT
Rainbow Good and Gas —🔴 SOLD OUT
Rosedale groceries—🔴SOLD OUT
Sardis husky—🔴SOLD OUT
Sardis liquor store—🔴 SOLD OUT
That Flower Shop—🔴SOLD OUT
Unsworth —🔴 SOLD OUT
Valley cycle locksmith—🔴SOLD
Young Street Market—🔴SOLD OUT
🔴🔴HOPE VENDORS SOLD OUT 🔴🔴
Hope Vendors
Bi Low Foods — 🔴 SOLD OUT
The Headliner —🔴 SOLD OUT
Hope Eagle’s Lodge —🔴 SOLD OUT
Lucky Dollar Plus Store—🔴 SOLD OUT
Old Hope Husky —🔴 SOLD OUT
Peter’s Grocery Store —🔴 SOLD OUT
Save on Foods —🔴 SOLD OUT
Silver Creek Travel Center—🔴SOLD OUT
YarnLove Studio—🔴SOLD OUT
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