Lee's Pond Festival Reels in the Community for a Day of Fun

The rainy weather on Saturday did not stop a team of volunteers from the Lions Clubs to kick off the 22nd Annual Lee's Pond Festival.

Dozens of people gathered at around Lee's Pond for fishing, pumpkin painting and more.

Lions Clubs, a service organization which keeps most of its civic efforts behind the scene, are known for providing glasses to the less fortunate but each fall they are known for their outside festival. 

South Attleboro has two groups Lions Club's (mainly the men) and the Village (mainly the ladies). They carry on separately throughout the year and come together for this thank-you event. Saturday with weather threatening another cancelled event, (their car show was cancelled due to Irene) they held out hope and woke in the morning to little rain and eventually the sun even came out.

It took plenty of volunteers to run such the big event and they were able to draw from their youth division, The Leo Club. The coordinator Judy Hebert had no trouble getting 28 Attleboro High School students to volunteer to run the kids activities and assist on the food tables.

This event is not one of their fundraisers, but an opportunity to say thank-you for all the support in the previous year.

Ray Hebert, president of the South Attleboro Lions Club, is always looking for ways to reach out into the community and to get people involved. Membership is open to join all three groups.