Month: May 2023

  • Chris runs the barbecue

    Youth Appreciation 2023

    Last night the Port Colborne Optimist Club celebrated the youth of our community at our annual Youth Appreciation Award event. Held in the parking area outside our club, we had over 20 guests and a dozen Club members in attendance to help out at our barbecue. On this sunny evening, Chris managed the main course,…

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  • Road cleanup crew

    Honk If You’re Happy

    If you are driving along Killaly Street East this morning and see people in orange vests along the roadside or clambering in and out of ditches, that’s us doing our bit for the community. Twice per year we clear the road edges and ditches of our adopted road, and today is the day. We again…

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  • Graham's web site

    End Of An Era

    As some will already know our member for over thirty years, Graham Priest, passed recently. Among his many, many contributions over three decades of commitment to this club, Graham was the technologist behind the original Club web site. This site is the replacement for that site, which is soon to expire. That is the nature…

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  • Port Colborne Optimist Club hosts the quarterly Zone meeting - May 2023

    Optimist Club Zone 1 Meeting

    The Port Colborne Optimist Club played host recently to Optimist Club leaders and members from Zone 1, comprised of the six clubs within the Niagara Peninsula. The Governor Elect travelled here all the way from Cornwall, over 600km, perhaps a testament to the quality of the food laid on for zone meetings here in Port…

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