The Ambleside Tiddlycove Lions Club in West Vancouver is inviting North Shore residents to its first paper-shredding event. Local residents are invited to bring sensitive documents to shred at the parking lot of the Ambleside Park on April 30, from 10 am to 2 pm.
George Sim, a member and past president, says it would be the first major event the club is organising since the pandemic. “We would like to invite the community to this useful event where they can shred sensitive documents and support the work that we do,” he says.
Although the club hasn’t done such an event before, it will have guidance from other clubs such as the Deep Cove Lions Club and the Squamish Lions Club, which have been successfully organising paper-shredding events for the past several years.
Although there is no fees for paper shredding, locals can support the club with a donation per box of shredded paper. Sim says the Ambleside Tiddlycove Club has supported many charities in the past and would continue to do so.
“We have given money to Lions Gate Hospital, and we are supporting the Alzheimer Society of BC’s walk. We recently gave $2,000 to support Ukrainian families and donated $5,000 during flood in Abbotsford and Sumas Prairie,” he says.
The club is now working with the Lions Bay Fire Rescue to buy an AED, a machine that is used to treat cardiac arrest. “Whenever a Lions Club gets together, problems get smaller. And communities get better,” Sim says.
