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  • Port Colborne Optimist Club Craft Show 2023

    Wrapping It Up

    The 2023 craft show was a success, in large part due to Viv, our amazing event organizer that managed to not only juggle her carefully measured floor plan in real-time but also calm vendors when the needs of the day called for some last-minute changes. Attendance to our free craft show over the course of…

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  • 2023 Optimist Craft Show

    The Optimist Club Craft Show 2023 is in progress at the Vale Centre, Port Colborne. Our annual prize draw tickets will be on sale until around 3pm August 6th, with the draw itself taking place around 4pm. Three lucky winners will take home certificates from our sponsor Lemayzzz Meats to the value of $500, $250,…

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  • Canada Day 2023 with the PC Optimist Club

    Canada Day 2023

    Canada Day 2023 saw 25 craft vendors, several food trucks, a dozen performing artists including a stirring appearance by the Niagara Regional Police Pipe Band, and many assorted activities for the kids keep a park full of people entertained throughout the day. Entertainment in the bandstand began with Mad Science and went through to close…

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  • 2023 Kids Fishing Derby

    2023 Kids Fishing Derby

    This year our Club inherited the long running Kids Fishing Derby from the Conservation Club. With their expert guidance and the help of many sponsors and even more volunteers, we are very pleased to report the event was a complete success. Over 200 entrants aged 3-13 and their guardians registered. We had to expand the…

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  • Canada Day 2023

    The PC Optimist Club runs the whole nine yards at H. H. Knoll Park in Port Colborne on Canada Day. Everything from craft vendors to food trucks, music, animal displays, and participation fun and games. The City buys the cupcakes, gets the park cleaned up and ready, and takes care of park cleanup after the…

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  • Kids Fishing Derby

    The annual kids fishing derby in Port Colborne has been a welcome part of our community life for many years. Open to kids from 3-13 (accompanied by an adult), the kids spend a morning sitting by the water vying for prizes and trophies and generally having a great time. Throughout its entire run the event…

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  • 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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